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From page iB
Scott said Central may
not have a leg up on all
the schools that have been
AAA for a while because
each year gives you differ
ent teams.
“I think it gives their kids
a lot of confidence,” he said.
“And it gives their coaches
something they can harp on.
At the same time, they had
a very successful team last
year and right now they’re
kind of struggling. 1 hope
they can continue to strug
gle.”
Central did have a Division
I prospect at wide receiver
last year who signed with
Georgia Tech. Scott said the
big recruiters still have their
eyes on some of the talent
remaining on this campus.
“They are very athletic,”
said Scott. “They have a
quarterback and a running
back who are very, very
good. They have an offen
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Front page iB
And, the starting rota
tion is strong, but forget
Mike Hampton and John
Thomson. The Braves will
have Smoltz, Chuck James,
and Tim Hudson.
Forget Atlanta is sending
Joey Devine to the Arizona
Fall League. If he can show
that his five and a third
innings of no-run, three
hit pitching in September
was no fluke, he could be a
strong addition to the 2007
bullpen.
The Braves took him as
the top pick in the 2005
First-Year Player Draft.
Joining him will be pitchers
Anthony Lerew, Will Startup
and Sean White and catch
ers Jarrod Saltalamacchia,
Yunel Escobar and Josh
Burrus.
As far as field personnel,
Andruw Jones will likely be
put on the trading block.
With the likes of Matt Diaz,
Jeff Francoeur, and Ryan
Langerhans to pick up the
slack, the Braves could get
some quality players in
exchange for Jones.
If you look at their depith
chart, the Braves already
look solid for next year.
In fact, maybe I’m just
feeling generous, but I’m
going predict that the Braves
will win the World Series in
2007.
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sive lineman who is getting
highly recruited. They have
a couple of linebackers who
are good athletes, and in
the secondary they run real
well. They have a lot of skill
kids and coach (Anthony)
Hines does a good job of get
ting them prepared.
“Offensively they run
the split-back veer. They’re
going to run some option,
so we’re going to have to be
real sound as far as taking
the dive, taking the quarter
back and taking the pitch.
Defensively, they will line
up in some 4-4, eight-man
front type football, and a
little bit of 50 front.”
From Perry's side, Scott’s
major concern is the sim
ple fundamental known as
tackling. The Panthers had
a slew of missed tackles
against Jackson, which was
a spread-out passing team,
but stopping people on the
run is even more crucial
against the option attack.
“If we swarm the ball, we’ll
be successful defensively,”
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Clayton Baker, son of Robert and Erin Baker of Perry,
stands in awe of the 13-pound catfish he caught Sept.
29. The 5-year-old’s response: “Oh gosh! Oh goshl"
The fish was caught in a private pond in Marshallville.
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said Scott. “Offensively, we
have to do a better job of
blocking, pass protecting
and just controlling the foot
ball. At times we’ve really
been successful at that.”
Perry and Central share
another common early
opponent in Henry County.
Henry crushed Central 39-6,
but the Panthers were able
to slip out of McDonough
last weekend with a 20-17
win. Quarterback Casey
Hayward accounted for all of
his team’s touchdowns with
two runs and one pass.
Scott’s main hope going
in was seeing some steps in
the forward direction after
the disappointment against
Jackson. What he saw was
inconsistency.
“We played a really good
first and third quarter, but
the second and fourth quar
ters were very ugly,” he said.
“We have to put four full
quarters in. Against great
teams we’re not going to be
successful if we don’t play
four full quarters.”
SPORTS
Hendon listed as Atlanta contender
Special to the Journal
Ltike Hendon of Bonaire
is among the 144 names list
ed to compete in the 85th
Annual Atlanta Amateur
Match Play Championship,
which begins today and runs
through Sunday at White
Columns Country Club in
Alpharetta.
The field is slated to play
18 holes of stroke play
qualifying, with the low 31
advancing to single-elimi
nation match play. The
entire schedule is as follows:
Today, 18 holes of stroke
play qualifying; Friday, low
31 and defending champion
begin match play followed
by a round of 16; Saturday,
TIME
From page iB
The only touchdown came
with 20 seconds to go until
halftime. The only real scor
ing chance in the second half
for either side was a missed
field-goal try of 37 yards by
Lowndes.
“Defensively, as we were
looking at film, they have
seven starters back,” said
Johnson. “Which is a good
place to start from, especially
on the defensive line. They
have a bunch of starters
there back. They are very
physical and hard to run the
football on.
“Offensively, they have
some younger kids. They lost
a running back, fullback and
a quarterback. They lost I
think three offensive line
men. That hurts them, too.
“But it starts on defense,
especially in this league. It
looks like everybody’s pretty
good on defense. (Lowndes
hasn’t) given up many points.
In fact, in the game they got
beat, they ended up with five
fumbles, and two of them
were inside their 10, which
led to scores by Central
Gwinnett. Other than that,
they outplayed them.”
Johnson added he has no
doubts this will be another
Lowndes team that makes
a long playoff push. But if
this is a Viking defense tough
against the run, it would
not bode well for Houston
County, which focuses its
attack around two solid
backs in Eric O’Neal and DJ
Dodson. The Bears’ game
plan will center on ball con
trol and keeping the defense
off the field.
