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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, NEW. Now YOUR CAN FIND FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL GAME STORIES ON OUR WEB AT HHJNEWS.COM SHORTLY AFTER THEIR COMPLETION HMagjlrVJi * iiWllr' nil ■ m jffl ■ ' W jar" ENI/Gary Harmon 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 mw ' pEpps>% Jg-«BBI ' : ' '■•’ waHmi I ’-r ;-'v ETjjaj" c—A|.'Jyhi[ff "Wp ' ‘laMPfe' j^BBWnffiTWBiBmTSDmi ' ua .f' j i|L la^Hp^SiOSffikSHraijiß ,-M.;-,y ~ kraaS aiffiaar ®jPgsw£ J WHjWmjßnlU |Ul)<)lJ>lJl|^l | WWflfW^^* 7 ,v \ \Vj I Pf® ;WIWMii& &■*'** 7 " - «^; i .,i;'; C%: % <; i.'Wffllr 1 v'* - r^’?ii / . •,1 ENI/Gary Harmon 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 1B