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Mmtstot paily JJmmtal SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANDLOT " Tl If MW MW” SCOREBOARD High school Football Today ■ Bowdon 40, Trion 34 ■ Brookstone 31, Schley Co. 28 ■ Brookwood 21, Central Gwinnett 0 ■ Bulloch Acad. 40. Windsor Acad. 12 ■ Calhoun 50, Dade Co. 0 ■ Camden Forest 0 ■ Carver-Columbus 50. Jordan 14 - See 7B for more ON DECK Youth Football Saturday Optimist Bowl at McConnell- Talbert Stadium ■ 8:55 a.m. - Welcome and invocation ■ 9 a.m. - Mighty Mite introduc tion ■ 9:10 a.m. - Mighty Mite con solation game ■ 10:15 a.m. - Mighty Mite championship game ■ 11:25 a.m. - Mite introduction ■ 11:35 a.m. - Mite consolation game ■ 12:55 p.m. - Mite champion ship game ■ 2:25 p.m. - Midget introduc tion ■ 2:35 p.m. - Midget consola tion game ■ 4:10 p.m. - Midget champion ship game IN BRIEF South Coast League to hold tryout camp The South Coast League of Professional Baseball today announced that its inaugural try out camp will be held Nov. 11 in Bradenton. Fla. The camp will be held at Robert C. Wynn Field on the campus of Manatee Community College, home of the South Coast League’s Bradenton Juice. All participants are required to pre-register for the tryout. To pre-register, go to http://www. southcoastleague .com/tryouts. The cost to tryout is S4O. which can be paid by credit card, check, or money order. South Coast League uniform player contracts - including the Macon Music, which is part of the league - will be offered on the day of the camp to qualified participants. In order to participate in the camp, players must have prior professional baseball playing experience or have played at least two years of college base ball within the last three years. Directions from 1-75: Take Exit 217 (old No. 41). This is a west bound exit onto State Road 70. Take SR-70 to 34th Street West (about eight miles). Turn left at the traffic signal at 34th Street West. Go south through the traf fic signal at 57th Avenue West and the field is on your left. Habitat to hold softball tourney fund-raiser The Houston County Habitat for Humanity will hold a softball tournament Monday, 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 for more information. Waterford to hold Junior Golf Clinic Waterford Golf Course will hold a Junior Golf Clinic Nov. 20-21. Times are: 10-11:15 for ages 5-10; 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. for those ages 11 and up. The cost is SSO which includes lunch for both day, prizes and more. Visit the course to sign up. Eagles stop Westside; lock up sub-division By JOE SERSEY Journal Correspondent Marquis Ivory threw for 173 yards and three touchdowns as Northside stayed unbeaten in 48-AAAA region •A play with a 27-7 win over Westside- Macon Friday at the Bibb County Sports Complex. Jacobi Rodriguez caught four passes for 105 yards and a touchdown and Northside 27, Westside 7 threw a 38-yard pass to Tijuan Green to set up the Eagles’ last touchdown of the game. The Eagles’ Nick Bass caught two touchdown passes from Ivory - a 30- yard bomb in the first quarter and a 19-yard pass in the fourth quarter. ENI/Gary Harmon Perry’s Robby Taylor drops a Northeast runner Friday in Perry. Perry beats Northeast By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer First, it was a bit of an unexpect ed air show by quarterback Casey Hayward. Up next, it was the more familiar bone rushing game. In the end the news was good for the home squad despite a sec ond half to forget . Perry High’s football Panthers clinched a Perry 38, Northeast 20 home game for the Region 4-AAA state tournament play-in round this coming weekend by outlasting Northeast High of Macon 38-20 Friday at Herb St. John Stadium. Hayward started with two quick touchdown passes to Akeen Felder. The Panthers would go on to own a 25- point halftime lead. But in the second half, there were two blocked punts by the Raider spe cial teams, an exchange of intercep tions, numerous failed attempts to con vert fourth down and two lost fumbles Houston County gets past Valdosta By JAMES TIDWELL Journal Staff Writer Trailing by two, senior running back Eric O’Neal scored on a 17-yard run with 1:29 remaining in the game to give the Houston County JR® Houston County 14, Valdosta 9 High Bears a 14-9 come from behind win at Valdosta’s Bazemore- Hyder Stadium. With the playoffs rapid- Sports Green rushed for 123 yards on 19 carries and his five-yard run in the first quarter put the Eagles up for good 13-0. The fireworks started early and the game looked to be an old-fash ioned shootout. Northside kicked off and survived an early scare. Seminoles quarter back Deshawn Robinson hit Danny Madison in full stride on the first play of the game and that resulted in a 65-yard reception. As the Eagles’ was to do through out the game, they stopped the drive and the Seminoles’ 25-yard field goal try missed just left. Northside scored twice in the first quarter with Ivory throwing for more than 100 yards. Westside’s Madison caught four by the Perry offense. Three of the first four plays Perry ran on offense were throws by Hayward. Two of those were direct strikes to a sprinting Felder for Panther touch downs. . In fact, Perry opened its whole offen sive output with a 44-yard touchdown from Hayward to Felder on a play fake. After recovering Northeast’s fumble of the ensuing kickoff on the Raider 20-yard-line, Hayward did a little roll to his left on another play-fake from the 14. He found Felder again up the middle, and it was six more points for the