Sports
Spartans Fall 1 Run Short
Here's your May 9 update on weekend high school sports in Dallas-Hiram Patch.
The South Paulding Spartans pushed No. 1 seed to the limit over the weekend before bowing out of the Georgia High School Association AAAA baseball playoffs with a 5-4 Game 3 loss Saturday.
, the No. 4 seed out of Region 5-AAAA, against the top seed from Region 7-AAAA. The host Longhorns won the first game Friday, 9-6, but the Spartans stayed alive by taking the second game that night, 9-5.
Senior shortstop Marquise Vialet closed his South Paulding career with three home runs in the series, reported Dallas-Hiram Patch Facebook friend Denise Heath, and senior first baseman James McKnight and junior catcher Alex Cannon also homered.
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In track and field action, North Paulding got some notice at the GHSA state championships in Jefferson, thanks to senior high-jumper Joey Eliezer.
Eliezer finished second in the AAAA state meet with a jump of 6 feet, 4 inches, equaling the leap of the champion, Michael Hamilton of Effingham County.
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Eliezer's jump earned North Paulding eight points, the only points the Wolfpack scored but enough for a tie for 19th in the team standings.
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