“We have to do a better job
of blocking than what we did
last week,” said Johnson. “We
have to somehow establish
some running game. Then
I think we can throw off of
it. We have thrown the ball
pretty well this year, and we
will keep trying to. We would
like to control the football
more if we could.”
Randy McPherson, the
Lowndes head coach who has
led the Viking program to its
current run of unprecedent
ed success in his four pre
vious seasons, is known as
a basic football coach when
it comes to offense. It’s a
wing-T offense that relies on
execution and just enough
throwing to keep opponents
off-balance. In 2005, Lowndes
had 52 touchdowns from the
ground game.
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quarterfinals with the semi
final matches to follow;
and Sunday, championship
match.
Entries were open to rpale
amateur golfers who are
GSGA members and Georgia
residents. The field consists
of the 144 entrants with
the lowest USGA Handicap
Indexes and the event’s
defending champion.
Originally known as
the Atlanta Amateur
Championship from 1919-
2001, it was open to golf
ers in the Atlanta area. In
2002, the event combined
with the Georgia Match Play
Championship (which ran
1998-2001) and was then
'But it starts on defense, especially in
this league. It looks like everybody's
pretty good on defense.'
-Houston County headfootball coach Doug Johnson
“When it comes down to
it, we have to stop the run,”
said Johnson. “If we can
force them to throw, we will
probably be playing our type
of ball game. If we let them
control the football, it’s going
to be tough.”
Perhaps then Houston can
take advantage of the fact
that there are new starters
at all the key offensive posi
tions. Johnson said they do
have half a season of expe
rience and McPherson,
through all the usual adjust
ments a coach will make, has
a good feel about who can
produce at what spot.
Houston County’s other
key factor is shaking off the
disappointment of going
from a miracle last-second
touchdown catch, pulling
them within one point of the
Demons, to a missed PAT that
denied the Bears a chance
at overtime. Tight end Ben
Collins caught a pass from
quarterback Jeff Thompson
that was tipped a couple of
times in the end zone before
falling into his grasp.
It was the only offen
sive touchdown scored in
the entire contest. Warner
Robins’ only touchdown came
on an Ivory Petties intercep
tion return of a batted pass.
Otherwise, David Clark of
the Demons nailed a 41-yard
field goal and Taylor Jones
connected on a 46-yarder
that set a Houston County
school record.
“It was very heartbreaking
because it ended so sudden,”
said Johnson. “What we
ended up talking about was
that we had several chances
to do several things in that
ball game just like (Warner
Robins) did.”
Johnson pointed out a
Bear drive to the WR 30 in
the third quarter that stalled
due to a busted play, or a
defensive breakdown prior to
the Clark field goal when the
Demons gained 17 yards on a
trap on 3rd-and-15. The one
who may have needed the
most consoling was Jones,
but Johnson said it wasn’t
the one and only reason the
Bears didn’t win.
“Everybody had a chance
to do something that would
have turned that ball game
HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
opened to entrants state
wide. Former champions
include Charlie Yates (1931),
Tommy Barnes (1936),
Dan Yates (1942), Gene
Dahlbender (1946-47, 1957-
59, 1962), Bobby Jones’ son,
Robert T. Jones, 111, (1948),
Charles Harrison (1952-54,
1961,1965,1967-1969,1973,
1977), Larry Mize (1979) and
Danny Yates (1981-82).
Dalton’s David Noll Jr.
defeated former Stanford
University golfer Patrick
Phillips of Athens, 5 and 4,
to capture the 84th annual
Atlanta Amateur Match Play
Championship. Noll fired a
76 in the stroke play round
to advance to match play.
around,” said Johnson.
“Taylor’s kicked good and
he’ll continue to kick good.
I think he’ll hold up pretty
good.”
Bears fans will also be
interested in the quarter
back rotation and how that
stands going into Lowndes.
Martez King, No. 1 on the
depth chart at the start of
the season, took the field first
after missing the two pre
vious games with an ankle
injury. Thompson, who guid
ed Houston to wins against
Berkmar and Parkview, also
had time under center last
weekend.
Johnson said there were
still questions about King’s
health before the Warner
Robins game. He said he
wasn’t 100 percent ready, but
close enough to play. As for
the Lowndes game, the coach
said both quarterbacks will
play, and who is out there
the most will be determined
by who is playing better and
what plays are working best
for the team.
The new wrinkle the coach
revealed this week is that
King will be on the field
somewhere, even if he isn’t
the quarterback.
The loss to Warner Robins
snapped Houston’s three
game winning streak, but
those were non-region
games. The Bears are 0-1 in
1-AAAAA, and while a loss
to Lowndes would not end
all playoff hopes, it would
make about every game left
on the schedule a must-win
situation.
“You could get in (the play
offs) at 3-3, and you might
even get in at 2-4,” said
Johnson. “We just have to
keep showing up every week.
You might be 0-2 and win the
next four and might end up
winning (first place). I think
after the fourth week is when
things are going to shake
down, you can see where you
are, and some people will be
better off than others.”
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