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November 28, 2012
PAGE 3B
i-Reporter
PIGSKIN PICKS
THE WINNER
Eric Bunn was the
Top Celebrity Picker
in this year’s contest.
See you next year!
Amanda Koscher won this week’s Pigskin Picks and
the $20 prize and T-shirt by going 10-0 this week in
the final week of the contest.
Among celebrity pickers, Eric Bunn won by one
game over “Dangerous” Daron Fears. Bunn went 101-
29 on the season with his picks while Fears was 100-
30.
Congratulations Amanda and Eric.
It’s been a great year of football and even though the
regular season schedule is over, there’s hopefully still
a lot of football to be played.
Thanks to our readers and advertisers for another
successful year of Pigskin Picks. See you in August
2013.
‘CELEBRITY’ PICKERS
Will Davis,
Monroe County
Reporter,
Publisher
Will Davis
(95-35)
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Richard Dumas
Monroe County
Reporter, Sports
Editor
Richard Dumas
(90-40)
Kay Floyd
Monroe County
Hospital, CEO
Kay Floyd
(97-33)
Eric Bunn, the
Bunn Agency in
Forsyth, agent
Eric Bunn
(101-29)
Dr. Clell M. Morris,
Forsyth Dental
Center
Clell Morris
(96-34)
James Freeman,
Freeman Funeral
Home, director
James Freeman
(94-36)
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Dr. Brandon
Pinson, Animal
Veterinary Clinic,
Owner
Brandon Pinson
(91-39)
‘Dangerous’
Daron Fears,
sports director,
WQMJ Radio
(MajidOO)
Daron Fears
(100-30)
Eagles win title
The Eagles won the championship in the 7-8 year old league in the Monroe County Rec De
partment on Nov. 3 at Dan Pitts Stadium. Team members are Brice Outlaw, Holton Bell,
Brayden Lauber, Braydon Pines, Tristian Johnson, Caidyn Storey, Connor Wooley, Jason
Cox, Derek Jarrell, Colton Storey, Key Lyons, Preston Young, Brandon Dumas and Jay
Price. Coaches are Donald Outlaw, Fred Shannon, John Storey and Rich Lauber.
MP’s Rowland
represents team
in All-State game
Mary Persons senior softball star
Katie Rowland (right) wrapped up
her career in a Lady Dog uniform
by competing in the Georgia
Dugout Club Fast-Pitch All-State
Game on Nov. 16-17 at Mercer
University. MP head coach Ron
nie Shipman (left) served as a
coach for the all-state competi
tion.
CORRECTION
As reported on Page 1B in the Nov. 21
edition of the Reporter, MP cheerleader
Morgan Butler signed a softball scholar
ship with Valdosta State University. It was
written incorrectly in the story last week
that the VSU team name is the Lady Wild
cats. VSU’s softball team is actually the
Lady Blazers. The Reporter regrets the er
ror.
MPs Nix named top runner
Two Mary Persons cross country standouts received
prestigious recognition by a Georgia high school web
site.
MP’s Anna Leigh Nix was named the Girls Runner
of the Year for south Georgia counties for 2012 by
ga.milesplit.com.
The website recognized athletes from schools south
of metro-Atlanta and metro-Augusta on its ‘South of
the Border’ team. Nix was also named to the girls’
1st team, and MP’s Caleb Watson was named to the
boys’ 1st team.
Nix and Watson each won Region 2-AAAA individ
ual championships in 2012.
MPfans can take bus to game
Some Mary Persons fans have
arranged for a bus to transport
MP fans to Friday night's football
game at Ridgeland.
The cost of the bus is $32 per
person, and it is scheduled to
leave Forsyth at 4 p.m. fro the
three hour-plus ride to Rossville.
The bus has 56 seats available
and has DirecTV and Wifi
onboard. A smaller bus with less
amenities and no bathroom would
cost $27 per person.
If you would like to reserve a
seat please call: Scott Bogulski at
Onscene Services at (404) 502-
5373 or Michelle Bogulski at
BB&T Bank in Forsyth or e-mail
OnSceneES@gmail.com.
