Doesn't it

feel like the soccer season just started?

And yet, here

we are, two days away from the beginning of the playoffs. All of our 4-AAAAA

teams will enter the region playoffs with McIntosh's boys and girls and

Starr's Mill's boys and girls entering the region playoffs as the top

seed (barring any last-minute disasters last night after the paper went

to press) and Fayette County's boys and girls enter as the second seed

in their subregion.

The Fayette

County Lady Tigers defeated the Lady Raiders from Riverdale 15-0 to finish

their subregion schedule with a 5-1 record. Eight different Lady Tigers

had goals while seven players had at least one assist in 32 minutes of

play. Last night, they hosted Stockbridge during their senior night festivities.

The Fayette

County boys team beat Eagle's Landing 2-1 on their senior night last Friday.

David Zak scored both goals for the Tigers.

The McIntosh

boys faced Griffin Friday and won 2-1. Matt Clements scored both goals

for the Chiefs and McIntosh stayed perfect in region play. Saturday, they

hosted Warner Robins, playing a game from the McIntosh Classic that had

been postponed. The Chiefs won 2-1 in an intensely physical match, with

both goals coming from Clements again.

Clements is

now the leading goal scorer for high school boys in the state of Georgia

with 92 goals. The Chiefs hosted McEachern last night for their senior

night.

The Lady Chiefs

played in the adidas Challenge Cup last week and went undefeated. They

defeated Davis Senior from California 3-2 in overtime and then beat Arapahoe

from Colorado 4-1 the next day. Julie Herdic scored all seven goals in

those two matches.

In their final

two matches of the tournament, McIntosh defeated Madison West, Wis., 7-2

and Huntsville, Ala., 8-0. Tabitha Lowey had four goals in the two games,

while Dana Van Winkle and Keri Pendergrass had three goals, Herdic had

two goals and Brittany Jones and Cate Egan each had one goal. The Lady

Chiefs hosted North Gwinnett last night for their final game of the regular

season.

Starr's Mill's

girls also played in the adidas Cup Challenge. They defeated Huntsville,

Ala. 2-1 in overtime, getting goals from Alison Graham and Rachel Sproul.

The Lady Panthers faced Arapahoe, Colo. and won 3-2, getting goals from

Jessie Parsons, Alice Martin and Amanda Thurber. In their final game of

the Challenge, Starr's Mill tied Catholic Memorial, Wis. 3-3. The Lady

Panthers got goals from Sara McLaughlin, Shelley Wegryzyn and Graham.

The Starr's Mill girls and boys hosted Henry County last night.

As for the

Starr's Mill boys, they defeated Jonesboro 5-0 last Friday to stay perfect

in region play and improve their overall record to 10-3. Chris Lambing

scored two goals while Mikey Hubbard, Jordan Davis and Jarod Grace each

added one goal.

Playoff games

start Friday with girls playing at 6 p.m. and boys playing at 8 p.m. All

of the games should be at home for the first round because of the teams'

seeding.

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