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Sports
Getting back
to college
football picks
For most of the season, up until
a few weeks ago anyway, this space
had been filled with my semi-expert
picks of the upcoming college
football games. But back a few
weeks ago 1 messed up pretty bad (I
think I got one of six), so for the
next two Saturdays I varied my
column topic.
I am going to stick my neck out
once again and try to pick a couple
of college football games.
Here goes nothing.
Georgia Tech at North Carolina-
The Yellow Jackets lost a chance
last week to get their biggest upset
in about 10 years, so they are
surely kicking themselves in the
backside.
The Tar Heels are having a
pretty good season by their recent
standards, and the winner of this
game looks very promising to
some bowl people. Whoever takes
the loss can expect to spend the
holidays with their families.
Let's call this one in favor of the
Rambling Wreck, by a 31-22 score.
Georgia at Kentucky- Georgia is
thinking SEC Title game now, and
they could be ripe for an uspet.
Kentucky is still hoping for a
bowl bid, and a win over Georgia
would go a long way towards secur
ing one.
If any of Georgia's big three on
offense has a big day, it will be
tough for the Wildcats to hang with
the Dogs. If two of them click at
the same time, Georgia will win
easily and if they all three have big
days Georgia could rack up bunches
of points.
Let's say the Dawgs will get the
job done, but it won't be as easy as
lots of people would like.
Call it Georgia 27-Kentucky 19.
Mississippi at Alabama- The
Tide is looking forward to a date
with the Bulldogs in the SEC Title
game in about a month and a half,
and me kcucis shuuiu uu mu
jor threat.
Mississippi is not among the
first group of SEC schools, and
they will have real trouble scoring
against the Tide.
But Alabama will not get lots of
yards or points either. The game
will not be as close as the score
indicates.
Let's call this one Alabama 21-
Mississippi 7.
Nebraska at Missouri- This is
my blowout special of the week.
The Cornhuskers are having a typi
cal season (4-1) and Missouri has
won just one game.
Nebraska likes to run it up on
hapless schools since they seem
unable to beat good teams. So don’t
expect them to call off the starters
until the score is well into the 40s.
That should be in the second
quarter. Final score? Let's say Ne
braska 52-Missouri 10.
South Carolina at Vanderbilt-
We had an upset of the week, now
we will have our first stinker of the
week. And these two teams have
done a noble job of stinking it up.
Sure, Vandy gave Georgia a
scare last week, but this is the same
team that lost to Wake Forest 40-7.
South Carolina, on the other
hand, has made a bid for permanent
residence in the SEC cellar. Well,
this is their chance to boot out the
current tenant.
Let's call in Vandy 22-South
Carolina 12.
Brigham Young at Notre Dame-
We have had a blowout of the
week, a stinker of the week, so why
not a love to hate them game of the
week.
And what better two teams than
these? Back before the season, one
national sports weekly picked BYU
as the most hated team in America.
Well, 1 always thought it was
Notre Dame. I don't think it would
be sporting to wish for lots of in
juries, and I can hardly pull for ei
ther of these teams.
I don't think the Cougars can
match the Irish in talent, but this
Notre Dame team has become a
bunch of classic under-achievers.
Pleass see COSBY, page 3B
Westfield rallies from 20-0 hole
only to fall short in last minute
By COSBY WOODRUFF
Sports Editor
For more than three quarters, the
George Walton Bulldogs controlled
the clock, the ball and the
scoreboard cn route to a 20-13 win
over the Westfield Hornets in a key
GISA 2-AAA contest in Monroe
Friday.
From the opening toss until
deep in the second half, the Hornets
could neither keep the ball long
enough to do anything with it, nor
pry it from from the grasp of the
Bulldogs.
Despite a late attempt to rally by
the Hornets, George Walton still
enjoyed a 61-35 advantage in total
plays.
The large mis-match in time of
possession was due largely to
turnovers (Westfield had live) and
the inability to stop the pounding
by Bulldog fullback Jason Miller
(33 carries for 111 yards).
Ironically though, the Bulldogs
threw only 11 passes as compared
to 50 runs, but all three of their
scores came on fairly long passes.
Westfield, on the other hand,
struggled on offense for three
quarters before making an attempt
at a comeback in the final
moments. Actually, the Hornets
hopes to tic, or even take the lead,
Fitzgerald blanks Panthers
By TREY MOODY
Special to the HHJ
The Perry Panthers had one of
those nights in Fitzgerald Friday,
losing to the Purple Hurricanes by
a score of 26-0.
The Panthers never got on track
on offense and were only mildly
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Perry s Teruya Williams turns the corner for the Panthers aqainst Fitzgerald in
Perry's 26-0 loss.
Perry eighth-graders
nearing county title
From Staff Reports
The Perry Middle School eighth
grade Panthers moved closer to the
Houston County Championship
this week as they routed Warner
Robins 36-8.
Every member of the Panthers
saw significant playing time as
Perry improved to 4-1 on the sea
son. Perry will take on Northside
Wednesday at International City
Stadium, and a win by the Panthers
would secure the county title.
In their romp over Warner
Robins, Perry got three touchdowns
from quarterback Ben Hulbert. He
had scoring runs of 21 and 4 yards
and passed to O'Shauna Whitehurst
for 35 yards and a touchdown.
Running back Darren Barrett
scored on runs of 33 and 47 yards
and finished the day with a game
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fell short by just 43 seconds and 18
yards.
Thats how far the Hornets were
from the end zone and the final
buzzer when Danny Perfect fumble
the ball while trying to scramble.
