A season of baseball and softball among players young and old is set to conclude next week among the youth baseball ranks. Following a spring of action at both the Highway 49 and Highway 18 complexes, league champions will crown what has been yet another season of excitement on the diamond for those in coach pitch, tee ball and wee ball all the up to the more experienced players.

By the closest of margins, the Lady Greyhounds kept their postseason alive in last week’s area tournament. By one single stroke, Jones County edged Ola with an overall score of 306, good enough to claim the fourth and final qualifying spot for the sectional round, held earlier this week.

A new Lake Sinclair record blue catfish was caught about 11:30 a.m. April 27 by Guy Covington of Social Circle.

As the summer draws near, there will be no shortage of sports camps hosted by the Greyhounds and Lady Greyhounds for youngsters from Jones County and surrounding areas. Overall, JCHS will host a total of 11 different sports camps.

• May14-16,5p.m.-7:45p.m. • Ages:5-15 • Cost:$100,($90byMay11) • Info:Linktr.ee/jonescountyfb • June3-6,6p.m.-8pm • Ages:5-14 • Cost:$60and$50persibling • Info: Mikayla.Coley@jones.k12.ga.us Competition Cheer Kiddie Camp • June24-26,8:30a.m.-11:30a.m.

“We just felt like we could take this team to the ropes, and I felt like we did.” – JCHS head baseball coach Mike Paulk PEACHTREE CITY - McIntosh High School has a banner on the outfield wall commemorating it being last year’s state runner-up. The Chiefs also entered the GHSA Class AAAAA state tournament ranked sixth in their classification.

With her determined play on both ends of the floor, Amaris Ridgeway was a focal point of what made the Lady Greyhounds successful during her career at JCHS. That was capped the past two seasons by a berth in the Sweet 16 and this past year a trip to the Elite 8 with Jones County playing for a Final Four appearance on its home floor.

Any turning of the football calendar to spring practice brings its own wind of change. It’s no different for the Greyhounds, who officially began spring practice last Wednesday afternoon. It was one of nine scheduled practice sessions for Jones County, which will wrap up the spring May 10 for its spring game against defending GHSA Class AAAA champion Perry.

Jones County native Shareez Hamm wasn’t just part of another conference- title winning 4x100 relay team at Saturday’s Pacific West Conference Championships for the Academy of Art University. He and his relay mates did so in style.

Short distance, longer distance, relay and field events. Regardless of event type, the Greyhounds and Lady Greyhounds went to Saturday’s GHSA Region 2-AAAAA region meet and returned with 11 overall region titles in various events.