Football Fridays in Georgia
Calhoun vs. Cartersville
Season 2021 Episode 8 | 2h 53m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Calhoun vs. Cartersville - Oct. 29, 2021
Amari White rushed for 172 yards and a touchdown leading Cartersville to it’s 61st straight region victory and tenth consecutive region title. The Purple Hurricane led 14-0 at the half and 21-7 in the fourth quarter when Georgia signee Cole Speer got Calhoun back into the game with a 76-yard scoring reception. But Cartersville hung on late to clinch the 7-5A championship.
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Football Fridays in Georgia
Calhoun vs. Cartersville
Season 2021 Episode 8 | 2h 53m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Amari White rushed for 172 yards and a touchdown leading Cartersville to it’s 61st straight region victory and tenth consecutive region title. The Purple Hurricane led 14-0 at the half and 21-7 in the fourth quarter when Georgia signee Cole Speer got Calhoun back into the game with a 76-yard scoring reception. But Cartersville hung on late to clinch the 7-5A championship.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>> THIS IS FOOTBALL FRIDAY IN GEORGIA PRESENTED BY THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY REMINDING YOU THE BUCKLE UP, GEORGIA, AS WE WELCOME YOU TO WYMAN STADIUM WHERE THE REGION 5-A STADIUM IS ON TB LINE WHERE THE UNDEFEATED CARTERSVILLE PURPLE HURRICANES WILL TAKE ON THE CALHOUN YELLOW JACKETS.
WELCOME IN, WAYNE GANDY, THE NOT ONLY IS THE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY UP FOR GRABS, BUT ALSO THE ENTIRE PATH TO THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IS RIDING ON TONIGHT'S GAME AS WELL.
>> AND THE BIGGER QUESTION IS THE OVER/UNDER ON THE TWO SUPERSTARS FOR CALHOUN CHRISTOPHER LEWIS AND CHRISTOPHER LEWIS.
>> WE WILL TRY TO KEEP IT STRAIGHT.
THEY ARE TWINS.
AND NOW, GOING FOR THE SIXTH CONSECUTIVE REGIONAL GAMES GOING BACK TO 2011 STARTING WITH THEIR QUARTERBACK JAKE PARKER.
>> THE CONFIDENCE, AND HE IS A CALM GAME MANAGER WHO IS BRINGING A CONFIDENCE TO THE SQUAD OFFENSIVELY, AND HE DOES NOT BEAT HIMSELF.
ONLY TWO INTERCEPTIONS AND 19 DIFFERENT PLAYERS HE HAS THROWN TO.
HE IS SPREADING IT AROUND.
>> THEY HAVE TWO BIG TACKLES UP FROONT IN JOHNATHAN CLINE AND SHADRE HURST.
>> YES, THESE TWO GENTLEMEN AT THE TACKLES HAVE EMERGED WITH CLINE AND HURST PICKING UP OFFERS AND ANCHORING THE OFFENSE THAT RUSHES OVER 200 YARDS A GAME.
>> OVER ON THE DEFENSIVE SIDE, WAYNE, THEY HAVE TO COME UP BIG TONIGHT, AND THE GRANDBERRY, AND BEN ROBINSON.
>> A SMALL BUT FIERCE THREE-MAN FRONT ANCHOR, TO CAUSE A PROBLEM, AND ROBINSON WITH THE GREAT LEVERAGE, AND THEY ARE AVERAGING 13.5 POINTS A GAME THEY GIVE UP.
>> CALHOUN, THEY ARE A FOUR-TIME STATE CHAMPION, BUT LOOKING FOR THE FIRST REGION CHAMPIONSHIP SINCE THEY HAVE HAD THE 18-YEAR 119-GAME REGION GAME STREAK SNAPPED.
AND HEAD COACH CLAY STEPHENSON WOULD LIKE TO CHECK THE SQUAD TONIGHT, AND HE HAS A TALENTED TRIO OF PLAYERS TO GET IT DONE STARTING WITH THE BURNER COLE SPEER COMMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
>> A THREE-STAR ATHLETE WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING WILL AT MR. SPEIER, AND HE IS FAST AND HEADED TO GEORGIA.
HE IS GOING TO LET YOU KNOW THE TALENT HE BRINGS.
27.5 YARDS AVERAGING A CATCH.
LOOK FOR HIM TO MAKE PLAYS EVERYWHERE.
>> AND SO DOES QUIN SMITH WHO IS COMMITTED TO THE AIR FORCE.
>> THE 6'1" AND 190 SENIOR, AND 121 YARDS A GAME FOR HIM, AND HE IS PART OF THE EXPLOSIVE OFFENSE WITH 23 POINTS A GAME.
>> AND ANOTHER TWO-WAY STARTER IS THE YELLOW JACKET GAGE LEONARD COMMITTED TO THE NAVY.
>> ALL GAS AND NO BRAKE KIND OF THE RUNNING BACK, BUT ON DEFENSIVE SIDE, AND THIS PLAYER IS EXPLOSIVE.
PART OF THE SECONDARY THAT HAS EIGHT INTERCEPTIONS ON THE SEASON.
>> HE IS 100% FULL THROTTLE ALL OF THE TIME, WAYNE, AND HE IS ONE OF THE PLAYERS THAT THE COACH HAS TO CALMDOWN IN PRACTICE THAT HE IS GOING TOO FAST FOR PRACTICE, AND ALL RIGHT, THE THIRD MEMBER OF THE TEAM IS JON NELSON STANDING BY AT THE STADIUM WHERE THEY HAVE NO DOUBT SOUNDED THE SIRENS AN ISSUED THE FIRST HURRICANE WARNING OF THE NIGHT.
>> IF NOT THE SEND AND THE THIRD.
GOOD EVENING, MATT AND WAYNE.
HOWEVER YOU ARE ACCESSING US LARGE OR SMALL, IT IS AN INTERESTING SET UP WHERE THE THREE AND THE FOUR ARE GOING TO BE GETTING IT ON TONIGHT.
THE WINNER OF BT AND CHANCE ARE GOING TO BE IN THE WOODLAND AND BARN.
AND STARTING OUT WITH THE VISITORS IN CLAY STEPHENSON, WE LEARNED THE VALUE OF HAVING YOUR TAIL HANDED TO YOU AND THAT IS WHAT CLAY STEPHENSON SAID ABOUT THE LOSS TO McCOLLIE OUT OF CHATTANOOGA.
THEY HAD SCORED MORE THAN 53 TIMES AND SCORED MORE THAN 60 ONCE FOR THE SEVEN WINS SINCE WHEN THEY WENT TO 1-1.
THE FLIPSIDE TO CONOR FOSTER TALKING ABOUT THE LEGACY, THE 2001 CLASS OF CARTERSVILLE, AND 0-2 AGAINST CALHOUN AS PLAYER, AND THE UNIQUE TIME TONIGHT IF HE GETS A WIN, HE IS 2-0 AS A COACH.
AND THE SERIES IS GOING TO BE 30 WINS AND 6 LOSSES AND A TIE.
30 WINS OF THE 37 FOR CARTERSVILLE, AND THIS IS THE EARLY STORY FROM WYMAN STADIUM.
AND WHAT ARE YOU SEEING, HANNAH GOODIN?
>> HERE THE STORY IS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
17 CLINCHED CHAMPIONSHIPS LAST WEEK, AND MANY MORE LOOKING FOR TONIGHT, AND WE WILL HAVE THE HOTTEST MATCHUPS AT THE HALFTIME SHOW AND THE WINNING COACHES OF THE TITLE SHOWS ON THE POST GAME SHOW.
YOU CAN FOLLOW ALL NIGHT BY DOWNLOADING THE GPB APP, AND I GUESS I AM THE ONLY ONE WEARING THE RED AND WHITE FOR THE BRAVES AND I HAVE THE PEARLS ON, AND SO WE WILL BE WATCHING THAT SCORE TONIGHT, GUYS.
>> ALL RIGHT.
I HOPE THAT YOU PULL THEM THROUGH WITH THE RED AND THE PEARLS, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
THE PURPLE HURRICANES ARE GOING TO MAKE THEIR WAY ON TO THE FIELD.
YOU HEARD JOHN TALK ABOUT THE SERIES' HISTORY, BUT OVER THE LAST SEVEN MEETINGS, IT IS 4-3, CARTERSVILLE.
AND IN FACT, ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO WHEN HAL LAMB HAD BEEN THE HEAD COACH, AND CARTERSVILLE COMING OFF OF THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, AND CALHOUN WAS COMING OFF OF A LOSING RECORD THAT THE YELLOW JACKETS BEAT THEM 28-13, AND THAT REALLY EVENED UP THE SERIES.
IT HAS BEEN A VERY COMPETITIVE SERIES ERSINCE, EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T PLAY EVERY YEAR, AND IT IS A RIVALRY WITH MUTUAL RESPECT THAT THE COMMUNITIES AND PLAYERS HAVE FOR EACH OTHER.
>> AND THEY TALKED ABOUT HOW THEY ARE FAMILIARITY WITH EACH OTHER AND THE FAMILY BOND, SO IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE THEY HAVE MET ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE BOTH LOOKING FORWARD TO.
>> SO THE REGION CHAMPIONSHIP IS ON THE LINE, AND ALSO THE PATH TO THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES, BECAUSE THE LOSER OF TONIGHT'S BALL GAME IS NO DOUBT GOING TO BE ON THE ROAD OF THE SECOND ROUND OF THE STATE PLAYOFFS AND PLAYING AT WARE COUNTY, THE TWO RANKED TEAM OF THE STATE, AND THE WINNER TONIGHT, IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT A PRIZE, THEY WOULD GET ONE OF WARNER ROBINS AT THEIR PLACE, AND IT COULD BE WARNER ROBINS AND CARTERSVILLE IN A SECOND ROUND AND A REMATCH OF LAST YEAR'S CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, AND LOT RIDING ON THE GAME OTHER THAN THE SHINY TROPHY, BUT BELIEVE IT, THEY WANT THE SHINY TROPHY.
>> WHAT A BIG GAME WITH A LOT ON THE LINE.
AND WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE PLAYOFFS, THE ROAD TRIPS CAN BECOME WEARY ON A HIGH SCHOOL TRAVELING TEAM, AND WEAR THEM DOWN TRYING TO MAKE THE 100-MILE STRETCHES TO PLAY FOOTBALL.
>> SO THE OPENING TOSS RIGHT NOW, AND YOU WILL SEE WHO IS GOING TO RECEIVE THE BALL TO START THE GAME.
>> Referee: CARTERSVILLE HAS WON THE TOSS AND THEY WILL RECEIVE.
>> SO IT IS THE PURPLE HURRICANES ON OFFENSE TO START THIS GAME.
WHAT TRADITION, WHAT RIVALRY BETWEEN THE TWO PROGRAMS, CARTERSVILLE WITH THE FOUR STATE TITLES, AND THE LAST COMING IN TREVOR LAWRENCE'S JUNIOR SEASON IN 2016.
THEY PLAYED IN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME LAST YEAR, LOSING TO WARNER ROBBINS, AND CALHOUN WITH FOUR STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AS WELL.
BUT THREE OF THEM COMING IN THE LAST DECADE.
>> WHERE WAS THIS WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
THE LIGHTS ARE OFF, AND IT IS RAINING AND THE CROWD IS IN AND IT IS SETTING UP FOR A BIG GAME, AND TWO POWERHOUSE FOOTBALL TEAMS.
IT HAS THE PLAYOFF FEEL FOR IT AS YOU SAID GOING FOR THE REGION TITLE, BUT IT HAS THAT FEEL ABOUT IT GOING INTO IT.
>> IT DOES.
AND IT ABSOLUTELY DOES HAVE THAT PLAYOFF FEEL.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT IF YOU ARE LOSING TONIGHT, YOU ARE NOT DONE FOR THE SEASON, BUT IF YOU LOSE TONIGHT, PERHAPS YOUR ROAD IN THE STATE PLAYOFFS IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT, AND IT IS GOING TO BE CERTAINLY ON THE ROAD.
THERE'S THE GOOD LOOK AT CONNOR FOSTER IN THE THIRD SEASON AS THE PURPLE HURRICANES HEAD COACH IS FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS GOOD FRIEND JOEY KING, 32-3 WITH TWO REGION TITLES AFTER BEING PROMOTED AFTER FIVE SEASONS AS KING'S DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR.
THERE IS CLAY STEVENSON FOLLOWING IN THE STEPS OF HIGH SCHOOL ROYALTY HAL LAM WHO WON 233 GAMES IN 22 SEASONS AND CLAY PLAYED FOR COACH LAMB IN UPSON LEE HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN A WIDE RECEIVER COACH FOR COACH LAMB 15 YEARS BEFORE HE WAS THE HEAD COACH.
THE OPENING KICKOFF IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY "BUCKLE UP, GEORGIA."
BUCKLE UP, GEORGIA, SEAT BELTS SAVE LIVES.
AND CALHOUN OPENS ONE AND ONSIDE KICK, AND WHO IS ON TOP OF IT?
THE YELLOW JACKETS ARE.
HOW ABOUT THAT!
CAMRAN DODD IS GOING TO RECOVER IT, AND THE YELLOW JACKETS HAVE THE BALL TO START THE GAME.
>> A LITTLE TRICKERY TO START THE GAME, AND FAKING WITH ONE KICKER AND THEN COMING WITH THE ONSIDE KICK.
THIS CALHOUN YELLOW JACKETS TEAM SETTING THE TEMPO EARLY ON TO LET CARTERSVILLE KNOW THAT WE CAME HERE TO WIN.
WHEN YOU ARE STARTING OFF A GAME LIKE THAT, IT IS GOING TO SET THE MINDSET WITH THE TEAM THAT WE CAME HERE TO WIN THIS GAME.
>> CALHOUN DID THE ONSIDE GAME IN THEIR VICTORY AGAINST BLESSED TRINITY EARLIER IN THE MONTH, SO IT WAS ON TAPE.
KAYDEN WILLIAMS WITH THE FIRST CARRY OF THE MONTH FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS PICKING UP THREE YARDS, AND THERE IS CHRISTIAN LEWIS, THE 5'9", 159 SENIOR, AND HE HAS COMPLETED 72% OF THE PASSES FOR OVER 1,800 YARDS AND 20 TOUCHDOWNS AND JUST TWO INTERCEPTIONS AND TWO-YEAR STARTER WHO STARTED 13 YEARS LAST YEAR AS A JUNIOR.
AND THE BALL IS OUT!
CARTERSVILLE HAS RECOVERED.
IT GOES RIGHT BACK TO THE PURPLE HURRICANES.
>> TWO RUNS BACK-TO-BACK FOR CALHOUN RIGHT THERE.
GAGE LEONARD, THE FULLBACK COMING OFF OF THE RIGHT SIDE AS WE TALKED ABOUT, AND ONE OF THOSE GUYS, ALL-OUT EFFORT, YOU CAN SEE HIM FIGHTING FOR YARDS, A RIGHT THERE AT THE END, THE BALL IS PUNCHED OUT.
A LOT OF EMOTION, AND A LOT OF ENERGY IN THIS GAME ALREADY, AS YOU CAN SEE FOR CARTERSVILLE GETTING THE BIG TURNOVER.
>> THAT IS CHRIS RYAN THE SENIOR WHO CAME UP WITH THAT FUMBLE RECOVERY, AND NOW THE PURPLE HURRICANES ON OFFENSE FROM THEIR OWN 38 1/2 YARD LINE.
HE FUMBLED THE BALL, AND IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE SLIPPERY BALL IS HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE GAME AS THEY LOSE THREE THERE.
>> SMART PLAY BY AMARI WHITE TO JUMP ON THE BALL AFTER THE MISSNAPPED BALL THERE.
AND A LOT OF EMOTION, AND GUYS MAKING MISTAKES THAT THEY DID NOT COUNT ON.
JAKE PARKER NOT ABLE TO HANDLE IT.
>> YOU SAW THE NUMBERS FOR JAKE PARKER, AND 13 TOUCHDOWNS AND HE, TOO, HAS THROWN ONLY TWO INTERCEPTIONS THIS SEASON S. AMARI WHITE WITH THE CARRY.
FIRST DOWN.
HE RUMBLED UP CLOSE TO THE 50 YARD LINE.
BLAZE HAMMOND MAKING THE TACKLE FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE STARTING LINEUPS.
