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TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
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High school
Football
Friday
■ AAAAA quarterfinals: Houston
County at Roswell, 7:30 p.m.
■ AAAAA quarterfinals: Warner
Robins at Norcross, 7:30 p.m.
■ AAAA quarterfinals:
Habersham Central at Northside,
7:30 p.m.
High school
Basketball
Today
■ Warner Robins at Perry. 6
p.m.
Friday
■ Houston County at Westside,
7 p.m.
■ Northside at Warner Robins.
4 p.m. (Rescheduled for Jan.
27, 2007)
Saturday
■ Westfield at Mount de Sales,
2 p.m.
■ Houston County at Perry, 6
p.m.
High school wrestling
Today
■ Perry at Warner Robins, 5
p.m.
■ Houston County at Jones
County duals, teams to be deter
mined, 5 p.m,
■ Northside at Baldwin (versus it
and Rutland). 5 p.m.
Friday
■ Perry at Southern Slam duals
(through Saturday), teams and
times to be determined
Saturday
■I Perry at Southern Slam duals,
teams and times to be deter
mined
■ Northside and teams to be
determined at Bear Duals at
Houston County, 9 a.m.
High school swimming
Saturday
■ Warner Robins at PACE
Invitational in Atlanta, 5 p.m.
■ Perry at Coffee County Trojan
Invitational, 8:30 a.m.
IN BRIEF
Demon playoff tickets go
on sale today
Playoff tickets for Warner
Robins' quarterfinal matchup at
Norcross go on sale today. All
tickets are general admission
and are $lO. Tickets will be
available today at 7 p.m. in
the school cafeteria and will
continue to be sold beginning
Wednesday morning at school
in the front office. Ticket sales
will continue through Friday at
2 p.m.
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 build
ing. 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 com
pete 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 informa
tion, call Coach Randy Moss at
988-6291.
Westfield squad to
compete in tourneys
Westfield’s competition
cheerleading squad will com
pete Thursday at 6 p.m. in the
Heart of Georgia Cheerleading
Competition. Westfield is also
hosting the event which will
be held in the Westfield gym
nasium. Also, The GISA state
cheerleading competition is Dec.
9 at 10 a.m. at Tattnall Square
Academy.
Houston County blanks M.L. King
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Come playoff time, records mean
nothing. That’s why supposed under-
dog 8-4 Houston
County defeated
10-2 M.L. King Jr.
28-0 to advance to
the AAAAA Elite
8 against Roswell
next Friday night.
The win put the
Bears in this posi-
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tion for the third time in the school’s
history; their second trip in the
past three years, and they did it on
defense.
M.L. King Jr. relied on big plays
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North side’s Othman Falah looks for running room during the Eagles' playoff win over Brunswick Friday in
McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
Eagles power past Pirates
By MATTHEW BROWS
Journal Sports Writer
Brunswick High’s mis
handling of the football led
to two short Northside scor
ing drives in the first quar
ter Friday at McConnell-
Talbert Stadium. But it
was a series of 99 yards for
a touchdown in the third
quarter that truly broke
the spirits of the visiting
Pirates.
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Green
ran for
211 yards
and three
touch
downs,
while quar
terb a c k
Marques
Brunswick at
Northside, Friday,
7:30 p.m.
Ivory threw two touchdown
passes to lead the Northside
Eagles past Brunswick 38-
13 in the second round of
the GHSA Class AAAA
playoffs.
Up next for Northside,
which improved to 12-0
overall, in the quarterfinals
is Habersham Central, the
No. 1 seed out of the sub
divided Region 8-AAAA.
The site of that game was
determined by a Saturday
coin toss.
Brunswick High, out of
Region 3-AAAA, came to
McConnell-Talbert after
earning its first postsea
son win since playing for
the state championship in
1999.
The first quarter of
Friday’s game was a bit of a
strange enigma. Northside
Sports
to win games, but Houston County’s
defense muted the Lions’ roar, forc
ing four turnovers that turned into
Bear scores.
The Lions fumbled twice and the
Bears intercepted two passes, the
results of which meant a 28-0 win.
Houston County’s defense domi
nated to the point that in the second
half, the Lions managed only one
first down, 48 yards passing and a
paltry 14 yards rushing.
Twice the Lions faced fourth down
plays and went for the first. Twice
they failed.
Meanwhile, the Bears’ offense
made good on what their defense
gave them.
Houston County scored 21 points
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Eagle defenders zero in on a Brunswick runner.
built a 21-3 lead even
though the Pirates ran 20
offensive plays to just eight
for the Eagles.
