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Here are the Week Five games you can find stories and photos from this weekend on ajc.com…
Carver (Atl.) vs. Marist | Photos
Kell vs. Hiram | Photos
King’s Ridge vs. Pace Academy | Photos
South Gwinnett vs. Parkview | Photos
UPDATE: Douglass-Tucker game rescheduled for Saturday. All tickets will be free. CLICK FOR DETAILS.
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Starr’s Mill vs. Whitewater
Buford vs. Lovett (WSB-TV’s high school game of the week)
In the metro Atlanta roundup, get the scoop on these games…
Washington (Atl.) – Riverwood
Jonesboro – Creekside
Tri-Cities – Mundy’s Mill
Banneker – Lovejoy
Westlake – Stephenson
Etowah – Walton
Marietta – Wheeler
Northview – Alpharetta
West Forsyth – Centennial
GAC – Blessed Trinity
Southwest DeKalb – Chamblee
St. Pius – North Atlanta
Duluth – Collins Hill
Central Gwinnett – Brookwood
North Gwinnett – Meadowcreek
Peachtree Ridge – Mountain View
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334 comments Add your comment
G-Dub
September 24th, 2010
9:54 pm
GWA IS BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dakotah31
September 24th, 2010
9:56 pm
final score 55-10 camden but next week we face st.thomas
valdosta fan
September 24th, 2010
9:56 pm
valdosta 12 robert e. lee 0 10;18 sec left in the 4th
John In Jacksonville
September 24th, 2010
9:56 pm
WT, true, although this is not the season I would have picked to take on Camden, not after the way you beat the #2 team in the country a few weeks back. However, it sounds as though you get a lot of people back next year, so next year would not be a good year to have to play you either. In fact, this is probably just a bad decade to collide with Camden!
Lowndes and Camden each draw from a military installation set in otherwise typical South Georgia communities, so each school gets a mix of local and military kids who add a great deal of diversity to the student body. My experience at Lowndes was that the best (and worst! -ha) kids were the ones from Moody Air Force Base. With all those Navy students stirring the pot, no wonder Camden is such a dynamic high school.
Intuitive
September 24th, 2010
10:00 pm
Apalachee 28 – Heritage (Conyers) 14 — Apalachee coach Shane Davis is one of the best-kept secrets in Georgia High School Football … and I hope it stays that way.
99packer
September 24th, 2010
10:03 pm
Packers made a defensive stand on 3rd & 1 and 4th &1. Get the ball back leading 31-25 over Carver (AL) with 6:15 to go in the game.
Reeze
September 24th, 2010
10:04 pm
Final Northside 35 -Bainbridge 14
Reeze
September 24th, 2010
10:06 pm
Bainbridge is pretty good
99packer
September 24th, 2010
10:08 pm
34-25 Colquitt Co. leads with less than 4 minutes to go
valdosta fan
September 24th, 2010
10:14 pm
valdosta inc score 19 robert e. lee 0
99packer
September 24th, 2010
10:26 pm
34-31 Final Colquitt County over Carver (AL)
raider11soccer
September 24th, 2010
10:27 pm
East Paulding 47 North Paulding 10 The Final!!!!!!!!!!
Go RAIDERS!!!!!!!!!
valdosta fan
September 24th, 2010
10:28 pm
final valdosta 10 robert e. lee 0
valdosta fan
September 24th, 2010
10:28 pm
sorry valdosta 19 robert e. lee 0
Goldenglove002
September 24th, 2010
10:31 pm
Kell won again, 30-7 over #6 ranked Hiram. I know there are certain factors that you guys put in for ranking teams, and I honestly wouldn’t be able to do it myself. But considering strength of schedule, shouldn’t Kell be considered the top team in AAAA? Their opponents have only lost 1 game outside of their losses to Kell, and all of those teams have flirted with top ten spots if they weren’t in it. I know none of the teams ahead of Kell have lost either, and I’m not trying to take away from those teams (nothing matters till playoffs anyways), but they seem to be playing alot of weaker opponents.
