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Hillgrove vs. Brookwood
Peach Co. vs. Grady
Wilcox Co. vs. Wesleyan
Cook vs. Buford
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Statesboro vs. Kell
Dutchtown vs. Chattahoochee
East Paulding vs. Starr’s Mill
In the metro Atlanta roundup, get the scoop on these games…
Monroe Area vs. Sandy Creek
Mill Creek vs. Colquitt County
Grayson vs. Valdosta
Collins Hill vs. Lowndes
Ware County vs. Tucker
Cedar Grove vs. Burke County
Lovett vs. Brooks County
Eagle’s Landing Christian vs. Clinch County
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Fred
November 27th, 2010
6:26 am
OK, the energy drink that got me through the long ride hope just wore off and King Kong jumped on my back. Comments on the game, stadium and fans later today.
Too sleep….perchance to dream….of a Dome game?
trueGwinnettFan
November 27th, 2010
7:12 am
I think Gwinnett Showed they still have powerhouse teams. I went to Lowndes when they played Brookwood and destroyed them years ago. I think Friday November 26, 2010 showed that Gwinnett still has what it takes in 5A. Lets see if the coin toss brings both Semi final games to Gwinnett. Lowndes great game last night But Collins Hill has a TEAM….
Starrs Fan
November 27th, 2010
7:19 am
East is so over rated, Finally someone shut up those fans…
Kell Dad
November 27th, 2010
7:24 am
Ignorance is an amazing thing… I have read every post all season and not once did a Kell poster talk trash, smack or other. Yet some posters find it necessary to accuse us of that, posters such as tucker grad ‘01. If attention had been paid other people touted the Kell squad those of us from Kell always stated we will let the teams playing talk for us.
Last evening the better team won to end our perfect season. It was unfortunate but we had a great ride and we are VERY PROUD of the Longhorns. We wish all the remaining teams the best of luck in their quest for a State Title.
REgarding the trash talkers and in general nasty, ignorant Folks who post just a reminder. Each team that takes the fields in this state and for that matter all states are High School students they give their all and we should all be proud of them, And some should take a lesson from the players. Little people boost their ego’s to make them feel big. So I end my post with mauybe next year some may mature and GET LIVES. For those who acted and wrote in support of their teams appropriately Thank You.
Once again Good Luck to all remaining teams, We are PROAD of our LONGHORNS now and forever.
Hook Em Horns.
Till next season.
Touchdown T
November 27th, 2010
7:24 am
Fred, I hate going through what I saw in the game because it seems like an excuss when Grayson should be commended for a well-played game.But 1 turnover was a dropped punt return, another was an interception that went through Mitchell’s hands and landed in a Grayson defenders hands, 2 fumbles were fumbled at the snap of the ball. BUT Grayson has a very stingy defense as shown in the second half, but the 20 pts that were converted in the first half were made off the turnovers described above. I love my region 1 but the Colquit vs Grayson plays right into the hands of Grayson’s defense. They have now seen it from NG and Valdosta and I must say they are experts at defending it.
AAAAA football fan
November 27th, 2010
7:27 am
It’s funny how Grayson was at the back of the t County Gwinnett bus early in the season and was not mentioned. Now all of Gwinnett wants to wrap their arms around them. Grayson has gone about their business all season. By the way if you have Gwinnett you had 8 teams in AAAAA playoffs. So you had a better chance percentage wise to have teams in the semis tham the other schools. Gwinnett has a lot of talent, no matter how many schools you build. If you are the largest populated county outside of Atlanta, then you should compete year in and year out for the state title, not every 3-5 years. Congrats to all AAAAA schools remaining. Grayson has done a wonderful job with what by most accounts is the youngest team remaining. Defense is always a mainstay with the Rams.
Trojan94
November 27th, 2010
7:40 am
hey MIKE MIKE cairo has an outstanding team they are very talented, yall will be back next year. Tonight both teams was pretty much even but clearly the trojans wanted it more tonight and it showed from the very start till the very end…….but anyway great game great season cairo. Maybe we’ll play again next year?
Good Fan
November 27th, 2010
7:45 am
Starrs Fan i hope yall win the coin toss.Griffin will be pulling for your team.The team show a lot of class & they are well coached
jacketspeed
November 27th, 2010
7:46 am
2A may be one of the strongest classification in ga this year. Lot of strong teams in the semi round. Game to watch next week, Calhoun / Carver. Dont know where it we be played yet.
Cane fan, it was a good game, yall had me stroking out early. Our D is stronger than even I thought they were. Hope they have something for that D1 oline and the number 2 rb next week.
