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GHSA Region 1-AAAA Playoff Scenarios
Believe it or not, despite getting just their first win of the season last weekend, the Warner Robins Demons still have an outside shot at getting into the Georgia High School Association Class AAAA state playoffs out of Region 1-AAAA. Click here to find out how the Demons could go starting the 2010 season at 0-7 to punching a ticket to the postseason.
Weekly News & Notes
Here’s an abbreviated edition of the “WN&N”, a post just long enough to briefly focus on the big games in southwest Georgia, and just a little bit beyond, on this next-to-last weekend of October. So, without further ado, here they are. All games are played on Friday night unless otherwise indicated.
Thomas County Central (5-2, 3-1 Georgia High School Association Region 1-AAAA) at Lee County (6-1, 3-1): This week’s battle between the Yellow Jackets and Trojans at Trojan Field in Leesburg is basically a battle for second place in GHSA Region 1-AAAA. The winner will likely have the inside track on the No. 2 seed from this region once the final buzzer goes off.
Crisp County (3-4, 2-1 GHSA Region 1-AAA) at Monroe (3-4, 0-3): The Cougars travel to Albany–and Hugh Mills Stadium–to take on the Tornadoes in a game with playoff implications in GHSA Region 1-AAA. Crisp hopes to move one step closer to postseason play with the win, while Monroe must win to stay in playoff contention.
Miller County (5-2, 3-1 Georgia High School Association Region 1-A) at Randolph-Clay (5-2, 2-2): The Pirates, who crushed Calhoun County, 36-6 last week, hope to solidify their playoff hopes with a win, while the Red Devils hope to snap a three-game skid after starting the season at 3-0.
Weekly News & Notes
Another big game on tap for Northside (Warner Robins): They passed their first test with flying colors last week. Now, the top-ranked team in Georgia High School Association Class AAAA, the Eagles from Northside (Warner Robins) face yet another big test, this time playing host to the Thomas County Central Yellow Jackets.
Read below for the following reports to mull over before another big game in GHSA Region 1-AAAA.
Macon.com
Albany Herald
Northside (Warner Robins) 42, Lee County 7
Thomasville Times-Enterprise
TCC offensive line faces big test
The other big game
Fitzgerald (5-2, 2-1) at Thomasville (6-1, 3-0): The Bulldogs look to stay unbeaten in Georgia High School Association Region 1-AA, while the Purple Hurricanes must win to keep themselves in the region title hunt. Read a preview of this critical clash here.
Also keep an eye on:
Americus-Sumter (4-3, 3-0 GHSA Region 1-AAA) at Dougherty (2-5, 0-3): The Panthers hope to stay undefeated in GHSA Region 1-AAA action, while the Trojans face a must-win situation to stay in playoff contention.
Cairo (6-0, 2-0) at Worth County (4-3, 2-1): The Rams hope to pull off the upset at home against the undefeated Syrupmakers in GHSA Region 1-AAA play.
Westover (2-4, 1-1) at Crisp County (2-4, 1-1): The Patriots hit the road to clash the Cougars in another key GHSA 1-AAA contest. They’re 0-4 against teams from outside Albany/Dougherty County.
Randolph-Clay (5-1, 2-1 GHSA Region 1-A) at Mitchell County (5-1, 3-0)–(Saturday): The Eagles will look to go to 4-0 in region play, while the Red Devils hope to bounce back after an upset loss to Terrell County last week.
Weekly News & Notes
It’s been almost five years since the Lee County Trojans have played with any significance on the football field. But that’s the situation they’ll find themselves Friday night in Leesburg, as they play host to the top-ranked team in all of Georgia High School Association Class AAAA: the Eagles from Northside (Warner Robins).
A look at the headlines from the following media outlets listed below should say all that needs to be said about this contest:
Georgia High Schol Football Daily
In other words, the Northside (Warner Robins)/Lee County match-up has the potential to be one of the best games in the state not only this weekend, but perhaps all season. If they can play a near-perfect game, and limit the turnovers, the Trojans might have a chance to pull off one of the biggest upsets of the 2010 season so far.
Other big games: The Northside (Warner Robins)/Lee County contest might be one of the top games statewide, but there are some other games throughout southwest Georgia that could have some playoff implications too. Here’s a brief look at those games.
