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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
THE JACKSON HERALD
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TRYING TO FIND RUNNING ROOM
East Jackson’s Cody Gibbs looks for an opening through White County’s defensive
line during Friday night’s season opener. Photo by Brandon Reed
More Warriors Friday
After A 21-14 Loss To White Co.,
Eagles To Take On Oconee Co.
By Brandon Reed
WITH JUST over three minutes
left to play, it looked like the East
Jackson Eagles might hang on to a
one-point lead and pick up a season-
opening win against White County.
But after first signaling the Eagles had
recovered a muffed kick, the referees
awarded possession to the White County
Warriors, who scored the winning touch
down 90 seconds later to steal a 21-14 win.
The Eagles now look to change their
luck as they travel to Oconee County
Friday, where a different group of
Warriors will open their 2010 campaign.
While the Warriors and the Eagles
have not met before, Oconee County
comes off of a rough 2009 sea
son that saw them go 3-7.
Friday night’s non-region
game at Watkinsville is sched
uled for a 7:30 p.m. kick-off.
“Believe it or not. we're probably going
to be in the exact same kind of ballgame,”
East Jackson head coach Frank Caputo said.
“They’re a spread team. They can throw
it around and they can run it well. They
play good solid defense. They’re a good
football team, too. I figure it will be one
of these rock 'em sock 'em games again
like we had Friday. Hopefully, we can
hang in there long enough to pull it out.”
The Eagles got on the board first in
the first quarter, with Cody Gibbs sneak
ing into the end zone on a quarterback
keeper. White County put its first num
bers on the board just 15 seconds into
the second quarter, tying the game
7-7, and took the lead with just under
seven minutes remaining in the half.
A missed PAT made it a 13-7 game.
C.J. Allen gave the Eagles the lead back
late in the third quarter to make it a 14-13
game before White County pulled the
rabbit out of the hat with the late TD.
“I think some of our inexperience caught
up with us,” Caputo said. “But I thought
the kids played hard. It was a good foot
ball game. It was everything we thought
it would be. We told the kids all week it
was going to be a fourth quarter game,
and that it would be won late in the fourth
quarter. We had a chance to do that.”
“It was a good football game, and I
thought it was a well officiated game,”
Caputo added. “They were play
ing good, and we were playing good.
It was just one of those games.”
Gibbs passed for 52 yards on 12
attempts, with four completions, but
he suffered three interceptions.
Gibbs rushed for 82 yards and one
TD on 10 carries, while Allen gained 47
yards on nine carries, including a touch
down. Mike Stephens added 46 yards
on 12 carries, Tyler Collins gained 33
yards on two snaps and Chas Malcolm
picked up seven yards on two carries.
REPLACEMENT
BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONE
REPLACEMENT SEMINAR
At Tiger Town Pharmacy
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
@ 7:00 PM
Kim Bost Pharm. D. Will Discuss:
• What is Hormone Replacement Therapy/Bioidentical Hormone
Replacement Therapy?
• Explanation of the menstrual cycle and female anatomy
• Hormones - what they are and how they work
• How Stress, diet and thyroid dysfunction fit into the hormone
picture
• Importance of hormone balance and Goals of BHRT
Softball
Lady Eagles face JCCHS Thursday
By Brandon Reed
THE LADY Eagles contin
ue to look for their first win of
the 2010 softball campaign.
Coming off of a pair of
losses last week, the Lady
Eagles fell to 0-3 and are
hoping their first ever pair
ing with the Lady Panthers
of Jackson County will give
them an opportunity to turn
things around.
Jackson County enters the
match-up fresh off a victo
ry over Elbert County. The
Lady Panthers are off to an
extremely strong start in 2010.
going 2-0 early on in region
play and 3-0-2 overall. The
two ties came in timed-out
tournament games.
The first pitch Thursday is
scheduled for 5:55 p.m. at
JCCHS.
The Lady Eagles started off
last week against Oglethorpe
County at home.
The game was scoreless
through three innings. The
Lady Patriots put two runners
across in the fourth to take a
2-0 lead.