THEY ARE PRESENTED BY REGIONS BANK.
THE AFOREMENTIONED ATKINS AND SUR RAT AND HILL, AND ATKINS AND WILSON AND RAY ARE THE RECEIVES IN THE BACK.
>> NICE JOB BY HURST AND HEEL ON THE LAST RUN.
>> FIRST AND TEN FOR AMARI WHITE, AND STRONG RUN DOWN TO THE 45 YARD LINE, AND MASON GREEN IN THERE ON THAT TACKLE FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS.
>> AND AMARI WHITE PARTED THAT THREE-HEADED MONSTER AT THE RUNNING BACK POSITION FOR THE CANES, AND WHEN IT IS COLD AND WET, THIS IS THE BEST TIME TO DUST OFF THE RUSH GAME, AND GET THE LINE IN A HEAVY RUSH STANCE AND GET DOWNHILL, AND SO FAR, CARTERSVILLE IS HAVING SUCCESS.
>> SECOND DOWN AND THREE FROM THE CALHOUN 45.
PARKER TO THE AIR, AND HE IS GOING TO THROW BEHIND HIS INTENDED TARGET JACOB RAY.
IT IS THIRD DOWN.
>> NICE JOB OFF OF THE EDGE, AND THE PRESSURE OF THE EDGE BY JAY PARKER.
>> STARTING LINEUPS PRESENTED BY REGIONS BANK, AND GET BACK INTO THE GAME BY REGIONS BANK.
HOGAN AND NATION UP FRONT, AND THE LINEBACKERS IN THE 3-3 STACK, GREENE, FULLER, HAWKINS AND HAMMOND.
WHITE IS GOING TO TAKE IT FOR THE FIRST DOWN.
>> YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE READY FOR THIS THIRD AND FOURTH AND SEE THIS RUN COMING OFF OF THE EDGE.
NICELY DESIGNED PLAY BY COORDINATOR JOEL MILLER, AND AMARI WHITE IS SHOWING YOU THE SEASON THAT HE IS HAVING.
WHITE, JEFFRIES AND LANDO MAKING A DYNAMIC TRIO OF BACKS.
>> YOU KNOW THAT AMARI WHITE IS LOVING THIS, BECAUSE HE DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO PLAY IN THE GAME LAST YEAR AFTER SUFFERING A SEASON-ENDING KNEE INJURY.
THEY HAVE THE WILDCAT QUARTERBACK, AND GAMBLE IS THROWN NOR BIG LOSS.
THAT IS JAI HOGAN TO BLOW UP THE PLAY.
>> 223 YARDS RUSHING ON THE SEASON FOR GAMBLE, AND IN THOSE SITUATION, AND AS WE TALKED ABOUT IN THIS KIND OF TO WEATHER AND THE GAME PLAN.
IF YOU ARE A PURPLE HURRICANE FAN, YOU WANT TO COME INTO THE GAME AND SLOW DOWN THE TEMPO, AND EXPECT GAMBLE TO ROLL IN THERE TO KEEP THE DEFENSE HON WEST THAT QUARTERBACK DRAW.
>> SECOND DOWN AND NINE WITH THE BALL AT THE 24.
PARKER WITH A POCKET, AND ACROSS THE MIDDLE AND NEARLY INTERCEPTED THERE BY BLAZE HAM MET.
>> LOOK AT THAT, NO PRESSURE, AND NICE POCKET, AND NICE DEFENSE THERE ON THE BACK BY HAMMET.
>> THAT IS A FIRST DOWN CARRY BY MALACHI JEFFRIES.
PART OF THE TWO-BACK TANDEM, AND ALMOST EVENTUALLY SPLIT WITH THE CARRIES ALTHOUGH WHITE IS THE LEADING RUSHER.
>> Referee: HOLDING, ON THE OFFENSE, AND THAT PENALTY IS TEN YARDS FROM THE SPOT OF THE FOUL, STILL THIRD DOWN.
>> THERE YOU CAN SEE GREG NORTON OUR REFEREE TONIGHT, AND THE REST OF THE OFFICIALS WORKING THIS REGION 7-5A CHAMPIONSHIP.
>> WE HAVE SEEN IN THE THIRD DOWN SITUATION, CARTERSVILLE DECIDING TO RUN THE BALL, AND BOTH TIMES SUCCESSFUL, AND THAT TIME WITH THE HOLDING PENALTY, AND THAT TIME, THEY ARE HOPING TO KEEP JAKE PARKER OUT OF ALL NIGHT LONG WHICH IS THIRD AND LONG.
>> THIRD AND 19, AND THE RUSH COMING OFF OF THE EDGE.
THEY PICK IT UP, AND THE PASS IS THROWN AND DROPPED ON THE SIDELINE.
JACOB RAY COULD HAVE WALKED INTO THE END ZONE HAD HE HELD ON TO IT, AND IT IS FOURTH DOWN.
>> NICE PICK UP OF THE BLITZ BY MALACHI JEFFRIES, AND THE PRESSURE IS COMING OFF OF THE EDGE, AND RIGHT HERE JACOB RAY JUST NOT ABLE TO BRING UP THE BALL.
YOU CAN SEE THE BLITZ PICKED UP BY MALACHI JEFF RES AND A GOOD DELIVERY BY JAKE PARKER, BUT NOT ABLE TO REEL IT IN.
>> AND YOU CAN SEE THE CORNER LOOKING BACK FOR THE SAFETY HELP HE DID NOT GET.
THEY ARE GOING FOR IT ON FOURTH AND 19.
OUT OF FIELD GOAL RANGE HERE, AND PROBABLY A LITTLE TOO CLOSE TO PUNT UNLESS THEY DO A SHORT POOCH KICK HERE WHICH IS WHAT THEY WILL TRY TO DO, AND THE FLAG FALLS AS THE PLAY IS BLOWN DEAD.
>> Referee: PRIOR TO THE SNAP, INFRACTION ON THE OFFENSE, STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> WE WILL SEE IF THEY LINE UP IN A TRADITIONAL PUNT FORMATION NOW THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS THEY WILL PUNT.
AND BRENT SHIELDS IS A BIG WEAPON FOR THEM AVERAGING UNDER 43 YARDS PER PUNT WITH SIX INSIDE OF THE 20.
>> AND GOOD DISCIPLINE BY CALHOUN.
YOU HAVE TO EXPECT IF YOU WERE GOING FOR THE FOURTH DOWN, THE THIRD DOWN PLAY WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE MANAGERABLE TO GET HALF OF THE 19 YARDS.
NICE JOB OF THEM NOT JUMPING OFFSIDES.
>> AND SHILTS IS GOING TO SPOT IT RIGHT THERE AT THE 18, AND THAT IS WHERE THEY WILL GO ON OFFENSE WHEN WE COME BACK.
>>> FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA IS PRESENTED BY THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY REMINDING YOU HAVE TO BE SAFE ON EVERY TRIP.
BUCKLE UP, GEORGIA.
ALSO IN PART BY REGIONS BANK.
GET BACK INTO THE GAME BY REGIONS BANK.
GEORGIA'S EMC, SO MUCH MORE THAN ELECTRICITY.
CIGNA ALL THE WAY, AND BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU, THANK YOU.
>>> TIME TO CATCH UP WITH OUR FRIENDS FROM CARTERSVILLE, AND CIGNA AND THIS TIME OUT IS DARRELL MATHIS FROM THE PURPLE HURRICANES AND COACH, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE, AND PARTNER FOR FOOTBALL FRIDAY.
>> THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT, AND I DON'T KNOW OF A BERT NIGHT -- BETTER NIGHT THAN TONIGHT WITH THE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP DECIDED.
AND THANK YOU, TO CIGNA FOR THEIR DONATION OF $500 TO CARTERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL FOR FOOTBALL FRIDAY.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU.
AS THE JACKETS GO BACK ON OFFENSE WITH 7:30 REMAINING NEAR THE FIRST QUARTER.
FUMBLING ON THE FIRST POSSESSION, AND THEY HAD THE DEFENSE BOW THEIR NECK, WAYNE, TO GET IT BACK ON OFFENSE.
>> AND THEY GET THE BALL BACK.
>> AND KAYDEN WILLIAMS GAINS NINE ON THE PLAY, AND TACKLED BY JACOB RAY THE SAFETY.
>> AND HE HAD TWO TOUCHDOWNS AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS LAST WEEK IN THE VICTORY.
WE KNOW THAT ON THE OTHER SIDE, CARTERSVILLE HAS MORE OF A THREE-HEADED MONSTER ON RUNNING BACK, BUT CALHOUN DOES HAVE TWO BACKS THAT CARRY THE LOAD.
>> SECOND DOWN AND ONE, AND KAYDEN WILLIAMS WITH 887 YARDS RUSHING ON THE SEASON, AND THEY AVERAGED 8.7 YARDS PER CARRY.
COACH CLAY STEPHENSON SAID THAT IT IS THE SECOND STRONGEST GUY ON THE TEAM, AND JUST A SOPHOMORE.
PICKS UP THE FIRST DOWN AS HE RAMS HIS BODY TO THE 28, TO 29 AS WE ARE TAKING A LOOK AT THE STARTING LINEUP BY REGIONS BANK.
GET BACK INTO THE GAME WITH THE REGIONS BANK.
AND YOU HAVE KIRBY COMMITTED TO ARMY, AND MASSEY, WARREN AND BELIEU, AND THE RECEIVERS AND THE BACKS.
SMITH, GRAY, LEONARD, AND SPEER AND LAW.
>> IT IS A VERY BALANCED OFFENSE THAT THE YELLOW JACKETS HAVE PUT OUT ON THE FIELD.
CHRISTIAN LEWIS, THEIR QUARTERBACK, AND HE HAS HAD AS GOOD OF A SEASON AT THAT POSITION FOR THEIR TEAM AS ANYONE.
>> GRANDBERRY WAS HELD ON THE PLAY AS LEWIS DELIVERS THE BALL DOWNFIELD AND TRYING TO CONNECT WITH COLE SPEER, BUT THIS IS HOLDING IN ALL LIKELIHOOD ON CALHOUN.
>> Referee: HOLDING, BY THE OFFENSE, AND THAT PENALTY IS 10 YARDS, AND STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> THAT IS NIGEL GRANDBERRY, AND ONE OF THE GUYS THAT JUST MOVES AND ROTATES FROM EACH END SPOT TO NOSE TACKLE, AND 6'0" AND 250 AND VERY TALENTED PLAYER, AND HIS COACH SAYS THAT HE IS ONE OF THOSE GUYS THAT MAKES THE CHAOTIC MOMENTS, AND IT IS A MATCHUP PROBLEM FOR MOST OF THE OFFENSIVE LINES.
>> AND HE IS TALENTED ENOUGH, WAYNE, THEY CAN MOVE HIM TO DIFFERENT SPOTS ON THE LINE, AND MOVE HIM INSIDE IF THEY NEED TO GET THAT RIGHT OFFER.
NO OFFERS FOR GRANDBERRY, BUT MAYBE THE SIZE WORKS AGAINST HIM, BECAUSE HE IS 6'0", BUT I THINK THAT HE IS VERY TALENTED.
PASS IS THROWN COMPLETE OUT HERE TO THE 23 YARD LINE.
THE CATCH AND RUN.
DUSTIN KERNS WITH HIS 11th CATCH OF THE SEASON AS YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE REGIONS' BANK STARTING DEFENSE FOR THE DEFENSE.
GRANDBERRY, EVANS AND ROBINSON AND WE HAVE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE LINEBACKERS BEING VERY TALENT AND FORRISTALL AND SMITH, AND IN THE SECONDARY, YOU HAVE MAYHALL AND LEWIS AND CALLIER.
AND LEWIS HAD IT SLIP OUT OF HIS HANDS TRYING TO DELIVER THE PASS, AND MAYHALL NEARLY HAD AN EASY PICK.
>> GOOD PRESSURE OFF OF THE BACK BY GRANDBERRY, AND YOU CAN SEE IT ROLL BY CHRISTIAN LEWIS.
5'9" AND 160 POUNDS TRYING TO GET THE ROLL OUT, AND THE BALL JUST SLIPS OUT OF HIS HANDS.
HE IS VERY FORTUNATE NOT TO HAVE AN INTERCEPTION RIGHT THERE ON THAT PASS.
>> THIRD DOWN AND 15.
HALFWAY POINT OF THE FIRST QUARTER.
ON A RAINY AND COOL NIGHT IN CARTERSVILLE.
PASS IS THROWN LOW AND THAT IS THE SECOND TIME THAT THEY HAVE TRIED TO GET IT TO SPEER AND SECOND TIME THEY HAVE COME UP EMPTY.
FOURTH DOWN.
>> GOOD JOB BY CARTERSVILLE TO KEEP EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF THEM ON THAT PLAY EVEN WITH THE COMPLETION, AND NOT SURE THEY WOULD HAVE PICKED UP THAT FIRST DOWN, AND THE THING THAT YOU SEE GRANDBERRY AND HIS DEFENSIVE LINE, AND BEN ROBINSON AND THEY ARE ALL RUSHING WITH THE HANDS UP FOR THE SHORTER QUARTERBACK TO MAKE THOSE THROWS HARDER FOR HIM TO FIND THE PASSING LANE.
>> CHRISTOPHER LEWIS IS THE LINEBACKER, AND THE QUARTERBACK'S TWIN BROTHER IS STANDING ON THE PUNT AVERAGING JUST UNDER 29 YARDS A PUNT THIS SEASON.
HIGH SHORT KICK, AND THIS IS GOING TO TAKE A CALHOUN BOUNCE.
IT KICKS OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 46, AND THERE IS A LATE FLAG THAT FLEW INTO YOUR PICTURE THERE.
>> FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT, THINK THAT WE WILL GET MAYBE TAUNTING, UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT ON THAT PLAY.
>> Referee: AFTER THE PLAY, THE PERSONAL FOUL, LATE HIT ON THE KICKING TEAM, AND THAT PENALTY IS 15 YARDS.
FIRST DOWN.
15.
15.
>> SO THE 15-YARD PENALTY AGAINST CALHOUN IS GOING TO SET UP CARTERSVILLE IN EXCELLENT FIELD POSITION, AND CLOSE TO THE 30 YARD LINE WHEN THEY FINISH WALKING THIS OFF.
>> CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS ESPECIALLY EARLY ON IN BIG GAMES IS GOING TO BE A POINT OF EMPHASIS AT THIS LEVEL OF FOOTBALL.
>> LOOKS LIKE THE RAIN HAS STARTED TO PICK UP, AND AMARI WHITE, AND THEY HAVE NEVER BLOWN TO WHISTLE, AND HE IS GETTING SEVEN ON THE PLAY TO THE 23.
>> COACH CONOR FOSTER TALKS ABOUT HOW HE COMPETES ON EVERY RUN, AND HE IS RUNNING BIGGER THAN HE IS, AND HE IS LISTED 5'7" AND 185, AND LOOK AT HIM KEEPING THE LEGS CHURNING.
THIS IS THE KIND OF THE EFFORT THAT THE HEAD COACH TALKED ABOUT AMARI WHITE TAKES EVERY SNAP SERIOUS AND GIVES YOU HIS ALL.
>> HE IS AVERAGING 97 YARDS RUSHING A GAME.
PARKER KEEPS IT WITH A RUN TO THE 17, AND A FIRST DOWN FOR THE PURPLE HURRICANES.
>> THIS IS A FUNCTION OF THE OFFENSIVE LINE AND HOW THESE BACKS RUN BETWEEN THE TACKLES, AND A NICE JOB OF JAKE PARKER MAKING THAT READ.
NO RUSH TOUCHDOWNS ON THE YEAR, AND NOT COUNTED ON TO RUN THE BALL, BUT THOSE KINDS OF PLAYS THERE LATE IN THE SEASON, THEY DEFINITELY HELP HIS RUN GAME OUT BY PULLING THE BALL, AND DOING WHAT HE CAN TO PICK UP THAT FIRST DOWN.
>> AMARI WHITE STOPS AND TRYING TO CUT TO THE OUTSIDE, AND HE IS GOING TO MAKE SEVERAL MEN MISS, AND A FLAG DOWN.
AMARI WHITE TOUCHDOWN, BUT CHECK THE PENALTY CALLS.
THAT IS LIKE A VIDEO GAME, WAYNE.