Mitchell County (4-1, 2-0 Georgia High School Association Region 1-A) at Miller County (4-1, 2-0): Both teams enter this contest in a three-way with Randolph-Clay (5-0, 2-0) for first place in the region. The winner will keep at least a share of first place when the clock hits all zeroes at the end of the game, which should be very close from wire-to-wire.
Worth County (3-3, 1-1 Georgia High School Association Region 1-AAA) at Monroe (3-3, 0-2): Having lost three straight games after starting 3-0, including region losses to Cairo and Americus-Sumter, Friday’s game against the visiting Rams serves as a must-win game for the Tornadoes. A loss not only drop Monroe to 0-3 in GHSA Region 1-AAA, it also would force the Tornadoes to “win out” in their final three games of the season just to make the playoffs. As for the Rams, they hope to win their second straight game after suffering three losses since a 2-0 start.
Crisp County (2-3, 1-0) at Americus-Sumter (3-3, 2-0): Here’s a game straight out of the “who would’ve thunk it” category. Both teams come into this contest having won games at Albany’s Hugh Mills Stadium last week, with the Cougars edging Dougherty, 28-26, last Friday, while the Panthers outlasted the Tornadoes, 14-6, the following night. Additionally, the Cougars had lost three straight games prior to last week’s win, while the Panthers enter this week’s contest with back-to-back wins. It’s too bad only one team will win this contest, and stay unbeaten in region play after this week.
Lee County rallies to down Houston County, 45-42
The Lee County Trojans are still undefeated after five games. But they had to come-from-behind to maintain that unbeaten mark, as they downed the Houston County Bears, 45-42, in Warner Robins Saturday night. Click one of the links below for three different recaps of the dramatic finish.
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Weekly News & Notes
Key games in GHSA Region 1-AAA: If the schedule for this weekend provides any indication, no one who has followed high school football in southwest Georgia for so long needs to be reminded how important the three games in Georgia High School Association Region 1-AAA are.
On Friday night (10/01/2010), the Westover Patriots travel to Sylvester to face the Worth County Rams in a key GHSA Region 1-AAA showdown. Westover (2-3, 1-0) is coming off a 13-0 shutout win over city of Albany archrival Dougherty last week. As for Worth County (2-3, 0-1), the Rams hope to snap a three-game skid after opening region play with a 20-12 loss at Americus-Sumter.
At Hugh Mills Stadium in Albany Friday night, another key GHSA Region 1-AAA contest will take place, as the Dougherty Trojans (2-3, 0-1) do battle with the Crisp County Cougars (1-3, 0-1). While the Trojans hope to bounce back after being shutout by Westover last week, the Cougars enjoyed a bye week. Crisp enters this crucial contest having lost three straight games since winning its season opener against Turner County earlier this season.
The Saturday night contest at Hugh Mills Stadium takes on an added sense of urgency as well. The Monroe Tornadoes will play host to the Americus-Sumter Panthers having lost back-to-back games since starting the 2010 season at 3-0. Monroe (3-2, 0-1) lost to Brooks County, 27-19, on September 17, followed by a 49-0 rout at Cairo last week. On the other hand, Americus-Sumter (2-3, 1-0) snapped a three-game skid with the Panthers win over Worth County to open GHSA Region 1-AAA action.
The big games: One of the biggest games being played in the state of Georgia this week just might be taking place in Adel. That’s where the Cook Hornets will play host to the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricanes. It’s the GHSA Region 1-AA opener for Cook (4-0), while it’s the second region contest for Fitzgerald (4-1, 1-0). The Purple Hurricanes rolled past Albany High, 40-6, to open GHSA Region 1-AA action last week.
Another big game that few know about will be played at McConnell-Talbert Stadium in Warner Robins Saturday night. The Lee County Trojans hope to stay unbeaten after this weekend, as they face the Houston County Bears. Lee County (4-0, 1-0 GHSA Region 1-AAAA) opened region play on a winning note, defeating Northside (Columbus) at home, 31-14 last week. Meanwhile, Houston County (4-0, 1-0) has had a way of winning the close games, as the Bears have won three of their four games by four points or less.
Weekly News & Notes–Region Openers
Here’s a “slighty abbreviated” edition of “WN&N” for this week, and what better way to do it than talk about region play starting up for many teams in the HSFR coverage area.