Pop
September 24th, 2010
10:33 pm
What happened to that “unstoppable” offense of Lowndes??
2A Fan
September 24th, 2010
10:38 pm
Way to go Indians great game !!!! Keep up the good work Charlton.
Wondering
September 24th, 2010
10:40 pm
Where is ham county and why is everyone always cursing them?
John In Jacksonville
September 24th, 2010
10:43 pm
Thanks valdosta fan.. Valdosta’s improving every week, they could wind up unbeaten in the regular season this year, will certainly hit the playoffs running…
Pop, no such thing as an unstoppable offense, especially one made up of 17 year olds. Lowndes had a raft of holding calls tonight that killed opportunities and promising drives, and the O-Line could not consistently stop the Ware D-Line, so the Gators got a lot of penetration. Also, Ware was probably the fastest D Lowndes faced so far, so Lowndes could not get around them on the outside.
They’ll have to do better when they hit the region games.
Reeze
September 24th, 2010
10:58 pm
I was wrong , AAAA is turning out to be the best class this season , good , solid competetive football North and South of the gnat line.October ball is the best football of all , starting to heat up……
MIKEMIKE
September 24th, 2010
10:59 pm
WHO NEXT WANT TO PLAY CAIRO SYRUPMAKERS.
WarEagle
September 24th, 2010
11:10 pm
Marist beats Carver 39-13. It was 32-6 at the half, and then the Marist team shut down. Marist dominated the first half, with Carver having only one real drive and Marist offense moving the ball at will. In the second half, Marist had several turnovers, including one fumble returned for a td by Carver. I was really surprised this game was not closer, given how well Carver had played against some other good teams.
wolverine fan
September 24th, 2010
11:11 pm
I agree with Goldenglove Kell should be # 1
wolverine fan
September 24th, 2010
11:11 pm
Woodstock 31 Cherokee 10
bandwagon
September 24th, 2010
11:13 pm
Just got in from Ware County. Ware defense played about as well as you could. Total offense for Lowdnes 123 yds, and 120 yds for Ware. That is total pass and run. I was not impressed with Lowndes, the speed and ability to get on the edge does not seem to be there on offense. Defense for Vikes is the strength. Ware has a good defense, but they have no offense. The QB for Ware has issues. If they could generate just a little offense, with that defense, they will give a lot of teams problems. The Vikes have a lot of work to do, their offense is not where it needs to be going into region play. Up until that run at halftime, Ware kept Lowndes their side of the 50. Lowndes had terrible field position most of the 1st half. Returned the favor to Ware in the 2nd half. There was no excitement to this game at all.
SouthGARules
September 24th, 2010
11:19 pm
Reeze: How much, if any, was Northside & HoCo affected by Veterans opening. I know Warner Robins lost 35 players, the OC & DC. They now know how Gwinnett County schools (Collins Hill, Duluth, Dacula, Central Gwinnett, South Gwinnett, etc) feel when they lose students/players to a new school opening. I know other metro schools have the same issue, but I am not as familiar with the other metro schools as I am with Gwinnett.
raider brigade dad
September 24th, 2010
11:22 pm
Good job Raiders, that a way to bounce back .
Camden74
September 24th, 2010
11:25 pm
Geez, how many penalties did Camden have called on them tonight? They were throwing flags when the team wasn’t even on the field!
AJC Sports
September 24th, 2010
11:31 pm
FREE FOOTBALL: Because the Douglass-Tucker game has been moved to Saturday, all tickets will be no charge. You could check out some Astros-Tigers action for the low, low price of zippo. DETAILS HERE: http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-high-school-sports/2010/09/24/tuckers-football-game-cancelled-because-of-power-outage-free-tickets/
Papa Longhorn 4
September 24th, 2010
11:36 pm
Very proud of the Longhorns! Kell wins their 5th in a row against some of the top teams in AAAAA and AAAA. I agree with others, if there is another team in AAAA that has played a more difficult schedule and deserves to be #1 more than Kell, I don’t know who it is…
Suwanee 0wnz
September 24th, 2010
11:36 pm
Glad to see that Lowndes has stopped putting pedal to the metal to run up the score on weaker opponents in lower divisions. Oh wait. It was a road game! That probably was pedal to the metal for Lowndes on the road. At least the coaching staff showed why you should almost never take points off the board. I can’t wait to hear the excuses for this one.
