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Just over a month separates the Banks County High School Leopards from another run at the state class AA football playoffs.

Building on the successes of last year’s season, coach Blair Armstrong has spent the summer encouraging and preparing the players to be ready to take the field through camps and summer programs.

One of the recent camps the Leopards attended sized up Banks County to 12 AAAAA, AAAA and AAA schools. At the defensive camp in Carrollton, Banks brought home two first places out of the four classes. [Full Story »] 

In just under 10 days the opening ceremonies will kick off the 11-year-old Dizzy Dean World Series, hosted by the Jackson County Park and Recreation Department.

The July 16 opening ceremonies will be held at East Jackson Comprehensive High School at 6:30 p.m. and will close with a fireworks display.
While the ceremony will wrap up around 9:00 p.m. at the football stadium, tournament play begins Friday, July 17 at 10:00 a.m. with a format established by Dizzy Dean Baseball and brackets determined through a blind draw on Thursday.

Tickets will be available each day of the event at the East Jackson Park box office. [Full Story »] 

With only about four weeks left before school starts back, students will most likely be trying to spend as much time having fun and shucking responsibility before having to return to the halls of education.

For some this will mean spending a lot of time outside and despite the chances of relaxing summer rains blowing through, the potential for some common summer health risks are still present.

While a lot of people refer to any form of heat-related illness as having a heatstroke, there are really three levels of heat illness.
According to a presentation to the GHSA by Diane King an athletic trainer for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the three levels of heat illness are heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heatstroke.
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The Leopards closed out the summer baseball season by participating in the inaugural Jackson County Shootout.

Jackson County’s Summer Shootout hosted 20 teams at four venues last Thursday through Saturday. Banks County’s ballpark played host to 10 games out of the 40 game series.

Opening up the Shootout for the Leopards was a Thursday match up against Oconee County. Banks County suffered a 10-0 loss to the hard hitting Oconee Warriors. [Full Story »]