Northside (Columbus)–(3-0) at Lee County (3-0): As one of the better games expected to be played around the state this week, the unbeaten Trojans from Leesburg play host to a team that also probably didn’t expect to be undefeated after three games. While the Trojans have dominated their opponents so far in 2010, outscoring them 162-38, the Patriots from the Fountain City have developed a knack for winning close, low-scoring games, winning all three contests by seven points or less. That includes a pair of 10-7 games won earlier this season. One thing is for sure, though, something has to give in this Georgia High School Association Region 1-AAAA opener.
Northside (Warner Robins)–(3-0) at Bainbridge (2-1): As the more recognizable “Northside” in GHSA Region 1-AAAA, the Eagles from Warner Robins will put their unbeaten record, as well as No. 1 ranking in nearly every consensus poll conducted statewide, against the Bearcats, whose only loss so far has come against Cairo.
Westover (1-3) vs. Dougherty (2-2)–(at Hugh Mills Stadium, Albany): While the won-lost numbers may not be that great, the contest between the Patriots and the Trojans is for more than just neighborhood bragging rights, as this is the GHSA Region 1-AAA opener for both teams. The Patriots will look to improve to 2-0 against Albany/Dougherty County public school opponents (their lone win was a 21-7 win over Albany High on September 3), while the Trojans will look to get to .500 after an 0-2 start. Also, Westover will look to win their first game over Dougherty since 2007, which was the last time the Patriots made the state playoffs.
Monroe (3-1) at Cairo (4-0): The Syrupmakers will to stay unbeaten to open GHSA Region 1-AAA play, while the Tornadoes hope to bounce back after suffering their loss at Brooks County, 27-19, on the road last Friday (09/17/2010).
News and Notes
Note: Apologies in advance for not posting a “News and Notes” section last week. Circumstances beyond our control led to no posts. Now, on to this week’s installment of “News and Notes”.
Rating the Regions: How are teams in the some regions within the HSFR coverage area so far this season? Let us count the numbers.
Let’s start in Georgia High School Association Region 1-AAAA. That’s where six of the eight current members have at least two games so far in 2010. Of those squads, one team is at least 3-0, and believe it or not, it’s not Northside (Warner Robins), or Thomas County Central for that matter. The aforementioned team in this column is none other than Lee County, whose Trojans are off to their best start since the Region 1-AAAA title in 2005.
Football turned baseball standout D’Vontrey Richardson was the starting quarterback on that championship team back then. At the time of this post, Richardson was an outfielder for the Brewers Class A-affiliated Wisconsin Timber Rattlers to end the 2010 minor league season. He was batting .282 as of September 5.
The only other 1-AAAA team with at least two wins is Bainbridge (2-1) . The Bearcats lone loss so far has come against Cairo (3-0). More on the Syrupmakers in a moment.
As for the other regions, some of the teams within them have fared better than others. Case in point is GHSA Region 1-AAA. That’s where two of its current seven teams are still undefeated after playing three games. Cairo, whose Syrupmakers travel to Thomas County Central this Friday (September 18, 2010) is one of those teams. The other squad is Monroe, whose Tornadoes have started a season with at least a 3-0 record for the fifth straight season. The last time the Tornadoes have failed to start a season at least 3-o was in 2005. That was when they started 1-2 en route to 4-7 season that ended with a loss to Northside (Columbus) in the first round of the state playoffs.
GHSA Region 1-AA has two teams with at least three wins in Cook (3-0) and Thomasville (3-1). Cook has already posted two wins over teams from higher classifications: a 15-9 upset win over Class AAAAA Colquitt County on August 20, as well as a come-from-behind 28-14 triumph over Worth County just last week (September 10). Ironically, the Rams handed current Region 1-AA foe Fitzgerald its lone loss so far in 2010, a 32-26 double overtime triumph on August 27.
Finally, the only “GHSA Region 1″ within the HSFR coverage area that doesn’t appear to have a clear cut favorite to finish on top at this point is Region 1-A. Believe it or not, Randolph-Clay is the lone team in 1-A that still unbeaten through at least three full weeks, while every team has at least one loss. Should be an interesting race.
Top games: If you’re looking to go to one of the top games in southwest Georgia this week, look no further than the “Jackets Nest” near Thomasville. That’s where the Thomas County Central Yellow Jackets will put their 2-0 record on the line against the Cairo Syrupmakers. Other games to keep out an eye on this week include Worth County (2-1) at Tift County (2-2), Crisp County (1-2) at Cook (3-0), and Monroe (3-0) at Brooks County (1-2).
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