The train is back on the tracks, but now is when Habersham Central High School’s varsity football team can prove it firmly has both hands on the wheel and is prepared to steer. The Raiders (1-2) host Cherokee Bluff High School (3-0) Friday night for their final non-region contest of the regular season one week…
As the clock expired on a contentious football game Friday night in Mt. Airy, the scoreboard showed a breakthrough for the home side and left the visitors waiting another week to find theirs. Habersham Central High School’s football program snapped an 0-2 start with a 31-28 win over White County High School. Among the raucous…
Coaches talk in cliches a lot. One of those cliches is something along the lines of “How do you respond after getting punched in the mouth?” In sports, a team or player’s response to a situation is often more important than anything else. That is where Habersham Central High School’s football team finds itself right…
“There’s not too many teams, unless that team is just terrible, that you’re going to beat when you turn it over five times.” Habersham Central High School Head Football Coach Benji Harrison summed up the night for the Raiders (0-2) with one sentence following the team’s 23-13 loss to Flowery Branch High School (1-1) on…
Being in a familiar situation is not always a good thing. But knowing how your next move in that situation can affect you going forward is quite beneficial. After losing the season opener, albeit in odd fashion, Habersham Central High School’s football team finds itself in a spot it knows well. The Raiders (0-1) have…
What started out as a warm, sunny, happy affair turned to a dark, rain-soaked, unfortunate setback for Habersham Central High School’s football team on Friday night as their opening game against rival Stephens County High School ended in a weather-shortened, 28-10, loss. The game was called with 5:04 left in the third quarter at around…
The day has finally arrived. The wait is over. It’s go time! The 48th edition of the Battle of Currahee Mountain kicks off tonight at 7:30 p.m. at The Reservation in Toccoa to open up the 2024 football season for both Habersham Central and Stephens County high schools. The opening game to a season doesn’t…
The stage is set for Friday night’s scrimmage for Habersham Central High School as the Raiders will host Oconee County High School at 7:30 p.m. in Mt. Airy. The scrimmage will act as a dress rehearsal for the 2024 season, which will officially kick off two weeks later on August 16 against rival Stephens County…
Just over nine months after approving and allowing athletes to benefit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL), the Georgia High School Association has made an amendment to the bylaw within the organization’s constitution to ban clubs and collectives. The GHSA board of trustees, which formally approved the NIL bylaw (1.97) on Oct. 2, 2023,…
Football, for those who celebrate the sanctity of the gridiron, has returned! The all-too-familiar and much appreciated click-clacking sounds of helmets and shoulder pads meeting, whistles blowing, and coaches finding the perfect pitch in their voice for delivering instruction could be heard all afternoon at Raider Stadium as Habersham Central High School took advantage of…