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Page 10 — Wednesday, September 22, 2010, TheTrue Citizen
Freshman quarterback Donquell Green picked up plenty of playing time and more than 100 yards rushing against Lowndes.
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Bears go down fighting against Lowndes
By Anne Marie Kyzer
annemariek@thetruecitizen.com
The big time football atmo
sphere expected at Lowndes
County lived up to its name last
Friday night.
From the number of players
and the level of talent to the
Astroturf field and crowd of
nearly 10,000, Burke County
High School’s football team got
to see why Valdosta has been
dubbed “Winnersville, USA”
mostly for its focus on football.
Despite the Bears’ 36-0 loss
to Lowndes County, Bears head
coach Eric Parker said the ex
perience his players gained was
priceless.
“We knew going down that is
was going to be a big time at
mosphere. This was a unique op
portunity,” Burke County Head
Coach Eric Parker said. “We
definitely wanted to play a little
better but our kids got intro
duced to some of the greatest
high school football in the south
east.”
Though the end zone proved
elusive for the Bears given the
size and speed of the Vikings’
defense, most Bear fans who at
tended came away proud of the
effort and some impressive plays
Burke County was able to pull
off.
With junior Corey May ton
and freshman Donquell Green
trading turns at the helm of the
offense, the Bears penetrated the
red zone four times. However,
they weren’t able to capitalize
and two passes into the end zone
were intercepted. Green rushed
for 108 yards on 10 carries and
Mayton completed 8 of 20
passes for 58 yards.
Defensively, the Bears
showed some serious persever
ance after the Vikings put up 29
points in the first half. In the sec
ond half, Burke County held
Lowndes and its prolific offense
to just one touchdown. Aldrick
Kittles, Derwin Butler, Tavarius
Washington, Devonte Osborne
and Bobby Jones led in tackles
for Burke County’s defense.
In the end, Burke County just
wasn’t able to put the brakes on
Lowndes’ more than 450 yards
of total offense.
“The big thing is that we had
some opportunities we blew and
some plays we didn’t make, but
at least now the kids understand
that you have to go in and ex
ecute when you’re playing a
team of that caliber,” Coach
Parker said. “This was a great
week, except for the final score.
The key to me is what happens
from this point on.”
WELL WORTH THE TRIP
Burke County may have been
behind on the scoreboard, but the
school got ahead in its coffers.
The Bears signed a two-year
contract with Lowndes County
based on an agreement that pays
them a percentage of the gate from
the games. The Vikings’ stadium
seats around 10,000 and was near
capacity for last Friday’s home
coming crowd. Though figures
were not released, Coach Parker
said the amount received could be
more than Burke County would
make on a big home game.
Lowndes County invited Burke
County to come play. Lowndes
County scouts teams they want to
buy out with such contracts and
chose Burke County based on its
reputation as a competitive team
with a strong following of fans.
“When they search for people to
buy out they are kind of particular
because some people come but
don’t bring fans,” Coach Parker
said. “The word got out around
south Georgia that we were a good
candidate because our folks travel
well and support us.”
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Bears host Westside in home opener
By Anne Marie Kyzer
annemariek@thetruecitizen.com
The Bears haven’t played a
regular season home game since
last October.
They’re ready to play in
Waynesboro.
Burke County High School’s
football players finally get a
chance to play before their
hometown crowd Friday night
when they host Westside (Region
3N-AAA) of Augusta.
“It’s time to be back in the
Den,” head coach Eric Parker
said. “It seems like forever since
we’ve been home.”
It’s been a while since Burke
County played Westside as well.
The two schools last met in 2003,
when the Bears traveled to Au
gusta and defeated the Patriots
16-13.
The Bears dominate the all-
time series with the Patriots with
a 12-3 record.
Coach Parker said he looks for
the Patriots to throw the ball
quite a bit, utilizing a new quar
terback who transferred in this
year. A couple of talented receiv
ers will help the cause. Though
they don’t boast a lot of size, they
make up for it in speed.
“We just have to go back to
being physical and go back to
our style of football,” Coach
Parker said as his team prepares
for Friday. Offensively, the Bears
will try to infuse more into their
running game against Westside.
Both teams enter the match up
with 1-2 records. Burke County
dropped games to Baldwin (14-
8) and Lowndes (36-0), and
picked up a big win over Josey
(57-12).
Westside fell to Butler (42-0)
in their first game of the season,
helping the Bulldogs break a 41-
game losing streak. After defeat
ing Cross Creek 28-14, they
were trampled by Glenn Hills
48-12.
Westside plays this year in the
north sub-region of Region 3-
AAA. Though this is not consid
ered a region game, the results
could come into play when seed
ing is determined for the play
offs.
BLACKOUT IN THE
FORECAST
Kick off in the Bear Den is set
for 7:30 p.m. Fans are being
asked to wear black in an effort
to “blackout” the home side of
the stadium. Cheerleaders
have sold specially designed T-
shirts and ask supporters who
bought them to don them Fri
day night.
Burke County begins cross country
From Staff Reports
Burke County High School’s
cross country runners started
off the season last weekend
with a solid finish at their first
meet.
The Bears finished up the 5K
race at Magnolia Springs in sec
ond place as a team. Grovetown
claimed first.
“Even though it was our first
meet of the year, I was pleased
with the effort and attitudes of
our runners,” Burke County
head coach Bill Knight said.
“We also had some surprising
times from some of our runners.
Overall, I think we are ahead of
where we were last year at this
time, and through hard work we
should see some positive results
over the next month.”
Burke County’s next meet
will be the West Laurens Dual
meet on Thursday at Southern
Pines in Dublin.
TEAM RESULTS
Grovetown 101
Burke Co. 84
Statesboro 71
Hephzibah 41
Evans 28
BURKE CO. INDIVIDUAL
RESULTS
5 th —Joshua Jones, 18:18
23 rd —Brannon Tootle, 21:00
24 th —Avery Peacock, 21:02
25 th —Darius Lakes, 21:09
29 th —Reginald Lane, 21:44
32 nd —Kevin Cobb, 22:36
35 th —Dalton Lyons, 24:02
Carmen Obryant ran as an in
dividual in the girls division
and finished with a time of
31:57.
To view photos taken at recent events,
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