>> HELLO, MR. WHITE.
>> Referee: ON THE OFFENSE, THAT PENALTY IS GOING TO BE TEN YARDS, STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> THIS IS ALL ABOUT THAT TREMENDOUS BALANCE AND SLASHING ABILITY THAT YOU CAN SEE WITH HIM.
UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS COMING BACK, AND LT OF BODIES ARE PULLED INTO THE MIDDLE RIGHT THERE.
SHAD RI HURST, YOU COULD SEE HIM HOLDING THE END THERE, AND SOMETIMES AS THE BACKS AND THE QUARTERBACKS BOUNCE OUT TO DIFFERENT HOLES, YOU WANT TO KIND OF TUG AND JUST TOO MUCH SPACE FOR THE REF TO SEE SHAD RI HURST MAKE THE PLAY.
>> IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO MAKE THAT KID AN OFFER AMARI WHITE.
YOU CAN TELL THAT HE IS A THICK KID THERE IN THE BACK AT 6'10", AND 205.
COUPLE OF YARDS ON THE PLAY BEFORE HE IS STOPPED A COUPLE OF YARDS BEYOND THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
>> IF YOU'D HAVE, CARTERSVILLE' TEAM, THIS IS THE SET UP FOR YOU AT HOME.
YOU HAVE WANTED MORE OF A SLOWER PACE, AND RAIN GAME, AND JUST IN BETWEEN THE TACKLES, AND YOU HAVE THE BACKS THAT CAN DO IT, AND YOU CAN SEE RIGHT NOW THAT THEY ARE ESTABLISHING THE RUN UP FRONT, AND DOMINATING IN THE OFFENSIVE LINE.
>> SECOND DOWN AND 17 FROM THE 23.
SOME OLD FASHIONED FOOTBALL AND NOT UNLIKE THE CARTERSVILLE VICTORY THAT WE SAW AGAINST CREEKSIDE ON SEPTEMBER 10th.
>> GO TO THE STRENGTH.
AND THIS IS THE FIVE OFFENSIVE LINE, AND THREE TAILBACK.
>> Referee: TIME-OUT, CARTERSVILLE.
CARTERSVILLE.
>> SO CARTERSVILLE BURNS THE FIRST TIME-OUT OF THE FIRST HALF, AND NO FLAG ON THE PLAY, AND WE WILL STEP ASIDE AS THEY TALK ABOUT THINGS ON SECOND AND 17.
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AND SUDDENLY, I FEEL LIKE DANNY KAY.
GENE KELLY, "SINGING IN THE RAIN."
ALL RIGHT.
SECOND AND 17.
ANOTHER BIG RUN FROM AMARI WHITE.
THAT IS GOING TO GIVE HIM SIX CARRIES UP OVER 50 YARDS ALREADY IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
>> GREAT VISION FOR HIM TO FIND THE OUTSIDE AND A LITTLE PLAY IN THE MIDDLE.
HE SEES THE END COMING DOWN IN THE MIDDLE, AND HE BOUNCES TO THE OUTSIDE, AND MR. AMARI WHITE IS WANTING ME TO PULL OUT MY OLD PADS TO MAKE THE GREAT RUNS AND GET IN FRONT OF HIM, AND TRY TO KNOCK SOMEBODY DOWN.
RUN, MR. WHITE, RUN.
>> PUTTING TOGETHER THE KIND OF YEAR THAT THEY HOPED THAT HE WOULD HAVE AFTER HAVING HIS JUNIOR SEASON CUT SHORT BY THE KNEE INJURY LAST YEAR.
HE IS GOING OUT FOR THE PASS.
PARK SER LOOKING FOR HIM -- TOUCHDOWN, CARTERSVILLE.
AMARI WHITE CAME RIGHT OUT OF THE BACKFIELD AND WENT RIGHT FOR THE DEFENSE AND CAUGHT THE PASS FROM JAKE PARKER FOR THE PURPLE HURRICANES' TOUCHDOWN.
>> NICE JOB OF JAKE PARKER DELIVERING THE BALL TO AMARI WHITE, BUT THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE PROTECTION.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS TOOK A LONG TIME, AND LOOK AT THE PROTECTION UP FRONT BY THIS LINE.
JUST STANDING IN THE POCKET, AND ABLE TO DROP THAT BALL THERE OVER CHRISTOPHER LEWIS, THE LINEBACKER.
BIG TIME THROW AND BIG TIME CATCH BY AMARI WHITE.
>> P.A.T.
BY JESUS GUTIERREZ IS UP AND GOOD.
7-0 LEAD FOR CARTERSVILLE AS AMARI WHITE SCORES HIS SECOND RECEIVING TOUCHDOWN OF THE SEASON.
LITTLE ROUTE OUT OF THE BACKFIELD IS AMARI WHITE, AND LOOK AT THAT PROTECTION ALL-TIME TO LET IT RUN DOWN, AND COMING OUT OF THE BACKFIELD, AND COMING DOWN 20 YARDS, AND IT TAKES TIME, AND THAT LINE TO PARKER RIGHT THERE.
>> 16-YARD TOUCHDOWN PASS, AND JAKE PARK E AND THE 14th OF THE SEASON.
AND YOU KNOW, WHEN JAKE PARKER, AND THIS CARTERSVILLE PROGRAM, IF YOU DID NOT KNOW, IT HAS A LEGACY OF GREAT QUARTERBACKS AND FIVE-STAR AND NUMBER ONE DRAFT PICK TREVOR LAWRENCE PLAYING FOR THE JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS AND YOU HAVE A THREE-STAR AT SOUTHERN MISS, AND CARSON DEL RIO AT FLORIDA, AND JAKE PARKER WHO IS A PROGRAM KID GETTING THE JOB DONE LIKE HE DID.
>> AND LIVING UP TO THE EXPECTATIONS AT THAT POSITION AT THIS LEVEL HAS PARKER BEEN.
>> COLE SPEER IS COMING UP TO GET THE KICKOFF AND RETURNING TO THE 32 YARD LINE.
AND THIS IS A VICTORY TO ITSELF INTO THE GAME, AND THE FIRST TIME THAT COLE SPEER HAS TOUCHED THE BALL.
AND THAT IS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE HAS HAD POSSESSION, AND GOTTEN POSITIVE YARDS TONIGHT.
>> RIGHT NOW, WITH THE WEATHER, WE HAVE SEEN IT SLIP OUT OF CHRISTIAN LEWIS' HANDS, AND THROW IT IT ON THE OUT ROUTEK AND GET IT THERE, AND IF THEY ARE GOING TO HAVING A CHANCE TO WIN, QUIN SMITH, ANSZ THIS IS MORE OF A 50/50 RUN PASS, AND THEY WILL ESTABLISH THE PASS TO GET IT DOWN THE FIELD.
>> THERE'S A BIG RUN THERE BY KAYDEN WILLIAMS AND MY CORRECTION, THAT WAS QUIN SMITH ON THE KICK RETURN INSTEAD OF COLE SPEER, AND SO THEY HAVE NOT HAD A TOUCH BY COLE SPEER IN THE GAME.
A BIG RUN BY CADE WILLIAMS.
>> A NICE JOB THERE AND BOTH BACKS IN THE BACKFIELD, GAGE LEONARD IS LEADING THE WAY FOR WILLIAM, AND A NICE KICKOUT BLOCK BY LEONARD, AND NICE PATIENCE BY WILLIAMS TO FOLLOW HIM TO THE OUTSIDE WITH THE BURST.
>> AND KAYDEN WILLIAMS IS A 58 185-POUND SOPHOMORE, AND RECRUITING IN FRONT OF HIM WITH NO DOUBT PICKING UP OFFERS IN THE YEARS TO COME.
KAYDEN WILLIAMS WITH THE RUN.
>> WE HAVE GIVEN THE APPLAUSE TO THE CARTERSVILLE' OFFENSIVE LINE, BUT THIS YELLOW JACKETS OFFENSIVE LINE CAN HOLD THEIR OWN AS YOU TALKED ABOUT KENDRICK KIRBY OVER THERE AT THE LEFT TACKLE.
THEY HAVE A LOT OF SIZE ON THE RIGHT SIDE WITH WARREN AND BALLARD AND THE WEATHER SOMETIMES, IT DICTATES WHERE YOU HAVE TO GO IN THE PLAYBOOK, AND BOTH TEAMS ARE STARTING TO GET THE RUN GAME GOING.
>> SECOND DOWN AND SIX.
JADEN WILLIAMS AGAIN.
MILES FORRISTALL CAME IN, AND HE GOT SOME PENETRATION, AND CLICKED THE ANKLES TO GET ON THE GROUND.
WE HAVE THIRD DOWN COMING UP.
>> IN 2021 THEY CALL THIS UGLY FOOTBALL, AND IN THE '80s AND '90s THEY CALLED IT THE WAY TO GO.
THIS IS HOW BOTH TEAMS, I THINK THAT WE WILL SEE IT, AND THEY ARE GOING TO LET THE RUN GAME, AND NEITHER DEFENSE HAS A LOT OF SIZE, SO TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS, SO THEY WILL JUST START PUSHING THE BODIES AROUND AND LET THE BACKS GO TO WORK.
>> LEWIS WITH A PASS OVER THE HEAD OF HIS INTENDED RECEIVER.
IT IS GOING TO BE FOURTH DOWN, AND GAGE LEONARD IS THE INTENDED TARGET.
WE WILL SEE WHAT THEY DO HERE ON FOURTH AND THREE.
THEY HAVE NOT BROUGHT THE PUNT TEAM OUT YET.
BALL, IT IS AN INTERESTING CALL ON THE THIRD AND THREE.
I THINK THAT WE HAVE HAD ANOTHER SLIP OF THE BALL BY CHRISTIAN LEWIS, BECAUSE HE IS DRYING THE HANDS, AND NOT ABLE TO GET HIS HANDS DRY.
>> GOING FOR IT FROM THE MIDFIELD OR PERHAPS JUST TRYING TO PULL THEM OFFSIDES.
IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THEY'RE TOO CONVINCING THAT THEY WILL GO FOR IT HERE.
BUT I AM WRONG.
THEY ARE GOING TO GO FOR IT.
THEY MAY HAVE TAKEN TOO MUCH TIME.
THEY PASS THE BALL TO COLE SPEER.
>> I AM NOT SURE WHAT THEY ARE DISCUSSING.
I THINK THEY ARE DISCUSSING THE PLAY CLOCK.
>> Referee: DELAY OF GAME, AND FIVE-YARD PENALTY.
>> INSTEAD OF FOURTH AND THREE, IT IS FOURTH AND EIGHT.
>> YOU CAN SEE ON THE LAST PLAY, THAT DEFENSIVE FRONT, AND YOU CAN SEE THEY WERE NOT GOING TO BE FOOLED WITH THAT HARD COUNT.
AND THAT SITUATION OF THE GAMBLE OF GOING ON THAT FROM FOURTH AND THREE AT THE MIDFIELD AND YOU CAN SEE IT SETBACK, AND HE DIDN'T TRY TO MOVE WHEN YOU SEE HIM MOVING IT OFFSIDES.
>> AND YOU CAN SEE CLAY STEPHENSON IS AGITATED WITH THAT DELAY OF GAME CALL.
I THINK THAT HE WANTED THE TIME-OUT JUST TO MAKE HIS CASE WITH THE OFFICIALS.
THAT IS WHAT HE WANTED TO DO.
HE DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO TALK TO THE TEAM.
HE JUST WANTED TO TALK TO GREG NORTON THE REFEREE.
>> SOMETIMES THE COACHES HAVE TO GET IT OFF OF THEIR HEART.
THEY HAVE TO LET THE REF KNOW.
>> ALL RIGHT.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH NELLY WHILE WE HAVE A MOMENT.
>> ALL RIGHT.
WE WILL GIVE YOU THE WEATHER REPORT FROM THE TURF, AND EARLY SCORES.
COFFEE IS LEADING ROBBINS IN REGION 1-5A, AND THAT IS IN JAR DINE DOWN IN DOUG LAWS, AND SURPRISE IN COOK WITH THE LEAD OVER FITZGERALD WHO LOST TO THOMASVILLE, AND NOW COOK WITH A EARLY LEAD ON THOMASVILLE.
AND NOW, EARLY BACK AND FORTH WITH BANSVILLE, AND IN 7A, CAMDEN AND THEIR GAME RIGHT NOW IS IN THE BACK AND FORTH AND LOUNDES.
AND THIS IS A VERY SLIPPERY SURFACE HERE WHEN IT IS COMING TO ANY TRACTION.
IT IS AN INTERESTING LOOK EARLY ON, AND THE BALL IS FLOATING OUT OF THE QUARTERBACK'S HANDS JUST HOW WET IT IS.
>> YES, IT IS A HEAVY DOWNPOUR, AND NELLY, YOU WELL KNOW THERE AT WYMAN STADIUM, AND THAT PUNT IS FIELDED AT THE 18 YARD LINE WHERE THE PURPLE HURRICANES ARE GOING TO GO BACK ON OFFENSE WITH 46 SECONDS TO PLAY IN THE QUARTER.
YOU HEARD JON MENTION THE COFFEE AND ROBIN WARNER SCORE, AND THAT SCORE IS SPECIAL INTEREST HERE TO THESE TWO TEAM, BECAUSE THESE TWO TEAMS WILL FACE THOSE TWO TEAMS IN SOME SHAPE, FORM OR FAX IN ALL LIKELIHOOD IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
AND WE WILL HAVE A WHOLE TUTORIAL ON IT AT HALFTIME, BUT REGION 1 AND REGION 7 IS GOING TO PASS, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE A BIG CROSSROADS IN THE PATH EARLY IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE PLAYOFFS HERE IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
>> Referee: SNAP INFRACTION ON THE OFFENSE.
THAT PENALTY IS FIVE YARDS.
STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> AND MATT, AS YOU SAW WITH JON, SOME OF THE WETTER AREAS ARE WHERE IT IS PAINTED ON THE FIELDS LIKE THIS.
IT GETS REAL SLIPPERY ON THE LOGO AND THE NUMBERS WHERE THOSE PAINTED AREAS ARE.
YOU HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR THAT AS WELL IF YOU ARE PLAYER.
YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO LINE UP SO FAR OUT ON THE NUMBERS AND KEEP IT TO THE INSIDE.
>> GRANDBERRY IS IN THERE AT TIGHT END NOW.
AND MALACHI AND JEFFRIES CRASHES OUT.
PICKS UP A COUPLE OF YARDS ON THE PLAY.
CHRISTOPHER LEWIS THEIR LEADING TACKLER MAKING THE STOP FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS.
>> BOTH OF THE BACKS ARE WIDE, AND JEFFRIES IS ATTACKING THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE, AND GOOD BLOCK AND COUNTER TRAP TO PULL THE GUARD AROUND.
ATKINS IS THE BULLDOG OF THE LINE, AND KICKING IT OUT, AND NICE JOB TO GET DOWNHILL THERE IS MALACHI JEFFRIES.
>> PROBABLY THE FINAL PLAY OF THE FIRST QUARTER RIGHT HERE.
WELL, MAYBE NOT.
MIGHT HAVE ALREADY HAD IT.
AND WE HAVE.
AND THAT IS GOING TO BRING AN END TO THE FIRST QUARTER.
7-0, CANES ON TOP.
61-GAME REGION WIN STREAK ON THE LINE, AND THEY HAVE THE LEAD AFTER 20 MINUTES.
>>> THE START OF THE SECOND QUARTER AND IT IS A DOWNRIGHT NASTY NIGHT IN CARTERSVILLE.
YELLOW JACKETS ARE DOWN 7-0 AS WE BEGIN THE SECOND PERIOD.
SECOND DOWN AND 11 FOR THE HURRICANES IN THEIR OWN END.
THE BALL IS AT THE 18.
SETTING UP A SCREEN FOR JEFFRIES.
JEFFRIES IS GOING TO BE TACKLED AROUND THE 28 YARD LINE.
LUKE HAWKINS IS THE STAR IN THERE ON THAT TACKLE.
>> NICE EXECUTION OF THE SCREEN THERE, AND A NICE JOB OF THE LEFT GUARD ATKINS GETTING OUT IN FRONT OF MALACHI JEFFREY SECURING THE CORNER.
THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IN THIS KIND OF WEATHER.
