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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017
Football
Panthers face Hart County team under new leadership
RECORD HOLDER
With 149 rushing yards in just a quarter and a
half this past Friday night, Noah Venable became
Jackson County’s all-time leading rusher with
2,828 career yards. Photo by Ben Munro
By Ben Munro
Hart County’s new coach
ing staff hasn’t ushered in
many additional victories yet,
but there’s a sense that this
bunch of Bulldogs are better
than their 1-5 mark to this
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Brandon
Worley said. “They do have
some talent. I think they’re
doing a great job of coaching
them.”
The Panthers travel to Hart
County this Friday to face a
Bulldog team now under the
direction of Ranee Gillespie,
who has 120 coaching victo
ries and two state champion
ship to his credit.
The Bulldogs — who went
1-9 last season — began the
year 0-5 through a tough
non-region schedule before
routing Franklin County
41-14 on Sept. 29 for their
first win. Hart County was off
this past Friday.
“Defensively, I think
they’re a whole lot better than
they were last year,” Worley
said. “Offensively, they still
have some of the same threats
they had last year.”
Hart County interchanges
quarterbacks O’Neal Ander
son and Crew Phillips, and
both are solid players accord
ing to the coach.
Anderson is 40-of-71 this
year passing for 645 yards,
six touchdowns and one inter
ception. He’s also added 383
yards rushing and a touch
down.
“He’s a good thrower and a
runner,” Worley said.
Phillips is 19-of-41 for 195
yards with a touchdown and
interception. “He throws the
ball really well,” Worley said.
Anderson and Phillips’ top
receiving targets are Jalen
Brown (20 catches, 335 yards,
three touchdowns) and Jona
than Dekle (12 catches, 249
yards, two touchdowns).
Jer’Rontay Morrison (71
carries, 190 yards, six touch
downs) is Hart County’s lead
ing rusher.
The Bulldogs are running
more power schemes com
pared to last year but operate
out of the spread formations,
too.
This is a key region game
for the Panthers, who at 1-1
in 8-AAA play currently sit
fourth in the region standings
behind Monroe Area (2-0),
Morgan County (1-0) and
Hart County (1-0).
“It’s definitely very import
ant. no doubt.” Worley said.
“They’re much improved, and
it needs to definitely be a team
effort on our end. I expect our
kids all the way around to
play hard. I think we’ll have a
lot of contributions from a lot
of kids this week.”
Jackson County’s leading
rusher, Noah Venable, who
was injured in the first half of
this past Friday night’s game
against Franklin County is
expected to play this week.
VENABLE BREAKS
RUSHING RECORD
Jackson County’s sin
gle-season rushing record
holder is now its all-time rush
ing leader.
With 149 yards on 19 car
ries against Franklin Coun
ty — all of which came in
a quarter and a half of play
before being injured — Noah
Venable is the school’s all-
time leading rusher with
2.828 yards, surpassing the
total of Panther great Odell
Collins, who ran for 2,820
yards during the early 1990s.
“I can say that I feel like this
year he has improved every
game.” Worley said.
Venable largely accom
plished the feat in just two
varsity seasons. He had no
yards rushing as a freshman
and just 93 as a sophomore.
He broke Collins’ single sea
son rushing record last year
with 1,381 yards.
“It’s impressive,” Worley
said. “He’s definitely been
rolling pretty good. For the
most part of all those years,
with the exception of the last
game, he’s pretty healthy.”
Venable has 1,354 rush
ing yards this year in seven
games.
“The more I go back
and watch film, the more
impressed I am.” Worley said.
“He’s got a great feel. I think
he’s as fast as he’s ever been
right now and his vision is
great.”
Rhinehardt and Pike are
among the colleges that have
offered him scholarships.
“And I think there’s going
to be a lot more to come,”
Worley said.
Football
Tigers face winless but ‘extremely athletic’ Riverside team
By Charles Phelps
Just because a football
team is 0-6 doesn’t mean
that it won’t
present its
challenges to
opponents.
Take Riv
erside Mili
tary Acade
my (0-6, 0-6
Region 8-A),
a team that hasn’t won a
game; however, two of their
losses were by a combined
six points, a third was a
two-possession game and the
team dropped 20 on Athens
Academy, the most of any
team the Spartans have faced.
This is the team the Com
merce Tigers (5-1. 4-1) wel
come to Ray Lamb Stadium
this Friday night.
“They’re an extremely
athletic group,” head coach
Michael Brown said. “When
you look at their personnel,
they’re scary.
