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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Dougherty upends Perry in season finale
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Perry fell to Dougherty 21-
7 Friday night and the sky
cried. The Panthers host
ed the Trojans in a must
win for visiting Dougherty,
but Perry didn’t go quietly
despite the score.
The Trojans got on the
board by overcoming two
penalties and by marching
Westfield shuts out MDS in playoff opener
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
It’s playoff time, so it must
be gambling time.
For the Westfield Hornet
football club, that time was
Friday at Marvin Arrington
Stadium.
That meant
having the
punter
throw the
ball from
his forma
tion, and it
meant not
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Westfield 28,
Mount de Sales 0
being satisfied with a one
touchdown halftime lead.
Taylor Crook rushed for
114 yards on eight carries
with two touchdowns, and
quarterback Casey Young
both ran for and threw for
a score in Westfield’s 28-0
blanking of Mount de Sales
in the opening round of the
GISA AAA tournament.
The Hornets and head
coach Ronnie Jones are now
looking at - as the No. 2
seed from Region 3-AAA - a
quarterfinal road trip this
coming Friday to Pinqwood
Christian. It was Westfield’s
first playoff game and play
off win since the 2005 sea
son.
Westfield’s offense had
scoring drives of 90 and 91
(or 95 if including a pen
alty) yards in the second
quarter. The first period was
more about an exchange of
punts, four total, with one
big play of 41 yards by vis
iting Cavalier quarterback
Rosser McCallie.
McCallie faked a fullback
dive on the play and took
the football all the way
down the visitors’ sidelines.
But only the quarterback
and two other teammates
touched the ball on offense
in the half, and linebackers
Jarrod Taylor and Ashton
Leavengood stopped the
running game to get posses
sion back on downs.
Leavengood was also in
the mix when the Hornet
defense busted up an option
play for 15 lost yards. Will
Jenkins had the hit after the
Mary Riley wins inaugural county championship
Special to the Journal
Mary Riley of Perry was
crowned the winner of the
inaugural Houston County
Women’s Golf Championship
held Oct. 18 and 19 at Perry
Country Club.
The tournament consist
ed of 36 holes. Sporting a
GSGA handicap index of
2.8, Riley led by example,
posting a combined score
of 166.
The goal of the annual
tournament, according to a
release, is to promote wom
en’s golf in the Houston
County community.
All female golfers who
either reside in Houston
County and/or were mem
bers of any of the seven
golf clubs within Houston
County were invited to par
ticipate.
This year’s tournament
yielded 19 golfers. Out
of these, five Houston
See RILEY, page fB
76 yards
on 12 plays
while using
almost seven
minutes on
the clock.
Although
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dominated the first-half stats
and led 7-0 at the half, the
Panthers kept the Trojans
out of the end zone until the
fourth quarter.
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Westfield’s Joel Revis fights for yardage in the Hornets’ GISA opening-round playoff game against Mount de Sales Friday at home.
pitch to Blake Mahoney that
drove MDS from midfield
deep into its own ground.
On to the second quar
ter, which began with
John Peake breaking up a
McCallie pass on 3rd-and-10.
Mount de Sales displayed a
strong punting game, and
it pounded the ball to the
Hornet 10.
Jones stuck with the run
ning game against the Cavs’
front with just three down
linemen. Joel Revis ran the
misdirection for a first down
on the 38. Young, after hav
ing one play break down on
him, scrambled on a drop
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Shown are Mary Riley, left, and Brenda Duke, two winners of the inaugural Houston
County Women’s Golf Championship held Oct. 18 and 19 at Perry Country Club.
SPORTS
Dougherty rushed for 135
yards during the first two
frames on 22 carries and
passed for 41 yards includ
ing the 12-yard strike in
the first quarter that put
Dougherty up.
Meanwhile, Perry’s offense
had yet to click. The Panthers
manage only two first downs
in the first half and 25 yards
of total offense.
But it was a different
back and got to the 45 for
3rd-and-3.
