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Houston Haily .IJourtutl TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006 The Home Journal's SANDLOT fIff'WWMTMIW 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 f aV dll : :.(■ ENI Gary Harmon 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 B 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 W IS isSff ' Jpp r /**v t^ rr 1 |.. Jr * v ENI Gary Harmon 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 B 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