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♦ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2006
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The Bulldogs lost 33-6. The
key wins for Mt. Zion in the
sub-region were tight strug
gles, including a one-point
triumph against Lovejoy and
a 12-0 blanking of Jonesboro
High.
Using its own air attack,
Northside wrapped up the
B sub-region in Macon by
toppling Westside 27-7. The
win was important because
it gave the Eagles first place
outright and put them in a
position to be the No. 1 team
from 4-AAAA in the state
tournament. This year, the
B sub-region gets the higher
seed in the event both first
place teams win in the play
in round.
“I thought our guys played
really well,” said Nix. “I’m
thankful for the way we
played both offensively and
defensively.”
The Eagle passing game
seems to be showing signs
of growing more and more
potent. Marques Ivory had
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the offensive line. Johnson
said he’s had college recruit
ers tell him that whole unit is
full of recruits. The Trojans
run the veer with a good
fullback, Melvin Loving,
who is No. 3 in the region in
rushing by only three yards.
Coffee is No. 1 in the region
in total offense at almost
300 yards a game.
“They are very explosive,”
said Johnson. “They can
score on you at any time.
The first thing we have to
do is stop the fullback. He’s
gotten yards against every
body. The quarterback is the
next guy. If he has a great
night throwing the football,
then it’s going to be really
tough.
“We are going to be a little
smaller than they are (up
front). I think one tackle
is 6-6, 320. They are going
to have us out-manned. We
are pretty good up front,
and hopefully we can even
some of that out. We are
going to have to tackle real
well because the fullback
has broken a lot of tackles.
People have a hard time get
ting him down.”
Coffee County also stops
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173 yards passing with
three touchdowns. Jacobi
Rodrigues had one touch
down and 105 yards receiv
ing, while Nick Bass hauled
in two scoring throws and
Tijuan Green the other,
which actually came from
Rodrigues, the former start
ing quarterback.
“I don’t think it’s the best
it’s been, but it was good,”
said Nix about the throw
ing production. “We have to
continue to be good. I don’t
know if we’ll have those kind
of numbers all the time, but
we still have to be effective
and utilize our passing game
if people stop us from run
ning the football.”
Nix was worried about the
Seminole running game going
in, but held senior Fernando
Pitts to just 37 yards and the
team as a whole to 55 on the
ground.
“If we don’t win this week,
we’re out of it,” said Nix
about the finality of this
play-in situation. “It’s defi
nitely a playoff atmosphere
for us from here on out. It’s
hard to believe it’s that time
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the run fairly well, giving
up less than 80 yards on the
ground on average. The total
defense also leads the league
at 161 per game. Houston
County will throw the lead
ing rusher, Eric O’Neal, at a
group with three good line
backers in a 4-3 and a 5-3.
“Something’s going to
have to give there,” said
Johnson. “I hope we’ll be
able to win that battle some.
The whole front is pretty
good. It’s hard to get them
out of the way. The lineback
ers run well.”
1-AAAAA may have explo
sive running backs and
spread-out offenses, but sev
eral scores in region games
turned out to be quite low.
“It’s a very good defen
sive region,” said Johnson.
“If you look at our scores,
there’s 14-10, 10-7 or what
ever.
“We’ve only had a couple
of games where somebody’s
scored a few points, and
that’s probably because of
turnovers. People who play
good defense are usually
doing good coaching jobs.”
When Houston County
topped Valdosta for the first
time ever, it was in a 14-
9 final. O’Neal scored the
game-winning touchdown
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of year, we’ve already played
nine ball games.”
While the Eagles would
be a heavy favorite to win
on Friday, Nix is only wor
ried about that game and the
fact that Region 4-AAAA is
paired with Region 1-AAAA
in the first round.
Right now it looks like Lee
County will finish fourth in
that region unless it beats
Americus-Sumter this week
end.
1-AAAA is only a four-team
region led by Thomas County-
Central, a team Northside
beat in the playoffs last
year. Americus-Sumter and
Bainbridge are tied for sec
ond, but Americus-Sumter
beat Bainbridge.
Statesboro is the defend
ing state champions and still
highly ranked at No. 2, while
Griffin sits at No. 3 in the
rankings. But again, don’t
ask Nix who is the team to
beat.
“Our main interest is play
ing Friday night, and hope
fully we’ll play good, win and
then see who all is in the
bracket,” said Nix.
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with 1:29 left. Valdosta had
gone ahead with 2:55 to play
on a field goal.
The Wildcats tried to dip
into its history during this
lean 1-8 season going into
that game, which was defi
nitely going to be their fina
le.
“Valdosta for us as coaches
was a very scary ball game,”
said Johnson. “They broke
out their old Valdosta jer
seys. They started a new
thing this year, changing
jerseys for the first time in
55 years, and they thought
that was going to be a big
deal. When we get out there,
they’re in the old Valdosta
jersey, and they played really
hard.
“We told our kids they
were going to play hard. It
was their last chance to beat
somebody.
“We did a pretty good job
defensively. They did a few
things that caught us off
guard, but after that we gave
up a field goal, and that was
pretty much it.”
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