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The Lamar County Trojans and the Pike County Pirates square off tonight in Zebulon in the ongoing Battle of Potato Creek football classic. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Georgia High School Football Daily has Pike as a one-point favorite.

The series began in 1976 when Ken Upton coached LC and Al Harwell was at the helm at Pike. Lamar won that game 35-0 and leads the all time series 25-8. The two teams did not battle in 1990 and 1991; during the period 1998-2003; and in 2016 and 2017.

The Trojans, under first-year coach Jeff Sloan, enter the game with a 3-0 mark and wins over Mt. Zion, Greenville and ACE. Pike, in its ninth year under coach Brad Webber, is 2-1 with wins over Central-Talbotton and Greenville and a loss to Fayette County.

Against the common opponent, LC defeated Greenville 27-0 while Pike topped the Patriots 19-0.

Realtime scoring from the game will be provided right here.

Crews are in place on the LCES campus erecting the new facility which will house the Boys & Girls Club of Barnesville. James Blackmon, who is heading up the project for the City of Barnesville, said the work should be complete by the middle of next week.

The club will open in early January and a major fund drive to finance operations is getting underway.

Reigning citizen of the year Kelly Hughes will serve as grand marshal of the Buggy Days parade Saturday and she and her family will be riding in style. They will traverse the parade route in this stagecoach provided by Dean Ryan of Concord. The stagecoach will be pulled by a team of Percheron draft horses.

The parade will form up in and around Summers Field Park. It gets underway at 2 p.m.

Barbara Hale Gresham Twilley, 88, passed away September 13, 2019. She was the daughter of Jessie Hale and Walter Quinn Gresham of Milner, GA. She earned degrees from GSCW (now Georgia College) in Milledgeville and from Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA and was a retired Cobb County school teacher.

She was a communicant of St. James’ Episcopal Church of Marietta, a member of the Philips Legion chapter of UDC, Smyrna, and the Fielding Lewis chapter of DAR, Marietta. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert F. Twilley, Sr.; her youngest daughter, Jean Shelton Twilley Rodie, of Keller, TX; and her brother, Walter Shelton Gresham. She is survived by daughters, Ann Twilley Henderson (Mick), Virginia Quinn Twilley Aiken (Michael), both of Kennesaw, GA,; her son Robert F. Twilley, Jr., of Marietta; her son-in-law, William Rodie of Keller, TX; grandchildren Jessie Henderson Kidd (Alan) of Ball Ground, GA, Gracie Henderson Yates (Andrew) of Sandersville, GA, Walter Thomas Aiken and George Robert Aiken, both of Kennesaw, Gresham William Rodie and Robert Bennett Rodie, both of Keller, TX; great grandchildren Caleb, Emma, Griffin, and Liam Kidd, and several much-loved nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family request donations to Blue Horizons Personal Care Home at 1760 Shillings Road, Kennesaw, GA 30152. Visitation is scheduled for Thursday from 4-7 p.m. at West Cobb Funeral Home in Marietta. A funeral service will be held at 12:00 Friday, September 20 at St. James’ Episcopal Church in Marietta, GA.