Since leaving the Atlanta Falcons Jim Mora Jr., roamed the sidelines in Seattle for one season and last year served as a commentator on FOX before becoming the brand new coach of UCLA. Some questioned how he would fare in the crazy world of recruiting. In his first few weeks on the job he has secured two Peach State prospects that could help the Bruins compete with the USC Trojans and both have Lassiter ties. Mora snagged safety Kene Orjioke and Monday picked up the pledge of former SMU pledge Eddie Printz. The rising senior led the Lassiter Trojans to a series of upsets en route to a 10-4 season with an appearance in the semifinals.

Printz made the very first Score Atlanta 24 2Look4 list and is sure to be featured on the 2012 Score 44 list after appearing in the Georgia Junior Bowl. Read more >

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Ed Printz didn’t particularly care for what he witnessed after his son, Eddie Printz, a touted sophomore quarterback at Marietta, Ga., Lassiter, returned from a recruiting trip awhile back.

“People started pulling at Eddie,” Printz recalled. “One day he wore a South Carolina shirt and people started giving him a hard time because they thought he liked another school. At the same time, (Gamecock fans) thought they had Eddie locked up.”

Eddie Printz is enjoying the recruiting process, thanks to his father. Read more >

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The Peachtree Ridge boys defeated Parkview on Saturday with one of the closest margins in the history of the state swimming meet. Read more >

It’s midway through February and, when it comes to high school sports in Georgia, that means the winter sports are drawing to a close. It all starts with swimming and diving, as the state championships take place at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center this weekend. Read more >

When the Walton boys defeated Wheeler earlier in the week, everybody wanted to claim those two schools have separated themselves from the rest of Region 5-AAAAA. Not so fast, the Lassiter Trojans are right there with Walton and Wheeler and they got a big 60-38 win over the Cherokee Warriors on Friday.

“We put four good quarters together,” head coach Jeremy Morris said. “We’re playing out best basketball at the right time.” Read more >

Perhaps the 2011 season will be dominated by the defense in the Peach State. In a game featuring the some of the best rising seniors in the state of Georgia, the Randy McPherson-coached West roster defeated the Franklin Stephens-led East squad 20-18 in the inaugural AT&T Georgia Junior Bowl thanks to some great defense and strong special teams play.

The East got out to an early lead after a bad snap on the game’s first play from scrimmage caused a safety. With the 2-0 lead it appeared that North Gwinnett’s Scott Hosch connected with Lassiter’s Charlie Hegedus for a long touchdown, but the score was erased due to a penalty. Austin Hardin did add a field goal to give the East a 5-0 lead. Then the West’s defense made a huge play. Read more >

Over the last few years, recruiting has gone younger and younger with colleges starting their evaluations of potential prospects beginning with the targets’ sophomore and sometimes freshman year of high school. Read more >

The high school football state championships took place last week, but that did mean the season was over. One the championship games conclude, all-star games take place in the metro Atlanta area and McEachern has been the host of the Cobb Senior Bowl the last three years.

In this year’s version, the players were divided into the National team and the American team. The National team featured players from Walton, Kell, Wheeler, Marietta and South Cobb. The American team features players from Allatoona, Lassiter, Pope, North Cobb, Sprayberry and Campbell. In the end, the Nationals were too much the Americans, winning 41-19 at Walter Cantrell Stadium on Saturday. Read more >

In the first night of the state football playoffs, most of the favorites across the state took care of business and advanced. But Class 4A No. 1 Northside-Warner Robins fell to upstart Whitewater 28-21 in what can only be described as a shocking upset. Read more >

Demarco Robinson, a wide receiver at ML King, was named the Touchdown Club of Atlanta’s Back of the Week today at the club’s weekly meeting.He has caught 18 balls for 456 yards and seven touchdowns through three games thus far. Thusly, we have moved Demarco into the Score 44. Joining Demarcus in this week’s 44 is Quartterrio Morgan of Mt. Zion (Jonesboro).

IN: Demarco Robinson ML King (Lithonia), Quartterrio Morgan Mt. Zion (Jonesboro).

OUT: Justin Scott-Wesley, Mitchell Co. (Camilla) WR; Zack Witchett Washington (Atlanta) WR.

Ray Drew, TCC (Thomasville) DE

James Vaughters, Tucker (Tucker) LB

Nick Marshall, Wilcox Co (Rochelle) QB/CB

Martay Mattox, Clarke Central (Athens) QB Read more >

This week’s 44 has only one change as Peachtree Ridge’s Justin Watts replaced Brookwood’s AJ Sims on the list of the state’s top 44 senior high school football players.

Ray Drew, TCC (Thomasville) DE

James Vaughters, Tucker (Tucker) LB Read more >

North Cobb 18, Lassiter 14: Both teams scored all their points in the first half, with host Lassiter (1-2) scoring all of its 14 in the first quarter and North Cobb (2-1) answering with 18 in the second. Quentin James scored twice on the ground for North Cobb, and Travis Hawkins ran for a score. Read more >

With the Kell Classic and a handful of other football games kicking off last week, the 2010 high school football season has begun. However, the real action takes place this weekend, with a full slate of games scheduled for Friday and Saturday. So with the first full week of the high school football season upon us, let’s preview the upcoming season by taking a look at each county. Gwinnett County always has talented teams and this year is no different. North Gwinnett got their season off on the right foot with a 34-14 win over Cobb County powerhouse Lassiter.  Saturday will be when they face Bob Jones High School, a team from Madison, Ala., in the Progressive Football Challenge. “I think our team and community enjoy branching out and playing a national schedule,” North Gwinnett head coach Bob Sphire said. Read more >

The biggest play of the game was a timeout.

When McEachern lined up for a 47-yard field goal attempt with seven seconds remaining in the Georgia Dome, Peachtree Ridge thought fast and saved the game for themselves and the Corky Kell Classic for Gwinnett County. Read more >

In what could be called the most anticipated game of the Kell Classic, the Lassiter Trojans took on the North Gwinnett Bulldogs and it was game expected to have a lot of offense.

There was a lot of offense, at least for the Bulldogs, as they ran and threw all over the Trojans and gained a huge 34-14 win.

The first quarter of the contest started off the way most fans thought it would; fast and exciting. Lassiter got the fireworks going first as quarterback Eddie Printz threw an 81-yard screen pass for touchdown to wide receiver Charlie Hegedus to put the Trojans up by seven. But North Gwinnett was not going to let Lassiter have all the fun, as quarterback C.J. Uzomah threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to Ethan Kilgore to tie the game midway through the first quarter. Read more >