Credit cards, cash or checks are
accepted. If the bus does not fill or
all buses are booked by other
schools, all money will be refund
ed 100 percent.
Persons must respond by 5 p.m.
on Tuesday.
C-team softball
thankful for fans
BY COURTNEY COPELAND
Our greatly admired Monroe County Middle School Lady
Dogs have excelled in many ways this year. The girls have
played amazingly this year with no losses and have worked
their way to a victorious season through teamwork and confi
dence in each other.
Due to their amazing talents, our Lady Dogs have won all of
their play-offs! Amazingly, in the past two years, our Monroe
County Middle School Lady Dogs have lost only two games!
Now, that is awesome! Our girls could not have gotten that far
without loads of support from coaches, staff, family, and fans.
The C-team Softball players would like to thank their fellow
students, friends, parents, and fans for all of the support pro
vided to the team. Congratulation, C-team Lady Dogs for a
softball season well played. Go Dogs!
C-team basketball
season to begin soon
BY TIARA BROWN
The season has started for the Monroe County Middle School
basketball teams. Tryouts were Oct. 29-Nov. 1. The tryouts
determined who would be representing the basketball team
this school year. The girls’ team will be coached by 6th grade
teacher Mr.Ridley; the boys will be coached by physical educa
tion teacher Coach Morrow.
The basketball season will be “kicked off’ with the first
game being held in Byron. The team will have ten games this
season.
Congratulations to the girls and boys of Monroe County that
made the team! Good luck this basketball season. GO DOGS!!!
Preview
continued from the front
Until Friday's seven-point
win over LaGrange, every
Ridgeland victory had come
by at least 15 points.
The Panthers are known
for their high-powered
offense. They have scored
at least 35 points in every
game this season.
According to the game
recap in the Chattanooga
Times Free Press,
Ridgeland ran for 381 yards
against LaGrange, led by
running back Darrell
Bridges, who rushed for
254 yards and three touch
downs on 30 carries against
LaGrange. Senior wingback
Vonn Bell assisted the
Panthers' cause with 159
total yards and two touch
downs, according to the
same article.
Ridgeland's defense has
also played well in 2012,
yielding more than 21
points on just two occa
sions. Though Ridgeland
gave up 34 points in its sec
ond round game, defensive
back Dillon Peterman
stopped LaGrange's final
drive with an interception,
according to the
Chattanooga Times Free
Press. However, the star of
Ridgeland's defense is Bell,
who is the No. 3 rated safe
ty prospect in the nation,
according to Scout.com.
While the Bulldogs are no
stranger to the state quar
terfinals, it is the program's
first appearance in the
quarterfinal round since
1998 when the Bulldogs
advanced to the state semis
in then-head coach Steve
Chafin's first season.
The Bulldogs will have to
rely on its increasingly
stout defense to slow down
Ridgeland's running game.
MP has allowed only 13.8
points per game and have
not given up more than 16
in a game since yielding 21
to Rutland on Oct. 19.
The Bulldogs' offense had
also had been effective all
season long until Friday's
3-0 second-round win over
Cairo. The Syrup makers
held MP to just 217 total
yards, including just 30
yards in the air. Despite
losing only one fumble, the
Bulldogs put the ball on the
ground three times against
Cairo, and quarterback
Jordan Banks threw an
interception on MP's very
first offensive snap. MP
head coach Brian Nelson
said the Bulldogs will have
to be much more protective
of the ball to advance deep
er in the playoffs.
"You can't keep playing
and turn the ball over three
times and expect to win
games," Nelson said follow
ing Friday's win. "The sta
tistics or the probability of
that happening is not very
good. Maybe once in every
12 or 15 games you can get
away with three fumbles,
but not when you're playing
a LaGrange or Ridgeland or
whoever it's going to be."
If MP beats Ridgeland,
the Bulldogs would go back
on the road in the semifinal
round, traveling to either
Marist or Stockbridge.
While Marist is a perennial
state power, Stockbridge,
like Ridgeland, qualified for
the state quarters for the
first-time in its 39-year his
tory in 2012.