Both the Bleckley 4-H Junior and Senior Shotgun teams won state competition held Saturday at Rock Eagle.  A 4-H article states that the senior team are now master 4-H'ers in the event based upon their win.  Junior team members were:  Matthew Long, Cody Dennis, Dalton Stroup, Blake Bohannon, Hayden Powell, Dayton Cannon and William DeLoach.

Senior team members:  Tommy Royal, Cole Knight, Cody Little, Clay Foskey, Luke Moseley, Wesley Hobbs and Eli Belflower.  Others participating were: Cody Berryhill, Nick Butler, Austin Cook, Seth DuBois, Will Fordham, James Foskey, Johnathon Fountain, Drew Grimsley, Dawson Jarrell, Cody Jesseman, Madison Phelps, Jordan Purser, R.J. Sanders, Desmond Sasser, Katey Sellars and Cameron Thompson.

Todd Kirkpatrick, Derek Belflower, Chris Grimsley, Bruce Berryhill, Katrina Joren and Troy Cook coached both teams.

Middle Georgia State College won the GCAA Region 17 Baseball Title Saturday by defeating Darton College 5-4 in Albany.  The Warriors, trailing 4-2 in the eighth, scored three times, then held on to win. 

Region 17 Player of the Year Blake Shouse and the rest of MGSC travel  to Morristown, TN in the district championship May 16-19.  The winner advances to the NJCAA World Series.

The Bleckley Middle School boys tennis team won the MGMSAA Region Tennis Title Wednesday in Cochran.  BCMS won versus East Laurens 5-0, defeated Dublin 3-2 in the semifinals, and won versus West Laurens 3-2 in the title match. 

The head coach for both the boys and girls this season was Tara Sanders, wife of BCHS tennis coach Brad Sanders.