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during the two teams’ seventh grade championship game this past Wednesday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
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Perry and Warner Robins players gather for the coin toss during their eighth grade
championship game this past Thursday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium .
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Perry and Warner Robins players and cheerleaders meet in the middle to touch hands
prior to their start.
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the ball over, they are capa
'ble of beating us.”
But Jackson didn’t beat
; Perry the first time. Scott
chalked that comeback in
Jackson to great second
• half adjustments on both
sides of the football. For one
• thing, the Panthers shut out
the Devils’ offense in those
‘last two quarters.
• “That was a catalyst for
the rest of the year,” he
said.
Since then, Perry has
■ had to come back on more
'than one occasion to get
the 4-1 sub-region record.
So it could also be said that
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was about the fact: “I’ve heard there
t are people everywhere,” he said - a true
statement, “and we don’t get an oppor
tunity to run in big meets like that very
Jackson will not be facing
the same Panther team
from late September when
the team was still getting
used to a new offense.
“The biggest thing with
us is continuity,” said Scott.
“We’ve committed to com
ing together as a group and
a football team. We’ve got
ten better, and I’m hoping
that we can continue to get
better. Good football teams
now have to be better than
they were at the beginning
of the year.”
Perry will certainly need
to be better on defense. In
six games since Sept. 21,
the Panthers have given up
an average of 31.2 per con
test. Despite that, though,
Perry is on a four-game win-
often. The hype and all that will be a
huge difference.”
What he means by that, he explained,
was he was excited tq see what sort of
impact it had on his runners’ times,
such as for Yeomans, who played foot
ball last year. When he first started,
Hardy said, he was in the “high 19s.
ning streak.
“(Northeast) was well
coached and very good,”
said Scott about last week’s
foe. “We have to do a better
job defensively of making
plays in spaces, make good
open-field tackles.”
Scott added there needs to
be offensive improvements
in down-field blocking.
The kicking game, he
said, had an exceptional
night despite two missed
PAT kicks.
But there were some great
punts from J. R. Lasseter
and a big kickoff from Bill
Freeman late that eventual
ly led to Perry getting great
field position for the game
winning drive.
A win Friday would con
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Thomson’s Keshun Hill goes up for a pass down near the goal as Northside’s Michael
Doss defends.
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Warner Robins running back Brian Sutton runs through the middle of the Perry line.
tinue a long unprecedent
ed string of state playoff
appearances for Perry, and
the Panthers would be guar
anteed an opening round
home game.
“They can’t finish worse
that the No. 2 seed for 4-
AAA and could be No. 1
if Central-Macon were to
knock off Henry.
“We always have a great
home crowd,” said Scott.
“It’s going to be important
Friday that we have as
many people at the game
screaming as we can. The
kids being able to look up in
the stands (last week) and
see a packed house really
energized the team. That
helped us momentum-wise
in the fourth quarter.”
Now, he’s down to 17 and he’s never
run (before this year).
“It’s a great opportunity to see guys
like that run (at this venue), to see
if their time can go down even more.
There’s a lot of potential, they’ve been
working hard so I want to see what kind
of results we’ll see this weekend.”
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2007 ♦
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
There was no lack of drama
at the Middle School football
championships this year.
A major case in point was
the seventh grade cham
pionship game between
Thomson and Northside
Middle School.
The game, which was
played this past Wednesday
in McConnell-Talbert
Stadium, was won 8-6 by
Thomson and here’s how, as
explained by Perry Middle
School Athletic Director
Randy Moss.
“Northside (leading 6-0
at the time) was down on
around Thomson’s 20. They
ran a play with something
like 40-something seconds
on the clock. They got down
to around the 10 when the
free safety for Thomson
stripped the ball and ran
it all the way down to the
other end for the score as
time expired.”
There wasn’t quite that
much drama in the game
between Moss’ squad and
Warner Robins Middle School
- it was played Thursday
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enough. Perry lost the game
22-8 - it marked the sec
ond-straight year Warner
Robins Middle School has
won it. That game was 16-0
at the half. It remained that
way until shortly after the
third play of the second half.
That’s when Warner Robins
fumbled with Perry recover
ing. They in turn drove it
the remaining distance for
the score to make it 16-8.
“That put us back in
it,” said Moss, who singled
out several for their lead
ership of his club includ
ing: Quarterback Antonio
Mitchell, receiver/free safety
Martavis Williams, fullback
Brent Kelly, outside line
backer Calvin Howard and
utility man J.C. Berg.
“But,” Moss added. “We
just never could capitalize.
We knew we had to take
advantage of everything we
could against Warner Robins
- make some fourth down
plays, some goalline plays.”
“It was hard fought, a lot
of licks and a good crowd
... a fantastic crowd actu
ally. Warner Robins is just
very, very good and very well
coached.”
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