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Muustuu ©atlji .IJoxmuxl SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2006 The Home Journal's SANDLOT "wpfr 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 f JEfm f* 1 A JRSs i^i ■ MWH " • | pwpypilnpPMP Hp ENlGary Ifarmon 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 B 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