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Cross Country Westfield Hornets @ Sherwood Invitational Name Time Place 1 Jacob Parnell, VB 19:55 5 2 Hunter Wojohn, VB 23:03 3 Evan Grantham, VB 23:13 4 Thompson Way, VB 29:10 5 Hank McCord, VB 25:39 6 Will Walton, VB 24:43 7 Zack Hamsley, VB 24:44 8 Jared Howard, VB 27:08 9 Jeremy Stubbs, VB 29:10 10 Will O'Neal, VB 28:19 11 Cleve Cleveland VB 1 Leigh James-Artigas, VG 2 Mallory Eubanks. VG 25:20 9 3 Caliie Brown, VG 32:53 Falcons oust ICW from playoffs Special to the Journal Phenix City and International City each beat the other during the regular season. The two met in a decid ing - and more importantly, playoff - game Saturday with the Falcons getting the edge and an advance to the next round. They beat the Warriors 8-6. It was, as Co-owner/ General Manager James Hamp put it: “One of the toughest games of the year.” In fact, the score was knotted as goose eggs at He said it... “If we don’t win our ball games, it really doesn’t matter. 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They went for the 2-point conversion and successfully completed it off a sweep. “The ICW (then) drew back their catapults and began launching deep to their j oist by Umveisul Pfess’SyndTcaie A / TAAT'G WAEPE i PORK PIBG, AAM3UPGEPG, GAUOAGE6> / TMIG TAIMG IM ) / YOU IM?>EPT TAE I ; V AMP CAICKEMG TO PEEP AM APMY. y I rAE BACK’ J l COWG AMP PIGG. / ’ FULLY AUTOMATEP. GEE 1 TAEPE'G AM : T / TAAT TAMK TAEPE 7 you FILL IT WITA y \ ( APAPTEP FOP 1 THE CQICE^r / LET'G \ X T ■ ( PLAY VIPEO 1 / M y gpoTMEP V I \ SOCCER / I \c, MOGGIMG TAE \ < ’ V l VIPEO GAME UMIT 1 (c) 2006 Bill Hinds Disl Dy Universal Press Syndicate 1 receivers,” Hamp said. “Two plays which would have resulted in touchdowns were called back on penalties,” he said. With less than three and a half minutes left in the game, the Warriors finally scored. They were penalized on the 2-point conversion, how ever. That in turn pushed the ball back five yards. They tried to connect in the endzone from there, Hamp said, but were unsuc cessful. After two subse quent possessions, the final horn blew ending their year. I f ALWAYS ) I MY MOM lE> \ ? I pear y I AOGGIMG TAE I V V computer. / | www gocomics com e-mail Cleatsmail@aol com SPORTS Bulldogs not taking UAB lightly By Marc Weiszer Morris News Service It’s a showcase weekend for SEC football with a pair of heavyweight national TV tilts between Florida- Tennessee and LSU-Aubum. Tucked away on pay-per view, Georgia plays Alabama- Birmingham at Sanford Stadium. It’s the kind of game that probably will be an afterthought for many unless the Blazers pull an Akron or a Troy and topple a team from a BCS confer ence or at least scare the daylights out of one. UAB senior quarterback Chris Williams knows it’s possible. He had his first college start in place of injured Darrell Hackney against Georgia in 2003, a game in which the 29-point under dogs hung with the Bulldogs. Georgia needed a 31-yard Billy Bennett field goal with 12:47 to play to pull out a 16-13 victory. UAB (1-1) pushed another bigwig in its season opener Sept. 2, losing at Oklahoma 21-14, and lost 17-10 last season at Tennessee. “It gives us a lot confi dence knowing that we can play with them, but we want a chance to try and beat one of them,” said Williams, who came off the bench to com plete 12 of 16 passes for 144 yards and two touchdowns in a 17-15 victory over East Carolina Saturday. “We play close with every big team we’ve played, but we haven’t beaten them. That’s our goal.” Akron of the Mid-American Conference did it over the READY From page iB in 2005. There was another injury of note for Warner Robins Friday on the defensive side. One of the school’s all-time top tacklers, Brian Buford, left the game early in the sec ond half and didn’t return. “He was dehydrated a little bit and had to spend the night in the hospital,” said Way. Buford didn’t prac tice Monday, but the coach expected the linebacker to be ready on Tuesday. So neither Wright nor Buford are listed as out for Central Gwinnett. “They have a good foot ball team,” said Way about the Black & Gold Knights. “They got beat by Lowndes (in the 2005 playoffs), but they have 16 starters back off that team. They are very talented football players.” The Demons should expect a variety of odd-man front defenses and a double-slot formation on offense. “They try to run the speed sweep, the counter and the trap off that,” said Way. “They are primarily a run ning team. We have to play our best to win the game. “The two slots have good speed, and they like to get TIGER From page iB “oh-so-close” as the Lady Panthers lost both in a tie breaker. First it was Adairsville. Perry lost to it 6-4. Then it was Effingham County. The Lady Panthers lost to it 4-3. Following that, Perry got back on track and fin ished out with wins, first edging Holy Innocence 4-3 DONATE TO GOODWILL. IMJI A ♦ 1 Bivd M www.goodwillworks.org ■ hbH Building lives, families, andcommunwe^^miFviFiimn 'lt gives us a lot confidence knowing that we can play with them, but