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BARROW NEWS-JOURNAL
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
FOOTBALL RECAPS
‘Doggs slam door on Jags
Photo by Ben Munro
Winder-Barrow’s Aidan Thompson breaks free for a 22-yard, fourth-quarter touch
down, one of four scores on the night for the Bulldogg junior in Winder-Barrow’s
36-18 win Friday (Sept. 17) over Cedar Shoals.
WBHS
dominates
fourth quarter
in homecoming
victory
By Ben Munro
ben@mainstreetne ws .com
Winder-Barrow coach
Ed Dudley predicted in
advance of his team’s
matchup with Cedar
Shoals that it would face a
barnburner with the visit
ing Jaguars. And Friday’s
game looked to be moving
in that direction until the
Bulldoggs put an emphat
ic stop to all that in the
fourth quarter.
Protecting a 22-18 lead,
the Bulldoggs (2-2) scored
two touchdowns and came
up with two fourth-down
stops — including one on
a fake punt — as Wind
er-Barrow put away Cedar
Shoals, 36-18, on home
coming night. The previ
ous four meetings in this
series had been decided
by six points or less.
"That’s a very good
football team over there,”
Dudley said, "and I was
really pleased with the
guys holding their compo
sure, continuing to play.”
The victory avenged a
49-43 overtime home loss
to the Jaguars two years
ago.
Junior Bulldogg run
ning back Aidan Thomp
son scored four touch
downs and set up another
with an interception deep
in Jaguar territory to help
Winder-Barrow snap a
two-game losing skid. He
finished with 118 yards on
16 carries.
"He had a great game
tonight,” Dudley said.
"Nobody does it on an is
land. He’s got a lot of help
out there, but we were su
per proud of him. He’s a
high-effort, high-energy
guy. He does a great job
for us.”
Thompson scored on
runs of 12 and 38 yards
in the second quarter, and
then put the game away
in the fourth quarter with
two more scores. The
230-pounder plowed in
from two yards out with
9:26 left in the game to
put the Bulldoggs up 29-
18. Tre Gaudlock set up
the score with a long punt
return to the Jaguar 20.
Thompson added a 22-
yard touchdown run —
which followed immedi
ately after a Jaguar failed
fake punt — with 7:03 to
give the Bulldogs a com
fortable 18-point lead.
Cedar Shoals pushed
deep into Bulldogg ter
ritory late, but the drive
died at the Winder-Bar
row 11-yard line after
the Bulldoggs forced an
incompletion on fourth
down to finish off their
fourth win in the last five
meetings with Jaguars.
Winder-Barrow raced
out to a 9-0 lead early in
this game.
A first-quarter intercep
tion from Thompson led
to a 1-yard touchdown
run from Conyer Smith.
Thompson had initially
scored on the interception
return but a penalty negat
ed the touchdown.
The Bulldoggs then
recorded a safety on the
Jaguars’ subsequent pos
session when an errant
snap ended up in the end
zone.
But Devin Hester got
the Jaguars on the board
later by catching a short
pass on the sideline and
doing the rest of the work
with his feet, tightrop-
ing his way to a 46-yard
touchdown at the 1:32
mark in the first quarter. A
blocked extra point kept
the score at 9-6. The Jag
uars had two extra points
blocked on the night and
missed another.
After Thompson scored
on his 12-yard run in the
second quarter — set up
by a 22-yard completion
from Smith to Tyreeck
Hall — Cedar Shoals
quarterback Anthony
Hubbard answered with
a 2-yard touchdown with
6:13 left in the first half.
Thompson’s 38-yard
touchdown run at the 5:47
mark, during which he
broke multiple tackles,
gave the Bulldoggs a 22-
12 which they would take
into the half.
Omarious Smith set
up the touchdown with a
kickoff return to the Cedar
Shoals 38.
Tyson Sailors pulled
the Jaguars to within four
points — 22-18 — with
a 7-yard touchdown run
with 2:35 left in the third
quarter.
With the win, Wind
er-Barrow starts Region
8-AAAAAA play Friday
(Sept. 24) at Habersham
Central. Dudley said en
tering that portion of the
schedule with a victory
was much-needed.
“We’ve been off for a
week. We had a bad loss
and then an open date, it’s
been a tough two weeks
around here,” Dudley said.
“We’re glad to get a win,
get back to .500. We start
region play (this) week, so
we feel like we’re back on
track and ready to roll.”
