Special Guest Dip Metress, Head Coach of the #8 ranked Augusta University Jaguars

Metress describes his 25-plus year head coaching career, the play so far this season from his undefeated Jaguars and what he expects as Peach Belt Conference play approaches. Metress also gives running feedback about a 10-minute highlight reel from Augusta’s recent 83-56 win over Coastal Georgia on Prostate Cancer Awareness Day.

After our conversation with Dip, we continue the show by reviewing some recent high school game results involving ranked teams like Grovetown, Thomson, North Augusta and Cross Creek. We also preview some upcoming games like the region showdown Friday between #3 Westside and #4 Butler, a possible SCISA state championship game preview Saturday involving Augusta Christian, and a bitter rivalry game between Thomson and Warren County, also Saturday.

Finally we conclude with a focus on some recent standout individual performers:

Miguel Arnold - Junior, Augusta University

Rico Gonzalez - Senior, Lakeside High

Derrion Reid - Junior, Grovetown High

Cam Parada - Sophomore, Aquinas High

Our special Guest is Derek Favors, who is in charge of Media & PR for the 100 Black Men of Augusta.

The show will cover the past week's high school football, high school basketball, and college basketball action, the 100 Black Men of Augusta and its recent Tournament at Augusta University, and the upcoming action this week.

Georgia High School Association basketball expert Kyle Sandy joined Chad for episode 3 of the Augusta Sports Report. After some programming notes about what you can find from @AugBball and the Augusta Sports Report, and a rundown of the notable games during the early part of the season, we listen to Kyle’s story about how he built Sandysspiel.com as the paper of record for high school basketball in Georgia. And we talk about how the Augusta area’s best boys and girls teams fit into the overall statewide race.

We taped this Tuesday morning, and since the recording, Cross Creek throttled River Bluff 80-53 at River Bluff; Grovetown topped Butler 67-64 in overtime at Butler. And Augusta Christian defended its home floor with a 68-52 win over Jones County.

Enjoy the show!

Augusta Sports Report - Episode 2

Augusta’s most notable sports media personality Ashley Brown joins the show to talk about the opening weeks of the high school basketball schedule, where you will be hard pressed to find any “cupcakes” on the best teams’ schedule.

We also talk about Ashley’s sports journey from player to radio show host to television broadcaster and columnist.

Finally we conclude with a discussion about the high school football state playoffs.

Part 1 - Introducing Buck and Keenan

Introducing Jones County head coach Buck Harris, an Augusta native whose basketball journey began when he starred for Westside High in the 1980’s. Buck played junior college basketball in Texas before finishing his playing career at AugustaUniversity, where he graduated from in the early 90’s. Buck was spent 9 seasons as an assistant coach for Augusta University, and he spent another 6 years combined as an assistant at South Carolina State and Campbell, both Division I schools.

Harris went on to be a head coach for Laney, Baldwin County, and now Jones County, where he is entering his third season. He organized this Saturday’s (November 13) “Hoopin’ in Middle Georgia” invitational tip-off tournament, which will include many of middle Georgia’s best boys and girls teams being matched up against many of the Augusta area’s best programs, like Butler, Grovetown, Westside and Greenbrier on the boys side, and Cross Creek and Butler on the girls.

Then we turn to our in-studio guest, Keenan Mann, a former teammate of Buck’s at Augusta University who is one of the very best players in the history of Augusta area basketball. After starting at Richmond Academy alongside Chuck Graham (Florida State) and under legendary coach Don Brock, Mann was recruited by another former Musketeer Gerald White (Auburn) to play for Clint Bryant at Augusta. Keenan finished as the all-time leader scorer at the college and he is still one of the school’s top five all-time leaders. He is one of four players in the program’s history to have his jersey retired. After earning his MBA in Business Administration, Mann has enjoyed a greater than 30-years long business career working for multinational companies like Electrolux and Husqvarna before recently founding Mann Advisory Services, a unique financial advice practice that is accessible to almost everybody, and not only people with considerable investable assets or current income.

Part 2 - How Saturday’s “Hoopin’ in Middle Georgia” came together

Buck describes how he put this Saturday’s “Middle Georgia vs Augusta” invitational. The event is loaded with teams that are ranked in the top 10 in the state, there is a defending state champion, and several teams that could make deep postseason runs come February and March.

Part 3 - Previewing Augusta’s opener Friday against Mount Olive

We discuss Augusta University’s talented team that will benefit greatly from the return of sharpshooters Miguel Arnold and Troy Cracknell, not to mention the steady transformation of 7’1” center Tyshaun Crawford and the unparalleled leadership qualities of point guard Tyree Myers and defensive juggernaut Darren Lucas-White

Conclusion - Meet the Lady Jaguars

We close with footage from a recent “open practice” that was hosted by head coach Millette Green. We hear the advice given to the high school players, coaches and fans in attendance by veterans Kennedi Manning, Kiera Howard and Jaelyn Autman. And the show closes with words from