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Receiver Tim McCallister (I) gets ‘high-five’ after pulling in second TD pass
College
scoreboard
N.C. State 27
Georgia Tech 22
Georgia 24
Alabama 14
TCU 32
Arkansas 31
Purdue 28
-Ohio State 23
Florida 16
Syracuse ~ 0
Mississippi St. 27
Mississippi 18
Wake Forest 29
Richmond 16
Clem son 20
N.C. 12
Texas Tech 30
Texas A&M 12
Army 33
Harvard 11
lowa 31
Northwestern 3
South Carolina 49
Kansas St. 17
Kansas 33
lowa State 14
Miami, O. 19
Kent State 3
Parkview Panthers scream
past Ladies for sub-region
By Greg Little
Th« Sunday Naw*
Forsyth County’s Lady Bulldog softball team needed at
least a split of a doubleheader with Parkview last
Tuesday to secure first place in the Sub-region 8-AAAA
West race. But the Lady Panthers, region champions for
the past three years and apparently peaking in time to
make another run for the title, swept both games to vault
past Forsyth for first-place honors.
The Lady Bulldogs’ usually airtight defense aided the
Lady Panthers’ cause in the two losses, committing a
total of 12 errors that kept Forsyth’s offense battling
from behind most of the afternoon.
Forsyth’s only lead of the day came in the second
inning of the opening game when Lisa Waldroop’s
fielder’s choice groundout to second scored Dana Ledbet
ter, who had doubled to lead off the frame.
But Parkview retaliated with a pair of runs in the top of
the third on Irwin’s run-scoring double and Dickerson’s
sacrifice fly.
Trailing 3-1 in the sixth, a Forsyth offense which lined
ropes right at Parkview fielders’ throughout the contest
Jayvee squad romps 36-0 over Winder
By Greg Little
Th« Sunday Nawt
Through their first four games, the
Forsyth County junior varsity Bull
dogs had struggled to a 1-3 record,
suffering those three losses by a
combined total of 16 points.
And according to Coach Bob Ma
son, “We were just tired of playing
close and losing in the fourth quar
ter.”
The Bulldogs gave Winder-Barrow
no such chance for a late victory last
Thursday, venting the frustrations
mounted through their narrow de
feats by romping to a 36-0 win.
Forsyth controlled both lines of
scrimmage, allowing the Bulldogs’
running game to grind out 236 yards
and five touchdowns while stifling
Winder’s ground attack for but 21
yards. Halfbacks Todd Ballard and
Richard Ingram each tallied a pair of
touchdown runs, while quarterback
Randy Nichelson added another in a
game in which the Bulldogs’ domi
nance was in question only once.
Forsyth halted Winder’s initial pos
session deep in its own territory, and
a short {Mint gave the Bulldogs’ a
prime sewing opportunity early in
the contest.
Taking over chi the Winder 25, the
Bulldogs needed just five plays to
reach the end zone as Ingram took an
option pitch from quarterback Robby
Payne and raced nine yards for the
score. Nichelson came up just ssort of
the goal line on the conversion run,
and the Bulldogs’ lead stood at 6-0
with 4:55 left in the first quarter.
Winder put that lead in immediate
jeopardy on its ensuing possession,
however, as a halfback pass from
Forsyth County News
threatened to overcome its deficit. A two-out error by the
Parkview second baseman allowed Gina Sutko to score
to draw the Lady Bulldogs to within 3-2, but the fielder
atoned for that miscue by turning in an outstanding play
on a ball deflected off the pitcher’s glove to retire Kathy
Diggle for the inning’s final out.
A seventh-inning eruption saw Parkview push its
advantage to 6-2, but the Lady Bulldogs mounted a
valiant comeback effort in the bottom of the frame.
Leigh Munday and Linda Diggle scored runs on a
single by Rene Major and a sacrifice fly by Sutko, but
after Christi Woodham’s single up the middle pulled the
Lady Bulldogs to within one, Parkview closed the door on
the rally and walked away with a 6-5 victory that
clinched a region playoff berth for the Lady Panthers.
Forsyth miscues played a big part in Parkview’s five
run explosion in the opening inning of the second game,
and once again the Lady Bulldogs were faced with a
deficit to overcome.
Forsyth pecked away at the Parkview lead, however,
scoring a single run in the first on Lisa Bennett’s triple
See LADY BULLDOGS, Page 4B
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Tommy Andrews (62) grabs onto Winder quarterback while defensive teammates close in to assist
Lane Watson to fleet-footed Brian
Kinney caught the Bulldogs with their
guard down and went for a 53-yard
gain to the Forsyth 14.
The Bulldogs apparently squelched
the threat when tight aid Jay Angle
was stopped short of a first down on a
fourth-down pass reception. But a
48-0!
