Ryan Harrow: Gatorade – Georgia Player of the Year

From Scout.com
CHICAGO (March 18, 2010) — In its 25th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPN RISE, today announced Ryan Harrow of Walton High School as its 2009-10 Gatorade Georgia Boys Basketball Player of the Year.
Harrow is the first Gatorade Georgia Boys [...]

No streaming at Wheeler Game – Crew not welcome

Unfortunately for all Region 6AAAAAA fans, the Walton vs Milton and Wheeler vs Roswell fans men’s basketball games will not be streamed tonight. Even prior to arriving at Wheeler to set up to to stream the game for all the fans who will not be lucky enough to get into the standing-room only gym, the [...]

How does the snow affect the basketball schedules in Region 6AAAAA?

REGULAR SEASON BASKETBALL GAMES

The decision to play will be made by the administrators at each school. A decision by an administrator at one school is binding on both schools, but please talk with one another.
Non-region games cancelled by the weather will not be made up.
Region games that have no bearing on the seeding of the [...]

Region 6AAAAA Boys Basketball Bracket

Here is the Region Tournament bracket for Men’s basketball.  Click on the link below:
6AAAAA Boys Region Bracket
AAAAA Boys State Bracket

How to get into the Wheeler vs Walton Game at Walton

There have been many questions surrounding how to get into a “sold-out” basketball game at Walton. Let’s clear up a few misconceptions.
Misconception #1:  Pre-Sold Tickets
There is no such thing as being able to pre-purchase a ticket to the Walton vs Wheeler basketball game. Fans are admitted on a first come-first served basis. Cash at the [...]

Both Walton Girls and Boys Win vs Alpharetta

Walton High School traveled up Georgia 400 into North Fulton to play Alpharetta High School on Tuesday night. The cold bus ride home was well worth the trip and both the boys and girls teams returned to Walton with wins.
The girls played a back-and-forth game all four quarters and pulled away in the end with [...]

Without Harrow, Raiders come up short

Raleigh, NC
With Ryan Harrow sidelined with the flu, Walton had the unenviable task of playing Enloe High School and Wake Forest comit, Melvin Tabb. Enloe, a nationally ranked team, had only lost once in 11 games this season and that loss was to Rice High School in Harlem, NY, another national powerhouse.
Both teams, 11-1 were [...]

Walton loses first game of Season

Raleigh, NC
Walton matched up with Kinston High School, the #2 team in North Carolina in what many spectators say was the best game ever witnessed at the GSK Invitational. With UNC’s Roy Williams sitting under the basket, watching his prize recruit, Reggie Bullock, the #6 rated player in the nation, all the kids on the [...]

Walton squeeks past Millbrook & the Referees

With only 9 seconds left in the game, G’Mitri Rice took a tip pass from Ryan Harrow to sink the final basket of the game as the Walton Raiders beat both home town Millbrook High School and the home cookin’ referees 61-60 in Raleigh, NC to open another Christmas break basketball tourney in North Carolina. [...]

Raiders return Home Undefeated

Rock Hill, SC
Walton’s Raiders returned home undefeated after a three day trip north of the border to Rock Hill, SC for the Prep All Stars Classic. The boy’s team completed the trifecta by beating South Pointe High School, yet another good Charlotte team. In the 71-52 victory, Juniors Jack Kraemer and Lanerryl Esters-Johnson scored 11 [...]

Walton wins again – Downs Olympic Charlotte

Rock Hill, SC
Walton High School improved to 2-0 in the Prep All Stars Classic tonight, beating Olympic High School from nearby Charlotte, NC . Leading scorers for the Raiders were Ryan Harrow with 29, Braylon Williams contributed 16 to the cause and Mr. Consistency, Lanerryl Esters-Johnson, added 13. Walton margin of victory was only 9, [...]

Walton Blows past Forestview in 1st Game of Tourney

Fort Mill, SC
Walton’s Boys team traveled to Fort Mill, SC on Monday and began their Christmas tournament,  with a Day One victory over North Carolina 3A State Runner-up, Forestview High School (Charlotte). In a game that was as close as one point at halftime, NC State signee Ryan Harrow and teammate Kamren Belin took care [...]

Walton Raiders ride balanced attack, 3 point shooting to victory over Roswell Hornets

By Tim Burns
ROSWELL, GA-Walton used their most balanced offensive effort of the season on Friday night to take a 94-57 triumph at Roswell. The Raiders held a 12 point lead at the half before breaking the game open by outscoring Roswell 32-18 in the 3rd. The Raiders had five players in double figures and [...]

Walton defensive pressure too much for Lassiter

by Tim Burns
MARIETTA, GA-(Game Photos) With a University of Iowa football coach in attendance checking out the Trojans’ Hutson Mason at Lassiter on Tuesday, it was the 5th ranked Walton Raiders that provided all of the entertainment as they cruised to a 75-47 win. Typically known as an offense first team, the Walton defense was [...]

Frantic 4th quarter rally leads to Walton win in opener

By Tim Burns
ATLANTA, GA-Walton senior guard Ryan Harrow poured in a career high 47 points, including 23 in the 4th quarter, to lead the Raiders to a stunning 84-79 come from behind win over the Creekside Seminoles in the Elite 8 Hardwood Classic at the Georgia State University Sports Arena on Saturday.
The furious final eight [...]

N.B.A. Players Make Their Way Back to College

N.B.A. Players Make Their Way Back to College
Larry W. Smith/The New York Times
Russell Westbrook held the attention of an audience and an instructor, a familiar role for an N.B.A. player. Only, fellow students made up the crowd. And he was addressed by a teacher, not a coach.

Chris Paul, right, with his son and LeBron James [...]

Rice & Harrow: 1st Team All State AAAAA

Walton’s duo of Glen Rice and Ryan Harrow were selected by the Associated Press as All-State, First Team honorees in the AAAAA classification, the state’s largest school designation. Combined, Glen and Ryan, along with McEachern’s Trae Golden and Wheeler’s Richard Howell comprised four of the top five players in the state, all from Cobb County. [...]

Referees miss critical call – Walton loses

Unbelievably, just like last year, a veteran referee missed a critical call with 2.4 seconds left in game which, had the technical infration been called, could have given Walton an opportunity to upset the formerly #1 State -ranked Norcross Blue Devils. In a game just as exciting as the first round of the Georgia AAAAA [...]

Walton Jumps on McEachern Early

Despite the rain, the cold and the potential snow, hundreds of Walton fans braved the elements and traveled to metropolitan Power Springs to witness the Raiders’ dismanlting of the #1 rated boys basketball team in the state. Playing in the largest high school gym in the state, in front of a standing room crowd of [...]

Raider Legs Fall Off

Explain it any way you like, but Saturday afternoon’s Region Consolation Game between Milton and Walton High School was less than spectacular. Even though the score of Milton’s 95-89 win might indicate a fast-tempo game, for the most part both teams came out showing the wear and tear of the previous night’s losses to Wheeler [...]