QUICK SCREENS AND DRAWS AND QUICK PASSES, AND THAT IS WHAT IS AT YOUR DISPOSAL WITH BAD WEATHER.
>> THIRD DOWN AND TWO AND JEFFRIES GETS IT AGAIN, AND HE IS NOT GOING TO GET THE THIRD DOWN.
>> NICE PENETRATION BY BEN NATIONS, NUMBER 7, AND ONE OF THE FEW TIMES IN THE GAME THAT WE HAVE SEEN THE YELLOW JACKETS DEFENSIVE FRONT ON CARTERSVILLE' SIDE OF THE BALL, AND WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO SHUTDOWN THE RUN GAME, YOU HAVE TO GET ON THE FRONT LINE DEFENDERS WITH THE PENETRATION, AND MAKE THE BACKS BOUNCE BACK TO THE OUTSIDE.
>> FOUT DOWN AND TWO, AND THEY HAVE NOT BROUGHT THE FRONT UNIT ON, AND NOW THEY WILL RUN THEM ON.
SHIELDS IS STANDINGT THE SIDE, BUT THERE IS NO RUSH.
WE WILL SEE WHERE THEY SPOT THIS AS THEY WALK IT UP THE SIDELINE.
SO, WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE CALHOUN YELLOW JACKETS' RESUME, AND FOUR-TIME STATE CHAMPIONS GOING BACK TO 1952, BUT THE LAST THREE HAVE COME IN THE LAST DECADE, AND 23 REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS AND THEY HAVE WON 18 STRAIGHT BETWEEN 2001 AND 2018 WITH THE 119-GAME REGION WIN STREAK, AND LOOKING AT THAT RECORD, 2001 IS BACK WHEN COACH HAL LAMB TOOK OVER THE PROGRAM AND GOT IT STARTED TO WIN 233 GAMES, THE LEGENDARY COACH, AND CLAY STEVENSON IS THE HEAD COACH OF THE JACKETS NOW, AND HE GREW UP UNDER HIM AS PLAYER, AND THEN ASSISTANT COACH HIMSELF.
HE TOOK OVER THE PROGRAM IN 2019.
WILLIAMS IS ON THE CARRY, AND SHORT GAIN.
>> AND THAT IS GETTING BACK, AND RUNNING THE BALL, AND LEONARD AND WILLIAMS IS CAPABLE, AND THIS IS A FUNCTION OF THE WEATHER, AND WE KNOW HOW EXPLOSIVE THIS RECEIVING CORE CAN BE WHEN YOU HAVE THESE CONDITION, AND RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE TO START TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GENERATE THE OFFENSE, AND THAT IS HOW THEY ARE DOING IT WITH THE RUN GAME.
>> THROW THE BALL INCOMPLETE.
GAGE LEONARD IS THE TARGET, AND YOU HAVE POINTED IT OUT SEVERAL TIMES THAT YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO COUNT ON THE PASSING GAME TONIGHT, BECAUSE OF THE WET WEATHER.
>> ONCE AGAIN, HE IS WIPING THE HANDS, AND I'M NOT SURE THAT HE IS GETTING A GOOD GRIP ON THE PASSES, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING THERE, AND NOT EVEN HITTING THE RECEIVER WHEN HE IS THROWING THEM.
SO RIGHT NOW, TRYING TO MANAGE HOLDING THE WET BALL IS CHRISTIAN LEWIS.
>> HE IS 1 FOR 5 TONIGHT, AND THIS IS A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS COMPLETED 72% OF THE PASSES, AND SO IT IS NOT BY ACCIDENT.
THE WEATHER IS REALLY WREAKING HAVOC WITH THE PASSING GAME NOW.
KAYDEN WILLIAMS RUNS, AND THERE IS A FLAG ON THE FIELD.
>> NICE JOB THERE BY GRANDBERRY WORKING DOWN THE LINE.
>> Referee: HOLDING BY THE OFFENSE, AND THAT PENALTY IS 10 YARDS FROM THE SPOT OF THE FOUL, AND STILL THIRD DOWN.
>> YOU CAN SEE NUMBER 5, COLE SPEER THERE IN THE PICTURE, AND THEY HAVE NOT GOTTEN THE COMMIT FROM THE BALL IN THE GAME.
HE IS A REAL BURNER, AND HE IS CONSISTENTLY CLOCKING 4.5 ON THE 40, BUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET HIM THE BALL, AND HE IS THE TOP WIDE RECEIVER COMMITTED TO THE BULLDOGS IN AUGUST COMMITTING TO ARMY AND EAST CAROLINA AND NAVY.
>> AND YOU HAVE TO SEE THE JET SWEEP TO SET SOMETHING UP FOR HIM.
>> AND HE HAS BIG FELLOW BLOCKING FOR HIM, AND HE HAS THE BALL COMING ACROSS THE 45 AND DOWN CLOSE TO THE 40.
>> NICE BLOCKING UP FRONT, AND GOOD EXECUTION.
LEWIS IS THE QUARTERBACK, AND GOING BEHIND TO BUY TIME, AND HAVING THE D-LINEMAN IN FRONT OF HIM.
AND SIMILAR TO CARTERSVILLE ON THEIR SCREEN.
THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO AND START TO GENERATING THE OFFENSE IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
>> FOURTH AND FIVE, WAYNE, AND ARE YOU GOING FOR IT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 50?
>> WELL, AT THAT POINT, I WOULD PUNT THE BALL WITH THE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CONTINUE TO TRY TO PLAY DEFENSE.
>> THEY ARE GOING TO GO FOR IT ON FOURTH AND FIVE.
LEWIS IS BEING CHASED AS HE IS THROWING, AND THE BALL IS GOING TO BE TURNED OVER ON DOWNS.
HOW ABOUT THE PRESSURE FROM THE BACKER JAKE BRASFIELD TO LEVEL THE BACK, AND CARTERSVILLE IS GOING TO TAKE OVER.
HUGE DEFENSIVE PLAY HERE BY THE CANES.
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BALL THROUGH THE HANDS OUT THERE.
PASSING GAME IS GOING TO BE A TOUGH PROPOSITION FOR BOTH TEAMS HERE TONIGHT THAT IS MOROCCO WILKEY WHO COULD NOT COME UP WITH IT.
>> AND JAKE PARKER PUTTING A LITTLE BIT ON IT, AND WENT RIGHT THROUGH HIS HANDS ON THE STOP ROUTE.
ONCE AGAIN, AS WE TALKED ABOUT AND CONTINUALLY TONIGHT, IF IT CONTINUES TO RAIN, IT IS NOT JUST WET, BUT IT IS KIND OF COLD AND WINDY OUT THERE.
AND JUST A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH PEPPER ON THAT FROM JAKE PARKER TO WILKEY.
>> SECOND DOWN AND TEN.
AMARI WHITE HAD THAT BIG FIRST QUARTER WITH SIX CARRIES FOR 50 YARDS, BUT THIS TIME, NO RUNNING ROOM FOR HIM.
>> ONCE AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THE ENERGY AND THE EFFORT THAT AMARI WHITE BRINGS AND THE BODIES THAT HE GOES THROUGH, AND IT TOOK A CUP OF PLAYERS TO BRING HEM DOWN.
>> THAT IS QUIN SMITH, THE AIR FORCE COMMIT WHO CAME OVER THERE TO FINISH OFF THE PLAY.
THIRD DOWN AND EIGHT.
YELLOW JACKETS WERE HOPPING IN THERE WITH THE LINEBACKER BLITZ SHOWING MASON GREEN.
HE IS STILL COMING OFF OF THE EDGE.
WE WILL SEE IF HE COMES OR DROPS BACK INTO COVERAGE.
HE IS COMING, AND THEY PICK IT UP, AND PARKER THROWS AND IT IS COMPLETE, AND THAT IS A FIRST DOWN CATCH AND RUN FOR JACOB RAY.
>> NICE PICKUP ON THE BLITZ THERE BY THE BACK.
THIS TIME JAKE PARKER HITTING THE RECEIVER JACOB RAY RIGHT IN THE NUMBERS THERE, AND RIGHT IN THE BREAD BASKET AS A RECEIVER, YOU ARE TAUGHT TO CATCH THE BALL WITH YOUR HAND, BUT AS WE SAID WITH THE WEATHER, YOU WILL HAVE TO CORRAL THE BALL, AND NICE THROW AND CATCH THERE IN THESE CONDITIONS BETWEEN PARKER AND RAY.
>> YOU CAN SEE THAT RAY HAS BEEN OFFERED BY BERRY, AND THE TOP RECEIVER COLLIN FLETCH SER OUT WITH A BROKEN COLLARBONE, ANDED THEY ARE HOPING TO GET HIM BACK IN THE PLAYOFFS SOME TIME.
AND NOW, THEY GET THE BALL UP TO THE MIDFIELD AND DOWN TO THE 30 YARD LINE.
>> THAT IS A NICE PATIENCE THERE BY WHITE, AND GOOD BLOCKING UP FRONT BY CLINE AND ATKINS ON THE LEFT SIDE.
LOOKING AT THE PATIENCE OF THE FEET TO BOUNCE IT TO OUTSIDE, AND THEN WE KNOW HOW HE IS GOING TO FINISH THE RUN.
IT IS GOING TO BE PHYSICAL WITH WHOEVER HE COMES INTO CONTACT WITH.
>> FIRST AND TEN BALL AT THE 29.
AMARI WHITE AGAIN.
HE HAS GREAT BOUNCE.
HE HIT THAT LINE AND THEN BOUNCES OUTSIDE, AND QUIN SMITH IS MAKING THE TACKLE THE, BUT IT IS ANOTHER NICE GAIN FOR AMARI WHITE.
>> TREMENDOUS BALANCE AND PATIENCE, AND YOU CAN SEE ESPECIALLY ON THE LEFT SIDE THAT HE IS EASILY ABLE TO BOUNCE AND HAS THAT BURST TO GET HIM OUT INTO THE OPEN FIELD.
WHAT A PERFORMANCE HE IS HAVING SO FAR IN THE FIRST HALF.
THE SENIOR, AND ONLY 5'7", AND 185, BUT RIGHT NOW HE IS HAVING A BIG IMPACT ON THIS OFFENSE.
>> WELL ON HIS WAY TO THE FOURTH 100-YARD RUSHING GAME OF THE SEASON.
SECOND DOWN AND TWO, AND THE BIG FELLOW MALACHI JEFFRIES BOWLS HIS WAY TO THE FIRST DOWN.
>> THE PHYSICAL OF THE TWO BACKS AND ONE DOWNHILL RUNNER, AND ONE CUT DOWNHILL AND WHY NOT WHEN YOU ARE 5'10" AND ABOUT 210 IS THE JUNIOR PICKING UP THE SLACK FROM AMARI WHITE.
IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO CALL IT.
HE IS JUST AS EFFECTIVE AND A BIGGER BACK.
>> 10 RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS TO LEAD THE TEAM.
HE IS GREAT IN THE SHORT YARDAGE SITUATIONS.
THE BALL IS FUMBLED, AND DID PARKER GET ON TOP OF IT OR DID IT SQUIRT OUT FROM UNDERNEATH HIM?
HE FELL ON TOP OF IT, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHETHER HE RETAINED POSSESSION, BUT APPARENTLY HE DID.
ACTUALLY, THAT WAS GAMBLE.
THE NUMBER TWO QUARTERBACK WHO IS THE WILDCAT GUY.
IT WAS AN RPO AND THEY DID NOT MAKE THE CONNECTION.
>> GAMBLE WAS TRYING TO PULL THE BALL AND IN THESE SITUATIONS AS WE KEEP ON COMING AWE OF THE SIDELINE AND YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HANDLING THE BALL A LOT, AND TRYING TO PULL THE BALL AND SLIPPED OUT ON THE RPO.
>> SECOND DOWN, AND SETTING UP THE SCREEN AND THEY GOT BLOWN UP RIGHT AWAY, AND NOTHING DO, AND MASON GREEN READ IT PERFECTLY.
OR WAS THAT CHRISTOPHER LEWIS.
>> CHRISTOPHER LEWIS, AND HE IS RIGHT THERE AND READING THE SIDE OF THE QUARTERBACK, AND BEATING THE LEFT TACKLE, EXCUSE ME, THE LEFT GUARD JADEN ATKINS TO THE OUTSIDE AND THOSE ARE THE IMPACTFUL PLAYS THEY NEED CONSISTENTLY FROM HIM, AND HE IS THE HEART OF THE DEFENSE AND HE HAS TO MAKE THOSE PLAYS AND BIG TIME PLAY THERE READING WITH HIS EYES TO STOP THAT SCREEN.
>> HE IS WHAT THE DEFENSE WHAT HIS BROTHER CHRISTIAN IS FROM THE OFFENSE AND THEY BOTH HAVE OFFERS FROM RHINEHART, SHORTER AND BERRY, AND KIND OF A PACKAGE DEAL.
THIRD DOWN AND TIME-OUT IS CALLED BY CARTERSVILLE TO LEAVE THEM WITH ONE IN THE HALF.
>> Referee: TIME-OUT, CARTERSVILLE.
>> SO WHILE CARTERSVILLE TALKS THIS OVER, WE WILL STEP ASIDE AS WELL.
>> 7-0, CARTERSVILLE WITH JUST OVER 5:00 TO PLAY HERE IN THE HALF.
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SO COPPING OUT OF THE TIME-OUT, THIRD DOWN AND 17 FROM THE 25.
PARKER WITH THE FLAG OUT.
PROBABLY A HOLD HERE.
AND PARK SER THROW ON THE RUN, AND SHORT, INCOMPLETE.
CHECKING THE FLAG, AND THAT WAS GRANDBERRY THE TIGHT END THERE.
THEY WILL BACK THEM UP.
>> Referee: ON THE OFFENSE.
>> BOTH TEAMS ARE NOT REALLY ABLE TO GET THE BALL DOWN THE FIELD WITH THE PASS, AND THEN SOME OF THAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE WEATHER.
GOOD PROTECTION, AND THEY DID HAVE HOLDING.
>> Referee: THAT PENALTY IS DECLINED, FOURTH DOWN.
>> THIS PICKUP THROUGH THE MIDDLE.
AND MALACHI JEFFRIES IS COME DOWN THE MIDDLE, AND HE IS GOING TO KEEP CARTERSVILLE OUT ON THE FIELD.
>> EVEN IN THIS CONDITION, IT WILL BE TOUGH FOR GUTIERREZ, SO NOW YOU MAKE THEM GO FOR IT ON FOURTH AND 17.
>> STILL GETTING INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE SIDELINE IS JAKE PARKER.
>> WEREN'T YOU SURPRISED AT THE DEFENSE?
>> VERY SURPRISED, AND THEY ARE NOT MORE IN A PREVENT SITUATION, AND COMING WITH THE PRESSURE.
>> GOING FOR THE END ZONE, AND IT IS DROPPED.
BROKEN UP BACK THERE.
SUPER PLAY ON DEFENSE BY DUSTIN KERNS ON THE BALL THAT WAS DELIVERED TO JACOB RAY, AND THE BALL IS GOING OVER ON DOWNS.
>> AVOIDING THE BLITZ.
PARKER IS GETTING ENOUGH AIR UNDER THE BALL, AND JACOB RAY IS TRYING TO MAKE A PLAY ON IT AS WELL.
A NICE JOB OF KERNS WHO NEVER GOT THE BALL, AND COMING UP WITH THE CATCH, BUT JUST COULD NOT BRING IT IN.
IT IS WORTH THE GAMBLE IN THIS SITUATION, AND WHERE YOU ARE ON THE FIELD, AND OUTSIDE OF THE FIELD GOAL RANGE.
IT DOES NOT HURT YOU TO THROW THE BALL INTO THE END ZONE IF YOU ARE CARTERSVILLE.
>> UNDER 5:00 TO PLAY, AND COLE SPEER GETS HIS FIRST TOUCH OF THE GAME.
THEN THEY LINE HIM UP IN THE WILDCAT QUARTERBACK TO GET THE BALL TO HIM RIGHT THERE.
>> WE TALKED ABOUT IT ON THE LAST DRIVE HOW TO FIND A WAY TO GET IT TO COLE SPEER AND MAYBE A JET SWEEP OR SCREEN AND JUST A DIRECT SNAP WITH HIS KIND OF TALENT, AND HE IS DANGEROUS ANYWHERE ON THE FIELD IS THE SENIOR HEADED TO ATHENS.