Perfect's fumble was the last of
Westfield's five turnovers, but even
in that situation, it was hardly as
costly as some of. the earlier
miscucs.
On Westfield's first possession
of the game, they drove to the
George Walton 1-yard line.
However, a pass into the end zone
was tipped and picked off by the
Bulldogs' Richard Boyanton to end
the threat.
As the first quarter wound to a
close, the Hornet defense held and
forced a punt, but Westfield's Lon
Talton bobbled the kick. George
Walton recovered at the Hornet 33,
and eight plays later they had
broken the scoreless tic.
Brent McGuffey passed to
Shawn Richmond for the final 23
yards after back-to-back penalties
against the Bulldogs. The kick
failed, but the hosts still led 6-0
with 8:01 to go in the half.
Three plays later, Perfect was
picked off again, this time at the
successful in stopping Fitzgerald in
lront of a capacity crowd.
Undoubtcdrf though, the most
discouraging and scary occurrence of
the night was the apparent neck
injury to Perry’s Arthur Billings
who was taken off of the field on a
high 96 yards on the ground.
Barrett ran for one extra point
and Dejuan Lewis hauled in two
conversion passes from Hulbcrt.
Lewis also led the team with 11
total tackles, and Osiris Ezell
recorded six stops. A total of 21
players were involved with one or
more tackles.
Also on defense, Hulbert and
Derrick Oliver had interceptions.
In earlier action, Perry's eighth
grade team took a 36-12 win over
Rumble.
Against Rumble, Barrett ac
counted for 226 all-purpose yards
and scored two touchdowns. Hulbcrt
rushed for 53 yards and scored one
touchdown and a pair of extra
points. Casey Washington had 37
yards and a touchdown c.. die
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Westfield quarterback Danny Perfect raises up to throw one of his many passes in
the Hornets 20-13 loss to George Walton.
Hornet 28-yard line.
From there, it took the Bulldogs
just one play to get another score.
stretcher in the second quarter after
play was suspended for thirty
minutes.
The first quarter was played to a 0-
0 tie mostly due to a strong effort
by the Panther defense which
stopped Fitzgerald on fourth and
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Westfield B-Hornet Brian Staines turns up the field In
the B-Hornets 27-0 loss to Southland.
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This lime McGuffy connected with
Miller for the score, and with 5:46
to go in the half the Bulldogs held a
one at the Perry 6-yard-linc late in
the quarter.
However, Perry was trapped deep
in their own territory after they
took over on downs, and they could
not move the ball out of their end
of the field.
Forced to punt, Perry was called
for a personal foul on the Fitzgerald
return and the Purple Hurricanes got
the ball on Perry's 12-yard-linc.
Two plays later, Fitzgerald's
quarterback Chad Swanson scored
on a keeper for the games first
touchdown with 10:40 left in the
first half. Stan Bryant’s extra-point
made the score 7-0 Fitzgerald.
After a four and out possession by
Perry, Fitzgerald got the ball back
and they were able to punch it in
again on a 10 yard scamper by
Swanson making the score 13-0
after the extra-point attempt failed.
Neither team moved the ball for
the rest of the half and the score
remained 13-0 Fitzgerald at the
intermission.
Perry's defense came out of the
locker room rested and was
successful in keeping Fitzgerald out
of the end-zone for the entire third
quarter.
However, fatigue set in and
Fitzgerald scored their third
touchdown with 11:55 to play in
the game on a three-yard dive by
Tim Thomas making the score 19-0
after another unsucccessful PAT.
Fitzgerald's final touchdown came
after Regie Turner intercepted
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12-0 lead.
The dozen-point lead lor the
Please see HORNETS, page 3B
Perry's Shawn Bass for the third
time and returned the ball to the
Panther 33-yard-line.
Stacey Ransey ran it in from six
yards out and the extra-point made
the final score 26-0 Fitzgerald.
Over Perry's last two region
games, both on the road, they have
been outscorcd 47-10. They will
continue to play on the road as they
travel to Eastman to play the Dodge
County Indians next week.
Perry’s loss to the 'Canes put
their playoff hopes in danger. The
loss dropped Perry to 1-2 in GHSA
Region 2-AAA, with region leader
Appling County and powerful
Jones County remaining on the
schedule.
The loss was the sixth straight
region road defeat lor the Panthers
dating back to a 7-6 win over
Lamar County early in the 1991
campaign.
Also, Fitzgerald kept alive its
hopes to capture second place in the
region, which would mean a home
playoff game.
The Panthers, now 2-5, have
also matched their loss total from
last season, and face die prospect of
their first losing season since 1987
when dicy were 3-7.
Perry's remaining games arc at
Dodge County, against Appling
County at home and against Jones
County at home.
Fitzgerald 0 13 0 13--26
Perry 0 0 0 0— 0
Westfield
B-Hornets
fall 27-0
By COSBY WOODRUFF
Sports Editor
A week after a 30-0 rout of the
Monroe B-Mustangs, the Westfield
B-Horncus found themselves on the
other end of a one-sided score.
The Southland B-Raidcrs handed
the B-Hornets a 27-0 defeat in
which the B-Hornets never really
stopped the B-Raidcrs or got
anything going on offense.
Westfield finished with a net
loss of 16 yards rushing on 14
running plays, and they had just 19
yards passing for a total of three
yards in offense.
Southland just piled up huge
amounts of offense, mostly by
running right at the B-Hornets. On
both sides of the ball, Southland
had a weight advantage at nearly
every position, and Westfield never
Please see B-HORNETS, page 3B