“They have 6-foot-4
receivers, have good size
on the offensive and defen
sive lines and got a quarter
back that can ran and throw.
They’re a very, very talented
group. I know defensively
they have a couple of line
men that our kids know we
had problems with last year.
They’re a talented group and
we’re going to have to pre
pare for them and execute for
them just like we do anybody
else.”
Last season, the Tigers
defeated Riverside on the
road 38-0. The teams have
met four times in history:
1944, 2010, 2011 and last
season. The Tigers are 3-1 in
the overall series.
At Providence last week,
six different Tigers found the
end zone. They scored three
different ways: ground game,
passing game and special
teams. The 55-0 rout didn’t
come without its hiccups as
the Tigers committed a fum
ble in the first quarter and
picked up penalties through
out the game.
“Obviously, we don’t want
to turn the ball over at any
point,” Brown said. “The
penalties, obviously some
of those come when you’re
playing hard and you’re play
ing out of control.
“I thought against Prince
(Avenue) we had a few of
those, where kids are playing
extremely hard but they’re
not playing under control.
So we definitely need to
learn what it means to play
with controlled aggression.
Those things will get better. I
know ball security has been
good at times this year and
something we emphasize
every week. We’ll continue
to work those things in prac
tice.”
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Cross country
Commerce softball
Eagles’ Shane Shelafoe breaks 16-minute mark
By Ben Munro
East Jackson’s Shane
Shelafoe became the lat
est runner in the school’s
impressive cross-country
history to record a sub-16:00
time.
Shelafoe ran a 15:45.80
this past Thursday to win
the Mountain Invitational at
Helen.
“He ran an incredible
race,” coach Tomy Sitton
said.
The junior’s time of
15:45.80 was one second
faster than that of three-time
cross country state cham
pion Chase Kennedy when
Kennedy was a junior.
“I think he’s finally fig
ured it out,” Sitton said.
The coach explained that
Shelafoe is fully invested in
the training process, simi
larly to how former runners
Chase Kennedy, Chandler
Kennedy and Ridge Chais-
son did last year as seniors.
“If they start seeing their
performance getting better,
then they say, ‘well, hard
work does pay off,’” Sitton
said. “But if they don’t see
the hard work, they don’t
seem to step it up. That’s
what I got across to Chase
(Kennedy), Chandler and
Ridge when they ran, and
I think Shane has bought
into it.”
Still. Sitton wasn’t nec
essarily expecting a sub-16
time from his No. 1 runner
this year.
“I was probably a little
surprised, but he did have
some good role models and
saw how fast they ran,” Sit
ton said.
This proved to be a fast
course with East Jackson’s
Sobe Strong posting a time
of 17:18.80 to finish second
on the team. Marco Flores
(18:08.9), Andre Menchaca
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(18:15.40) and Luis Hernan
dez (18:35.90) rounded out
the scoring as the Eagles
finished 11th in the boys’
standings with 342 points.
On the girls’ side, Sue Ann
Morales rejoined the team
after not running the first
two months of the season
and recorded a top-10 finish,
placing ninth with a time
of 19:54, after only about a
week’s worth of training.
Sitton called Morales
“probably the most natural
athlete I’ve ever had,” even
more so than Chase Ken
nedy.
“She can just hop out
there,” Sitton said.
Morales’ top-10 finish
helped the girls’ team place
12th with 311 points.
Freshman Lissett Miranda
also ran the best race of her
young career, recording a
time of 20:05.10 to better
her PR by about a minute.
She finished 12th.
“I’m looking forward to
having her for four years,”
Sitton said.
Rounding out the scor
ing for the girls team were
Victoria Sanchez (54th,
22:06.30), Anna Fox (111th.
24:00.90) and Emily Parker
(125th, 24:26.30).
East Jackson has one more
meet remaining — Oct. 18
at Riverside — before the
Oct. 28 region meet.
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we got up, the momentum was in our favor and we never lost
it.”
Pitcher Teresa Dixon shut the Wolverines down in the
bottom of the seventh inning to seal the game for the Tigers.
But they needed one more win over Prince Avenue to win the
Region 8-A Championship. However, game two was not as
nerve-wracking.
After trailing 2-0 after the top of the first inning, Commerce
took a 4-2 lead in the bottom half of the inning and never looked
back. Their offense fired on all cylinders the rest of the way en
route to a 13-6 win in six innings.
“Unforgettable, girls played their hearts out, they came into
the day behind needing to win two games and they never gave
up.” Wilkes said. “Our goal was to win region and keep on
going, I think that’s what kept driving them and kept them
smiling.”
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