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Northside defenders gang tackle a Jones County player during Thursday’s game at McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
Eagles poll past Jones County
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Jones County High’s foot
ball Greyhounds were at
least able to leave McConnell-
Talbert
Stadium
Thursday
saying
they held
Northside
High’s big
gest offen
sive stars
Northside 49,
Jones County 0
each under 100 yards.
Keeping them out of the
end zone... that was another
story.
Tijuan Green only rushed
for 74 yards, but he scored
three straight touchdowns
for the Eagles in a dominat
ing 49-0 win against Jones in
Warner Robins. Quarterback
Marques Ivory only passed
for 89 yards and ran the
football once, but that one
tote was for a touchdown
and one of his five com
pletions went to Brandon
Jordan for six more points.
Northside coaches before
the game were just hoping
to get through a night of
football without a heavy
downpour of rain like they
had last Friday at home.
Now, they are hoping for
good news about receiver
Nick Bass, who strained a
knee while running a reverse
play in the first period. He
was carried back towards
his sideline, but was able to
complete the journey on his
own power.
All of the offensive dam
age by Green and Ivory was
done in one quarter plus 34
seconds of another period.
Northside was ahead 28-0
after the first quarter and
49-0 at halftime. With a
continuous running clock in
the second half, each team
had two possessions in that
half with the young Eagle
defenders matching the
starters’ first-half efforts in
keeping the Hounds off the
scoreboard.
Northside’s ability to
score and score in a hurry
on Thursday resulted from
a huge advantage in field
position caused by two inter
ceptions, a blocked punt and
a 30-yard punt return by
Bass.
Bass was in fact the first
Eagle to touch the football,
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Eagle runner Tijuan Green fights for yardage.
and he carried a punt from
his 27 to the Jones County
41-yard-line. The Northside
offense did not come out
in the shotgun spread that
carried it to the 2006 state
championship, but in an off
set I formation with Ivory
taking snaps under center.
Ivory’s first throw was
to an open tight end, Evan
Arthur, for 31 yards to the
10. Two plays later Green
was in the end zone on a
five-yard run. Devon Pike
was a perfect 5-for-5 in PAT
kicking.
Jones County’s first quar
ter went about the exact
opposite of Northside, not
only in that the Hounds did
run a spread offense out of
the shotgun for every play,
but never had a series start
beyond their own 20. Credit
that to some fine kickoff
coverage from Shawn Rich,
Brison Williams and Brian
Jones.
Darius McGee accounted
for the first Eagle intercep
tion at the visitors’ 38. On
second down, Green ran a
simple route off right tackle
but then added some incred
ible moves in the second
ary working his way back
towards midfield. The result
was his second touchdown,
and less than one game min
ute after going ahead 7-0,
Northside was up 14-0.
The next Eagle scoring
drive would be the longest
of the quarter, 56 yards.
Ivory completed first down
passes to Kevyn Cooper and
Arthur, and then pitched an
option play to Green from
the 17. With Bass blocking
on the outside, Green had
his third touchdown (21-0)
at 5:27.
On its deepest penetration
of the quarter, Jones got to
its own 45 before a hold and
a stop at the line by big Abry
Jones set up fourth down on
the 35. Eric Fields blocked
the punt, and with a person
al foul against the Hounds,
the Eagles were spotted on
the 11.
Jordan, who was playing
the fullback in this offset I,
caught his touchdown on a
one-play drive at 2:21 (28-
0).
The Northside defense
actually accounted for three
picks on Thursday. Two came
from senior Leslie Jordan,
who got the Eagle offense
the ball back on its own 49
still in the opening period.
Ivory started this drive with
his first shotgun snap for an
end around run by Bass up
to the Hound 30.
Bass was injured on this
play, but it was unlikely that
he would play much more
anyway. That was the case
for Green, who did not take
the field after the first.
Ivory had more work to do
as the second quarter began,
hitting Jordan for a 16-yard
completion at the 9 and
See EAGLES, page lB
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2007
NVRA crowns
its champions
Special to the Journal
Jason Bowen and Woody Callaway,
both of Bonaire clinched the 2007
Championships in their respective divi
sions of the NVRA “Vintage Thunder”
Racing Series this past Saturday night at
Birmingham International Raceway.
Bowen won the Championship in the
Late Model Modified Division driving the
B&S Racing ’65 Falcon owned by Buddy
Prosser and Sonny Childs. He won 11 of
13 feature races this season.
Callaway drove the 1935 Ford owned
by Don Tomberlin to a perfect 13-0 sea
son to capture the Championship in the
Modified Open Division.
2007 Champions in the other three
NVRA vintage divisions were, David
Adams of Tucker winning the Late Model
Sportsman Division Championship driv
ing his ’65 Chevelle, Walt Bazemore
of Valdosta drove his ’34 Chevy to the
Championship in the Modified Sportsman Division and
Joe Evans of Anderson, SC won the Limited Sportsman
Division Championship in his ’57 Chevy.
The NVRA will honor these champions along with
other drivers at their annual awards banquet to be held
in January of 2008.
For more information about the NVRA visit their web
site at www.nvraracing.org.
Perry club defends
Interleague trophy
By DONMONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
The Georgia Interleague
Championship - a format
that pits a club’s best three
pitchers going head-to-head
against the best three from
other clubs - has always
been about Perry and Hull.
Or rather, it always boiling
down to either the Peny
Horseshoe Pitcher’s Club
or the Hull club winning it
in the end.
Proof you say? How
about the fact Perry had
won it six times - including
2005 and 2006 - before this
weekend and Hull had won
it three (2002-04). No other
club had won it.
Perry, after this week
end, made it No. 7, but
not before Brunswick
tried to steal one. Perry’s
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Mary Ann Gibbs guns fora ringer in the state Interleague
tourney held this past weekend at Rozar Park.
CALLAWAY
BOWEN
three pitchers - Mary Ann
Gibbs, Larry Myers and
Dane Clark - finished 8-4
overall. Brunswick’s pitch
ers - Mary Lewis, Marshall
Little and Don Hutchens
- finished 7-5. Four of its
wins came via Lewis who
finished 4-0.
As far as Perry, Gibbs
finished 2-2 and Myers
and Clark were 3-1. Gibbs
might have had the worst
record of the three but she
also had the best ringer
percentage, connecting
for 127 ringers out of 200
horseshoes thrown for 63.5
percent.
Myers hit 80 out of 200
for 40 percent and Clark
made 60 of 200 for 30 per
cent. Combined they had a
44.5 ringer percentage.
See TROPHY, page 3 B
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