Our 6A region previews are listed below. You’ll find players to watch, key games and our predicted region finish. Please feel free to comment if there are any corrections that need to be made. Thanks for reading. Please feel free to share.
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Lee County is the defending state Champion in 6A. We believe that they have enough fire power to hold off Coffee, who was the runner-up last season. We expect a bit of a bounce back from Valdosta. The Cats could challenge for a number 2 seed in a very challenging region.
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This region felt like a toss-up between the Glynn County schools, Brunswick and Glynn Academy. We like Glynn Academy, but it won’t be a run-away for the Red Terrors. We expect for both Brunswick and Richmond Hill to be in the mix all the way down the stretch.
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We are really buying in to the Grovetown Warriors and Coach Damien Postell. They might just have enough fire power to knock off the defending region champs, but don’t count Evans out. The November 2nd match-up should determine the Region Champion.
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We expect this region to come down to one game, November 2nd when Tucker and Stephenson tangle. Tucker might not be as talented as they have been in years past, but we believe the return enough fire-power to best Stephenson and the rest of the region.
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The Mays Raiders will look to defend their 2017 region title. In order to do so, they will need to replace several starters on offense and defense. The Raiders return a couple of pieces to the puzzle at the skill positions. Just enough, we believe, to maintain the stranglehold on the top seed. Don’t expect Douglas County, Hughes or Alexander to go quietly into the night. We believe that any four of these teams has a legitimate shot to hoist a region trophy at the end of the season.
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This region no longer has to deal with Justin Fields. That’s good news for everyone in Region 6, but Harrison. We believe Allatoona is poised to wrestle the top spot in the region away from Harrison. We feel the Bucs sport the best quarterback in the region and Sequoyah’s quarterback is not too far behind. If Creekview and Sequoyah can match Allatoona’s physicality, then perhaps they will be able to claim the top seed. Both Harrison and Dalton are well coached, so we can’t count them out either. South Cobb will be knocking on the door this season. We’ll take them as our dark horse.
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We selected Centennial as our region champ because we believe they return the best quarterback in region 7. Pope should close the gap a bit with Alpharetta. But we feel pretty confident in the Centennial, Alpharetta, Pope and Chattahoochee all to be in the top 4 at the end of the season.
We have Dacula as our region winner and of course, we will stick by that pick. Habersham Central is a team that’s trending up, so don’t be surprised to see the Raiders to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2011. We expect Gainesville and Lanier to battle it our for the fourth spot in the region.