The first round of the GHSA state high school playoffs start tonight and both Chattooga and Trion will be on the road for their 1st round matchups.  Chattooga will play tonight at 7:30 pm at Dodge County and Trion will play on Saturday at 6pm at Schley County.

The Chattooga Indians finished the regular season 6-4 overall and fourth place in region 7-A Div 1 with a 3-4 record.  The Indians will make a 4 hour drive south today to Eastman, GA to take on the Dodge County Indians.  Dodge County is ranked 10th in the state according to the AJC after finishing the regular season 8-2 overall and third place in region 2-A with a record of 7-2.  Dodge County was 8-0 heading into the final two games of the season and ranked 6th in the state before two blowout losses to Northeast 40-19 and Dublin 50-33.  Just like Chattooga, this year was Dodge County’s first winning season in 3 years and also their first playoff appearance since 2021.  The winner of tonight’s game will advance to play the winner of Coosa vs Worth County.

The 7th ranked Trion Bulldogs finished the regular season 8-2 overall and secured a 3rd place finish in Region 7-A Div 2 with a 2-2 record.  The Bulldogs will also be making a four hour drive south to Ellaville, GA to take on the Schley County Wildcats.  Schley County is unranked and finished the regular season 6-4 overall with a 5-1 Region 6-A record that was good enough for a 2nd place finish behind region champion Macon County.  Schley County’s only region loss was to Macon County 44-29.  The Wildcats also suffered non region defeats to Seminole County, Irwin County and Early County.  Saturday’s game will be the second time these two teams have played each other.  They met in the second round of the playoffs back in 2018 when Schley County eliminated the Bulldogs 40-13.  The winner of Saturday’s game will advance to the second round to play the winner of ECI vs Telfair County.

Due to GHSA rules, neither game can be video streamed tonight but both games will be audio streamed on the WZQZ Facebook page and on 99.1 FM and AM 1180.  Join Chris “Bubba” Wilson and Steiner Davis tonight for the pregame show at 7:15 pm with kickoff to follow at 7:30.  Jeremy Burke and Paul Cavin will call the Trion game on Saturday night starting at 6pm.