BAXLEY — The Southeast Bulloch Yellow Jackets escaped Appling County with a 70-65, Region 1A-AAA win on Saturday.
    Southeast Bulloch (6-10, 5-3) was led in scoring by Kaelin Jones, who scored a game-high 21 points.
    Devante Tremble added 13 in the win.
    T.J. Alexander led Appling with 19 points.
    The Jackets return home on Tuesday to host Johnson (Savannah) at 7:30 p.m.

Panthers dominate ECI Bulldogs
    PORTAL — The Portal Panthers ran away from visiting Emanuel County Institute, dominating to the tune of a 74-48 cross-region win on Saturday.
    The Panthers (11-3) were led by Corey Reese, who scored 20 points.
    Stacey Morgan added 16, Robert Lee scored 13 and Treston White finished with 12.
    Emanuel County Institute was led by
    Portal plays host to Calvary Day Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Lady Bulldogs top Portal
    PORTAL — Ashanna Steele scored 35 points for the Emanuel County Institute Lady Bulldogs on the way to a 61-43 win Saturday at Portal.
    The Lady Panthers were led by Macey Hagins, who scored 12, and Breyonna Raymond who finished with 11. 
    Portal hosts Calvary on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Claxton pounds Bryan County
    PEMBROKE — The Claxton Tigers ran away from Bryan County with a 69-32 win on Saturday on the road.
    The Togers (10-5) were led by Cornelius Taylor (17 points), Trey Hines (13) and Monterius Valentine (12).
    Claxton hosts Jenkins County on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Lady Tigers win big on the road
    PEMBROKE — The Claxton Lady Tigers (10-5) came away from Bryan County with a 53-32 win on Saturday.
    Jazmine Price finished with 13 points and Ikerria Brown added 12.
    Claxton hosts Jenkins COunty Tuesday at 6 p.m.

GSU swimming and diving team notches win
    The Georgia Southern Swimming and Diving team beat Darton College 155-71 on Saturday afternoon in the GSU Recreation Activity Center.
    Georgia Southern won 12 out of the 13 events and improves its record to 5-2 on the year.
    Junior Sara Meisenhelder highlighted an impressive overall diving performance, scoring 281.70 on the one-meter dive to qualify for the NCAA Zone Diving Championships.
    She also beat her own old school record of 263.25 as well as the five-year-old RAC pool record of 269.01, set by North Florida’s Emily Eisenhower in 2008.
    “Sara qualifying for zones is really exciting,” said coach Nathan Kellogg.
     “We tell her all the time she’s just scratching the surface of her potential. She’s just extremely, extremely talented.”

Brittany Swanson also had a successful performance for the Eagles. The sophomore broke her personal records in both dives with new bests of 243.38 (one-meter) and 241.20 (three-meter).

Several other Eagles set personal bests. Lauren Campbell improved her old lifetime record by more than 15 seconds when she finished first with time of 10:45.08 in the 1000 Free.

“This meet we put people in events they don’t usually swim. So they may not have swum it this year or may not have swum it in a couple years,” said Kellogg. “It was kind of refreshing to do a different event for them. So I think they really got excited for it and did really well.”

More record-breaking performances came from Rebecca Alves (2:00.26, 200 Free), Sarah Schwartz (27.19, 50 Free), Megan Heller (2:11.94, 200 Fly), Rikki Babuka (55.00, 100 Free), Pirie Humphries (2:13.07, 200 Back), as well as Hannah Rogers (5:19.01, 500 Free) and Courtney Harrison (5:19.61, 500 Free). All seven Eagles swam new college bests in their respective events.

The Eagles finished first in every event but the 200 Breast. Darton’s Anna Macht came out on top in that race with a time of 2:25.78.

Today’s win brought the Eagles one step closer towards the CCSA Championships in Februay. The squad will continue to prepare when they host conference opponent UNC Asheville next Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at the RAC.