Lanier High Baseball: Recaps: BULLDOGS SWEEP JENKINS IN OPENING ROUND OF STATE PLAYOFFS
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BULLDOGS SWEEP JENKINS IN OPENING ROUND OF STATE PLAYOFFS
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