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SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 14, 2006
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SCOREBOARD
High school
Football
Friday
By The Associated Press
■ Adairsville 36, LaFayette 20
■ Alpharetta 10, Centennial 3
■ Berkmar 42, Shiloh 6
■ Brookwood 58, Meadowcreek
3
■ Brunswick 49, Greenbrier 28
■ Buford 37, Holy Innocents 7
■ C, Gwinnett 32, S. Gwinnett 7
■ Calhoun 59, Sonoraville 0
■ Carrollton 49, Cedartown 0
■ Cass 7. Villa Rica 3
■ Cedar Shoals 27, Eastside 9
■ Chattooga 30, Dade Co, 13
- More on 3B
ON DECK
High school
Softball
Today
■ GISA state Final Four at
Southern Pines Softball Complex:
Westfield versus Tattnall, 10 a.m.
(game 1)
High school
Cross country
Today
■ Coach's Cup, hosted by
Warner Robins, 10 a.m. at Pearl
Stephens Elementary School
High school
Volleyball
Today
■ Houston County at Union
Grove for Area tournament,
teams and times to be deter
mined
IN BRIEF
WR Rec to begin
basketball registration
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will begin basketball
registration Oct, 21.
It will be held from 8 a.m.-1
p.m. at the department's office
off Watson Blvd, Participants
must be at least 5 by Dec. 31 in
order to participate in the basket
ball program.
Fees are as follows: $25 for
city residents, SSO for county
residents and SBS for out of
county residents.
Registration will continue until
filled, during regular business
hours. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-
Friday.
In addition, coaches are also
needed. Call 929-1916 for more
information.
Goggin to play 100 holes
of golf for charity
Landings Golf Club PGA
Professional Bill Goggin will be
playing 100 holes of golf in one
day Oct. 23 to benefit the new
women and children’s homeless
shelter in Warner Robins.
Call 923-5222 Ext. '4 or e-mail
him at Bill@goggingolf.com to
make a pledge.
Habitat to hold softball
tourney fund-raiser
The Houston County Habitat
for Humanity will hold a softball
tournament Nov. 6, proceeds
of which are to go toward the
Houston County Habitat for
Humanity.
The cost is S3OO per team
- teams must have at least nine
people with a maximum of 15.
Trophies will be awarded and
the first pitch is slated to be
thrown at 9 a.m.
Call 218-5545 or e-mail
kcripe@flintemc.com tor more
information.
Landings offers several
golf opportunities
The Landings Golf Learning
Center is currently offer
ing Junior Super Saturdays:
October Group Lessons. The
cost is $lO per visit with no
signup necessary.
The course is also mak
ing signups for its Winter Golf
Program. The cost is $250 up
front.
The program runs from
November through February
2007. There is a limited signup.
Contact Goggin at 923-5222
Ext. 4 for more.
Perry blasts West Laurens
By MATTHEW BROWS
Journal Sports Writer
Kenny Davis scored three touchdowns,
and the Perry High Panther football
offense, which had hardly
any third-quarter action
last week at home, owned
this Friday’s third period
with a 96-yard scoring
drive.
Perry improved to 2-0
in the 4-AAA south sub
region with a dominating
Perry 42, West
Laurens 6
42-6 road win at West Laurens High.
The Panthers led 14-6 at halftime, but
all the momentum seemed to rest with
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Houston County quarterback Jeff Thompson (13) hands off in the Bears’ game against Colquitt County Friday at
McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
HoCo beats Colquitt County
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Eric O’Neal rushed for
165 yards and three touch
downs as Houston County
defeated Colquitt County 25-
14 Friday
night at
McConnell-
Talbert
Stadium.
The
victory
improved
the Bears
to 2-1 in
45*
Mm
Houston County
25, Colquitt
County 14
l-AAAAA and 5-2 overall
while dropping the Packers
to 1-2 in the region and
5-2.
O’Neal averaged 6.6 yards
per carry on 25 carries and
had seven rushes of 10 yards
or more.
From his new position
as wing back, Martez King
added 96 yards and a touch
down on nine carries.
“We made Martez a wing
NS runs past Baldwin
By JAMES TIDWELL
Journal Staff Writer
With the region play
offs rapidly approaching,
Northside
faced a piv
otal Region
48-AAAA
matchup
Friday
against
Baldwin in
a battle of
A
Northside 28,
Baldwin 6
subregion unbeatens.
Both teams have been
known for putting up points
throughout the season, but
only one offense showed up
at Braves Field.
The Eagles jumped out
with 14 points in the First
quarter and never looked
back as they shut down
Baldwin for a 28-6 victory.
With the win, the Eagles
Sports
the home Raiders prior to intermission.
Not only did West Laurens scwre the last
touchdown of the second quarter, but a
strange turnover with less than a minute
to go in the half almost opened the door
for the home team to pull closer to the
Perry lead.
To make matters seem even worse, the
Panthers, which received the second-half
kickoff due to deferring its successful call
of the coin toss, had a little b»tch of that
kickoff. The result was a spot on their own
4-yard-line.