>> SECOND DOWN AND THREE.
>> KAYDEN WILLIAMS IS TRIPPED UP.
THAT WAS CASE ADAMS THE SAFETY WHO CAME UP FROM THE BACK LINE TO MAKE THAT STOP.
>> YOU REALLY GET THIS FEEL THAT THIS CALHOUN OFFENSE HAVE SHOWN WITH WILLIAMS AND LEONARD TO BE ABLE TO RUN THE BALL AT THREE OR FOUR YARDS A CLIP, BUT THEY ARE SO EXPLOSIVE, CAN THEY GEAR DOWN TO PLAY THIS KIND OF BALL GAME WHERE THEY JUST SHOW A LITTLE BIT MORE PATIENCE AND CONTINUE TO RUN THE BALL LIKE THEY HAVE.
>> FIRST AND TEN FROM THE 37.
HAYDEN WILLIAMS WITH SOME TOUGH YARDS THERE PICKING UP THREE UP TO THE 40 YARD LINE.
>> ONCE AGAIN, COLE SPEER IS TAKING THE DIRECT SNAP, AND THIS TIME, HE IS HANDING IT OFF.
KAYDEN WILLIAMS AND AS I SAID, IN-GAME ADJUSTMENTS THAT YOU HAVE TO MAKE WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO GET YOU A VICTORY.
>> YEAH, SPEAR IS A GUY WHO HAS 21 CATCHESSH AND HE IS AVERAGING THREE CATCHES PER GAME, AND WITH THE PASSING GAME BEING THE WAY IT IS TONIGHT, THIS IS MAYBE THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN GET HIM THE BALL.
>> AND THIS IS THE CARTERSVILLE' DEFENSE PLAYING SOFT, AND ONLY A THREE-MAN FRONT, AND 3-3 STACK, AND THEY WON'T LET HIM THROW THE BALL DOWN THE FIELD.
>> SPEER IS TRYING TO GET TO THE OUTSIDE AND SHOW YOU THAT SPEED, BUT IT IS MAYHALL, AND THE CORNERBACK TRIPS THE HIM UP.
>> AND NICE JOB BY MAYHALL COMING BACK WITH THE ACTION, AND GRAN BERRY ONCE AGAIN TO MAKE SPEAR BOUNCE THAT.
>> Referee: HOLDING ON THE OFFENSE, AND THAT PENALTY IS TEN YARDS TO THE SPOT OF THE FOUL.
>> HIGH SNAP, AND LEWIS TO CORRAL IT, AND YOU CAN SEE GRANDBERRY WITH THE PENETRATION WITH THE LEFT GUARD THERE WITH CHRISTIAN DALE PULLING ON THE JERSEY.
>> THAT ONE IS INCOMPLETE.
QUIN SMITH IS THE TARGET.
HE IS ANOTHER GUY KIND OF LIKE COLE SPEER.
THEY ARE KIND OF 1A AND 1B BETWEEN THEM WITH 40 PASS RECEPTIONS AND GETTING THE BALL DOWNFIELD IN PASSING GAME IS GOING TO BE HARD TONIGHT.
>> THEY ARE A BIG PLAY OFFENSE AS YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE IS NOT A LOT OF CATCHES, BUT A BIG TIME 20, 25 YARDERS DOWN THE FIELD WITH SPEER AND SMITH, AND THE WEATHER IS NOT GOING TO ALLOW THAT TONIGHT.
>> THIRD AND 22.
AND THE BALL IS OUT.
LET'S SEE WHO HAS GOT IT.
YEP, CALHOUN IS ABLE TO RECOVER THEIR OWN FUMBLE.
THAT WAS CHRISTOPHER LEWIS IN THERE TO BLOCK.
HE IS A BLOCKING BACK, AND IN ADDITION TO BEING A STARTING LINEBACKER, AND HE SAVED THEM RIGHT THERE BY RECOVERING THAT FUMBLE.
>> WE TALKED ABOUT THIS OFFENSE OF CALHOUN, AND 43 POINTS, AND THIS DEFENSE OF CARTERSVILLE, ONLY 14.5 POINTS A GAME, WHICH LETS YOU KNOW HOW THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYING ALL YEAR, AND A LOT OF EFFORT AND RALLYING TO THE BALL, AND IN THIS WEATHER COMING UP WITH THE FUMBLE, AND JUST NOT ABLE TO BRING IT IN.
>> LEWIS WITH IT, AND HE IS GOING TO BUST IT AWAY.
AND NOW IT IS GOING TO SPLASH AWAY.
THAT IS WHERE THE CANES GO ON OFFENSE AFTER 48.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH HANNAH GOODIN.
>> I AM FOLLOWING THE TEAMS THE AROUND THE STATE, AND WHO IS GOING TO CLINCH AND WHO IS GOING TO SEND THEIR REGIONS BACK INTO THE BLENDER?
IT IS COMING UP ON THE GEORGIA REGIONS HALFTIME SHOW COME UP IN A FEW MINUTES.
>> THANK YOU, HANNAH, WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS THE GREATEST TIME OF THE YEAR AS THE PLAYOFFS ARE GETTING SET, AND TEAMS ARE WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS JUST LIKE WE HAVE HERE ON TO LINE HERE.
THE REGION 7-5A CHAMPIONSHIP.
CARTERSVILLE IS TRYING TO WIN THE 10th STRAIGHT.
AND CALHOUN IS TRYING TO WIN THE FIRST SINCE 2018, AND AFTER WINNING 18 STRAIGHT.
AMARI WHITE JUST KEEPS GETTING IT DONE.
NINE CARRIES AND 68 YARDS FOR AMARI WHITE HERE IN THE FIRST HALF.
THAT RUN MIGHT BE ERASED BY THE PENALTY THOUGH.
>> WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER HOLDING CALL.
>> ON THE OFFENSE, AND THAT PENALTY IS 10 YARDS.
STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> ON THE TACKLE, SHAD RI HURST, AND WE TALKED ABOUT HIM AS AN OUTSTANDING SEASON AS A TACKLE.
FOR YOU AT HOME BEING A FORMER OFFENSIVE TACKLE, HAVING A BACK LIKE AMARI WHITE, AND YOU SEE THEM COMING OUT OF THE HOLE, AND YOU SEE THEM IN THE PERIPHERAL, AND GRABBING AND REACHING AND YOU CAN SEE THEM, AND THAT TIME, IT IS HURST, AND THAT TIME, THEY DID NOT LET THEM BOUNCE, AND IT IS BEN NATION GRABBING THE LEG AND PULLING HIM DOWN.
>> THEY WERE IN THE MIDDLE THERE, AND IT IS GOING TO TAKE THAT EFFORT BY THEM TO BRING HIM DOWN.
THAT IS THE KIND OF THE BACK THAT AMARI WHITE IS, AND EVEN THE TWO TO THREE-YARD RUNS THAT WE HAVE SEEN HIM GET, AND IT IS A LOT OF FIRE GOING ON IN THOSE THREE YARDS.
>> WE ARE DOWN TO THE LAST MINUTE OF THE FIRST HALF.
SECOND DOWN AND 16.
THE LINE TO GAIN IS THE OTHER 42.
PARKER LETS IT FLY WAY OUT OF BOUNDS.
AND WE MIGHT HAVE A DEFENSIVE P.I.
HERE.
>> JAKE PARKER, AND WE TALKED ABOUT HIM BEING A GAME MANAGER AND HE CAN THROW IT DOWNFIELD.
>> Referee: PASS INTERFERENCE ON THE DEFENSE, AND THAT PENALTY IS 15 YARDS.
STILL SECOND DOWN.
>> HE MIGHT NOT BE A THREE, FOUR OR FIVE-STAR LIKE THEY HAVE HAD IN THE PROGRAM OVER THE LAST DECADE, BUT HE CAN THROW A PRETTY BALL.
THE WETNESS OF THE FOOTBALL HAS NOT SEEMED TO IMPACT HIM AS MUCH TONIGHT AS IT HAS CHRISTIAN LEWIS.
>> DEFINITELY HAS SOME ZIP WHEN HE IS ABLE TO THROW THE BALL.
>> SECOND DOWN AND TWO, AND THAT IS A FIRST DOWN CARRY BY AMARI WHITE.
REMEMBER THE CANES HAVE ONE TIME-OUT REMAINING.
THAT DOES GIVE THEM A FIRST DOWN.
>> WELL, A LITTLE HURRY-UP WITH THE CANES' OFFENSE AND THE WAY THAT JAKE PARKER HAS BEEN THROWING THE BALL IN THE RAIN, AT LEAST DOWN THE FIELD, AND YOU FIGURE THEY WILL GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE TO DO THAT IN THIS DRIVE WITH 30 SECONDS TO GO.
>> YOU THINK THEY NEED ABOUT 20 YARDS FOR THE FIELD GOAL THERE, AND WIDE OPEN, AND FORGET THE FIELD GOAL.
IT IS TOUCHDOWN, CARTERSVILLE.
JACOB RAY RAN RIGHT PAST THE DEFENSE AND JACOB PARKER PUT IT RIGHT ON THE MONEY.
>> JAKE PARKER MAKE SURE THAT YOU HIT ME UP SO I CAN SEND YOU A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR MAKING ME LOOK LIKE I KNOW A LITTLE FOOTBALL.
GREAT PROTECTION UP FRONT, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE ABILITY, AND IT IS NOT SEEMING LIKE THE RAIN HAS PREVENTED HIS ABILITY TO THROW IT DOWN THE FIELD.
GREAT JOB THERE.
>> P.A.T.
BY GUTIERREZ MAKES IT 14-0.
AND JAKE PARKER WITH A HUGE PASS TO JACOB RAY.
>> LOOK AT THIS PROTECTION.
ALL DAY TO SURVEY THE FIELD, AND STEPPING INTO THE THROW.
GIVING JACOB RAY TIME TO GET BEHIND THE SECONDARY.
LITTLE POST ROUTE.
AS YOU COULD SEE, NICE JOB.
NICE ROUTE THERE BY JACOB RAY AS WELL.
JUST GETTING BEHIND THE SECONDARY IN A BIG WAY.
YOU CAN SEE THE FOUR OR FIVE JERSEYS BACK THERE, AND RAY FINDS THE SPACE, AND JAKE PARKER HITTING HIM ON THE MONEY.
>> THEY ARE PUTTING THE PRESSURE ON THE CALHOUN TEAM WHICH IS TYPICALLY EFFICIENT AND VERY GOOD PASSING TEAM, BUT BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS HERE TONIGHT, IT HAS BEEN VERY DIFFICULT FOR HIM THEM.
AND NOW THEY ARE DOWN TWO SCORES.
>> THIS IS ABOUT GETTING TO HALFTIME AND ONLY DOWN 14 AND YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN SCORE THE BALL, BUT SOME OF WHAT CALHOUN HAS TO ADJUST TO IN THE SECOND HALF IS SHOWING SOME MORE PATIENCE.
>> AND A POOCH KICK AND BOUNCING ON THROUGH, AND PICKED UP AT THE 28 YARD LINE, AND NO RETURN HARDLY WHATSOEVER THERE BY CAM CURTIS.
>> THAT IS A GOOD SPECIAL TEAMS TACKLE THERE BY DESMOND CALLIER.
NICE JOB STAYING IN HIS LANE.
MAKING A CLEAN TACKLE RIGHT THERE.
YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THE FRUSTRATION THERE IN CHRISTIAN LEWIS' FACE.
IT HAS BEEN A TOUGH HALF BEING ABLE TO THROW THE BALL FOR HIM.
>> YOU CAN SEE CHRISTIAN WHO IS HAVING A GREAT SENIOR SEASON OFFERED BY RHINEHART, SHORTER AND BERRY.
THEY WILL JUST TRY TO GET TO THE LOCKER ROOM AND REGROUP.
CARTERSVILLE WITH A 14-0 LEAD AS THEY TRY TO WIN THEIR TENTH CONSECUTIVE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, AND PARKER WITH TWO TOUCHDOWN PASSES IN THAT HALF, AND ONE GOING TO AMARI WHITE, AND THEN THE 41-YARD STRIKE TO JACOB RAY AT THE END OF THE HALF, AND THAT CHANGES THE COMPLEXION OF THE GAME AS THESE TEAMS HEAD INTO THE LOCKER ROOM.
>> AND TWO OF THE KEYS THAT COACH FOSTER TALKED ABOUT WITH THE OFFENSE TO ESTABLISH THE RUN, AND THEY DID THAT WITH WHITE AND JEFFRIES AND MAKING BILG PLAYS DOWN THE FIELD.
THEY WERE ABLE TO DO THAT WITH JAKE PARKER AND RAY.
>> AND NOW WE GO TO JON NELSON WHO IS STANDING BY WITH THE COACH.
>> NOW, THE FIRST 20 MINUTES WERE A STRUGGLE, AND YOU GOT IT WITH THE LATE SCORE.
>> AND SO WE WERE PLAYING LOCKED IN, AND IT IS A SLOPPY GAME, AND THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT, AND WITH THE IMPLICATIONS, AND PROUD OF THE KIDS FOR STAYING IN THE FIGHT.
>> AND THE DEFENSE STEPPED UP AGAINST THE HIGH POWERED OFFENSE COMING IN, AND YOU PLANTED DOWN ON THEM, AND IS THE WEATHER FACTOR?
>> WELL, THEY WILL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AND SO WILL WILL WE.
WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE THE DOWN AND DISTANCE.
>> THANKS FOR THE TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
GO TEAM.
>> AND SO TWO SCORES UP, AND THE REGIONS HALFTIME SHOW STARTS WITH HANNAH GOODIN, AND I GUESS, WHEN, HANNAH, RIGHT NO?
>> YES.
THE REGIONS CHAMPIONSHIP GOING TO START RIGHT NOW.
AND SORRY, JON, BUT IT IS DRY HERE IN THE STUDIO.
THAT IS THE THEME HERE ON THE FRIDAY'S HALFTIME SHOW.
YOU WILL WANT TO STAY TUNED FOR THAT AFTER THE GAME.
AND FOR ANALYSIS, AND WE WILL HEAR FROM THE BAND, AND THE IMPACT PLAYER OF THE HALF ALL COMING UP.
>>> WELCOME INTO THE FOOTBALL FRIDAY HALFTIME SHOW PRESENTED BY REGIONS.
GET BACK INTO THE GAME BY REGIONS BANK.
I'M HANNA GOODIN COMING TO YOU FROM THE STUDIOS.
THIS IS FOR THE REGION 7-5A TITLE THERE IN WYMAN STUDIO AND IT HAS BEEN RAINING ALL NIGHT LONG.
AND SEVEN REGIONS CLINCHED CHAMPIONSHIPS LAST WEEK, AND WHO CAN DO IT AGAIN TONIGHT ON THE EMC SCOREBOARD.
IT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN ELECTRICITY.
IN REGION 3, NORTH COBB COULD CLINCH IF MARIETTA WINS, AND THEY WOULD GO BACK TO NEXT WEEK.
NORTH COBB IS UP 14-0 AT THE HALF IN THAT ONE.
IN REGION 3-7A, AND YOU KNOW IT, WINNER TAKES ALL, AND COLLINSHILL IS UP BY THREE OVER MILL CREEK.
IN REGION 3-1A, THEY ARE UP OVER LOWNDES.
AND OVER TIFFS.
AND LAST FRIDAY THEY WON, BUT IT IS ALWAYS GREAT TO BEAT VALDOSTA, AND I GOT THE LATEST THAN, IT IS 13-0, THERE IN VALDOSTA.
IN REGION 5 TO 6-5A AND THIS IS FOR THE TITLE, IT IS VILLA RICA UP OVER NEW MANCHESTER.
AND REGION CHAMPIONSHIP ON THE LINE IN REGION QUAD-A AS NORTH OCONEE IS UP.
AND BAINBRIDGE IS LOOKING TO CLINCH WITH NORTH THOMAS WHO WILL PUT THIS REGION BACK INTO THE BLENDER.
AND IF NORTH HALL PULLS IT OUT, THIS GOING NEXT WEEK AS THEY ARE TIED 14-14.
AND SINGLE A-5 PRIVATE, AND WESLEYAN, IF THEY WIN IT, THIS IS GOING TO GO TO NEXT WEEK.