Kell and Flowery Branch continue to roll. Those look like 2 very tough teams to me. And Roswell is making a comeback despite a slow start against tough opponents.
The pounding in 7AAAAA will start soon as the top teams jockey for division position.
Good luck against St. Thomas Aquinas, Camden.
kell rocks
September 24th, 2010
11:54 pm
So TICK TICK BOOM- what you got to say about Kell NOW????????
Honestly, we dominated Hiram- you guys gave us a better game- but we beat you, too. So, what now????
joe
September 24th, 2010
11:57 pm
I feel that AAAA top 10 teams could beat AAAAA top 10 teams if each ranking played each other.
wow
September 24th, 2010
11:58 pm
what is going on in AAAA football?
CJDawg
September 25th, 2010
12:04 am
Man, being a former Camden football player..I can only hope that Camden and North Gwinnet can keep up the pace of play and get a chance to face one another, but in this state neither is guaranteed a spot in anything. Nothing like a Friday Night under the lights to bring you back to where it really matters is there? God bless High school football in the south!!!
CJDawg
September 25th, 2010
12:06 am
We will need some luck Suwanne…have you seen how much speeeeeed the have??? Oh my good lawwd…..
G-Lion
September 25th, 2010
12:17 am
I have just seen the most incompetent crew of officials of any (and it’s been a bunch) high school football game – EVER. Grady Stadium was the site of the travesty.
And, before you think I’m whining – St. Pius won so I have no loss to blame someone for.
It’s difficult to imagine how a crew of paid (and I will NOT use “professional”) referees could be so bad. Consequently, I’m left to assume that they were actively conspiring to influence the outcome of the game. No, never mind. I don’t think they had the brains to pull that off.
Reeze
September 25th, 2010
12:29 am
Papa longhorn 4………..Kell has won a few good games and you want to crown them #1 ? …..We are talking region 5 Ball right , you know what happens to region 5 squads come playoff time AAAA and AAAAA ……Besides , Kell has a few teams in AAAA to the East and in the South , with real defenses……..Kell wants the crown , Kell will have to take it.
HS football fan
September 25th, 2010
12:32 am
AVikingFan: GHSA provides good training for its officials with clinics, video training and written exams. You are right as the offiials need to be in position to make a call but you may not be aware of what that position is and what keys they have to watch during that play. One of the biggest problems with high school football is that the fans, parents and even some coaches watch too much football on Saturdays & Sundays and those rules are totally different than Friday night rules. Yes there is a horse collar rule but the rule states that certain criteria must be in palce before it can or can’t be called. It is a NFHS rule that pants must cover the knees to protect injuries just as all 4 buckles on the chin strap must be buckled.The one blog did not make sense as a penalty for illegal block in the back was nothing more than a hard tackle?? Explain that as they are two different things. High school officials try do an excellent job of officiating a game but yes there is an occasion where a call may be missed. If the official does not see the entire foul then he is trained not to call it at all. A fan sits in the stand and watches 22 players running around while the officials key on one to three players at a time. A game is not lost on an officials call but lost some where during the 48 minutes of play. If a coach teaches his players the correct fundamentals of the game, the players play the game based on the correct fundamentals then why is there a need for officials? I am sure that GHSA is always looking for more officials to replace some of the older ones that are retiring. By the way, game films are reviewed for bad calls by GHSA. How is the game supposed to be played…”come on ref you have to call that”,”hey ref you blew that call”, “come on ref let the boys play” or “it was not a block in the back but just a hard tackle”? As someone posted…losers whine and winners go home with prom queens. I like the comment that although he thought it was bad calls by the officials it was still the team that lost the game because of non-tackling.