SGT CHRIS
November 27th, 2010
7:46 am
Any word on the Calhoun/Carver coin flip??
SGT CHRIS
November 27th, 2010
7:50 am
By the way Nevada is now the #3 team in the BCS lol!!!!
inthatrenches08
November 27th, 2010
7:58 am
Oh Bk,
BYE BYE so glad not to hear you!!! it is ashamed that you lost two of your finalist!!! Lowndes or Valdosta has nothing to be ashamed of they had a very good season, Like most of their bloggers but you my friend are dismissed!!!!! LOL
Good Fan
November 27th, 2010
8:00 am
Hey Starrs Mills FANS if history repeat it self the team that beat Griffin the last two years have went on & WON THE State Title.Last year Sandy Creek the year before that Tucker this year Starrs Mills ?
CarrolltonTrojans!
November 27th, 2010
8:00 am
How about the CTown Trojans, Baby! Threw a shut out against the Syrupmakers! It wasn’t even as close as the 17-0 score ended up! Let’s win the coin toss this morning and bring back one more game to the best high school football stadium and atmosphere in the state!
Good Fan
November 27th, 2010
8:06 am
Come on Starrs Mills win the coin toss.PEACHTREE CITY IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR.COME on SANDY CREEK WIN THE COIN TOSS
The Cannon Rules!!!
November 27th, 2010
8:11 am
@ All the TUCKER posters…
Be VERY careful what you say this coming week to the STARR”S MILL folks on here…I can tell you after watching them last night they are THE REAL DEAL! They were physical, prepared, and WELL COACHED!
That is the FIRST time in 4+ years a team SHUTOUT EAST PAULDING!
STARR’S MILL is BIG, FAST, and have a kicker that never let the EAST special teams get in the game. It’s hard to run back punts, and kickoffs when the ball is KICKED OUT OF THE END ZONE!!!
Again…GREAT game last night STARR’S MILL you wanted this game more!!!
For our EAST PAULDING RAIDER’S…THANKS to the team, the coaches, and everyone involved in RAIDER football for another GREAT YEAR! Going this deep into the playoffs is a fine achievement for ANY school…another fun year of RAIDER football!
Jefferson
November 27th, 2010
8:12 am
Calhoun needs some luck of a flip this morning, get out that two headed quarter.,,,
PDF
November 27th, 2010
8:16 am
Great game Starr’s Mill team, best of luck on the flip.
Anyone heard from Titletown today. Short again.
Bueller? Bueller?
November 27th, 2010
8:19 am
Where the [[bleep]] is BKSmith14?
Must be off somewhere guzzling Pepto after his umpteenth helping of *Crow Pie*
To Bueller...
November 27th, 2010
8:20 am
oh, I’m sure BK is right here — posting with an alias
inthatrenches08
November 27th, 2010
8:21 am
BKSMITH14
November 25th, 2010
8:49 pm
if you look at collins hill and their body of work, they have given up points in bunches to good teams. gace up 45 to brookwood, 24 to roswell, 33 to n gwinnett, 43 to mlk ,34 to mill creek. i wasnt really paying attention to that earlier but i think defense will be their doom against lowndes. they want put up more than 17 to 20 on lowndes and lowndes will score more than that. i wd b shocked if the opposite happens. the teams they have held in check towards the end of year were not that good.
HEY! SOMEONE, ANYONE; WAKE UP “BK” FROM THE SHOCK ????? OH WAIT; BK IS THE TURKEY FROM SOUTH GEORGIA!! BUT THE CROW MUST TASTE SO GOOD???
northeastga
November 27th, 2010
8:25 am
The best teams in a classification don’t always win, but the best team in a game does. And everyone needs to stop comparing what a team did or didn’t do in a weak or strong region. Games have always been about how strong the team you are playing is not the other teams in their region. Be careful about saying that a team is over-rated or is under-rated. Clarke Central made it to the state championship game being an underdog in most of their games last year. They got beat by a good East Paulding team when being the favorite. On any given Friday, any team can win!
Trojan94
November 27th, 2010
8:26 am
SGT CHRIS Hey did we do the region proud! In tbe nine years coach teague have been at carrollton last night was the best he’s coached in a big game by far!
JIMB
November 27th, 2010
8:28 am
Congrats COLQUITT good game from a Millcreek fan. Grayson will be a defensive challange, they really are bigger than Millcreek. We will be pulling for Grayson and I know you understand.
