Jags secure home-field advantage with 2-AAAAA title

The football team finished its regular season as Region 2-AAAAA Champions, as it beat Douglass and Greenbrier in its final two games.The Jaguars (9-1, 6-1) beat the Astros 44-0, a week after beating the Wolf Pack 64-6. The shutout against Douglass was the teams fifth shutout of the year. Despite earning the regions No. 1 seed in the playoffs, Stephenson will face a tough team from Region 1 to start the playoffs. The Jaguars will host the No. 4 seed from Region 1 in Coffee on Friday night. The Trojans are 7-3 with all three of their losses coming to playoff teams. Two of the three losses came to No. 1 Lowndes and No. 3 Northside-Warner Robins. (rankings are according to GPB/Score PrepWeek 11 rankings) In fact, Coffee has been ranked higher than Stephenson for most of the year. Taylor Thomas led the girls cross country team with a 25th-place finish at the Region 2-AAAAA Championships. Thomas ran a time of 25:18. Christopher Ballou was the top Stephenson finisher at the boys region meet, running a 21:15 to finish 36th.