Bulldog squad unleashes
to scalp tribe of Indians
By Greg Little
Th» Sunday Nawt
DAHLONEGA After 12 minutes of play last Friday,
Forsyth County held a narrow 7-0 advantage over a
stubborn Lumpkin County Indians squad apparently
intent on substantiating Coach Ronnie Jackson’s pre
game fears of a repeat of the tribe’s 1980 upset of a
heavily favored Bulldog team.
But the Bulldogs unleashed a blitzkrieg unparalleled in
Forsyth football history in the second and third quarters
to lay Jackson’s fears to rest, scoring 41 points in the two
periods to trounce the Indians 48-0.
Five different players scored touchdowns for the
Bulldogs as a land and air assault given outstanding field
position time and time again by an opportunistic defense
rolled up over 300 total yards with the starting offense
on the sidelines for almost the entire second half.
The play that ignited the rout came on the Bulldogs’
third possession of the game, after linebacker Glenn
Sutko recovered a Lumpkin fumble forced by safety
Chris Mitchell’s hit on Chris Dyer to end an Indian march
to the Forsyth 37.
On a third-and-two play, senior halfback Alex Hol
brooks swept quarterback Randy Chambers’ fumble off
the ground deep in his own backfield and streaked past a
stunned Indian defense for a 55-yard touchdown run that
gave the Bulldogs some breathing room with a 14-0 lead.
The second of the Bulldogs’ four defensive takeovers
came on Lumpkin’s second play from scrimmage on
their next possession, as cornerback Todd Milford made
a leaping interception of a Jason Abercrombie pass just
16 yards from paydirt.
And on the Bulldogs’ subsequent play, Chambers
avoided a Lumpkin pass rush to pop a pass over the
middle to tight end Sutko, who rambled into the end zone
to up the Forsyth lead to 21-0 with 7:28 left in the first
half.
The Bulldogs' offense was called onto the field again
three minutes later, after a Lumpkin punt to the Forsyth
37, and relying on five straight runs by Holbrooks,
positioned itself for another score at the Indians’ 31.
facemask penalty on Forsyth gave
Winder life with a first-and-goal at
the 2.
The Bulldogs’ defense refused to
budge beyond that spot, however, as
a strong line surge drove Watson
back for a three-yard loss and de
fensive bade Scotty Wilson dropped
A 17-yard fourth-down run by Chambers kept the
scoring threat alive with time ticking down to the
intermission, and on third-and-12 from the 20, the quar
terback hurled a pass to split end Tim McCallister, who
whirled out of the grasp of a defender on the 12 and knifed
his way into the end zone for the Bulldogs’ third touch
down of the quarter.
Forsyth lost none of its momentum during the halftime
break, and posted another touchdown on the scoreboard
on the first play from scrimmage of the third quarter.
This time it was Chambers playing the hero role, his
nickname of “Crazy Legs” by taking an option keeper,
cutting inside a Lumpkin defender and racing down the
left sideline for a 60-yard touchdown scamper, using a
nifty move on a potential tackier at the 5 to reach the goal
line.
That score gave the Bulldogs a 35-0 lead with 11:27
remaining in the third period and relegated the starting
offense to the bench for the rest of the contest as
Forsyth’s varsity reserves and junior varsity players
found themselves with a chance to perform.
And perform they did, accounting for two more third
quarter scores as the rout continued.
With Robby Payne now at the helm and Larry Jenkins
and Milford joining the junior in the backfield, the
Bulldogs needed just six plays to move 50 yards on their
next possession, covering the final 33 when Payne found
McCallister all alone behind the Lumpkin secondary for
the Bulldogs’ third aerial score of the night.
Two plays later, the Indians played give-away again,
as Jenkins recovered a fumble on the Lumpkin 19. The
Bulldogs capitalized on the turnover as junior varsity
halfbacks Todd Ballard and Richard Ingram ground out
yardage up the middle on a short seven-play march
capped by Ballard’s touchdown dive over the right side.
The touchdown ended six straight scoring possessions
by Forsyth, and Coach Jackson made sure his team ran
up the score no further by limiting the offense to a
straight-ahead running game that succeeded in running
off the final quarter of the game.
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the halfback for another six-yard loss
to push Winder back to the 11.
Forsyth capped the defensive stand
by forcing a pair of incomplete passes
on Winder’s only venture past the
Bulldogs’ 40.
The Forsyth offense immediately
established its dominance as Ballard
sparked an 11-play, 86-yard scoring
drive, rambling for 52 of those yards,
including a two-yard touchdown
plunge. Chi the conversion attempt,
Payne rolled right and fired a strike
to Wilson in the comer of the end zone
See JAYVEE, Page SB
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