DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — Senior quarterback Davis Mills threw five touchdown passes Friday as Greater Atlanta Christian beat Dawson County 42-7 in Tiger Stadium to claim the Region 7-AAA championship.

The Spartans clearly demonstrated why they are the No. 1-ranked team in the state. With the win comes the top seed in the opening round of the AAA state playoffs next week. Coach Sid Maxwell’s Tigers (7-2, 5-1) finished in runner-up spot in the region and will host Lovett on Friday.

Mills put on a clinic, passing for more than 200 yards in the first half alone. The Stanford commit threw touchdowns passes of 56, 4, 14, 68 and 1 yard.

“Their quarterback is outstanding,” Maxwell said. “He was able to hit his timing routes and his wide receivers were putting on double moves. That’s something you don’t see in high school football.”

The Spartans (9-1, 6-0) went three-and-out on their first possession and the Tigers showed some spark on their opening drive, marching from their own 20 to the GAC 41 before having to punt.

From that point on, however, the Spartans scored almost at will.

On their next series, Mills hit Harrison Sloan with a 56-yard scoring strike. Next, it was Mills hooking up with sophomore Jake Floyd on a 4-yard touchdown that capped a 62-yard scoring march to make it 14-0.

Two minutes later Mills found Sloan again on a 14-yard yard scoring pass and early in the second quarter, GAC had built a three-touchdown margin.

But the back breaker came just before halftime when Mills tossed a middle screen pass to running back Kyler McMichael. A blue-chip athlete who has scholarship offers to LSU, Georgia, Florida, Michigan and Michigan State, McMichael turned on the jets and streaked 68 yards to give the Spartans a 28-0 halftime advantage.

“We didn’t have an answer for that,” Maxwell said.

McMichael scored his second touchdown on a 1-yard run to finish off a six-play 60-yard drive in the third quarter to make it 35-0.

The Spartans never took their foot off the gas and midway through the fourth quarter, Mills hit Sloan again for 66 more yards to the Tigers 1. He completed the drive with a 1-yard touchdown toss to sophomore Jeffrey Blake.

Dawson County’s only score came on a 21-yard run by Payton Myers in the fourth quarter.

After the game, Maxwell told his players he was proud of what they had accomplished this season and that it would have been easy for them to quit trailing 35-0, but they never gave up.

“Now, it’s 0-0 and we start the state playoffs next week against Lovett.”