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Jioustmt Baity .TJountal TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2006 The Home Journal's SANDLOT n rr rvw\ mrtv ON DECK 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- Jfe Houston County 28, M.L. King Jr. 0 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 ~T| H W'bM w r I w $ 4 > ‘aß,, b||*. ■ ENI Gary Harmon 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. Tij u a n 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 Jp* ; ; Iff ' ' j*aLu."-4 'V.H, - Mb’ j 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- ENI Gary Harmon 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 M 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 SECTION B bottom right-hand corner of the state Friday. The Demons vis ited Camden County in the second round of the