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PAGE 2B 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. September 22, 2021 ~ Crossword Puzzle 770-867-9026 www.maynardrealty.com ACROSS DOWN 1. 5. 8. 12. 13. 14. 15. 17. 18. 19. 21. 24. 25. 26. 30. 31. 33. 34. 36. 37. 38. 40. 43. 44. 45. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 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