AND HOLY WESLEYAN IS UP.
AND ONE MORE, RAVEN COUNTY IS UP OVER UNION COUNTY 14-0, AND QUARTERBACK GUNNER STOCKTON BROKE THE STATE'S PASSING TOUCHDOWN RECORD WHEN HE HIT 161 TONIGHT PREVIOUSLY SET BY TREVOR LAWRENCE, AND OF COURSE, HE BROKE THE STATE'S ALL-TIME TD RECORD PASSING AND RUSHING AND THAT WAS DASHAUN WATSON'S RECORD WHEN HE HIT IT.
SO CONGRATULATIONS GUNNER.
AND COMING UP WE WILL NAME OUR PLAYER OF THE HALF COMING UP NEXT.
>>> CONGRATULATIONS TO GLENN ACADEMY FOR THEIR SPORTSMANSHIP EVENT.
ONLY ONE SCHOOL IN EACH REGION OF EACH CLASSIFICATION IS CHOSEN TO RECEIVE THIS ANNUAL AWARD.
THE GPB TAKES INTO ACCOUNT ALL ASPECTS OF THE COMMUNITY TO PRESENT THIS AWARD.
>> OUR KIDS SHOW THAT EVERYDAY HOW THEY BEHAVE AND INTERACT AND BEING KIND TO OTHER STUDENTS AND PEOPLE.
>> INTRODUCED IN 2006, THIS AWARD IS GOING TO REINFORCE THE PHILOSOPHY THAT EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES FROM ATHLETES AND SPECTATORS SHOULD ADHERE TO THE FUNDAMENTAL VALUES THAT IT REPRESENTS.
>> THEY ARE DESERVING OF THIS AWARD BECAUSE IN 2020 IT IS UNPRECEDENTED WHAT THESE KIDS WENT THROUGH, AND THE COMMUNITY WENT THROUGH, AND THROUGH IT ALL THEY HAVE PERSEVERE AND COME BACK AND THE COMMUNITY CAME OUT TO SUPPORT THEM AND IT IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY.
>> IT IS GREAT TO HAVE A COMMUNITY TO DO WHAT WE NEED THEM TO SUPPORT, AND THEY SUPPORT THE KIDS, AND IF WE HAVE SOMETHING POSITIVE LIKE THIS AWARD TONIGHT, I KNOW THAT THE COMMUNITY WILL CELEBRATE IT WITH US.
IT IS A BIG COMMUNITY EVENT AND NOT JUST US, A GLYNN ACADEMY THING, BUT A COMMUNITY THING.
>> GEORGIA'S EMCs ARE PROUD TO SPONSOR THIS SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD TO AND TO PRESENT IT IS TO THE TERRIER'S COMMUNITY.
>>> WELCOME BACK TO THE HALFTIME OF CALHOUN AND CARTERSVILLE WITH THE REGION 5-7A ON THE LINE.
IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING US ALL GAME LONG, YOU KNOW THAT IS SENIOR RUNNING BACK AMARI WHITE HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE FIELD, AND HE IS THE GPB PLAYER OF THE HALF.
LET'S LOOK AT THE HIGHLIGHTS.
3:00 TO GO BEFORE QUARTERBACK JAKE PARKER AIRS IT OUT FOR A 16-YARD TOUCHDOWN AND THIS IS WHITE'S SECOND RECEIVING TD OF THE SEASON.
IN THE FIRST QUARTER HE HAD SIX RUSHES FOR 50 YARDS AND ONE SCORE, AND ACCOUNTED FOR 11 CARRIES AND 70 YARDS AND A TD IN THE FIRST HALF.
AND CONGRATULATIONS AMARI WHITE, YOU ARE THE PLAYER OF THE HALF.
AND WE WILL SEE WHAT HE CAN DO ON THE SOGGY FIELD IN SECOND.
COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES, WE WILL CHECK IN WITH JON THERE ON THE FIELD, A HOPEFULLY STAYING DRY AND WE WILL HEAR FROM THE CARTERSVILLE BAND.
STICK WITH US.
>>> THE KIDS ARE DREAMING OF THE COSTUMES AND CANDY, AND IT IS A PERFECT TIME TO THINK ABOUT DENTAL HEALTH.
HOW EARLY SHOULD THE PARENTS THINK ABOUT DENTAL CARE FOR THEIR KIDS, TROY?
>> THE PARNS NEED TO START THINKING OF DENTAL CARE AS SOON AS THE NUB PROTRUDES FROM THE GUMS, YOU NEED TO START TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN OF THE GOOD HYGIENE HABITS, AND YOU KNOW, HELPING THEM TO BRUSH, AND SUPERVISING THEM BRUSH, BECAUSE KIDS DO EAT TOOTHPASTE.
>> BRUSHING RIGHT AWAY.
>> YES.
>> AND IS IT OKAY FOR THE KIDS TO ENJOY THEIR HALLOWEEN TREATS?
>> YES, BUT IN MODERATION.
YOU DON'T WANT TO BE CONSUMING CANDY AND SUGAR.
IN MODERATION.
A PIECE HERE OR THERE NEVER HURTS, AND YOU HAVE TO ENJOY A CANDY BAR NOW AND THEN.
>> ABSOLUTELY, ESPECIALLY ON THE HOLIDAY.
WHAT ARE SOME EASY STEPS TO KEEP OUR TEETH IN TIPTOP SHAPE?
>> BRUSH AT LEAST TWICE A DAY WITH A FLUORIDE TOOTHPASTE, AND FLOSS, AND AVOID SUGARY ACIDIC FOOD, AND HAVE A PAL LANCED DIET, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
AND THIS IS ALL YOU NEED.
>> SUCH GREAT INFORMATION.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, TROY.
YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS INFORMATION AT CIGNA.COM.
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.
>>> WELCOME BACK.
BACK TO THE STADIUM WE GO WHERE THE CARTERSVILLE BAND IS PERFORMING.
IT IS SENIOR NIGHT FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAM AND THE BAND.
LET'S LISTEN IN.
HAPPY SENIOR NIGHT, GUYS, AND THANK YOU FOR THE WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE.
TIME TO CHECK IN WITH MY PARTNER IN CRIME JON NELSON BATTLING THE WEATHER THERE AT THE STADIUM.
JON, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE PURPLE HURRICANES UP 14-0, AND QUARTERBACK JAKE PARKER WITH A COUPLE OF SCORES.
WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN?
>> WELL, THE FIRST THING IS THE RAIN STOPPED BEFORE THE FIRST TOUCHDOWN HAPPENED, SO YOU CAN MAKE A CORRELATION OF ONE TO THE OTHER.
BUT WHEN CLAY STEPHENSON COMES OUT, THE HEAD COACH FOR CALHOUN COMES OUT, I WANT TO FIND OUT OUT ABOUT BEING CLAMPED DOWN FROM THE DEFENSE.
AND IT IS A STOUT PLAY EXCEPT FOR ONE PLAY THERE AT THE END, AND TRYING TO KEEP AMARI WHITE IN CHECK.
HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO BOUNCE TO THE OUTSIDE AND SO A COUPLE OF ISSUES FOR CALHOUN WORKING ON CONTAIN TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RUNNING GAME DOES NOT BOUNCE TO THE OUTSIDE AS IT HAS, AND GETTING THE RECEIVERS LOST IN TRAFFIC.
SO WE WILL CATCH UP WITH COACH STEPHENSON, BUT THESE ARE THE PLAYS WHERE YOU CAN SEE THAT YOU HAVE TWO TEAMS THERE AT THE TOP EXCHANGING THE HAYMAKERS FOR THE FIRST 20:00.
>> AND REGION CHAMPIONSHIP ON THE LINE THERE, AND WHAT ELSE IS STANDING OUT AROUND THE REGION?
>> HEADING INTO THE EARLY THIRD QUARTER, THAT JEFFERSON IS TRAILING THAT IS ONE TO KEEP AN EYE ON.
RIGHT NOW, JEFFERSON IS DOWN, AND THE TOP RANKED TEAM IN THE CLASS TRAILING.
AND ALSO, FITZGERALD IS TRAILING, AND COOK IS TRAILING FITZGERALD DOWN THERE IN AA AFTER THE LOSS TO THOMASVILLE, AND HOW WOULD FITZGERALD RESPOND, AND RIGHT NOW, COOK AND HEAD COACH JAMIE ROGERS ARE PUTTING UP A FIGHT NOW, AND OBVIOUSLY, LEE IS STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW WITH VALDOSTA UP 13-0, AND THEN IN 1-7A, AND CAMDEN AND LOUNDES IS GOING TO BE HOLDING UP WITH SOME MOMENTUM.
AND COLQUITT WITH THE REGION 2-7A AND THEY HAVE SCORED ON TIFT, AND SO IT IS 21-6, BUT GOING DOWN IN SOUTH GEORGIA AND CENTRAL, AND THE BACK AND FORTH WITH WARNER ROBIN AND COFFEE, AND SO A LOT TO TALK ABOUT.
I KNOW THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT GUNNER STOCKTON GETTING YET ANOTHER RECORD BEFORE THE TEND OF THE SEASON.
>> I KNOW, I WOULD ASK YOU ABOUT THAT, AND WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY ABOUT GUNNER STOCKTON.
>> ANOTHER IS REGION 1-8-5A AND WE ARE FOLLOWING THE JACKSON COUNTY AND GREENBRIAR REGION, AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
>> WELL, THEY HAVE CLEARED THE TAPE NOT IN LATE AUGUST, BUT A WHILE.
THEY WERE 5-0, AND WINNING THE REGION, AND SIX TEAMS AT 2-2, AND THE MATCHUPS LAST WEEK, AND THREE TEAMS AT 2-2, AND TWO TEAMS THE AT 3-3, AND SO, WE KNOW THAT IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA, THE NEXT WIN FOR JACKSON COUNTY, AND RICH McWHORTER, IT IS THE 300th HERE IN GEORGIA AND WE KNOW THAT MOST OF THOSE CAME AT CHARLTON COUNTY, AND WE KNOW WHAT HE DID WITH THE BAILEY BOYS AND THE BAILEY BROTHERS AND RICH McWHORTER IS THIS CLOSE WITH A MILESTONE HERE IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA AND THE NEXT WIN IS GOING TO BE GIVING HIM WIN 300.
>> AND JACKSON COUNTY IS UP, AND WE ARE HOPING TO GET HIM UP ON TO POST GAME SHOW WITH YOU AFTER THIS, JON.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>> YEAH, AND OF COURSE NOW THAT THE RAIN HAS STOPPED, YOU KNOW, I WOULD HAVE WELCOMED MATT AND WAYNE OUT HERE FOR THE RAIN, BUT SINCE IT STOPPED, THEY CAN STAY WHERE THEY ARE.
>> STAY DRY, AND WE ARE DRY.
GOOD JOB, JON.
AND WE WILL SEE YOU POST GAME SHOW WHEN WE TALK TO THE WINNING COACHES AROUND THE REGION.
MUCH MORE FROM CALHOUN VERSUS CARTERSVILLE AND WYMAN STAID WUM WITH MATT AND WAYNE.
IT IS 14-0.
STICK WITH US RIGHT AFTER THIS.
>>> WELCOME BACK.
IT IS HALFTIME HERE, AND CARTERSVILLE IS LEADING CALHOUN 14-0 IN THIS REGION 7-5A GAME AND SENDING IT OVER TO JON NELSON STANDING BY WITH CALHOUN COACH CLAY STEVENSON.
>> THANK YOU, MATT.
NOW, AN ASSESSMENT OF THE FIRST 24 MINUTES, AND THE CONDITIONS WERE WREAKING HAVOC WITH THE PASSING GAME AND YOU HAD TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY IN THE FIRST 24, BUT YOU WERE HAM STRUNG A LOT.
>> YES, IT WAS A BAD HALF OF FOOTBALL RIGHT THERE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FOOTBALL.
WE WERE RIGHT THERE, AND KEPT GIVING IT TO THEM LATE, AND LATE IN DOWNS, AND WE ARE NOT MOVING THE FOOTBALL AT ALL ON OFFENSE, AND SO WE HAVE A LOT OF PENALTIES AND SOME TO CLEAN UP, AND LUCKILY, WE HAVE TWO QUARTERS TO COME BACK.
>> IN A GAME LIKE THIS, HOW MUCH OF A CHALLENGE FOR A COACHING STAFF TO THINK ON THE FLY KNOWING THAT THINGS WILL CHANGE AS QUICKLY AS THEY DO?
>> YEAH.
YOU KNOW, YOU JUST KIND OF HAVE TO CALL THE PLAYS, AND THE KIDS ARE THE ONES DOING IT.
I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN THE GUYS TO COME BACK TO EXECUTE IN THE SECOND HALF, AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN SEE WHERE THE CHIPS FALL AT THE END OF THE QUARTER.
>> THANK YOU.
AND CLAY STEPHENSON, THE HEAD COACH OF CALHOUN, AND HE IS DOWN TWO SCORES AND SOME WORK TO DO HEADING INTO THE THIRD.
>> YOU ARE RIGHT, NELLY.
THEY HAVE SOME CHALLENGING THERE WITH THE PASSING.
THIS IS AN OFFENSE THAT AVERAGES 226 YARDS PASSING PER GAME.
>> AND CHRISTIAN LEWIS WITH THAT SLIPPERY BALL, AND NOT ABLE TO GET IT TO SPEERS DOWN THE FIELD, AND KEEP IT A TIP TO CARTERSVILLE FOR TACKLING THE BALL.
>> AND CARTERSVILLE HAS MANAGED THE WEATHER BETTER TAKING A LOOK AT THE FIRST HALF HIGHLIGHTS A.
COUPLE OF TOUCHDOWN PASSES FROM PARKER.
GOING TO AMARI WHITE.
>> HE DID IT WITH THE FEET, AND HERE WITH THE HAND, AND THE POST ROUTE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN.
RIGHT BEFORE THE HALF, PARKER WINDING IT UP TO THE BASKET, AND BACK TO JACOB RAY FOR THE SECOND BIG OFFENSIVE PLAY FOR CARTERSVILLE.
>> AS YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE FIRST HALF STATS, YOU CAN SEE THE EIGHT YARDS PASSING FOR CALHOUN, AND YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHERE IS THE OFFENSE GOING TO COME FROM TONIGHT.
>> AND WATCHING THEM GOING INTO THE SECOND HALF, IT HAS TO BE ABOUT THEM BEING PATIENT, AND TAKING WHAT CARTERSVILLE GIVES THEM, AND ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE OFFENSIVE LINE IS DOMINATING THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RUN THE BALL AT WILL.
>> AND CALHOUN HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET THE BALL TO THE DYNAMIC PLAYMAKER, AND THE SPEED BUNNER, AND THEY DID TRY HIM OUT OF THE WILDCAT A COUPLE OF TIMES WITH MODERATE SUCCESS.
>> WITH THE RAIN STOPPING, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING THE PASSING GAME FOR CALHOUN, CRANKING IT UP DOWN THE FIELD, AND RIGHT NOW, IT IS ABOUT CAN THEY STOP THE OFFENSE OF JAKE PARKER AND AMARI WHITE BEING ABLE TO RUN THE BALL, AND KEEP THE CHANGE AND GET THE BALL BACK.
>> MEANWHILE ON THE DEFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL, CARTERSVILLE IS HAVING A FINE GAME, AND PITCHING THE SHUTOUT RIGHT NOW, AND NASIR GRANDBERRY HAS BEEN A HANDFUL FOR THE CALHOUN OFFENSIVE LINE AS HE HAS BEEN COMING FROM DIFFERENT SPOTS ON THE DEFENSIVE LINE.
>> RUN OR PASS, AND ESPECIALLY SEEING CHRISTIAN LEWIS ROLLING OUT.
YOU WILL SEE GRANDBERRY, AND NASIR GRANDBERRY WITH THE CONSTANT PRESSURE TO GET THE BALL OUT OF HIS HANDS.
RIGHT NOW, CARTERSVILLE IS WINNING THAT BATTLE.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THE SECOND HALF KICKOFF IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY "BUCKLE UP, GEORGIA."
BUCKLE UP, GEORGIA.
SEAT BELTS SAVE LIVES.
AND CALHOUN GOING TO GET A CHANCE HERE TO START TO FIX SOME THINGS AS THEY GET THE BALL FIRST HERE IN THE THIRD QUARTER WITH COLE SPEER AND QUIN SMITH STANDING DEEP FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS.
