From the Agnes Scott Communication Office…

Agnes Scott College’s lacrosse team, the first varsity women’s lacrosse team in Georgia, will take the field for its first regular season game ever on March 2 against LaGrange College.

Agnes Scott was the first Georgia college to establish a varsity women’s lacrosse team, though other Georgia teams (including LaGrange) have followed or are preparing for their first seasons. While there are several club lacrosse teams at other Georgia colleges and universities, Agnes Scott’s team was the first school-sponsored (varsity) women’s lacrosse team.

The game will be held at Agnes Scott’s Gellerstedt Track and Field from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. The NCAA Division III team is competing in the USA South Athletic Conference, which includes seven other colleges from Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

Read the full article HERE.

Bailey writes in…

The Booster club is having their spring fund raiser [Saturday] March 27th at the Church of the Epiphany. If anyone has any items that they would like to donate to our auction it would be very helpful.  It can be anything from a special cake you bake to donating a week at your mountain house.  Or if you would like to donate time,that would help also.

The money goes to student athletes of Decatur High and Renfroe. Please contact Bailey Pendergrast -sbpender@gmail.com

On Monday, the school board updated facility and grounds use fees effective January 1, 2010.

Assistant Superintendent Thomas Van Soelen points to the last item on the school board’s agenda for an answer to the question, “How much did the Tennesee Volunteers pay the Decatur school system for use of the DHS field?”

An attachment included with the item gives the breakdown of fees to rent DHS stadium…

Field/Stadium Usage Fees

• $200 per hour without scoreboard use
• $250 per hour with scoreboard use Minimum: $200 Maximum: $2,500 per day (12 hours per day) Maximum: $15,000 per week (12 hours per day, seven days)
• $75 per hour for field lights in addition to field use fee
• $225 for each lining of the field in addition to field use fee

Van Soelen states “Tennessee was charged nearly that amount…”

And for those of us with grand plans of renting out the new auditorium for non-school events, check out auditorium rental fees after the jump…

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Must be a pretty darn nice field to play on.

This morning’s AJC reports on an unexpected (?) perk of the new DHS stadium.

Bowl officials helped Tennessee pick Decatur as a practice site over Georgia Tech and Clark Atlanta after the Vols (7-5) were selected to play in the New Year’s Eve game against Virginia Tech.

…“We came down for an inspection, and [Decatur High] was the option that suited us best,” travel coordinator David Elliott said. “We were looking for a surface similar to that of the Georgia Dome and this was the best fit.”

…“It’s a very exciting time, not only for our school but for the City of Decatur,” [Decatur athletics director Carter] Wilson said. “It shows that other people think highly of our facilities, as we do. We look forward to a long relationship with the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.”

h/t: InDecatur

P.S.  TheDNO posted some photos of Saturday’s practice on Flickr.

P.P.S. Here’s InDecatur’s report, with an extensive photo montage, from the Vol’s weekend practice.

Sorry to all you folks with bulldog costumes in your attic. Your services are not needed.

Jim Newbury of the Decatur Bulldog Boosters writes in…

REAL BULLDOG NEEDED FOR STARDOM

The Decatur Bulldog Boosters are looking for a few good bulldogs (ie: real bulldogs) to star in two upcoming videos that promote involvement with the club. Skills needed: bone chewing and panting. The videos will be played on the DHS electronic scoreboard during football, lacrosse and soccer games. If you have a pet that might be interested in being on the big screen, give Jim Newbury a call at 404-378-2844.

Even with they’re recent loss to Avondale, The DeKalb Neighbor reports that for the first time in many years, the 4-4 Decatur High Bulldogs football team has a pretty good chance of making the playoffs.

And don’t think this is just a one time thing.  Head coach Price Jones predicts that the team will be a “regular” playoff contender in coming years.

Jim sends in this press release from the Bulldog Boosters…

The Decatur Bulldog Boosters (DBB) is a volunteer group of parents, teachers, administrators and community members who through their efforts support all the athletic teams at Renfroe Middle and Decatur High Schools. There are currently 25 teams representing 14 sports at RMS and DHS. And we are the only Booster Club for the middle and high school and support all sports. Over 55% of the students at the middle and high schools participate in at least one sport. No school district money or gate receipts can go to funding the uniforms, equipment, and/or student recognition awards for athletics at either the middle or high school. Therefore, the DBB must raise this money, annually. Athletics is a significant part of the City Schools of Decatur experience which augments the fine academic tradition that has served all our graduates so well and contributes each year to our sense of community.

The Decatur Bulldog Boosters would like to invite the business community to join us in supporting these fine student athletes by supporting the DBB.

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As the DHS basketball teams gear up to play their last game at the Rec tonight (girl’s game starts at 5p), principal Lauri McKain-Fernandez sends along this recent interview with Decatur’s legendary basketball coach Bob Reinhart, where he talks about his career in Decatur, great games at the Rec, and his anticipation for the new, on-campus facility.

Article and interview by sports writer Billy Banks…

When we moved to Atlanta in 1981 there was one word we heard more than any other, a word uttered on nearly a daily basis — “Sherman.” As in “Sherman burned this,” or “Sherman left us nothing but a dang chimney,” or “we had to bury the silverware so that rascal Sherman wouldn’t take it” and so forth. It was simply amazing to us, raised as we were in a distant border state, how many people talked about W.T. Sherman some 120 years after he left Georgia. When we moved to Decatur in 1987 we had a similar experience, and still do, every time we attend a game at the Legendary Decatur Rec Center. There’s hardly a game where someone doesn’t mention the name “Reinhart,” as in “this is the way we did things back in Reinhart’s day” (although no one’s ever claimed that Reinhart took their silverware). Read the rest of this entry »