Panthers less than five minutes gone on the clock. Northeast, which came to Perry tied with the Panthers for second place in the south sub-region of 4-AAA (3-1), started a freshman at quarterback, Michael Palmer. He put the Raiders on the scoreboard in the first quarter orchestrating a 10-play drive of 73 yards. Palmer did most of the gaining himself with shotgun draws and breaks ly approaching, the Bears found themselves in a must win situation Friday night to have any hope of claiming a postseason spot. With four teams in Region 1-AAAAA with three wins already, the Bears needed wins to make the playoffs a reality. For much of the night, however, it looked liked Valdosta would spoil the Bears’ postseason aspi rations. Houston County had no intention of giving up those dreams. passes in the game for 153 yards. Robinson finished the night with 193 yards passing including a touch down pass to D.J. Denson for 40 yards that gave Westside a 7-6 lead in the first quarter. Despite Robinson’s passing stats, he threw two interceptions that killed potential scoring drives. One was intercepted by Charles McKenzie that killed a drive on the 8-yard line. Mario Armstrong inter cepted a sure touchdown pass for the Eagles in the fourth quarter. Northside had gone ahead on its first possession when Ivory showed he could go long with a 39-yard touchdown pass to Bass. Bass finished the night with three catches for 61 yards and a touch down. With the victory, Houston County improves to 6-3 overall and 3-2 in the region and marks the first time the Bears have defeated the winningest program in the state. The Wildcats end the year at 1-9 overall and 0-6 in the region. The Bears face Coffee in the regular season finale next week at McConnell- Talbert Stadium with the winner possibly capturing one of the four region play off spots. O’Neal powered the Bears of containment up to the Panther 30. Palmer completed a first-down pass in the flat to Adarius Cornelius on the 14, and later was faced with third down and 12 on the 16. Javaris Brown ran a good route to catch a Palmer throw on the 1, then the quarterback snuck in the touchdown at 1:35. The Raiders tried to get two points on the conversion but passed short of the goal line. The Panthers answered that score by returning to the running game and tacked on 17 more points on three straight possessions before halftime. Clint Kirk and Austin White, two sophomores on the offensive line, led Hayward to a bootleg gain of 23 yards to the Panther 48. Faced with 3rd-and-10 at the start of the second quarter, Hayward made a rolling completion to fullback Brandon Golden on the Raider 32. The quar terback scrambled to convert another third down on the 17. On second down, Kenny Davis powered his way off right tackle for a touchdown. See PERRY, page zB with 108 rushing yards on 18 carries with two touch downs. The Wilcats went ahead 9- 7 with 2:55 left in the third quarter as kicker Brad Barr connected on a 24-yard field goal. The Bears responded with a two-yard run by O’Neal with 3:58 remaining in the second quarter. The Wilcats scored on their first possession as running back Jamil Chandler scored on a six-yard run to cap a 70-yard drive with 5:56 left in the first quarter. SECTION B Both defenses tightened up in the second quarter and the score stayed 13-7 Northside at the half. Northside added a touchdown in the third quarter when Ivory hit Rodriguez with a 17-yard pass. Bass’ second catch came in the fourth quarter on Ivory’s 19-yard touchdown pass. The Eagles held Westside I,OOO yard rusher Fernando Pitts to only 37 yards on 16 carries. Ivory went 7-for-7 for passing in the second half and finished the night 13-of-16. His opponent, Robinson, threw four of his five passes for more than 25 yards - three of them for 40 yards or more. Northside is now 9-0, 6-0 in the sub-region and Westside fell to 7-2 and 4-2 in the sub-region. Packers unravel Demons From staff reports Colquitt County must have had a leftover black cat ilf Colquitt County 24, Warner Robins 14 wrong for Warner Robins, it did. The Demons lost 24-14. The haunting - on their Homecoming no less - start ed on the first play of the game. The Packers won the coin toss, deferred to the second half and then recovered the kick on Warner Robins’ 23- yard line. A flag put them back five yards but two plays later they scored. The Demons responded by moving down the field but on third-and-goal from the 12, Mark Wright’s pass was picked off. Colquitt wasn’t able to do anything with it - that possession or the next two that followed. Neither was Warner Robins on its three See UNRA VEL, page ?B WF unable to end losing skid By NICK CAMPBELL Journal Correspondent Westfield played host to the §l. Southland 13, Westfield 0 game for the Hornets this season. The evening was also Senior Night for the Hornets, who honored 17 fall athletes prior to the game. Although last week’s loss took the Hornets out of post season contention, the game had important implications for the Raiders. Southland had guaranteed themselves a No. 3 seeding in the GISA AAA playoffs, but came in looking to jump to the second seed and gain homefield advantage in the first round of the playoffs. The stakes were raised late in the game when it was announced that the No. 1 team in the state, Tattnall Square, had lost to Riverside. Tattnall’s See SKID, page iB or two. Either that or it was the witching hour at McConnell- Talbert Stadium Friday. If it could go Southland Raiders Friday night in a AAA South region con test that marked the last home