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Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. The Rabun County boys basketball team poses after its 52-43 state championship win versus Southwest on March 13 at the Macon Coliseum. The Wildcats set a school record with 30 wins and secured their first state title this season.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. The Rabun County boys basketball team poses after its 52-43 state championship win versus Southwest on March 13 at the Macon Coliseum. The Wildcats set a school record with 30 wins and secured their first state title this season.

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Recapping Rabun County’s run to the state title

Wesley Branch
Thursday, March 26, 2026
As The Clayton Tribune continues its coverage of the Rabun County boys basketball team’s historic season, ending in its first state championship ever, The Tribune provides a look back at each of the Wildcats’ games this season, en route to the state title win over Southwest.
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. The Adcock family and Page family have become closer this season as Corey Page came on as an assistant coach for head coach David Adcock. April Adcock, David’s wife (second from left in back), said they prayed the right person would come to be the assistant coach and that right person was Corey Page. This photograph of the two families was taken in the Macon Coliseum after the Wildcats won the state title.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. The Adcock family and Page family have become closer this season as Corey Page came on as an assistant coach for head coach David Adcock. April Adcock, David’s wife (second from left in back), said they prayed the right person would come to be the assistant coach and that right person was Corey Page. This photograph of the two families was taken in the Macon Coliseum after the Wildcats won the state title.

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'Watching something grow over time' into a state championship

Enoch Autry - Publisher
Thursday, March 26, 2026
When it was straight zeroes across the time clock in the Macon Coliseum on March 13 evening, April Adcock put the defining pencil marks on a Rabun County boys basketball scorebook for a final time in the 2025-2026 season. This, however, was far from just another season.
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County boys basketball head coach David Adcock and his Wildcat bench celebrate a 3-point shot by senior Huey Blalock in the 52-43 win on March 13 for the Class A Division I state championship.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County boys basketball head coach David Adcock and his Wildcat bench celebrate a 3-point shot by senior Huey Blalock in the 52-43 win on March 13 for the Class A Division I state championship.

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Coach Adcock posts words of thanks to team, family

News Staff
Thursday, March 26, 2026
The emotions of a championship-winning basketball season has ran on a high throughout almost its entire campaign. It is hard to find lows when you put a new Class A Division I trophy in the school’s trophy case and it is the first one ever for the Rabun County boys basketball program.
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. RCHS head coach David Adcock hands the state championship trophy and basketball to Cal Burrell and Reeves Page as senior Colton Crane (left) moves in to help the “goons” lift the two important pieces of hardware.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. RCHS head coach David Adcock hands the state championship trophy and basketball to Cal Burrell and Reeves Page as senior Colton Crane (left) moves in to help the “goons” lift the two important pieces of hardware.

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Meet the ‘Goons:’ The 6 and-7-year-old spark behind Rabun boys’ title run

Wesley Branch
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Meet the ‘Goons:’ The 6 and-7-year-old spark behind Rabun County’s championship run Throughout its journey to its first-ever state championship this season, the Rabun County boys basketball team got a lift from its bench. But this particular lift didn’t come from the players or the coaches.
Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. The Rabun County boys basketball team and RCHS cheerleaders pose for a photo after the basketball team's 52-43 state championship victory versus Southwest on March 13 at the Macon Coliseum

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. The Rabun County boys basketball team and RCHS cheerleaders pose for a photo after the basketball team's 52-43 state championship victory versus Southwest on March 13 at the Macon Coliseum

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Local officials offer congratulations to RCHS state title team

News Staff
Thursday, March 26, 2026
U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde The Ninth District includes Rabun County With a photograph of Rabun County boys basketball head coach David Adcock holding the trophy in front of his Wildcat student-athletes, Clyde made remarks on the U.S. House of Representatives floor in Washington, D.C., on March 19.
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County freshman Trace Adcock drives to the basket in Rabun County's 52-43 state championship win over Southwest on March 13 at the Macon Coliseum.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County freshman Trace Adcock drives to the basket in Rabun County's 52-43 state championship win over Southwest on March 13 at the Macon Coliseum.

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Adcock cements status as state’s best 3-point shooter

Wesley Branch
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Rabun County freshman Trace Adcock made it official last week that he is the best 3-point shooter in the state of Georgia. Adcock did so by winning the GHSA boys 3-point contest in Macon during the state championship festivities.
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. GPB’s Jon Nelson interviewed state title game MVP Huey Blalock and head coach David Adcock, whose father coached basketball for 31 years and won a state title at Glenwood School in Phenix City, Ala. Mike Adcock passed away in 2009. Blalock finished the game with 29 points, six rebounds and five assists.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. GPB’s Jon Nelson interviewed state title game MVP Huey Blalock and head coach David Adcock, whose father coached basketball for 31 years and won a state title at Glenwood School in Phenix City, Ala. Mike Adcock passed away in 2009. Blalock finished the game with 29 points, six rebounds and five assists.

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Blalock stamps RCHS legacy with state title, MVP honors

Wesley Branch
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Rabun County senior Huey Blalock checked off nearly all the boxes in the first three years of his Wildcat basketball career.
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Wildcat senior Huey Blalock, a Navy basketball commit, elevates for his shot against Southwest in the state title game on March 13 in the Macon Coliseum. Blalock was the game’s leading scorer with 29.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Wildcat senior Huey Blalock, a Navy basketball commit, elevates for his shot against Southwest in the state title game on March 13 in the Macon Coliseum. Blalock was the game’s leading scorer with 29.

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Blalock, the ‘most underrated player in every gym’

Wesley Branch
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Rabun County senior point guard and Navy commit Huey Blalock has built a lasting basketball legacy in Rabun County. The 5-foot-10 point guard Blalock added the final piece to that legacy on March 13 when the Rabun County boys basketball team won its first-ever state championship.
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. RCHS head coach David Adcock holds up the trophy and game ball as the Class A Division I state champions while his team celebrates the achievement.

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. RCHS head coach David Adcock holds up the trophy and game ball as the Class A Division I state champions while his team celebrates the achievement.

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Rabun County finishes No. 1 in final Class A Division I state hoops rankings

Wesley Branch
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Following its 52-43 state championship win over Southwest, the Rabun County boys basketball team has earned the No. 1 ranking in Class A Division I in the final rankings. The nod marks the first time in program history the Wildcats finished the season as the No.
Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Senior Huey Blalock takes the ball in the other direction during his 29-point MVP performance in the Wildcats’ Class A Division I state championship win over Southwest on March 13 in the Macon Coliseum

Wesley Branch/The Clayton Tribune. Senior Huey Blalock takes the ball in the other direction during his 29-point MVP performance in the Wildcats’ Class A Division I state championship win over Southwest on March 13 in the Macon Coliseum

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Battle-tested Cats were ready for state-championship moment

Wesley Branch
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Rabun County head boys basketball coach David Adcock does not schedule wins. “I don’t schedule wins,” Adcock said of the Wildcats’ schedule before the season.