MDS had four men in the
stance at the line, but it was
another counter call, this
one for Crook. His line gave
him the space to escape and
get all the way to the end
zone, a 55-yard touchdown.
Revis converted the first
of four good PAT tries, and it
was a 7-0 lead at 8:53.
The Cavs were on the
verge of answering as they
took the ensuing kickoff
31 yards to the Hornet 47.
Mahoney gained his team
a first down on the 35, but
later had to fall on a bad
story when the Panthers hit
the sod in the third quar
ter. Perry running back
Brandon Grace ran with a
purpose and rushed for 61
yards on seven carries as the
Panthers tied the score 7-7
on their second possession of
the quarter.
After Grace powered Perry
to Dougherty’s 18-yard line,
Keith High broke through
on second and one from the
shotgun snap (the first MDS
tried) for 4th-and-10.
The visitors elected to
punt, and indeed it looked
like another good decision
with a roll to the 9. To com
pound the Hornets’ prob
lems, officials spotted move
ment prior to the first snap
and pushed the ball back to
the 5.
Time was running down
on the half, and John Lee,
on a quick fullback dive,
converted a third down on
the 19. Young, facing 3rd
and-6, got much more than
he needed, 13 yards, to the
36.
18 for the Panther’s touch
down.
With the game tied at 7-
7, Dougherty resorted to
it running game and again
battled its own offensive
line, who committed three
offsides penalties, to drive
79 yards on seven plays.
A 34-yard pass completion
just out of reach of a Perry
defender set up Trojan quar
terback Felton Walls’ 10-
The clock showed less than
a minute - less than 30 sec
onds - before the break, and
Westfield was successful on
a third straight third-down
call as Lee bulled his way to
the midfield stripe. While it
looked like it would be a 7-0
game for intermission, the
Hornet sideline had other
plans.
Young dropped back and
found Crook open over
the middle. It was a gain
of 44 yards to the MDS 6
with 12.5 seconds to play.
Westfield had timeouts to
call, used one, and with the
next snap Young rolled left
The politics of football,
local college hoop stars
Good day, and welcome to this post-election 2008 edi
tion of Matthew-Piece Theatre.
Act 1: Who cares who wins?
University of Georgia football is sliding down the polls, and
is practically out of the race for the nation
al championship, and the Southeastern
Conference championship, and the SEC
Eastern Division championship. All of this
is a result of the Bulldogs’ poor showing on
Super Saturday in Jacksonville.
So I ask you: Who really cares who plays
in the next Bowl Championship Series title
game? If beloved UGA is not in it, then it
really doesn’t matter much to me.
I’m not talking about elephants and don
keys here. It can be horses wearing Blue
Matthew Brown
Journal Sports Writer
helmets against birds with Red feathers, and that would suit
me just fine.
(As a point of explanation, the Blue horses are the Boise
State Broncos, which play on that famous blue turf up in
Idaho. Boise, also famous for a Fiesta Bowl win against
Oklahoma, is 8-0 going into this weekend, 4-0 in the Western
Athletic Conference and No. 10 in the BCS standings.
The Red-feathered friends are the Ball State Cardinals,
See BROWN, page jB
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yard touchdown run. The
Panthers missed the extra
point but led 13-7 going into
the fourth quarter.
Again, it was the Trojans
ground game that contin
ued to bedevil, bewitch and
bewilder the Perry defense.
In the second half,
Dougherty rushed for 139
yards on 20 carries, but it
was Walls’s 43-yard run
See PERRY, page jB
and found Revis in the cor
ner of the end zone for six at
7.1 seconds.
That completed an 11-play
series, and Young’s comple
tions were the only two for
either side in the first half.
Young had three passes
caught in all for 69 yards.
Mount de Sales got first
try in the third quarter down
14-0. Leavengood contin
ued his solid outing (at least
seven tackles), and with help
from Chris Meaders they set
Mahoney back three yards
on the opening play.
On the ensuing punt,
See WESTFIELD, page 3B
ENI/Gary Harmon