we want a chance to try and beat one of them. We play close with every Mg team we've played, but we haven't beaten them. That's our goal." - UAB senior quarterback Chris Williams weekend. The Zips went on the road and upended ACC member N.C. State 20-17 Saturday. Sun Belt conference member Troy, which upset Missouri in 2004 and plays at Georgia next season, was tied with No. 9 Florida State with under two minutes to play until the Seminoles pulled out a 24-17 victory. “They really are good football teams,” Georgia coach Mark Richt said of the UABs and Troys. “They have talent. You watch and see, they’ll have guys getting drafted and guys getting free agent shots. They’ve got guys that can play. Both of those programs are especial ly tough because they usu ally can run with you pretty well.” UAB had first-round picks in 2005 in receiver Roddy White by Atlanta and in 2002 in defensive end Bryan Thomas by the New York Jets. That’s two more first rounders than Alabama had in that stretch, but when the Crimson Tide comes to town, teams snap to atten tion. “Maybe we sneak up on them, but we also have a little bit of talent also,” outside with those guys. We have to contain that. The fullback likes to run inside, so our tackles and inside linebackers have to be disci plined and cut that off. When they throw the ball, they have a tall receiver, about 6-2, with good speed. “They have good size (on the line). They’re not real quick ... hopefully we’re quicker than they are. We’ll have to hit them, get off some blocks and pursue the football.” Way shouldered all of the responsibility for the 28-7 loss to Northside that put the Demons at 1-1. Warner Robins’ only score came on what could have been a disastrous punting situa tion. But David Clark ran down the bad snap and found Laron Scott open down the sidelines for a 52- yard touchdown pass in the first quarter. After that, the Demons gained just 63 yards of offense. “I did a very poor job of getting us ready,” said Way. “We didn’t play very well once the game started. I didn’t think we competed very well. That’s a problem and we’re trying to rectify that this week, work on fun damentals and try to get better.” One of the main lacks of and then beating Creekview 9-4. Leading the Lady Panthers on defense were Erica Smith and Jenna Clark, both from the mound and both finish ing 2-1. “Both of them pitched extremely well the whole tournament,” said head coach Jeff Sans. At the plate, Perry had plenty with multiple hits, and several with home runs. In fact Smith and Clarke HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL Williams said. “Maybe it’s a combination.” UAB is just in its 11th sea son playing on the Division I-A level and its trip to the 2004 Hawaii Bowl is its lone bowl appearance. The team was picked fifth in the six team Conference USA East Division. ’’They’re well-coached.” Richt said. “Those guys can definitely beat you. Shoot, it happens all the time, so we’ve just got to be ready.” So far the big upset hasn’t happened this year for Conference USA teams. Florida pounded Central Florida 42-0, BYU cruised over Tulsa 49-24, UCLA defeated Rice 26-16 and Texas Tech ripped SMU 35- 3 and edged UTEP in over time 38-35. “We sure give it our best shot because we play enough of them,” UAB coach Watson Brown said. “We got close. A lot of our teams have, but we still this year haven’t gotten one of those. I think we do need to do that. The percep tion of the league is getting better and better, but until you get that true perception that you want, you’re going to have to knock off some of those folks.” discipline, Way said, was the amount of penalties on the offensive unit deep in their own territory. It created bad field position for them and great position for the Eagles. “We have to focus bet ter than we did,” said Way. “(The defense) played fair, a lot better than the offense. When the opponent gets the ball at the 50 or inside the 50, it’s hard to play defense. They don’t have far to go to score. We still made a lot of mistakes and have a lot of room for improvement as well.” Scott gave Warner Robins an interception in the first half, but there was also a third-down interference penalty that kept Northside driving for the eventual winning touchdown. In the second half, down 21-7, the Demons forced Northside into three straight punting situations, but the Eagles would go ahead 28-7 with 2:47 remaining. “We’ve talked about it, and hopefully we realize we still have a lot to play for,” said Way about the impact of the loss, this time as a non-region game. “Down the road, if we can work hard, get better and make some noise in the region (1- AAAAA), we’ll be fine.” both went deep, as did Crystal Greer. Greer finished with seven hits. Ashton Jones had eight, which included four doubles and Marla Patterson had seven hits. Patterson, Sans said, was also feeling sick at one point, so he had her sit out a game. She came back in just in the nick of time to hit a sin gle to left field that scored the tying and go-ahead runs against Holy Innocence.