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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Gurley loss has been big gain
Let the naysayers beware.
Georgia’s not the same football
team without Todd Gurley.
- It’s better. .
And, yes, it might be even better
if he comes back. But let the
media remain obsessed with his
potential return. His teammates
aren’t.
“We heard a lot of naysayers say
we wouldn’t be anything without
number three,” receiver Chris
Conley told GeorgiaDogs.com.
“We love Todd, but we feel like
we are a team that has capable
players to fill in for our starters
when they go down. The guys
took his loss to heart. We know
how to win in this conference, and
we’ve got to continue to prove it.”
Two weeks ago, when Georgia
destroyed 23rd-ranked Missouri,
34-0, in its first outing sans
Gurley, you could believe the team
collectively rose to the occasion.
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Time to finish the job
Lambert’s Justyn Jean-Felix follows in family footsteps in secondary
By Foster Lander
flander@forsythnews.com
Justyn Jean-Felix revels in being
the last line of defense.
The Lambert junior cornerback
and lacrosse defenseman has a
knack for stepping up when others
need him the most.
Take, for example, last Friday
night at Northview. The Longhorns,
nursing a 3-0 lead with less than a
minute to play, had to keep
Northview out of the end zone to
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DENTON ASHWAY
Columnist
Emotions can carry you through a
game.
But when Georgia left the field
at halftime Saturday in Little Rock
with a 38-6 lead, you had to
believe there was something more
at work here.
Maybe not. “Soon as we got off
the bus, we had confidence we
could win the game,” linebacker
Leonard Floyd told Marc Weiszer
of the Athens Banner-Herald.
“Everybody doubted us. We want
to change everybody, the way they
think about Georgia.”
That process is well-underway.
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stay reasonably in the state playoff
chase. Jean-Felix clung to his
receiver as Titans quarterback DJ
Pearson rolled out of the pocket and
released a left-handed throw, which
the 6-foot, 170-pound Jean-Felix
leapt and gratefully clutched for the
game-clinching interception at the
Longhorn 2.
That's not even his favorite sport.
Jean-Felix's football coach in fourth
grade suggested he try lacrosse,
which was just beginning to
emerge, and he took to the sport
During the waning moments of the
FSU-Notre Dame telecast, a Top
Ten Results graphic appeared.
Kirk Herbstreit immediately pro
claimed, “That Georgia team has
really played with a big chip on its
shoulder the past two weeks.”
Broadcast partner Chris Fowler
quickly added: “That final score is
not indicative of how close that
game was.”
True, Georgia turned that 38-6
halftime lead into a 45-32 win, but
that inspired first half allowed for
plenty of room to coast.
Are we reading too much emo
tion into these two outstanding
performances?
*I think the fans and everybody
else get more riled up about it than
we do,” coach Mark Richt told
Weiszer. “We just show up and go
to work.”
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immediately. Justyn knew almost
from the start that he wanted to play
lacrosse for as long as he could.
“I love being on defense and
being able to take control,” Jean-
Felix, who is committed to play
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CROSS COUNTRY
Locals shine at
Coach Wood
(17:38, 16th). Hasse
(17:39.04, 20th) and
Warner (17:39.14, 21st)
finished side-by-side, and
Wesley Bacastow
(18:01.55, 35th) rounded
out the Central five.
Central totaled 103 points
with an average time of
17:39.
GIRLS: Bonnie
McKinnon (22:14.58)
came in 43rd in the Girls
Varsity (Gold) race as the
Lady Bulldogs finished
21st overall. Ashley
Malone (23:40), Devyn
Malenzak (24:29),
MaKenzie Brumbelow
(24:58) and Sam
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By Foster Lander
flander@forsythnews.com
Forsyth Central at
Coach Wood
Invitational
BOYS: Austin
Campbell, Cole
Gizelbach, Will Hasse
and Max Warner each fin
ished in the top 21 on
Saturday at Gainesville
College as Central won
the Boys Varsity (Gold)
race ahead of Harrison
and Lambert. Central was
the only team in the top
six to not place an indi
vidual in the top 10.
Campbell (17:21, 11th
place) led the way, fol
lowed by Gizelbach
lacrosse at Mercer, said. “If a
lacrosse game is close [in the fourth
quarter] it usually comgs down to
defense ... it’s up to us to get a
stop.”
And, with older brother Jordyn,
who pushed Justyn and youngest
brother Jaryd to keep their grades
up, gone to Marist College in New
York, Justyn has taken over as
familial protector, of sorts.
“I keep everything under control
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