Football pitches third consecutive shutout, move to 4-1

The football team improved to 4-1 with a 56-0 victory over North Springs last weekend. The game marked the third straight shutout by the Panthers defense, as they held Forsyth Central and Lakeside scoreless in their two previous games. Southwest DeKalb has a bye this week before playing Chamblee on Oct. 10. … The softball team has been comfortably atop of its half of Region 6-AAAA all season, and is brimming with confidence as the season is winding down and the region tournament approaches. Freshman Trence Nash has done well at the plate, compiling a .455 batting average and two home runs through 13 games. … Jared Williams finished 11th in the boys Red Division at the Aubrae Gunderson Invitational last week, registering a time of 17:59.65. Andrew Menjor finished 14th with a time of 18:09.91 and Ed Austin finished 22nd. The boys finished seventh out of 20 teams. For the girls, Amber Crews finished fourth in her Red Division race with a time of 21:39.73. Earlier in the week, Crews won her DeKalb County Week 4 race.