Class 6A Weblog: Newton ladies snap 13-game dropping streak to Grayson with championship victory – Rating Atlanta

6A Blog | March 11, 2025 by score-editor | 0 Comments
The Newton ladies will open the 2025-26 basketball season as defending state champions for the primary time in historical past after securing the title this weekend in Macon. It was the first-ever championship for the Girl Rams and introduces a brand new storyline now that its area counterpart Grayson and Newton have captured first-ever ladies state championships in back-to-back seasons. The Grayson boys additionally received a first-ever basketball state title final season and the Newton boys got here up simply quick this 12 months with a runner-up end after falling quick to Wheeler. On the ladies facet, Newton and Grayson in fact clashed on this 12 months’s finals—marking their fourth assembly of the season—and have ignited a rivalry that has been lopsided for years. Because of this, a brand new sense of pleasure awaits subsequent season with two matchups within the common season assured after which potential clashes within the area match and state playoffs.
Heading into Saturday’s finals, the Grayson ladies had defeated Newton 13-straight occasions. The final time Newton topped Grayson was on Jan. 8 on the street 54-43 throughout the 2020-21 season. Grayson’s streak of 13-straight wins over Newton began after that. Grayson received 76-56 within the rematch later that season. In 2021-22, Grayson swept the Rams 52-42, 70-29 and 65-42. The 2022-23 season was Grayson’s second-straight sweep with them taking the video games in lopsided blowouts 64-21, 71-36 and 62-23. Newton was simply 3-22 total throughout that season and the workforce went 0-10 in area play. Newton improved to 19-12 in 2023-24, however was swept for the third-straight 12 months—together with losses of 68-43, 75-33 and 62-39. It hardly felt like a rivalry at this level, however the drastic enchancment from a 3-22 season to a 19-12 end in a single 12 months confirmed Newton’s upward pattern.
Grayson entered this season with 10-straight wins in opposition to its Area 4 counterpart and took the primary assembly on Jan. 9 76-52. After that 24-point victory, Grayson added a 76-51 victory on Feb. 4. The groups met for a 3rd time within the area championship and Grayson received 50-44—extending the win-streak to 13-straight in opposition to Newton. In Macon, Newton scored its greatest win in program historical past and turned a one-sided relationship into an official rivalry by triumphing in a 59-56 thriller.
The familiarity is there with the Grayson and Newton boys as effectively and their rivalry has been far more aggressive over this timeframe though Grayson has now received eight-straight in opposition to Newton heading into this subsequent season. Newton’s final victory got here on Jan. 24 throughout the 2022-23 season, however then dropped its subsequent two conferences and have been swept the final two years. Grayson has dominated this head-to-head matchup throughout their very own rise to the highest, however Newton has actually narrowed the hole and made issues much more attention-grabbing heading into subsequent season.
On the gridiron, Newton defeated Grayson for the primary time in class historical past throughout the 2023 season in a 31-27 victory. Grayson owns the all-time sequence 8-1 and clearly went on to win final 12 months’s Class 6A state title.
Across the Classification: In baseball, No. 1 ranked Etowah has just lately climbed to No. 8 within the MaxPreps Nationwide ballot and is 11-1 this season with its solely loss coming in a three-game sequence that the Eagles received 2-of-3 in opposition to North Paulding. The Wolfpack have been No. 3 in final week’s ballot after taking 1-of-3 in opposition to No. 1 Etowah, nonetheless, North Paulding slid down this week to No. 7 after getting swept by No. 2 Walton and dropping their fifth recreation within the final six outings. Parkview, Buford, North Gwinnett and Lowndes every moved up one spot after North Paulding motion to No. 7 and Tift County knocked Lambert out of the ballot and debuts at No. 9.
 
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