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TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 14, 2006
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SCOREBOARD
High school
Cross Country
Saturday
■ State meet at Carrollton:
AAAAA - Houston County
girls 17th, Warner Robins girls
18th; Warner Robins boys 20th,
Houston County boys 31 st; AAAA
- Northside girls 21st; Northside
boys 29th; AAA - Perry boys
19th. (See Wednesday's Houston
Daily Journal for more)
ON DECK
High school
Football
Friday
■ Lee County at Northside, 7:30
p.m.
■ Houston County at Newnan.
7:30 p.m.
■ Perry at Cairo, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday
■ Mundy's Mill at Warner Robins.
7:30 p.m.
High school
Basketball
Today
■ Taylor County at Warner
Robins (scrimmage). 6 p.m.
Thursday
■ Westfield girls at Central
Fellowship tourney, teams and
times to be determined
Friday
■ Westfield girls at Central
Fellowship tourney, teams and
times to be determined
Saturday
■ Westfield girls at Central
Fellowship tourney, teams and
times to be determined
■ Warner Robins and Northside
at,Ladies Night Out tourney in
Griffin, teams and times to be
determined
Monday
■ Warner Robins and Northside
at Ladies Night Out tourney in
Griffin, teams and times to be
determined
High school
Swimming
Today
■ Houston County/Warner
Robins in dual meet at Fountain,
4 p.m.
Saturday
■ Warner Robins and Perry at
the Sixth Annual Blue Devil Invite
in Columbus, time to be deter
mined
IN BRIEF
Perry Youth Wrestling
Club sets registration
The Perry Youth Wrestling
Club will be hold registration
Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. in the Perry
High School multi-purpose
building.
All students ages 5-14 are
eligible. The cost is S2O which
includes a club T-shirt.
Also, each wrestler will be
required to purchase a USA
wrestling card on-line prior to
the first practice. The card is
$35. Cards can be purchased at
Team Georgia Wrestling at the
website www.themat.com.
The club will also be selling
wrestling singlets for S3O for the
ones who want to compete at
the local tournaments.
The club will meet Tuesdays
and Thursdays (practice begins
Dec. 5). Any day that school is
closed due to inclement weather
or winter holidays, there will be
no practice.
For further information, call
Coach Randy Moss at 988-
6291.
Warner Robins playoff
tickets go on sale
Reserved seat tickets for the
Demons’ Saturday playoff game
against Mundy's Mill will go
on sale to season ticket hold
ers today from 6-8 p.m. in the
school cafeteria.
All general admission tickets
and any reserved seats left will
be on sale today at 8 p.m. and
Wednesday morning in the front
office at the school. All tickets,
reserved and general admis
sion, are SB.
Northside powers past Mt. Zion
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Northside handily defeat
ed visiting Mt. Zion 47-6 at
McConnell-
Talbert
Stadium
Friday night
to earn the
right to host
the first
round of
the GHSA
Northside 47, Mt.
Zion 6
AAAA football playoffs.
The Eagles will host Lee
County Friday at McConnell-
Talbert.
Northside jumped to a
21-6 lead in the first quar
ter, scoring two touchdowns
within eight seconds after
stopping Mt. Zion on its
opening drive of the game.
The Eagles allowed
Bulldogs star running back
Martin Ward to break loose
for runs of 21 and 20 yards
on Mt. Zion’s first two plays
of the game before the Eagles
defense adjusted and shut
down the Bulldogs ground
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A Houston County runner attempts to allude Coffee County defenders Saturday at McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
Coffee turns back Bears
By MA TTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Melvin Loving’s three
yard touchdown run in the
first minute of the fourth
quarter capped a four-play,
92-yard game-winning drive
for Coffee County High
Saturday at McConnell-
Talbert Stadium. The visit
ing Trojans from Douglas
needed a Region 1-AAAAA
win to qualify for the GHSA
playoffs, and they got it
by a final of 28-21 against
the Houston County High
Bears.
Houston County, howev
er, was not in a must-win
Warner Robins knocks off Lowndes
From Staff Reports
Warner Robins shook of a sluggish
start and went on to beat Lowndes
16-6 Friday in Valdosta.
The win ensured the Demons (6-4,
4-2 in Region 1-AAAAA) a playoff spot
while Lowndes (6-4, 3-3) had to hope
the Bears would beat Coffee County
Saturday. That didn’t happen, either,
leaving the Vikings, who were still
ranked 10th heading into the final
week of regular-season play, on the
outside looking in.
The Vikings looked good early on,
Sports
attack.
After the Bulldogs failed to
convert on fourth and one at
the Eagles’ 37, Northside’s
offense took the field.
The offensive numbers put
up by both teams in the first
12 minutes left team statis
ticians with writer’s cramp.
The Eagles needed only
six plays and a face mask
penalty to get on the score
board first.
