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Thursday,
September 7, 2017
Tribune & Georgian
Sports
Gridiron Guesses
Choose the winners from our list of this
weekend’s games.
see 2B
B Section
Jill Helton I Tribune & Georgian
Bryce Thomas (above photo) defends a pass last Friday, and Desmond Fogle and Michael
Austin (above right) team up to stymie a ballcarrier. The win over Class AA second-ranked
Fitzgerald was Camden’s second this season.
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Fourth-quarter surge
carries ’Cats to victory
CCHS edges
Fitzgerald
Andy Diffenderfer
sports@tribune-georgian.com
The Wildcats put up
nearly 450 yards of total of
fense and never trailed last
Friday in tripping visiting
Fitzgerald, 24-21 and claim
ing their second triumph.
“I think this is the kind
of win you earn over time,”
CCHS head coach Bob
Sphire said. “We’ve beaten
two really good football
teams ... that was just a
48-minute slugfest.”
Camden County has al
ready matched its victory
total from 2016, and has
achieved its 2-1 mark against
teams with a combined 32
wins last season.
Brooks Bryan completed
18-of-26 passes for 151
yards, and his long touch
down lob to Logan Berryhill
midway through the fourth
quarter put the Wildcats up
for good. The senior quar
terback also led all rushers
with 157 yards on 13 carries
and a second-quarter score.
Jalen Davis pocketed 129
yards on 16 totes as the
winners nearly doubled the
Purple Hurricane rushing
output (289-147) despite
See CATS, page 8B
Outlaw reaches milestone, calls 400th CCHS football game
Broadcaster has announced games since 1983
Andy Diffenderfer
sports@tribune-georgian.com
In 1983 and 1984, J.C.
Outlaw’s first five games as
the voice of Camden County
High football didn’t go so
hot. The Wildcats lost all
five.
Coaches, rosters, schemes
and results have changed
since, and Outlaw is still
in the booth, having nar
rated scores of victories and
three state championships.
A 24-21 win last Friday over
Fitzgerald was his 400th
game as a Wildcat football
radio announcer, a milestone
revealed to the Chris Gil
man Stadium crowd during
the game.
“When I graduated from
Camden County High
School in 1974, it was my
desire to be the voice of the
’Cats,” said Outlaw, who was
born in Jacksonville, Fla.,
and is a lifelong Camden
resident.
The 2003, 2008 and 2009
state titles rank “1-a, 1-b and
1-c” in Outlaw’s memory
bank. The Wildcats’ 45-42
knockout of Miami Central
in 2010 — sealed by Matt
Ehasz’s field goal on the last
play — is another immediate
highlight.
“The ball goes through
the uprights with zeroes,” he
said of the kick.
The broadcasting bug
struck at age 13, when Out
law was public address an
nouncer for the opening of
Little League baseball in St.
Marys. He graduated from
Jones College in Jackson
ville, Fla., with a broadcast
ing degree in 1979, and was
the PA announcer for CCHS
football from 1980 to 1983.
Outlaw said he gauges his
effectiveness by asking peo
ple if they can close their
eyes and visualize the sta-
See OUTLAW, page 8B
Submitted photo
In this 2002 photo, J.C. Outlaw (left) is with Lawton Teston (center) and Dr. Edwin Davis at the
Georgia Dome for the Wildcats’ playoff semifinal against Brookwood.
CCHS softball beats Brunswick, loses two at tourney
Runners
Andy Diffenderfer
sports@tribune-georgian.com
An extra-inning victory
last week at Brunswick was
the sixth overall for Cam
den County High softball
and its second over the
Lady Pirates in two weeks.
In the weather-hampered
Battle in the Boro tourna
ment Aug. 26, CCHS fell
to Screven County and host
Statesboro.
The Lady Wildcats were
scheduled to play Tuesday,
Sept. 6, at Glynn Academy,
and will play this weekend
in the Veterans Memorial
Tournament hosted by
Oconee County.
CCHS 3, Brunswick 2
On Aug. 30, Kelsea Col
lins scored the game-win
ner in the eighth inning on
Hannah Mitchell’s double
down the right-field line.
Collins had reached on an
error and advanced on Tay
lor Pow’s sacrifice bunt.
The clinching hit was
one of two safeties for
Mitchell, who also stole a
base. Alexis Agnew had two
of Camden’s five hits, the
other by Devin Lanham.
Collins (steal) scored two
runs and Mollie Lee the
other, and Maddie Riggins
swiped a base.
In a four-hitter, Riggins
fanned five and walked no
body over eight innings.
Camden’s other runs
came in the second, and
Brunswick notched two in
the fourth. Reese Stalvey
and Jordan Caprino scored
See HITS, page 2B
Andy Diffenderfer I Tribune & Georgian
Hannah Mitchell (pictured from an earlier game) slapped an eighth-inning RBI double
as Camden County nudged Brunswick, 3-2 on Aug. 30. A week earlier, CCHS upended
the Lady Pirates, 3-1 in Kingsland.
place 13th,
13th at
Jekyll meet
Andy Diffenderfer
sports@tribune-georgian.com
The Camden County High
boys finished 13 th and the girls
15 th last Saturday in the Jekyll
Island Invitational cross-coun
try meet.
Running at the Great Dunes
golf course, the boys finished
with a 356 mark, Liam Kil-
ner’s 36th-place 18:12 the
team’s fastest clocking. The
boys event featured 24 schools
See RUN, page 2B
Wildcat Open golf tourney tees off Sept. 30
The 15th annual Camden County Quarterback
Club Wildcat Open golf tournament will be
Saturday, Sept. 30, at Laurel Island Links.
Registration will be at 8 a.m., and a shotgun start
will be at 9 a.m.
Entry fees are $300 for a four-player team.
Please return entry form and fees to the CCHS
athletic office by Sept. 26. Those with questions
should call Jereme Vendette at (912) 270-0103, or
Mark Drury at (912) 222-5544.
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