AND GUTIERREZ WILL KICK IT OFF FROM THE 40.
AGAIN, SHORT KICK.
GOING TO BE TAKEN AT THE 29 YARD LINE.
AND A RETURN OF ABOUT EIGHT YARDS BY CAM CURTIS AS THE PURPLE HURRICANES KICK THE BALL AWAY FROM THE TWO DYNAMIC DEEP BACKS.
WE WILL SEE IF CHRISTIAN LEWIS CAN GET SOMETHING GOING HERE.
IT WAS A VERY DISAPPOINTING FIRST HALF FROM HIM, AND EVEN THOUGH THE RAIN HAS SUBSIDED SOME WHAT, THE BALL IS GOING TO BE WET, BECAUSE IT IS PLACED ON THE GROUND, AND THE GROUND IS WET.
>> UNIFORMS ARE WET, AND THE HANDS ARE WET, AND THE WRISTBANDS AND YOU CHANGE ALL OF THOSE THINGS OUT, AND IT IS ABOUT HIM SETTING THE FEET, AND GET A GRIP ON THE BALL, AND THAT WAS NOT HAPPENING IN THE FIRST HALF.
>> NOW THEY TOSS THE BALL TO KAYDEN WILLIAMS, AND WILLIAMS IS GOING TO TAKE ON THE DEFENSE AND HE GETS SEVEN YARDS ON THE PLAY.
JAKE BRASFIELD IS GOING TO BE THE LEADING TACKLE FOR THE PURPLE HURRICANES, AND HE MAKES THE TACKLE THERE.
>> NICE JOB OF GETTING UP ON THE LEFT SIDE, AND GETTING OUT IN SPACE AS KAYDEN WILLIAMS IS THERE ON THE EDGE, AND WE TALKED ABOUT OVER LAST WEEK, 200 YARD RUSHING, AND WHAT A PHYSICAL RUSHING RUN FOR HIM.
>> JACOB RAY IN ON THE TACKLE AS WELL.
SECOND DOWN AND THREE.
SPEER IS OUT OF THE WILDCAT.
HE PICKS UP THE FIRST DOWN.
I THINK THAT WE MIGHT SEE MORE OF THAT HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
>> THEY HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO GET COLE SPEER THE BALL OUT IN SPACE.
RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE DOING IT FROM THE WILDCAT, AND JUST GETTING HIM OUT ON THE EDGE, AND MAYBE YOU WILL SEE A COUPLE OF SCREEN PASSES POSSIBLE FOR HIM.
EN RUN THE QUARTERBACK DRAW IN BETWEEN, AND JUST GET HIM SOME TOUCHES AND ENERGY GOING FOR THE OFFENSE.
>> HE HAD ONLY RUN THE BALL EIGHT TIMES IN THE FIRST NINE GAMES OF THE SEASON.
HE MIGHT RUN THE BALL MORE THAN TEN TIMES HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
LEWIS IS LOOKING FOR HIM.
AND IT IS BROKEN UP AT THE 30 YARD LINE.
SPEER WANTS A FLAG, AND HE DOES GET IT.
DESMOND COLLIER WAS ON THE COVERAGE, BUT APPARENTLY THERE WAS CONTACT.
>> RUNNING IN MOTION WAS SPEER AND CHRISTIAN LEWIS.
YOU CAN SEE IT FROM THE INITIAL DROPBACK, HE WAS LOOKING FOR SPEER THE WHOLE TIME.
>> SO THE DEFENSIVE P.I.
AGAINST CARTERSVILLE WILL GIVE A FIRST DOWN TO CALHOUN.
>> RPO, AND YOU CAN SEE, AND REAL HIGH ON THE THROW RIGHT THERE BY LEWIS BUT TRYING TO GET THE BALL TO HIS BIG PLAY, AND COLE SPEER IS DOWN THE FIELD.
>> SO THEY PUT THE BALL DOWN AT THE 36 FOR FIRST AND TEN.
LEWIS IS AGAIN LOOKING IN SPEER'S DIRECTION.
NOW HE WILL RUN IT TO THE NEAR SIDE, AND HE IS GOING TO STEP OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 27, AND A PICK UP OF NINE ON THE PLAY.
>> IT IS THE SAME PLAY DESIGN, AND THIS TIME, NOWHERE TO GO FOR CHRISTIAN LEWIS, AND THIS IS THE ONE ASPECT IN THE FIRST HALF THAT WE DIDN'T SEE.
IT WAS A LITTLE RPO FAKE STARING DOWN COLE SPEER AGAIN.
NOWHERE TO GO, A HE DOES HAVE FIVE RUSH TOUCHDOWNS ON THE SEASON, AND HE HAS ATHLETIC ABILITY, AND THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN HIM SCRAMBLE IN THIS GAME.
>> THE SECOND DOWN AND ONE COMING UP.
CALHOUN IS TRYING TO GET THE EARLY SCORE HERE, AND TRYING TO MAKE IT A MORE MANAGEABLE DEFICIT.
KAYDEN WILLIAMS WAS MET IN THE HOLE.
HE DID NOT PICK UP THE FIRST DOWN.
THAT IS MYLES FORRISTALL, THE JUNIOR LINEBACKER.
>> WE HAVE NOT MENTIONED HIS NAME A LOT TONIGHT, BUT WHAT A BIG HIT OFF OF THE EDGE.
43 IS SLASHING RIGHT THERE INTO THE SCREEN, AND GOOD FORM TACKLE.
ALL OF THE LEVERAGE THERE AS MYLES FORRISTALL, AND A NICE PLAY.
>> HIS BROTHER MORRIS WAS THE QUARTERBACK THAT TREVOR LAWRENCE BEAT OUT FOR THE STARTING JOB, AND MORRIS WAS A TIGHT END AND WENT ON TO HAVE A GREAT CAREER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA.
FIRST AND TEN.
LEWIS WITH THE POCKETS, AND COMPLETE TO SPEER, INSIDE OF THE 10, AND SPEER IS DOWN TO THE 3.
>> GOOD PROTECTION UP FRONT BY THE BACKS, AND THE O-LINE, AND PLENTY OF TIME FOR COLE SPEER.
HE JUST CANNOT GIVE COLE SPEER THIS KIND OF TIME TO GET OPEN.
THE KIND OF ATHLETE THAT HE IS RIGHT THERE, AND WORKING THE ENTIRE FIELD.
NICE DELIVERY BY CHRISTIAN LEWIS WITH THE RAIN STOPPED, HE CAN GRIP THE BALL, AND NOW WE SEE HOW HE PUTS UP THE BIG STATS.
>> FIRST AND GOAL THE GO, AND KAYDEN WILLIAMS, AND TOUCHDOWN, CALHOUN.
>> KAYDEN WILLIAMS WITH DOWNHILL, AND ONE CUT, AND SHOULDERS SQUARE, AND RUNNING THROUGH THE TACKLE OF JAKE BASFIELD WITH THAT TOUCHDOWN, AND GREAT JOB OF BLOCKING ON THAT RIGHT SIDE BY WARNER, AND BALLARD AND CENTER TYE MASSEY AS WELL.
>> AND SERGIO IS ON FOR THE P.A.T., AND HE KNUCKLES IT THROUGH.
CALHOUN IS BACK IN THE GAME.
OPENING DRIVE, THIRD QUARTER.
MUCH MORE BALANCED AND EFFICIENT FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS.
14-7.
>>>-ING 3:00 OF THE THIRD QUARTER AND TOUCHDOWN BY CALHOUN AND IT IS 14-7.
>> IT IS A GOOD EXECUTION AND WE WONDERED HOW THEY WOULD GET COLE SPEER THE BALL, AND THEY ARE STARTING TO GET IT TO HIM OUT IN SPACE DOWN THE FIELD AND A NICE DRIVE AND NICE TOUCHDOWN DRIVE BY KAYDEN WILLIAMS.
>> NICE WHAT WE EXPECTED TO SEE FROM THE TEAM TO PLAY CARTERSVILLE HERE TONIGHT.
AND AGAIN, THEY ARE GOING TO ONSIDE KICK IT, AND THIS TIME, IT IS CARTERSVILLE READY FOR IT.
IT IS COVERED BY THE PURPLE HURRICANES.
AND MOST RECENTLY, WHEN TREVOR LAWRENCE WAS A JUNIOR, THEY HAVE WON 61 STRAIGHT REGION GAMES, AND THIS IS NOT A MISPRINT.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE RECORD SINCE 2012, AND NINE REGION TITLES IN A ROW.
22 OVERALL.
JAKE PARKER GOES BACK ON OFFENSE, AND A QUARTERBACK RUN.
SPEER HUGS HIM AND THROWS HIM OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 47.
>> NICE JOB BY JAKE PARKER ONCE AGAIN TO PULLING THE BALL, AND NOT A LOT OF YARDS, BUT WHAT THAT DOES IS TO CONTINUE THE MAKE THOSE DEFENSIVE ENDS HAVE TO RESPECT HIS ABILITY TO RUN THE BALL.
YOU CAN'T KEEP RUNNING RPOs IN THE WAY THAT THE QUARTERBACK NEVER PULLS THE BALL, AND THE DM CRASHES AND CREATES SOME SPACE, AND THAT IS A QUICK FIFE YARDS.
>> SECOND DOWN AND FIVE.
>> JEFFRIES IS STOPPED IN HIS TRACKS, AND INSPIRED DEFENSE BY THE YELLOW JACKETS.
THAT IS CHRISTOPHER LEWIS.
>> AND YOU ARE STARTING TO GET THE FEEL AFTER THAT FIRST DRIVE THAT CALHOUN HAS TURNED OFF THE SPIGOT IN THE SKY, AND FOUND A LITTLE ENERGY HERE, AND NICE JOB BY CHRISTOPHER LEWIS THE LEADER ON DEFENSE COMING UP WITH THAT TACKLE.
THOSE WERE THE PLAYS THAT JEFFRIES AND WHITE WERE GETTING OUT OF IN THAT FIRST HALF.
>> THIRD DOWN AND FIVE.
TIME-OUT CALLED BY CALHOUN.
IT IS INTERESTING, WAYNE, WHAT A HALFTIME SPEECH AND SUSTAINED DRIVE WILL DO FOR YOUR TEAM.
AND YOUR CONFIDENCE.
>> YES, AND FALLING INTO THE MOMENT, AND THEY HAD MADE MISCUES AND FUMBLES AND WE KNOW THAT CALHOUN DID NOT GET TO 8-1 IN THE WAY THEY HAVE PLAYED THIS YEAR WITHOUT HAVING THE TALENT TO GO OUT TO COMPETE, AND RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE STARTING TO PLAY LIKE THAT.
>> WE WILL CHECK IN WITH NELLY.
>> NOW THAT THE CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED AND I CAN ACTUALLY SEE, DARRELL AND YOU GUYS, AND GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF UPDATES AND SCORES IN AND AROUND THE STATE.
ONE DIRECTLY RELATED TO WHAT IS GOING ON HERE IN THE PLAYOFFS.
WARNER ROBIN IS NOW LEADING COFFEE, 16-7.
COFFEE HAD THE 7-0 LEAD, BUT NOW IT WENT 10-7, AND NOW IT IS 16-7 WITH WARNER ROBIN LEADING COFFEE.
OTHER GAMES AROUND THE STATE, WITH SEEDING, ATHENS ACADEMY LEADING WALTON ACADEMY.
AND WE GO BACK TO YOU.
>> AND MacEACHERN WITH A LITTLE DISAPPOINTING SEASON BY THE INDIANS TRYING TO MAKE A LATE PUSH TO GET A SOLID PLAYOFF SEEDING THERE.
THIRD DOWN, AND AMARI WHITE AND A BIG RUN FOR THE CANES PICKING UP THE FIRST DOWN.
HE WAS DRAGGING AMARI WINSTON WITH HIM FOR THE FIRST DOWN.
>> THAT IS WHAT IS SO IMPRESSIVE ON THREE OCCASIONS IN THE THIRD AND FOUR AND THIRD AND SEVEN AND THEY WERE ABLE TO RUN AGAIN WITH AMARI WHITE DOWNHILL PHYSICALLY FINISHING THE RUN.
>> DID YOU SEE HIS KNEE HIT THE KNEE OF RIGHT HELMET DEVIN HILL AND POP IT RIGHT OFF.
AMARI WHITE IS GOING TO TRY TO CHANGE DIRECTIONS.
HE IS A SLIPPERY CAT, AND HE HAS A HOLDING CALL.
HE HAS GOT KNOCKED OUT OF BOUNDS CLOSE TO THE FIRST DOWN MARKER, BUT IT IS PROBABLY GOING BACK.
>> THIS IS A FUNCTION OF CHANGE DIRECTION AND BLOCK IN THE BACK.
>> Referee: BLOCK IN THE BACK BY THE OFFENSE, AND THAT PENALTY IS 10 YARDS FROM THE SPOT OF THE FOUL, AND STILL FIRST FOUL.
>> THAT LATERAL MOVEMENT BY AMARI WHITE IS SO IMPRESSIVE HOW HE CAN SEE THE FIELD AND SHIFT, AND HE IS NOT THE FASTEST BACK, BUT HIS LATERAL MOVEMENT AND HIS BALANCE IS JUST OFF OF THE CHARTS.
>> IT IS LIKE THE HUMAN JOYSTICK.
SO THE PENALTY ON THE CANES PUSHES THEM BACK TO THE 45.
AND JEFFREYS IS GOING TO RUN TO THE END ZONE, BUT IT IS BLOWN DEAD.
>> Referee: SNAP IS FALSE START, AND THAT IS STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> I COULD NOT SEE WHERE THE MOTION WAS.
EVERYBODY LOOKED STILL.
>> AND THAT IS EIGHT PENALTIES NOW ON CARTERSVILLE.
CONOR FOSTER WAS SHAKING HIS HEAD AS IF HE DISAGREED WITH THAT FLAG.
>> FIRST AND 24.
JEFFRIES.
HE GETS FIFE OF BACK RIGHT THERE.
>> REGARDLESS OF THE DOWN AND DISTANCE THIS MILE AN HOUR OFFENSE IS CONFIDENT TO RUN THE BALL.
>> THAT IS AMARI WHITE ON THE CARRY THAT TIME.
>> AND SOME OF THEM STARTING TO STACK UP AGAINST THEM AND PUT THEM BEHIND THE STICKS, AND SOMETHING THEY CAME INTO THE GAME KNOWING THAT IF THEY HAD A CHANCE TO WIN, THEY HAD TO STAY ON SCHEDULE.
WHEN THEY HAVE HAD SUCCESS, THEY HAVE STAYED IN FRONT OF THE STICKS.
WHEN THEY HAVEN'T, THEY HAVE FOUND THEMSELVES IN THIS SITUATION.
>> PARKER IS GOING DEEP.
IT IS INTERCEPTED IN THE END ZONE BY SPEER AND HE GOING TO TAKE A KNEE OR ACTUALLY FALL ON HIS BUTT, AND THIS IS GOING TO BRING IT OUT TO 20.
>> JAKE PARKER IS LOADING UP AND TRYING TO GET THE BALL DOWN TO BYRON WILKINS DOWN THE FIELD.
GOOD PROTECTION AND TIME TO DELIVER THE BALL.
AND THE TALENT OF COLE SPEER SHOWS UP IN THE CORNERBACK POSITION S AND IN THE RECEIVER THERE, AND THE NICE JOB BY HIM, AND THE HEADY PLAY AND STAYING IN THE END ZONE IN THAT SITUATION.
>> AND THE THIRD INTERCEPTION OF THE SEASON FOR COLE SPEER AND GETS HIS OFFENSE THE BALL BACK.
AND IT WON'T BE TOO LONG BEFORE HE IS BACK OUT THERE RUNNING OFFENSIVE PLAYS.
>> THE TWO-WAY PLAYERS ARE DEFINITELY HAPPY, AND THIS IS LATE OCTOBER, AND THE SUN IS GOING DOWN, AND A LOT OF ENERGY.
>> AND HE HAS IT AT THE 1, BUT I GUESS THEY SAY FORWARD PROGRESS AND HE CAUGHT IT NOT IN THE END ZONE, BUT OUTSIDE OF THE END ZONE, AND THEY SPOT THE BALL AT THE 1, AND IF SPEER HAD KNOWN THAT, HE WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN A SEAT IN THE END ZONE.
