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GAINESVILLE Winning wrestling state championships has become the norm at North Hall High School.
But facing six-time state champion Gilmer made it more difficult than coach David Nichols and his team would have liked. As a matter of fact, the Bobcats led North Hall 27-19 late in the state title dual match at Cherokee Bluff on Saturday.
Freshman Connor Free, perhaps, was the hero, getting an unexpected pin over Gilmer’s Kellen Watts, which was dubbed as a toss-up match. He pinned Watts midway through the second period, setting up Jacob Pedraza to seal the win one match later, and the rest is history.
FLOWERY BRANCH While North Hall wrestling fans were laying claim that they may be the county’s most productive sports program in history, Trojans wrestling coach David Nichols was letting out a huge sigh of relief after his squad overcame a late deficit to defeat Gilmer 37-27 for the Class 3A Duals championship Saturday at the Cherokee Bluff gym.
It was the third title in four years for North Hall and perhaps its toughest as well.
“Gilmer is so tough and the coaches over there do such a great job. We knew coming in it was going to be a battle and it was,” Nichols said.
JEFFERSON After seeing its 18-year Georgia High School Association State Duals title streak come to an end in 2020, Jefferson got started on a new streak on Saturday at The Arena.
The Dragons made easy work of finals newcomer, and fellow Region 8-4A foe Flowery Branch, with a 61-15 win in the Class 4A finals.
But Jefferson wasn’t the only northeast Georgia area team to pin down a championship. Buford, in its first season in Class 6A, captured the 6A crown with a 46-17 over Creekview. North Hall won its third Class 3A title in four years with a thrilling 37-27 win over Gilmer.
Digital signs proposed for Hall schools at total cost of $2.5M Matt Cox, Hall County Schools executive director of facilities and construction, proposed installing digital signs at each of the system s schools during the school board meeting on Jan. 25, 2021. - photo by Kelsey Podo
Each school in Hall County could get digital signs at a cost of $2.5 million, if the Board of Education approves the plan that was presented Jan. 26.
Aaron Turpin, Hall County Schools assistant superintendent of technology, and Matt Cox, the system’s executive director of facilities and construction, proposed erecting digital signs at each school in the system.