Tuesday night's

basketball action saw several local teams get key region wins, while others

lost in tough contests.

McIntosh's

boys and girls hosted Newnan and both the Chiefs and Lady Chiefs lost.

The Lady Chiefs found themselves tied with Newnan after the first quarter

and had a brief lead in the second quarter before Newnan scored 13 straight

points and had a 10 point lead. In the second half the two teams combined

to score 69 points, including a nine-point flurry by McIntosh's Christa

Mann. In the end, the Lady Chiefs couldn't catch up with Newnan and lost

59-48. Lindsay Murphy finished with 14 points for McIntosh.

In the boys

game, the Chiefs got big games from Brett Boron and Adam McWilliams, who

both scored 15 points a piece, but had trouble slowing down a large Newnan

team. The Chiefs lost 58-45. McIntosh will travel to Fayetteville to take

on Fayette County tonight.

Fayette County's

boys and girls split with East Coweta on Tuesday. The Lady Tigers lost

to the Lady Indians 48-47. Ashley Godfrey scored 20 points for East Coweta

while Alexis Malone added 11 points and 18 rebounds. Megan Nichols scored

15 points for Fayette County. The Fayette County boys won 69-61 as Dexter

manley scored 19 points for the Tigers and Matt Heckman added 18 points.

East Coweta will play at Lovejoy while Fayette County hosts McIntosh tonight.

Starr's Mill's

boys and girls had no problems with Mundy's Mill Tuesday night. The Lady

Panthers won 56-36 and had control of the game from the outset. Ashley

Marine scored 14 points while Ann Houghtaling added nine points and Erica

Harris added eight points. The boys jumped out to a 21-5 lead at the end

of the first quarter but failed to score in the fourth quarter in their

43-26 win. Caleb Graham scored 13 points and Andy Drum added 11 points

for Starr's Mill. Starr's Mill will host Carver of Columbus tonight.

The Sandy Creek

boys ended a three game losing streak with a 67-51 win over North Clayton.

Charles Belton scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds for Sandy Creek,

while Kevin Lott added 16 points and nine rebounds.

Sandy Creek's

leading scorer Kevin Craig was out due to illness.

"I told

the team before the gamne that this is what next year's team will look

like," said Coach Maurice Triche, who was pleased with how everyone

on the team stepped up to end the losing streak. "We've been in every

game this year and we're still shooting to make the state playoffs."

The Lady Patriots

were not as fortunate, losing for the second time in three games. North

Clayton's girls defeated Sandy Creek 51-37, despite 13 points from Mary

Fields. Sandy Creek will host Woodward Academy tonight and will play at

Alexander tomorrow.

Tonight's games

will start with girls game at 7 p.m. and will be directly followed by

the boys games. Saturday's games start at 6 p.m.

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