SGT CHRIS
November 27th, 2010
8:33 am
Trojan94–I dont think ANYONE would think Carrollton would shut out Cairo, but yes that was a great win for our region. By the way, what does Carrollton have coming back next year? as you heard we are getting a new head coach and we dont have much in the pot as far as returning starters
Carver-Columbus at Calhoun by the way
squirrell
November 27th, 2010
8:48 am
Our little “piglet defense” has been play’en hard all year, every snap and given-up alot of point. Last night they proved what they can do when they play what my friend calls “slobber-knocker-football”. Even with our offense having 5 turnovers, the defense held Mill Creek to one TD. The other score goes on our kick-return team, fumbling a kick-off on our 4 yardline.
I have watched Packer D all year and tonight they were “wild-eyed” flying around the field, hitting everything they saw and swarming the ball-carrier. Grayson Coaches, go ahead and watch the film but it want help. You know you can’t stop a team when they want it more than you do! Pack D is Back!
It was electric in the “Hog-Pen” and believe me Packer Fans will fill the stands at Grayson. Should be a great game. We’ll see who goes to the Dome.
I honestly feel in my “gut” we’re giong to win the whole shoot’en match!
anijahsdad
November 27th, 2010
8:53 am
The games from Friday are why you can’t sit on these vent sites and try to predict games. You can’t plan for the unexpected. Hillgrove vs Brookwood game was the wackiest game I’ve ever seen. 12 turnovers. Geezzz!!!!
inthatrenches08
November 27th, 2010
8:58 am
down south fan
November 27th, 2010
12:19 am
cograts to all the teams tonite and good luck the restof the way because next week someone else will be sad,im ok go vikes and cats , see you guys next year and bksmith14 its ok buddy we lost
OH BK!!! I FOUND YOU…. GUESS YOU COULD NOT SPELL CORRECTLY PULLING THE CROW OUT OF YOUR TEETH!!! GUESS YOU GOTTA FIND AN ALIAS THAT WILL BE A COLQUIT COUNTY FAN….YOU ARE STILL RUNNING? STAND UP AND TAKE YOUR MEDICINE…..
cat doc
November 27th, 2010
8:59 am
Grayson will wipe up Colqitt, Brookwood beats Collins Hill.
Patriot Power
November 27th, 2010
9:02 am
I don’t recall any “Peach haters” in reading these blogs this season. Everyone knows that Peach is a dominant force in AAA. If anything, it is that AAA is not talked about a lot and somewhat ignored. Most of the blogs are mainly about AAAAA and AAAA. I suppose that is to be expected since there are more people affiliated with the larger schools and many of them are near Atlanta, whereas most of the good AAA schools are outside the metro area.
When two teams of equal region seedings meet in the playoffs, there is always a coin toss to determine the host team. The AJC rankings are subjective and would not serve as a good barometer to determine which team deserves to host. You could do overall record, but that would favor teams with a weak out-of-region schedule (not to mention it would not help in the SCHS-PCHS matchup since both teams are undefeated).
rancher
November 27th, 2010
9:05 am
CONGRATULATIONS to Grayson and Collins Hill Eagles. I was at the Vikings game and Collins Hill is a great football team. The game was evenly matched as indicated by the score and the better team won on this Friday night. Heinicke is an excellent QB but those receivers are the all around best group for possession catches I’ve seen. Great game, good luck the remainder of the season.
As for Grayson, I did not see the game and I know Valdosta had multiple turnovers. But that is what great defenses do. Grayson has to have an outstanding team capable of winning it all to have handled Valdosta as they did. Great season Vikings and Wildcats.
Jim
November 27th, 2010
9:07 am
OK-my last blog on this. For 5 A-Everyone brags about Region 1. What 3 good teams? Look at Regions 7 and 8 and Region 1 PALES in comparison. I mean, come on! 3 of the final 4 are from regions 7 or 8. And the reason people keep talking the south ga v. north ga. football talk is #1 because all the south Ga folks start it and #2 the media hypes it. Bottom line, north ga has passed south Ga as a whole-happened probably around 2000. ANyway, good luck to everyone in the finals.
Tiger4Life
November 27th, 2010
9:08 am
Its on to the next round for Tucker, still taking it one game at a time.
*-* WE ARE TUCKER *-*
@The Cannon Rules!!!