Deonta Jordan forced his
way over the Mt. Zion goal
line from its six and Devon
Pike hit the extra point to
put the Eagle up 7-0.
The Bulldogs tried some
kickoff razzle dazzle that
fooled no one but the opti
mists in the visiting stands.
On the kickoff, Mt. Zion
tried a reverse but the receiv
er fumbled the exchange
and Northside’s Marcus Hill
recovered the Mt. Zion fum
ble at the Bulldogs’ five-yard
line.
Two plays later, Tijuan
See POWERS, page zB
situation.
Warner
Robins’
road win
against
Lowndes
on Friday
guaranteed
Coffee County 28,
Houston County
21
a spot in the AAAAA brack
et for both the Bears and the
Demons. Coffee County’s
win denied Lowndes a shot
at a third state champion
ship in a row.
Tift County High won
the region with a final 5-
1 record, and Warner
Robins took second place
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Warner Robins 16,
Lowndes 6
Demons’ redzone.
Warner Robins stiffened, but
Lowndes kicker Matt Roland still got
them on the board with a 36-yard field
goal.
The Demons’ Laßon Scott countered
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Northside’s Xavier Hawkins (28) dives after a loose ball during the Eagles’ play-in win
over Mt. Zion Friday at McConnell-Talbert Stadium. Also looking in for the Eagles is
Robert Crawford (71).
at 4-2. The Demons play
at McConnell-Talbert this
coming Saturday for a first
round game with Mundy’s
Mill of Jonesboro. Coffee
County actually vaulted up
to third place with the win
against the Bears, which
settled for the No. 4 seed
and a road trip to Region 4-
AAAAA champion Newnan
High this coming Friday.
Houston County and
Coffee County went back
and forth with the lead in
their regular-season finale.
It was a game pitting two
of the top-ranked defenses
in 1-AAAAA, but scoring
though. In fact, they
went up 3-0 in the
game. They did so
by taking the open
ing possession from
their own 20 and
then moving down
the field and into the
turned out to not be a prob
lem for either side. It was a
defensive play, though, that
got the Trojans started in
the deciding series.
The Bears led 21-20 in
the third quarter when
Eric O’Neal broke tackles
on a 44-yard run from the
Houston 18 to the Coffee
38-yard-line. The home
team gained two more
first downs to the 15, but a
holding penalty moved the
football back to the 24. On
second down, the Trojans
picked off a pass on the 8.
On the first play of
See TURNS, page lB
that with a 92-yard kickoff return for
a score but even with the lead, they
were still far from out of the woods.
Lowndes, which held the ball for at
least 10 minutes of the first quarter
- it also held the advantage in overall
yards 193-34 in the first half - took
over again and again marched down
the field. This time, however, the
Vikings fumbled deep in Demon terri
tory. Justin Cowart recovered.
They weren’t able to take advan
tage of it in regard to putting points
See KNOCKS, pagejß
SECTION
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Perry shuts
out Spalding
By Yff TTHEWBROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Spalding High’s Jaguars
never got into the red zone.
let alone
the end
zone Friday
at Herb
St. John
Stadium.
As a result,
Perry
Perry 27,
Spalding 0
High’s foot
ball Panthers keep their run
of GHSA Class AAA playoff
appearances alive with a 27-
0 shutout victory.
Junior quarterback Casey
Hayward ran for a 52-yard
touchdown and threw a, 45-
yard scoring strike to Akeen
Felder. Freshman Ray Guin
kicked two fourth-quarter
field goals to go with three
successful PAT attempts.
But the night belonged to
the Panther defense, which
never had to line up further
than its own 27-yard-line.
Kenny Davis, at lineback
er, had one of three fumble
recoveries (which set up his
own touchdown runt, and
junior lineman Kanorris
Davis had two sacks in the
second half ... and looked
to have plenty of energy for
more action when the game
was over.
“It’s playoff time, so the
only thing I can do is bring
some energy,” said Kanorris.
“I’ve got to get them hyped
up so we can go to the state
championship.
“I think (the whole
defense) played great. They
kept some blockers off me,
and we just flew to the
ball. When they all tried to
block me at one time ... they
can’t do it. We get free men
open.”
“That is by far the best
defensive game we’ve played
all year,” said head coach
Andy Scott. “We have to con
tinue to grow on defense.
(Friday) we did that, and
hopefully it will carry on in
the playoffs.
“(The defensive line)
was huge. Spalding had a
huge offensive line. No. 63
had to weigh 340 or 350
pounds. I was just proud of
all of them, Kanorris, Tony
(Davis), Ambrose (Kendrick),
Jecavesia (Hayward).”
Another strong aspect of
Perry’s kicking game on
Friday was the punting of
JR Lasseter. He pinned the
Jaguars to their own 18 for
the first series by the visi
tors, and with Tony Davis
See SHUTS, page zB