Northside deferred its
option for winning the coin
toss to the second half, so
Brunswick took the first
possession. With some suc
cessful fullback traps, the
Pirates drove up to the
Eagle 43-yard-line before
stalling.
The Brunswick punter,
though, did not get a good
snap and wound up run
ning with the football. The
Eagles stopped him on the
Pirate 44.
Northside ran two plays
in the first quarter.
The first, a D.J. Dodson 12-yard
run came courtesy of a Lions muffed
punt that gave Houston County the
ball on the M.L. King Jr. 23.
Four running plays later, Dodson
gave the Bears all the lead they
needed.
Michael Thompson kicked all four
extra points in the game.
The Lions fumbled the ball again
at midfield four plays later, and
Houston County’s Trenton Powell
returned the fumble the requisite
50 yards to put the Bears up 14-0,
with less than four minutes left in
the quarter.
On MLK’s next possession Houston
County’s secondary stepped up. Rico
from there. On the second,
Ivory just got his option
pitch off in time to Green.
For Green, it was a 20-yard
touchdown.
On Brunswick’s next
drive, there was continued
steady moving downfield.
Quarterback Jonathon
Dixon hit a 20-yard comple
tion to Jarvis Williams on
third down at the 14. But
a substitution foul imme
diately afterwards set the
visitors back, and Mario
Armstrong deflected a pass
in the end zone on second
down.
At 3:50 of the first period,
Nic Sasser punched in a 33-
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yard field goal. Northside
kept the lead at 7-3.
The Eagles found them
selves with a little more
work for the next drive, 76
yards, but managed it in
four plays. Green picked
up 15 yards outrunning
the Pirate blitz, and Jacobi
Rodriguez did a little yards
after-catch work to the
Pirate 34.
Brunswick showed strong
pressure on one side of the
line, so Green took his carry
the opposite way, found the
sideline, then the end zone
at 2:13.
The Northside defensive
See EAGLES, page iB
Hendricks intercepted a Lions pass
and returned it to the Lions’ 35 yard
line.
Bears quarterback Josh Thompson
wasted no time. On the first play, he
hit Ben Collins for a 35-yard touch
down pass that put Houston County
up 21-0.
That score held for three quarters
although the Bears missed two other
scoring opportunities.
If fans doubted that the Houston
County coaching staff figured the
best way to stifle MLK’s explosive
offense meant keeping it off the
field, they only had to watch as
the Bears used seven minutes and
30 seconds of the third quarter on
See BLA NKS, page jB
Demons
knock off
Wildcats
From staff reports
Warner Robins made the
most of its long trek to the
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Warner Robins
27, Camden
County 7
AAAAA state tournament
and returned with a 27-7
win over the Wildcats.
The victory put Warner
Robins into the quarterfi
nals where it will once again
take to the road.
This time, they will visit
Norcross. That game is set
for Friday with kick-off at
7:30 p.m.
As far as the Demons’ game
against Camden County, the
big number that more than
likely stood out in the mind
of the Wildcats was “three.”
That’s how many times they
turned the ball over and how
many times they lost it when
they did. Warner Robins did
not turn the ball over at all.
Other than that, the teams
were pretty much even in
regard to stats. The Demons
rushed the ball for 145 yards
on 43 carries. For Camden
County, that number was
117 on 37 carries. Warner
Robins - Mark Wright Jr. at
quarterback - was five-of
nine in passing for 87 yards.
The Wildcats’ Major Herron
was 7-of-16 for 53 yards.
One of those aforementioned
turnovers was also one of his
passes.
In all, the Demons had
232 yards of total offense to
Camden County’s 170.
As far as scoring/rushing,
Warner Robins scored 10
points in the first quarter,
seven in the second. It added
a field goal in the third
See DEMONS, page jB
Westfield girls
suffer setbacks
From staff reports
Westfield competed in the
Tattnall Tournament this
past week, and to its chagrin
suffered a pair of losses as a
result.
The Lady Hornets lost
58-41 to Tattnall Monday
and, then 54-32 to Mount de
Sales Tuesday.
As far as overall, follow
ing the two games, head
coach Jeff Eubanks said the
girs are playing well on the
defensive end. Especially “to
be as short as we are,” he
said. But, he added, “The
offensive end is a problem.”
See SETBACKS, page 3B
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bottom
right-hand
corner of
the state
Friday. The
Demons vis
ited Camden
County in
the second
round of the