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By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director PIEDMONT – On some nights, Piedmont senior point guard Alex Odam’s role is to dish the ball off to his teammates when they’re shooting well. Other nights, he has to pour in the points himself. Thursday at home against rival Cherokee County was one of the latter nights. The

By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director CENTRE – Of late, the close basketball games haven’t gone in favor of the Cherokee County Warriors. They lost a three-point game at defending Class 4A state champion Jacksonville on Jan. 10, then dropped a three-point decision at home against Piedmont two days later. The Warriors also fell in

By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director CENTRE – Tuesday evening was throwback night at the Warrior Dome in Centre. The Cherokee County Lady Warriors wore retro warm-ups and uniforms similar to the ones worn by the team in the early 1990s, including their state championship year of 1992 under head coach Dale Welsh. Current Lady

By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director CENTRE – Defensive lineman Tae Diamond certainly didn’t suffer through a sophomore slump this past football season for the Cherokee County Warriors. He became a sophomore sensation. As a freshman in 2021, Diamond delivered 53 tackles, including 19 for loss, with 8 ½ sacks, three fumble recoveries (one for

In last Friday’s Cherokee County football state semifinal story, I put in the headline “Party like it’s 2009.” Obviously the gist there is it’s the Warriors’ first Class 4A state title game appearance since that year, but it’s also the first time both Cherokee County and rival Piedmont will both be playing for titles in

By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director CENTRE – Before Friday night’s Class 4A high school football state semifinal battle against Oneonta, Cherokee County football coach Jacob Kelley told the Warriors he didn’t care about the circumstances surrounding the game. All he wanted was to beat the Redskins because of what happened in their first meeting

Staff Reports HUNTSVILLE – The Cherokee County Warriors are headed back to the Class 4A football state semifinals for the first time since the state championship season of 2009 with a 35-21 victory at Randolph on Friday night. The Warriors (11-2) will face Region 6 rival Oneonta (11-1) for the right to go to Auburn

Staff Reports CENTRE – It wasn’t the 372-yard, six-touchdown outburst he had in last week’s first-round high school football playoff win over Corner, but Cherokee County High School junior running back Jacob Cornejo did have another outstanding outing on Friday night against West Morgan. Cornejo collected 262 yards on 18 carries and scored four touchdowns

By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director CENTRE – Jacob Cornejo admitted he had a few butterflies before the Cherokee County Warriors’ first-round high school football playoff game against the Corner Yellow Jackets Friday night. It didn’t take long for those butterflies to subside. Cornejo scored on the Warriors’ first drive of the game. By night’s

By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director CENTRE – Cherokee County High School senior back Jack Amos is one of the smallest players on the Warrior football roster, but on Friday night against Class 4A, Region 6 opponent Etowah, he was a giant. The diminutive 5-foot-5, 145-pound Amos ran for 193 yards on 18 carries and