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: Erin Gray Marietta Daily Journal
Forsyth Central struggled to contain Sprayberry quarterback Andrew Pereira and the Yellow Jackets’ offense in a 34-7 loss
Friday on the road. :
Central falls
to third in
Div. B at 2-2
By Cody McGhee
For the Forsyth County News
MARIETTA - A
4-yard touchdown run
from Sabrian Howard
- was the lone score for the
Forsyth Central Bulldogs
- as they fell 34-7 to the
Sprayberry Yellow
Jackets on Friday in a
Region 7-AAAAA, Div.
B game. . :
From the opening kick
Sprayberry was the team
in control as the Yellow
Jackets' defense held the
Bulldogs (4-3, 2-2) to a
three-and-out on the
game’s opening drive.
Once Sprayberry got its
hands on the ball, it
scored. A 49-yard pass
from Andrew Pereira to
Jontae Williams started
the Sprayberry scoring
and once the Yellow
Jackets were on the
scoreboard, there was no
looking back.
Once the Yellow
Jackets got the ball back
it took their offense only
.two plays to score again
to open the lead up to
14-0.
“We got behind early,”
Forsyth Central head
coach Shane Williamson
said. “I think this is the
first time all year that we
got behind that far early
on and I don’t think we
knew how to handle it.”
Down 14-0 midway
through the first quarter,
Central answered the
Sprayberry scoring with
Howard's touchdown run.
Thé Central touchdown
was set up by a 71-yard
run by Shaun Diebel
resulting in a first-and-10
at the 4-yard line.
After the Howard
touchdown, the game was
all Sprayberry.
Sprayberry added onto
their 14-7 lead with 5:00
to go in the first half
when Rakeem Myricks
ran for a 12-yard touch
down. Sprayberry
attempted a fake extra
point attempt only to
have it fail resulting in a
20-7 lead.
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Photos by Micah Green Forsyth County News
Lambert’'s Graham Bryant connects with a pitch Thursday against Etowah
in Game 3 of the first round of the Class AAAAAA playoffs.
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but Lady Eagles coach
Victoria Brown sent
Billings back to ‘the
mound for Game 3 less
than 24 hours later.
“She was sore, but she
said, ‘I want the ball,’”
Brown said. “At this
point, she’s the one I
want to have the ball in
her hands.”
Billings held the Lady
Longhorns scoreless
through 6 2/3 innings on
Thursday night — until
Lambert senior shortsiop
Savannah Huffstetler
stepped up.
The Tennessee commit
singled to center and
senior Macy Stovall,
committed to play at
Mercer, roped a double to
the fence in right-center.
Huffstetler raced home
ahead of the relay and
sprung up to high-five
freshman third baseman
Kassidy Krupit with both
hands.
“I looked at Huff there
in the seventh and just
said, ‘lt’s on us,”” Stovall
said. “We were going to
get a run, there was no
doubt.”
Lambert struggled in
the first two games and,
to a lesser extent, in
Game 3, to lay off pitches
out of the strike zone.
Billings’ was no Greg
Maddux, but the Lady
Longhorns chased her
rise balls above the zone
and breaking balls below
the strike zone.
Billings struck out the
side in the fifth inning
and struck out seven
Lambert hitters in total on
Thursday; the freshman
tallied 19 strikeouts in 21
innings in the series.
“We were just swinging
at everything, which was
the case in all three
games — swinging at the
bad pitches and watching
the good pitches,” Stovall
said,
Youngblood wavered
all day Thursday on
whether Guimbarda or
Krupit would start Game
3. In the end, it was
Guimbarda, the Lady
Longhorns’ No. 1 all sea
son. Youngblood didn’t
out-think himself.
“Just in my gut, I knew
I had to go with her,”
Youngblood said. “I told
her 40 minutes before the
game, ‘You're it.” She did
exactly what we needed
and kept us in a one-run
ballgame until the sev
enth inning.”
Guimbarda, a sopho
more, limited Etowah to
five hits and two runs
over seven innings after
struggling with her com
mand in a Game 1 loss.
After Wallace scored to
give Etowah a 1-0 lead in
the first inning,
Guimbarda worked five
shutout innings, giving up
just two hits.
“Marissa did awesome.
She shut them down,”
Huffstetler said. “I thik
coach has to be happy
with that decision. We all
had confidence in her.”
Guimbarda held every
Etowah hitter in check —
except for Wallace.
“Before the first inning
we had said that, pretty
much, if [Wallace] gets
Sprayberry then marched
77-yards down the ficld
on five plays and scored
again to make. the lead
27-6.
Late in the third
Sprayberry added a
32-yard touchdown run
by Trey Sermon making
the lead 34-7, which was
the eventual final score.
“They just beat us,”
Williamson said. “Take
nothing from them they
are a good football team.”
The loss dropped
Coming out for the sec
ond half, Central had
multiple opportunities to
get back into the game.
On the opening drive of
the second half
Sprayberry quarterback
‘Andrew Pereira fumbled
the ball and that Central’s
Cameron Daube recov
ered. :
But Central couldn’t
capitalize on the fumble
recovery and was forced
to punt the ball back to
the Sprayberry offense.
have each other’s backs.”
Never was that more
evident than the bottom
of the seventh, after
Lambert, down to its final
out, had tied the game.
Wallace walked with one
out, swiped second with
out a throw, stole third
base easily, and plated the
winning run when Payton
Curtis’ line drive to shal
low center field was
dropped.
The Lady Eagles
spilled out of their dugout
to form a mob and Skylar
Wallace, fittingly, was at
the center of it all again.
on, we'd be down 1-0,
and that’s exactly what
happened,” Youngblood
said. “For the most part,
Marissa did a great job of
working around her and
getting everybody else
out. That’s great for her
to step back up.”
The Lady Longhorns
will rue missed opportu
nities to get the big hit.
Lambert left eight runners
on base, five of them at
second or third base. On
three¢ separate occasions,
a Lady Longhomn struck
out to end an inning and
strand a runner (or two)
in scoring position. .
Billings held her nerve
every time, even as
Stovall stood as the go
ahead run on second base
with two outs in the sev
enth. The freshman got
her travel softball team
mate Krupit to look at a
borderline called third
strike.
“That’s been our one
downfall — whether or
not we could stay calm,”
Brown said. “If this had
been earlier in the season,
we probably don’t
respond the same way.
We’ve been through these
«games now, and our girls
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Forsyth Central 7
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First Quarter
S: Williams 49 pass from Pereira
(kick good), 7:21 &
8: Sermon 17 pass from Pereira (kick
good), 3:40 ; ;
'C: Howard 4 fun {kick good), 3:16
Second Quarter
S: Myricks 12 run (pass failed), 3:01
. Third Quarter
$: Myricks 16 run {kick good), 4:15
S: Sermon 32 run (kick good), :55
Central into a tie with
Cambridge for third in
the sub-region with
.games remaining against
North Springs and the
Bears the next two
weeks. -
“We've got to look
toward ‘the future. We've
got a must-win situation
at this point,” Williamson
said. “We've got to come
back and get ready to go
to work.”
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“She did exactly what we needed and kept us in
a one-run ballgame until the seventh inning,”
Lambert softball coach Brooks Youngblood said
about Lady Longhorns pitcher Marissa
Guimbarda.
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