Congrats on a good season. I have enjoyed your enthusiasm for you team all season. I must admit I like the tick…tick …. Booom thing you had going (would have never told you that if you guys had played us) But as always I will reserve my comments on SMH until after I’ve watched some film.
plowboy
November 27th, 2010
9:13 am
congratulations collins hill! (#19 great receiver, but no one on this blog should ever call the lowndes players thugs because some of his actions last night were uncalled for)
Jim
November 27th, 2010
9:14 am
…and football is ALL south GA has to offer as far as high school athletics. North GA dominates cross country, volleyball, wrestling, track, basketball, baseball, soccer, and lacrosse.
wildcat12
November 27th, 2010
9:14 am
@gwinnettdad, i have been trying to restrain myself, i wanted to not be rude, I DONT CARE ABOUT YOU OR YOUR STUPID COMMENTS!! You are just huff and steam trying to get me to drop your low standards by slinging insults. you are ignorant to me. unimportant. a waste of a good comment. i never said that folks was attacking me, i was wondering about gwinnett county football because i had not seen them play. so get over yourself and quit crying like a baby
Jim
November 27th, 2010
9:15 am
plowboy, I saw Lowndes play Grayson two years ago and the Lowndes players, and sadly the coaching staff, were complete thugs after Grayson beat them-completely uncalled for.
Jim
November 27th, 2010
9:16 am
wildcat12, what would you like to know about Gwinnett football? I can help
SGT CHRIS
November 27th, 2010
9:16 am
If it hadnt been for LaGrange and Peach County knocking each out of of the playoffs a couple years in a row, either would have been right behind Buford in state titles won from 2000-2009
EastsideGuy
November 27th, 2010
9:18 am
nice job by the gwinnett county teams last night… no one ever thought that both teams would go into valdosta and pull off those two wins…but i must admit that im glad it happened…to grayson. you guys are a
Trojan94
November 27th, 2010
9:22 am
SGT CHRIS the trojans will have over half of there team come back plus the talent thats comin up from our feeder programs all of whom went undfeated in there seasons, so we should be in great shape next year too…..any word about who’s the canidates are for the head coaching job at lagrange?
Colquitt Supporter
November 27th, 2010
9:22 am
Congrats to the Pack. You played a good game last night. Congratulations also to Mill Creek on a nice run at the end of the season.
@maddball – You may want to look at other comments to see how winners should act. Hope we do not have to taste any humble pie.next week.
inthatrenches08
November 27th, 2010
9:23 am
BKSMITH14
November 20th, 2010
9:36 pm
@ ghsfa daily, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX i can assure you a n ga team will not win it all. i defend my vikings when people try to downgrade what they have done. they are just another great lowndes team
oh BK DEFEND YOUR VIKINGS?? THE ODDS JUST SHIFTED TO N.GA COME ON YOU CAN SUPPORT THE PACKERS THEY HAVE AN EXCELLENT TEAM……AND AS FOR THE VIKINGS BEING ANOTHER GREAT TEAM C’MON THEY WERE VERY GOOD BUT THEY FELL SHORT JUST LIKE YOUR COMMENTARIES……
SGT CHRIS
November 27th, 2010
9:26 am
Trojan94—No I havent heard who they are going to tap as the next head coach, or who they are even looking at. Me personally I hope its someone who will either go back to the traditional wing-t, or scrap it for a wide open offense.
Hawk Fan
November 27th, 2010
9:29 am
Good game Colquitt. Your defense kept us from getting anything going all night. We had opportunities but we either killed oursleves or your defense stopped us. Your little number 22 ran like the wind last night, don’t know how many yards he had but it seemed like a lot. Good luck the rest of the way.
Mill Creek – Hold your head up high as it was a fantastic run! Thanks to all the fans that made the dirve last night to support our players.
hcfollower
November 27th, 2010
9:30 am
What a night…there wont be anymore cannon fire this year or fights in Wilcox Co. ..what a crazy Fri night the only constant was the dominance of the Carver tigers who could probly run the 5A boys home crying
Tiger4Life
November 27th, 2010
9:30 am
Tucker has won the coin toss, game is at Hallford @ 7:30
*-* WE ARE TUCKER *-*
Jefferson
November 27th, 2010
9:31 am
SGT CHRIS, I hope you get to the Calhoun-Carver game. Dustin Christian ran for 155 last night scored 2 TDs. Like I say Carver may have a back, Calhoun does too, and defense. Should be a great matchup.
6-AAAA Fan09
November 27th, 2010
9:32 am
The Tucker Tigers won the coin toss….See you @ Hallford Stadium on next friday!!!!
Gwinnett is Great
November 27th, 2010
9:33 am
Hey Valdosta,
Tired of your and Lowndes smack all year (all decade actually).
Here is a song for you-
na na na na
na na na na
hay hay hay
goodbye