East Jackson cut the lead
in half in the bottom of the
fourth, with senior Brooklyn
Watkins scoring from third on
a single.
But despite threatening sev
eral times over the last three
innings, the Eagles didn’t
score again, while Oglethorpe
put four more runners across
to take the 6-1 victory.
Sophomore pitcher Taylor
Nix recorded the loss from
the mound.
Things didn’t get much
better on Thursday, as the
Lady Eagles traveled to
North Oconee to face the
Lady Titans. East Jackson
came away with a 9-1 loss,
their fourth in as many meet
ings.
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BRINGING
THE HEAT
East Jackson’s Taylor
Nix sends a pitch to the
plate during last week’s
game against Oglethorpe
County.
Photo by Brandon Reed
Cross Country
Lady Eagles fourth in opener
By Brandon Reed
MARK IT down as a promis
ing opener for the East Jackson
Eagles Cross Country teams.
Both the boys and girls
teams took part in the NEGA
Championships at Athens
Christian on Saturday. The girls
placed fourth out of 18 teams,
while the boys finished 11th out
of 26 schools.
Sherri Blalock finished
third overall among the girls
out of 143 runners. Courtney
McDowell placed 16th,
Amanda Anderson 37th, Skyler
Cozzens 38th, McKenzie Parr
48th, Courtney Clark 82nd,
Caroline Flynn 83rd, Corbin
Williams 97th and Elizabeth
Allred 124th.
Cale Pirtle placed highest
among the boys with a 30th-
place result out of 205 runners.
He was followed by Edward
Stone, 52nd, Stuart Robinett,
HITTING THE TRAIL
Courtney McDowell
makes her way along
the trail during the NEGA
Championships at Athens
ChristianSchoolSaturday.
Photo by Jessica Brown
53rd, Michael Adair. 69th, Cory
McClure, 91st, Tyler Cone,
108th, Jake Thaxton. 124th,
Adrian Woodruff, 125th, Kyle
Wood, 152nd and Quenton
Rice. 154th.
“The positives out of the meet
were we ran a meet in moder
ate weather and the coaches
saw what we knew were our
strengthens and the runners got
a chance to see where they were
in comparison to their train
ing and work habits,” said East
Jackson coach Bob Roller.
Roller said none of the run
ners were content with their
performances.
“Right after the race, sev
eral spoke of getting their work
habits stronger,” he said. “One
more positive was that the boys
and girls know they will get bet
ter each race.”
Up next for East Jackson
is the Orthopedic Run at
Carrollton on Sept. 11.
Eagles eye match with Panthers
By Brandon Reed
AFTER GOING 1-3 last week, picking up
a victory over Alcovy, the East Jackson Lady
Eagles volleyball team will face several area
opponents over the coming days.
On Thursday, the Lady Eagles will host non
area Athens Christian and Jackson County in
their second area match of the season.
“This will be the biggest night of the season for
us so far,” said East Jackson coach Tim Thomas.
“The rematch with Athens Christian will be big,
because we want to prove that were better than
we played them last week. But the bigger match
is Jackson County, since they’re on our side of
the area.”
Match time against Athens Christian is 5 p.m.,
with the Jackson County match beginning at 7
p.m.
The Lady Eagles began last week with their
first region pairing of the year against Lakeview
Academy. Lakeview came away the 2-1 winner,
with set scores of 25-21,18-25 and 15-25.
That was followed by East Jackson’s first
match of the season with Athens Christian. That
too ended in a loss. 2-0, with set scores of 14-25
and 7-25.
On Thursday, the Lady Eagles hosted Alcovy,
winning 2-0 with set scores of 25-21 and 25-17.
READY TO SERVE
Rebekah Poponi prepares to serve
during a recent match. Photo by Mark
Beardsley
They followed that with a match against
Gainesville, who won 2-0 with set scores of
22-25 and 23-25.
Top performers for the week included Rebekah
Poponi, who had 26 service points and nine kills.
Rosie Melendez had 17 digs and nine assists,
Haley Simmons served eight aces and Jenna
Dukes had 16 digs.
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