Danielle
September 25th, 2010
12:33 am
Good job Kell for beating Hiram. AND GO EP!!! 47-10 over NP.
fan
September 25th, 2010
12:38 am
washington must find a coach .
swdstillalive
September 25th, 2010
12:39 am
SWD- 53 Chamblee- 0
leechampion
September 25th, 2010
12:51 am
Sgt Chris, did the opening of Callaway take any of Pardue’s potential players?
Seems logical but asking cause don’t know. I LEFT the game last night at 21 to zip cause it looked like Lagrange would blow Shaw out. then listened on radio to total meltdown and was shocked. Amazing what a few TDs and just a little bit of confidence will do to a group of kids, might turn em into a team. Course ole Dell got all Shaw’s would be stars on the magic bus to Carver a la the Charles Flowers system of cruitin. Carver is really the “Muscogee County All Stars”. I do love to watch em anyway
wow
September 25th, 2010
12:52 am
g-lion: you’ll be interested in this one, too. i watched the marist/carver game on ghsa tv. i saw the refs throw a warning flag on the carver coaching staff. the marist staff was out of the coaching box, arguing with officials, and on the field the entire time. there was one dark haired coach, very short man, who was constantly on the field and out of the box during game play. guess what? no call on marist at all. their coaches have consistently shown some of the worst sportsmanship of any i have seen. we usually don’t see marist until the playoffs, but i have seen enough game film and televised games to gauge that in my 40+ years of football. i’m not saying that’s why marist won, but the refs should really watch that sideline on them and call it both ways. by the way, i’m not a carver fan so no anger.
Trojan94
September 25th, 2010
1:10 am
Newnan is now 1-3 and a nonfactor in AAAAA it was a nice little run they had. But like i said at the start of the season. They are soft and weak and can not play smashmouth football and they will never win state
Papa Longhorn 4
September 25th, 2010
1:10 am
Reeze…you cannot say any one has played a more difficult schedule in AAAA or AAAAA (BTW…Grayson is still one of the best teams North, South, East or West)and as far as playoff time for our regions, I believe Roswell played for a state championship just a couple of years ago and East Paulding was in the Semi-Finals. You are right though, who ever wins it all this year will have to take it…
John In Jacksonville
September 25th, 2010
1:16 am
Suwannee Ownz, why so spiteful? Lowndes doesn’t deserve your venom, they just play good football within the rules, have an excellent feeder system, and when they get ahead, they flood the field with clean jerseys, which is part of how they get continuity of success from one year to the next. But if the other team collapses in the first or second quarter, you can’t expect any team to rest its starters just one quarter into the game, they can’t improve if they don’t play. Anyway, I recommend more even-handedness (lots of teams score points in buckets including some you praised)… Also, relaxing might help, maybe through yoga, or aromatherapy…
Fan
September 25th, 2010
1:22 am
Marist got a sideline warning which is what they got for being past the designated player and coach box. After the warning ,the Marist cOaches were in this box when the ball was snapped. Get your facts straight before you slam an officiating crew. Marist has also been thought ofas one of the teams with the best sportsmanship in the region and state.
Reeze
September 25th, 2010
1:24 am
SouthGArules…………Warner Robins decline has a little to do with the opening of veterans ,but I think it has more to do with the present coach there…….I never really bought into the Gwinette excuse of the watering down of talent because of school openings…….CollinsHill 3400 plus students , Central Gwinette 2700 plus , Dacula 2300 plus , S Gwinette 2600 plus Duluth 2000….. If you combine the Northside and Warner Robins high schools , combined maybe 200 students more than Collins Hill’s 3400……I think you once said you were from the Warner Robins area .Imagine the talent if you were to combine these two schools……Hoco was hit much harder than Warner Robins , inspite of the drop in student population , I think they have a better team than last years squad.
Reeze
September 25th, 2010
1:41 am
Papa Longhorn 4……….Kell has played some decent squads , I really don’t know what Grayson has this year and anyway an early season win or loss don’t hold much water with me…….The other wins Kell has had were against good squads…….Kell defeats Camden yes #1 , Kell defeats Pridge, yes #1, Tucker or NSWR yes #1…………Woodstock , EP , and Etowah not even under consideration.