Apalachee pushes Clarke Central in
region opener, but comes up short
By Scott Thompson
sthompson@barrownewsjournal.com
ATHENS — According to the popu
lar Georgia High School Football Daily
email newsletter, the Maxwell Ratings
computer system anointed Clarke Cen
tral a 28-point favorite over Apalachee
heading into the teams’ GHSA Region
8-AAAAA showdown Friday. Sept. 17,
at Billy Henderson Stadium.
Seemingly unfazed by that prognos
tication, the underdog Wildcats gave
the Gladiators about all they could han
dle for most of the game, but Clarke
Central’s defensive performance and a
couple of borderline, even controver
sial, calls that the Gladiators benefited
from proved to be the difference. Kend
rick Curry scored on a 9-yard run with
9:41 remaining, and the Gladiators got
a scoop and score off a lateral with less
than a minute left to seal a 31-17 vic
tory after trailing 17-10 at halftime in
both teams’ region opener.
The big fullback Curry’s go-ahead
score followed a 26-yard scamper by
quarterback Lucian Anderson on a
fourth down-and-3 play that came out
of a timeout taken by the Gladiators (1-
2, 1-0 region). After neither team could
move the ball on the next two posses
sions, Clarke Central punter Cooper Ev
ans pinned Apalachee (0-4, 0-1) down
inside its 1-yard line with 4:32 to go.
That set off a chaotic next few min
utes that saw Apalachee draw a couple
of penalties that kept its hopes alive and
then fall victim to disaster.
Faced with a fourth-and-30 at its 4,
Apalachee head coach Tony Lotti elect
ed to punt with under two minutes and
only one timeout left, in hopes that his
team could potentially force a three-
and-out and get one last crack at it with
better field position. The Gladiators
roughed Brody Ham on the punt, but
Ham’s kick into Clarke Central territory
appeared to touch a Gladiator player be
fore the Wildcats pounced on the ball.
The officials, though, did not call a live
ball — as Apalachee coaches pled their
case to no avail — and the Wildcats had
to settle for the automatic first down at
their 19.
A pass interference call against
Clarke Central a couple snaps later
moved the ball up to the 29, but Isaiah
Skinner’s lateral on a designed pass was
picked up Kahari Dean and taken into
the end zone to put the game away with
48 seconds left.
Ham’s punt and the no-fumble call
was the second critical play of the half
that left the Apalachee sideline irate —
the first of which tied the game. With
the Gladiators marching deep into
Wildcat territory midway through the
third quarter, Anderson rolled out to his
left on a designed option play and, right
before being hit by an Apalachee de
fender got off what the Wildcats argued
Photo by Scott Thompson/
Apalachee running back Jeff Roberts
carries the ball during the Wildcats’
GHSA Region 8-AAAAA opener Friday,
Sept. 17, at Clarke Central. The Gladi
ators rallied in the second half to win
31-17 and avoid an upset.
was an illegal forward pass to Antonio
Jewell, who weaved his way through
the defense into the end zone to knot
the score at 17.
After forcing a three-and-out, the
Gladiators went right back to work with
Anderson hitting Jewell on a 24-yard
completion down to the 1 before the
Wildcats recovered a fumble on a bad
snap at the 5 on the next play.
But Apalachee, which was held with
out a first down in the second half until
that fateful fourth-quarter drive, went
three-and-out, and that set up the Glad
iators for the go-ahead, 42-yard scoring
drive.
When it was all said and done, after
a 15-yard loss on a fumble and the lat
eral play that lost them 10 yards, the
Wildcats were held to just 29 yards of
offense in the second half after putting
Clarke Central on its heels throughout
the first half.
The night couldn’t have gotten off
to a much better start from Apalachee,
which jumped out in front right away
when Jeff Roberts took a handoff on
the second snap of the game, shook off
a defender and motored 77 yards for a
score.
The Gladiators responded with a 34-
yard held goal by Evans and took their
first lead on a 20-yard touchdown run
by Will Richardson. But the Wildcats
bounced back with a 77-yard touch
down drive of their own to regain the
upper hand. Colby Sikes ripped off a
12-yard run on third-and-11, and anoth
er big gain and personal-foul penalty
against the Gladiators paved the way for
Prince Tate’s go-ahead 14-yard touch
down with 9:25 to go in the first half.
Rashad Lyle then intercepted a pass
off a deflection and returned it to the
Gladiator 33 to set up Apalachee in
prime position again, and Ham’s 26-
yard held goal with 4:02 remaining
boosted the lead to 17-10.
Roberts led Apalachee with 108 yards
on 11 carries. Richardson ran for 125
yards on 18 carries to pace Clarke Cen
tral. while Anderson hnished 8-of-16
for 88 yards. The Wildcats were limited
to just 7 passing yards.
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