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4B IXIORTHSIDE 34 By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer With two players eclips ing 200 yards in offense, and with a defensive effort that surrendered less than 100 yards, Northside High scored perhaps one of the more dominating wins in Georgia’s most storied high school football rivalry. Tijuan Green had three touchdowns for the Eagles in Friday’s 34-7 victory against Warner Robins High at McConnell-Talbert Stadium. Jerome Mitchell also scored twice from the backfield, quarterback Marques Ivory accumulated 290 yards of total offense and Green ended the night with 217 all-purpose yards. To break down the num bers of both Ivory and Green, Ivory ran for 26 yards and was 13-for-20 passing for 264 yards with a touchdown and an interception while Green ran the football 17 times for 132 yards and caught five passes for 85 more yards. Even receiver Nick Bass came out of Friday’s tussle with triple yardage digits with 104 receiving yards on three catches. These individual Northside players alone overshadowed the entire Warner Robins High output, which was a total net of 90 yards. The 0-2 Demons have yet to score an offensive touchdown in 2007 as the only points came on a 92-yard kickoff return by Aaron Allen. This was the third win in a row for the Eagles against Warner Robins. It also clinched the first ‘champi onship’ of the new season for Northside as it secured the ‘city championship.’ In the 2006 game, the Eagles only gave up seven points to its archrivals, and that, too, was on a special teams play. In a more important loss for Warner Robins, junior cornerback Antonio Adkinson suffered a serious injury early in the second quarter. He was taken off the field on a stretcher (see related story). Northside had a 14-0 lead at halftime, scoring touch downs in both the first and second periods. On their first drive, the Eagles had two clutch third-down con versions off Ivory’s arm. He hit his new tight end target, Evan Arthur, on 3rd-and-10 for 23 yards at the Demon 47-yard-line. The Warner Robins defense managed some ' 'it;, ;■ ENI/Gary Harmon A Northside sideline crewmember displays the No. 96 in memory of Chris Johnson. iHi mm suns Become an AVON Independent Sales Representative! ONLY $lO to start! THE COST OF LUNCH...COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE You are guaranteed 50% earnings on your first four orders of SSO or more! Set your own hours! Unlimited earnings! Work from home! No inventory to keep! Teresa Friffin •Tl 100 N. Houston Lake Rd. • Galleria Point Shopping Plaza 'Mmm M Centerville, GA 31028 sill ■namsumd SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 Hurt Demon on the road to recover} By MA TTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer There was some good news for Warner Robins High football from this past Friday night. Head coach Bryan Way said Monday that cornerback Antonio Adkinson was not seriously hurt on a second quarter play against Northside High at McConnell- Talbert Stadium. Way said it was a “freak thing” where Adkinson, on a play that was a run by Tijuan Green of the Eagles, wasn’t hit by anybody but landed on his head. A long delay followed, and Adkinson was taken off the field on a stretcher. However, Way said Adkinson was released from the hospital that same evening and cleared to practice. pressure on Ivory with big sophomore tackle Jeffrey Whitaker bringing him down on the other side of the 50. But Ivory avoided the rush and somehow found Kevyn Cooper behind a crowd of players. The on-target strike set up 3rd-and-l at the 38, and Ivory easily ran for the first. Two plays later Green slipped down the left side wide open and caught his first touchdown of 19 yards at 6:52 of the opening quar ter. Sophomore kicker Devon Pike notched the PAT. Northside had just a 30- yard field to work with to score at 10:17 of the second quarter. The four-play drive saw Green burst forward for 23 yards and Mitchell score from 1 yard out. Pike made his second straight PAT. The Warner Robins offense had only three first downs in the first half, and one of those came on a penalty. Darius Hudson caught a first-down pass from Shane Sams in the first quarter, but 4 on ensuing plays Mitchell wouldn’t let them get out side, Ben Hicks stopped a counter play and big Abry Jones patted down a pass tct set up fourth down. Later in the half, Anton Williams and Eric Fields stopped Sams for 4th-and long that set up the second Eagle scoring drive. Jones had both a sack and tackle on the line in the second period. Warner Robins did have some defensive highlights in the first half as Darious Lane broke up a pass intend ed for Bass in the end zone on a drive where Northside missed a field goal try. Northside was also driving into the ‘red zone’ in the sec ond quarter when Laureal Richardson intercepted a tipped pass at the 1 and returned it to the 32. Come the second half, the Northside offense went back to work with a new forma tion unveiled with Green taking shotgun snaps from the quarterback position. Though the tens of thou sands in the stadium knew Green would run with the ball, he gained 27 yards the first time and, with plenty of space provided by the offen .sive front, 22 the second time for his second touch down. Pike’s PAT made it 21-0 at 9:38 of the third. The next 20 seconds of the game belonged to Allen, for that’s how long it took him to take the kickoff at the 8, get a clean block from Lane on the kicker and score the first Warner Robins touch down of 2007. With David Clark’s PAT, the Demons had it back to a two-touchdown game at 21-7. But Warner Robins could never crack through the Eagle defensive unit, which gave up only three first downs in the second half. Arthur served as Northside’s punt er and pinned the Demons on the 8 with the score still 21-7. Allen and Brandon Jordan gained first downs up to the 31, but heavy pres sure forced the Demons to make a catch that lost eight yards. As Northside got the foot ball back on its 20, Ivory went to one of his favorite weapons from last year’s postseason, the shuffle pass to Bass. From the 13, Bass took the ball, and with help from fellow receiver Tracey Lawrence’s block upfield he made it a 75-yard gain to the Demon 12. Two plays into the fourth quarter Green had his third touchdown, a run of two yards, and Pike kicked Northside to a 28-7 lead. Mitchell’s second touch down came at 2:38 remain ing on a 16-yard run where he broke away from tack lers and completed a 52-yard drive of 10 plays. Northside now looks for a 3-0 record on Friday at McConnell-Talbert when it hosts North Clayton. Both teams are in Region 4-AAAA, but in separate sub-regions. North Clayton, as the home team in College Park in 2006, scored the most points against the Eagles all sea son, and it was Northside’s slimmest margin of victory in the regular season, 28-21. Warner Robins is also in action at McConnell-Talbert when it hosts Central Gwinnett on Saturday. Last year’s Demon club suffered a 17-0 loss to Central Gwinnett in Lawrenceville after dropping its game against Northside. / AUyptmui 15% OFF \. HmWuj, In WJiifa SjLfLplieA LoAt! \ GILBERT \ APPLIANCE, INC. \ 925 Jernigan St. • Perry, GA \ 478-987-2284 | ' mmmm mmmm J SPORTS - * —— ENI/Gary Harmon Northside’s Nick Bass breaks into the open as Warner Robins’ Andrew Jones gives chase during the Eagles’ win over the Demons Friday. «mi — ! :p- mmk| | 1 mmt |gjgga| ENI/Gary Harmon Laureal Richardson for the Demons breaks through the Eagles’ defensive front. JiMB x«S: aylgg^K Northside quarterback Marques Ivory laterals to a back. Sf Did we rapture \ i your photo? 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