The Perry offense had been mix
ing its accustomed wishbone with a
See BLA STS, page jB
| Inside
Warner
Robins
rallies past
Valdosta
- page 3B
back to keep
pressure off
of Eric,” said
Houston
County head
coach Doug
Johnson.
“Now
(offenses)
can’t key on
Eric.”
After a scoreless first
quarter that saw the Bears
dominate the clock, the
Packers took advantage of
a partially blocked punt to
get possession on Houston
County’s 18 yard line.
The Packers tried to pass
their way into the end zone.
Facing fourth and three from
the Bears’ 11, Packers quar
terback Channing Hudson
hit Dontrell Johnson in the
back right corner of the end
zone for a touchdown. Matt
Demott kicked the extra
point to give the Packers a
7-0 lead.
improved to 7-0 overall and
3-0 in the subregion, while
the Braves fell to 5-1 and
2-1.
Northside made it a three
possession lead in the fourth
quarter as junior quarter
back Marques Ivory con
nected with Brett Moore on
a nine-yard touchdown pass
with 3:33 left in the fourth
quarter.
The Braves finally got on
the board with 2:36 remain
ing in the fourth quarter as
the defense scored on a strip
to cut the lead to 21-6. ,
Northside answered with
36 seconds left in the game
as junior running back
Tijuan Green scored on a
15-yard touchdown run for
a 28-6 advantage.
The Eagles jumped out
See R UNS, page jB
O’Neal rushed for 120
yards in the first half, 92
yards in the second quar
ter to help Houston County
overcome the touchdown
deficit.
O’Neal’s first touchdown,
a one-yard run capped a
79 yard drive helped along
by two Packers’ face mask
penalties.
The kick for the extra
point sailed wide right, but
a 15-yard penalty called on
the Bears sideline pushed
the kick off back to the
Houston County 25.
Taylor Jones’ kick off
turned into what appeared
to be an onside kick.
“It was an accident,”
Johnson said, “but it worked
out good for us.”
The Packers’ Michael
Johnson couldn’t hold onto
the ball and it was recovered
at the Bears’ 41 by Houston
County’s Wes Johnson.
The Bears used seven
Submitted
These young Northside High School Eagles demonstrated their school spirit during a
recent football game. They are, from left, Katelyn Bradshaw, Tiffany McDowell. Tara
McDowell and Taylor McDowell.
FPD surges past WF
From staff reports
First Presbyterian Day
kept Westfield winless in
GISA AAA
South with
a 31-14 win
Friday.
T h e
Vikings (4-
2, 2-0 in
AAA South),
celebrating
A
FPD 31,
Westfield 14
their Homecoming, turned
two Hornet (1-4-1, 0-2)
interceptions into scores in
the first half. That helped,
but it was a drive that ate
plays to ground out the nec
essary 59 yards the ended
on O’Neal’s seven-yard
touchdown run. The pass
for the two-point conver
sion fell incomplete, but
the Bears led 12-7 with less
than two minutes left in
the half.
Colquitt had frittered
away its three first-half time
outs, but the pass happy
Packers offense moved the
ball to the Bears two-yard
line before the clock ran
out.
Colquitt attempted 37
passes in the game, using
short tosses to the fiat like
running plays but in the
third quarter, the Bears
held the Packers to five
completions, two of them
for negative yards.
Forced to punt from their
own three yard line, the
Packers gave the Bears
excellent field position
See HOCO, page zB
SECTION
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up most of the third quar
ter and keeping it most of
the fourth that really put
a damper on the Hornets’
chance at a rally.
One of those came on
Westfield’s first possession.
Fortunately for the Hornets
it came deep in FPD territo
ry. Unfortunately for them,
the Vikings marched up the
field. Westfield’s defepse did
stiffen, however, limiting the
home team to just a field
goal.
And even better,
See SURGES, page jB
It doesn’t take
a 'miracle' to
sort these out
/ ■ your eyes only,
( H secret com
yJL munication to
Georgia head football coach
Mark Richt from one of his
top advisers.)
Hi coach,
you real
ize a lot
of people
are saying
we’re head
ed for a
5-3 confer
ence record
and will
be lucky
to get in
''' %
Matthew Brown
Journal Sports Writer
the Outback Bowl. You and
I know there’s still a lot
of football left, especially
for Tennessee with LSU,
Arkansas and Alabama left
on their schedule.
Bottom line is you have
two weeks to get this quar
terback mess straightened
out before Jacksonville. I
know, you can’t take an SEC
game lightly, which may have
happened with Ole Miss, but
get real, we’re talking about
Vanderbilt and Mississippi
State.
Before the Ole Miss game,
you said Stafford and Cox
would rotate two series each.
Maybe that’s why things
were so listless. And Joe T.O.
last week, how can some
body look so good one half
and so sloppy the next? That
one writer I saw had a good
new nickname down pat.
Anyway, here’s what you
should tell Moe, Larry and
Curly. For these next two
games, whoever you decide
to start will stay in until
he leads two scoring drives.
Then the next guy comes in
and has the same expecta
tion. Once that’s done, the
third guy gets his chance.
Hopefully by then the game
will be over, and if there’s
time you can use Barnes
or Shemp or whatever his
name is.
By the way, my tyranni
cal boss is sending me to
See MIRACLE, page zB