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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL Middle School championships A %. V , , w ENI/Gary Harmon Thomson Middle School running back AAron Davis works for yardage against Northside Middle School’s James Mitchell during the two teams’ seventh grade championship game this past Wednesday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium. |pM isl 4p&£« as JOB NBiiijr t« ' * m Of MSB ■ Ktigt, "‘"W ™ *** JL X flj ,ary Harmon Perry and Warner Robins players gather for the coin toss during their eighth grade championship game this past Thursday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium . ENI (»ary H Perry and Warner Robins players and cheerleaders meet in the middle to touch hands prior to their start. HOST From page 4B f 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 STATE - From page 4B 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 SPORTS »i-umh 'imtsaaow —i mmmm - ENI Gary Harmon Thomson’s Keshun Hill goes up for a pass down near the goal as Northside’s Michael Doss defends. x ***■ o R’| r •» Jj -■ H? f ..,JEi« WJ&Biif:. ,/ Mi.' ’ * _ 'Jg MB. ag&J^ —Jtoßß - ENI Gary Harmon 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 at the Mac - but there was •k ;f|| §§P ini ! M ** 'Wm. • 24 Hour Access • Personal Training • no Contracts 1030 Ball Street (Downtown Perry) I 987-8516 00054580 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.” in TIME TO SHAPE UP! Join for the months of October & November and get DECEMBER FREE!* *New members only. • Free Weights • Treadmills • Family Plan Auailable • Online Personal Training 5B