Interview: WACO Coach Sug Parker

Washington County
2011 State Champions

The Washington County Golden Hawks will face the Columbia Eagles in Saturday's Class AAA state championship game.  Washington County has the opportunity to complete its second straight undefeated season and repeat as state champions.  The Augusta Basketball Report spoke to Washington County coach Sug Parker about the challenge that he and his team face that basketball coaches and players at all levels would love to confront: focusing on improving and executing after going nearly two seasons without a defeat.  Parker also discusses the importance of defense, conditioning, and hard work in building an elite program.  Enjoy the discussion and the highlight clips from the Golden Hawks' state tournament third round victory.  And visit augustabasketball.com for live updates, highlights, and commentary during Saturday's state tournament game at 7 P.M.

Final Four Week: WACO-Monroe Highlights

The Augusta Basketball Report initiated coverage of girls basketball teams from the greater Augusta, Georgia, area with Saturday's state tournament elite eight round.  In addition to the Laney and Aquinas boys games, we provided live updates, real time highlights, and pre and post game commentary as a part of Saturday's "Live Blog" (see section at top of page for access to Saturday's Live Blog).

Tonight we share the highlights from the Washington County Golden Hawks' third round victory over the Monroe Tornadoes.  Coach Sug Parker's team is the defending Class AAA state champions, and the team has won 62 consecutive games, losing none during the past two seasons.  6' junior Allisha Gray scored 32 points during the victory.  And she got help from her capable teammates, as the Golden Hawks played an impressive overall game.

Over the next 24 hours, we will publish the highlight videos and game summaries for all of the girls games from Saturday, including the Westside Patriots' win over the Hepzibah Rebels and Laney's comeback win over Morgan County.  Because all three highlight videos will be ready to share, Tuesday night will likely be "Ladies Night" on the Augusta Basketball Report's website and Twitter account (@AugBball).  So spread the word to all of the area's girls basketball fans!

And the area's boys basketball fans need not worry.  We will also be publishing the videos of the Aquinas and Laney boys games during the next 24-48 hours.  So get ready for a big week.  Final Four Week!

Final Four Week

Tonight we kick off "Final Four Week" by releasing the highlight videos from Saturday's greater Augusta, Georgia, area Elite 8 state tournament round winners:  the Laney girls and boys teams and the  Washington County girls and Westside girls teams.


We are also holding a T Shirt giveaway on our Twitter (@AugBball) and Facebook (Facebook.com/augbball).  The giveaway rules are simple: at approximately 7:30 P.M. on those pages, we will direct supporters of the teams competing in this weekend's Final Four on Facebook and Twitter to comment (Facebook) or "retweet" (Twitter) that they want a shirt, giving their size and their favorite team's name.  We will have the following shirts for the following teams:

Laney boys and girls supporters - #WildcatNation T's
Washington County - #WACOGrayOut
Westside - #WestsideStudentSection