Education
Education

High school football classic at Georgia State Stadium to be televised

Georgia State Stadium will be the site of the first Great Atlanta Bash Football Classic on Sept. 21. FILE PHOTO by STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC

Credit: Schaefer

Credit: Schaefer

Georgia State Stadium will be the site of the first Great Atlanta Bash Football Classic on Sept. 21. FILE PHOTO by STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
By
July 2, 2019

Six Atlanta-area high schools will battle in three televised games on the same day at Georgia State Stadium.

The first Great Atlanta Bash Football Classic will take place Sept. 21.

The event features five Atlanta high schools and one from Douglas County. Peachtree TV will televise the games.

The match-ups are: South Atlanta High School vs. Washington High School at 10 a.m.;

Maynard Jackson High School vs. Carver High School at 12:40 p.m.; and Mays High School vs. New Manchester High School at 3:20 p.m.

Tickets will be available beginning July 9 at the schools. Tickets will cost $15 in advance and $18 if purchased at the gate on the day of the games.

About the Author

Follow Vanessa McCray on twitter
More Stories

Keep Reading

Children in the Head Start program play outside with lead teacher Genesis Lavanway at the Arthur M. Blank Early Learning Center. It's one of the Head Start programs in Georgia that may not receive its annual funding on Nov. 1 due to the ongoing government shutdown. A bridge loan from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta will keep the programs running for another 45 days. (Miguel Martinez/AJC)

Credit: Miguel Martinez/AJC

Ga. Head Start programs get $8 million lifeline to stay open during shutdown

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta is giving some of Georgia's at-risk Head Start programs bridge loans to stay operational for 45 days.

She’s the first female head drum major at FAMU, and she’s from metro Atlanta

As head drum major, Oluwamodupe “Dupe” Oloyede is something of a celebrity on FAMU’s campus. For the first time in its history, a woman leads the 340-member Marching 100.

The music stopped at Morris Brown. Two decades later, it might start again.

It’s hard to tell the story of the private Atlanta historically Black college without mentioning the famed Marching Wolverines.

The Latest

Children in the Head Start program play outside with lead teacher Genesis Lavanway at the Arthur M. Blank Early Learning Center. It's one of the Head Start programs in Georgia that may not receive its annual funding on Nov. 1 due to the ongoing government shutdown. A bridge loan from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta will keep the programs running for another 45 days. (Miguel Martinez/AJC)

Credit: Miguel Martinez/AJC

Ga. Head Start programs get $8 million lifeline to stay open during shutdown

She’s the first female head drum major at FAMU, and she’s from metro Atlanta

Georgia students flock to Turning Point USA after Charlie Kirk killing

Featured

Eric Delma Head sits in Bibb County Superior Court in Macon on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, before closing arguments in his homicide-by-vessel trial. Head faces upward of 20 years in prison if sentenced to maximum penalties. (Joe Kovac Jr./AJC)

Credit: Joe Kovac Jr.

‘Please don’t go and die.’ Jury rules in cigarette boat, pontoon boat crash.

A middle-of-the-night boat crash on a Georgia lake four years ago left one man dead and six others injured. A Macon jury found the speedboater guilty of homicide Tuesday.

Dunes dustup hangs over Georgia-Florida weekend’s ‘Frat Beach’ party

A construction project at "Frat Beach," the annual St. Simons Island party before the Georgia-Florida college football game, is causing logistical and environmental concerns.

Despite a $14.6 billion surplus, state leaders say they can’t bail out SNAP

The federal government says the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will run out of money Nov. 1. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says there is nothing the state can do.