AND NOW, IT IS A CUTBACK AND A YARD IN THE PLAY.
>> AND NICE JOB BY THE LINEBACKER SLICING THROUGH, AND ALMOST COMING UP WITH THE SAFETY THERE ON KAYDEN WILLIAMS AND LUCKY HE GOT OUT OF THE END ZONE, AND NICE JOB.
>> WILLIAMS WITH 14 CARRIES FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS TONIGHT, AND THAT IS A TOUGH BREAK FOR CALHOUN THERE ON THE INTERCEPTION AT THE SPOT OF THE 1.
WILLIAMS BARELY GOT IT OUT OF THE END ZONE THAT TIME, AND THIS IS WILLIAMS WHO STOPPED HIM THERE AND NOW THIRD DOWN.
>> LISTED AT 170, AND HE IS ALL OUT RECKLESS ABANDON AND THE COACH SAYS OUT HERE ON THE EDGE THERE, AND TAKING ON THE BLOCK OF CHRISTOPHER LEWIS.
ONCE AGAIN, A COUPLE OF INCHES SHY OF COMING UP WITH THE SAFETY.
>> THE THIRD DOWN AND 10.
>> BIG THIRD DOWN HERE, AND CARTERSVILLE, AND IF YOU CAN HOLD IT IN THIS SITUATION, AND MAKE CALHOUN PUNT THE BALL OUT OF THEIR END ZONE, AND GET GREAT FIELD POSITION.
>> LEWIS GUNS IT ACROSS THE MIDDLE, AND IT SHOULD SLD BEEN INTERCEPTED, BUT NONETHELESS, CALHOUN IS GOING TO HAVE TO PUNT OUT OF THE BACK OF THEIR END ZONE.
>> GREAT JOB BY THE HURRICANE DEFENSE AND THREE AND OUT IN THAT SITUATION.
NOT GIVING A YARD TO CALHOUN TO GET OUT OF THE END ZONE.
NICE JOB AND RIGHT THERE, THEY ARE NOT REALLY SURE WHERE CHRISTIAN LEWIS IS GOING, AND TRYING TO GET THE BALL TO COLE SPEER, AND ALMOST COME UP WITH THE PICK.
>> AND THE KICK BY LEWIS DOES GET OUT OF THERE, AND A NICE CALHOUN BOUNCE AND ROLL OUT TO 37 YARD LINE, BUT, THE CANES WILL GET GREAT FIELD POSITION OUT OF THIS TRANSACTION.
>> 14-7, AND 4:47 TO PLAY IN THE QUARTER.
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>> CARTERSVILLE IS GOING BACK ON OFFENSE FROM THE 37 YARD LINE, AND THE CALHOUN 37 WITH A TOUCHDOWN LEAD IN THIS REGION 7-5A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, AND CALHOUN TRIED TO WIN THE FIRST REGION TITLE SINCE MOVING UP FROM 3A, AND CARTERSVILLE IS GUNNING FOR THE 10th IN A ROW, AND MALACHI JEFFRIES HAD THE BALL STRIPPED OUT BY SPEER, AND THE BIG OFFENSIVE LINE, AND HE FELL ON TOP OF IT.
IT LOOKED LIKE BIG JOHNATHAN CLINE.
>> IT WAS A NICE BLOCK IN FRONT, AND A BIG PHYSICAL RUN RIGHT THERE, AND THE BALL BEG PULLED OUT BY COLE SPEER, AND RIPPING AT THE BALL, AND BIG BREAK THERE.
JADEN ATKINS IS FOLLOWING THE BALL, 55, THE LEFT GUARD TO COME UP WITH THE FUMBLE RECOVERY.
>> FIRST AND TEN FROM THE 24.
ANOTHER PENALTY ON CARTERSVILLE.
>> Referee: SNAP, FALSE START, OFFENSE, THAT PENALTY IS FIVE YARDS.
STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> YOU CAN'T TALK ENOUGH ABOUT WHEN CARTERSVILLE HAS BEEN OFF SCHEDULE, AND PRESNAP PENALTYS THE OR HOLDING CALLS, AND THEY HAVE BEEN WHEN THEY ARE ACTUALLY RUNNING THE PLAY, AND THEY HAVE HAD A LOT OF POSITIVE PLAYS, AND IT IS THE PENALTIES THAT PUT THEM BEHIND THE STICKS.
>> FIRST AND 15.
AMARI WHITE.
HE IS SO SLIPPERY, AND HE DARTS, AND KIND OF LIKE A FISH THROUGH THE WATER, DOESN'T HE?
>> 55, JADEN ATKINS IS KICKING IT OUT TO VISION OF AMARI WHITE.
LOOK AT HOW HE WAITS FOR FINISH, AND THE FINISHING AND THE SLASHING, AND THEN JUST THE EFFORT THAT YOU CAN SEE HIM SWARMING OUT OF EACH AND EVERY TACKLE.
>> SECOND DOWN LINE TO GAIN IS THE 14.
WHITE AGAIN, AND FIRST DOWN RUN FOR AMARI WHITE.
QUIN SMITH IS IN ON THAT TACKLE ALONG WITH CHRISTOPHER LEWIS, AND FIRST DOWN CARRY FOR AMARI WHITE.
>> RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE COMING OFF OF THE RIGHT SIDE, AND WATCH THE VISION AND THE SLASH RIGHT THERE AT THE END TO GET THAT EXTRA THREE YARDS ON QUIN SMITH.
>> WHITE AGAIN, AND SMITH AGAIN ON THE TACKLE.
CARTERSVILLE IS ON THE VERGE OF CONVERTING A TURNOVER, AND THEIR OWN TURNOVER INTO POINTS, AND THE LONG PASS IN ESSENCE TURNED INTO A PUNT AT THE 1 YARD LINE AND GOT THEM GREAT FIELD POSITION THERE.
>> AND AMARI WHITE SEEMS TO BE GETTING STRONGER AS THE GAME GOES ALONG AND MORE ENERGY AS HE HAD IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
>> 15 CARRIES FOR 112 YARDS.
AGAIN, UP THE MIDDLE.
WHITE CLOSE TO A FIRST DOWN DEPENDING UPON THE SPOT.
SMITH AGAIN ON THE TACKLE.
HELP FROM GAGE LEONARD.
>> LEONARD AND SMITH TAKING ALL THEY CAN.
AMARI WHITE, AND LOOK AT HOW HE FINISHES THE RUNS.
JUST RUNNING THROUGH THE TACKLE THERE.
DOWNHILL AND GOING THROUGH NATHAN FULLER THE MIDDLE LINEBACKER.
>> AND WHITE AND FIRST DOWN.
IT IS FIRST AND GOAL THE GO.
HE IS GOING TO TAP OUT RIGHT HERE.
>> YOU HAVE EARNED A QUICK BREAK YOUNG MAN, BUT DON'T GO TOO FAR, AND JUST COME HERE FOR A PLAY.
HIS HEAD COACH CONOR FOSTER SAYS THAT HE RUNS BIGGER THAN THE SIZE, AND HE IS SHOWING IT RIGHT NOW.
>> BRINGING IN THE BIG BACK THERE, AND JEFFRIES IS GOING TO PLOW IN FOR THE CARTERSVILLE TOUCHDOWN.
>> NOT REALLY SURE IF CALHOUN WILL COME BACK TO WIN THIS GAME, BUT THESE ARE THE KIND OF DRIVES THAT MAKE A HEAD COACH PROUD OF HIS TEAM.
ANSWERING IN THIS KIND OF FASHION JUST RIGHT DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DEFENSE WITH THESE BACKS TO PICK UP THAT TOUCHDOWN RIGHT THERE.
MALACHI JEFFRIES IS IN THE END ZONE.
>> THAT ALL STEMS FROM A CRITICAL CALL BY THE OFFICIALS TO RULE THAT THE BALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPOTTED AT THE 1 INSTEAD OF A TOUCHBACK.
AND IF COLE SPEER KNEW THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A TOUCHBACK, HE WOULD NOT HAVE DOWNED THE BALL IN THE END ZONE, AND HE WOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT BACK.
AND LOOKING AT JEFFRIES TOUCHDOWN THERE, BECAUSE WHAT TRANSSPIRED IS A TOUCHBACK AND A PUNT OUT OF THE END ZONE.
>> AND YOU TO CREDIT THE DEFENSE WHO GOES THREE AND OUT TO MAKE THEM PUNT, AND THE OFFENSE, AND THE OFFENSIVE LINE, CLINE, ATKINS, SUR RET AND HILL, JUST DOWNHILL AT THEM THE WHOLE DRIVE.
>> HERE IS THE RECEPTION AT COLE SPEER THE PREVIOUS POSSESSION.
HE CLEARLY CATCHS THE BALL, YOU KNOW, AT THE 3 YARD LINE.
2 YARD LINE.
LITTLE POOCH KICK HERE.
>> AND THE CREDIT THAT YOU HAVE TO GIVE SPEER THERE AT THE END IS THAT HE LOOKED TO THE OFFICIAL TO SEE, AM I IN THE END ZONE, AND DOES THIS COUNT AS ME PULLED INTO THE END ZONE, AND THEN HE SAT DOWN.
>> YEAH.
I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT YOUR MOMENTUM IF IT CARRIED YOU INTO THE END ZONE IT WOULD BE A TOUCHBACK ON THE PLAY, BUT THE OFFICIAL SAW IT DIFFERENTLY, AND THAT ENDED UP TO BE A CRITICAL PART OF CARTERSVILLE' TOUCHDOWN RIGHT THERE.
SO 21-7 WITH THE CANES ON TOP.
THE JACKETS BACK ON OFFENSE AT THE 26.
SPEER AND THE FIRST PASS COMPLETION TO HIM, AND TRYING TO SET UP A SCREEN.
>> JUST TRYING TO GET THE BALL INTO THEIR BEST PLAYER ON OFFENSE'S HANDS.
YOU CAN SEE THE HITCH IN THE STEP THERE.
I AM NOT SURE WHAT IS AILING HIM, BUT YOU DON'T SEE THE GATE, AND IT IS KIND OF HESITATING TO GO TO THE SIDELINE.
>> SO THEY HAVE BOTH SMITH AND SPEER ON THE SIDELINE AND KAYDEN WILLIAMS WITH THE HANDOFF, AND STONEWALLED BY BRASFIELD.
>> NICE JOB BY BRASFIELD, AND WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS DEFENSE AND CARTERSVILLE ON THE SMALLER SIDE OF DEFENSE, BUT THEY ARE FIERCE.
THEY WILL COME UP TO GIVE YOU EVERY POUND THEY HAVE.
LINEBACKER.
>> AND BRASFIELD IS A GREAT STORY TO SIT OUT LAST YEAR TO PLAY BASEBALL FULL TIME, AND THEN HE REGRETTED IT.
HE CAME BACK OUT THE SENIOR SEASON, AND HE IS HAPPY THAT HE DID.
THE PASS IS THROWN COMPLETE TO SMITH, AND HE WAS BLOWN UP IMMEDIATELY.
CASE WILLIAMS, AND CASE ADAMS, PARDON ME THERE FOR THE TACKLE.
>> AND NICE PRESSURE WITH THE D-LINE COMING WITH THE PRESSURE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD AND FORCING THE QUICK PASS.
QUIN SMITH IS NOT ABLE TO FIND ENOUGH SPACE TO PICK UP THE FIRST DOWN.
THAT IS PART OF THE HUSLE WITH THE PURPLE HURRICANE DEFENSE RALLYING TO THE BALL.
>> SO CHRISTOPHER LEWIS IS STANDING AT HIS 28 YARD LINE TO PUNT.
>> Referee: PRIOR TO SNAP, FALSE START, FIVE-YARD PENALTY, FIRST DOWN.
>> SO DO YOU THINK THEY WERE GOING TO FAKE IT THERE OR RUN OUT THERE TO DO A RUGBY-STYLE KICK?
ONE OF THE OTHER, BUT IT LOOKED LIKE LEWIS MIGHT BE MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION ON THE FAKE PUNT THERE WHEN THE FLAG DROPPED.
>> AND CARTERSVILLE WAS PLAYING WITH THE SAFE DEFENSE OFF OF THE BALL AND THEY WEREN'T GOING TO BE DRAWN OFF OF THE HARD COUNT, AND EXPECTING THE FAKE, AND EXPECTING TO BE DRAWN OFFSIDES.
>> YEAH, I THINK THAT LEWIS MIGHT HAVE HAD A THOUGHT OF PERHAPS RUNNING FOR IT RIGHT THERE, AND FOURTH AND FIVE OR PERHAPS HE WOULD TRY TO RUGBY STYLE KICK IT.
>> ONCE AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THE PUNT RETURN TEAM OFF OF THE BALL PROTECTING THE FAKE.
>> THAT IS THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER.
SO CALHOUN IS GOING TO BE PUNTING WHEN WE HEAD TO THE FOURTH.
THEY ARE DOWN TWO SCORES AS CARTERSVILLE IS 12:00 AWAY FROM THE 10th STRAIGHT REGION CHAMPIONSHIP.
>>> HEADING TO THE FOURTH QUARTER.
THE CARTERSVILLE HAVE A 21-7 LEAD OVER CALHOUN.
UNRANKED AND UNDEFEATED CARTERSVILLE PURPLE HURRICANES OVER THE CALHOUN YELLOW JACKETS.
AND WE START WITH LEWIS STANDING AT THE 20 YARD LINE TO KICK FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS.
WAITED AND THE KICK IS BLOCKED!
GRANDBERRY HAD IT, AND LET'S SEE WHO IS ON TOP OF IT.
IT LOOKS LIKE THE CANES HAVE IT.
LEWIS TOOK AN EXTRA STEP, AND THAT EXTRA STEP WAS ONE STEP TOO MANY, AND GRANDBERRY ENDS UP RECOVERING THE BLOCKED KICK.
>> YOU COULD SEE CHRISTOPHER LEWIS LOAD UP, AND TRYING TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THE PUNT, AND TAKING TOO LONG OFF OF THE EDGE HERE.
VERY SLOW TO GET THIS BALL OFF.
NICE JOB AND LUCKY THAT NASIR GRANDBERRY WHO PLAYS A LITTLE TIGHT END DID NOT CATCH THE BALL CLEAN IN THE AIR THERE, AND TAKE IT BACK FOR A TOUCHDOWN.
>> SO A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PURPLE HURRICANES RIGHT HERE EARLY IN THE FOURTH QUARTER TO PERHAPS PUT THIS GAME AWAY AS THEY TAKE OVER AT THE FIRST AND TEN AT THE 36 YARD LINE.
LET'S SEE IF THEY TAKE A SHOT AT THE END ZONE RIGHT AWAY.
NO.
JEFFRIES IS GOING TO GET IT, AND JEFFREYS IS GOING TO GO THROUGH THE DEFENSE, AND INSIDE OF THE 25 YARD LINE ON THAT RUN.
>> YOU COULD SEE WHEN HE WENT DOWN THAT HE GOT HIT THERE ON THE KNEE.
BUT WHAT ACCELERATION ON THE LEFT SIDE, AND A GOOD BLOCK THERE ON THE EDGE BY GRANDBERRY TO POP JEFFRIES INTO THE SECONDARY, AND A BIG HIT ON THE LEG AS HE WENT DOWN THERE, AND I CAN'T TALK ENOUGH ABOUT THIS OFFENSIVE LINE >> AND FIRST AND TEN AND THE BALL IS AT THE 22.
>> AND TO KEEPER FOR PARKER DOWN TO THE 15.
>> NICE JOB ONCE AGAIN FOR JAI -- JAKE PARKER THERE, AND THE KIND OF WILLINGNESS FOR A PROGRAM GUY WHO HAS WAITED HIS TIME TO TAKE OVER AND DO WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN A GAME.
HE IS JUST PULLING THE BALL OCCASIONALLY AND KEEPING THE DEFENSIVE ENDS FROM BEING ABLE TO CRASH DOWN ON THE BACKS ON THE RPOs.
>> SECOND DOWN AND TWO.
STILL ABLE TO LUNGE FORWARD TO GET CLOSE TO THE FIRST DOWN, AND LOOKED LIKE CHRISTOPHER LEWIS HAD HIM BY THE ANKLE AND HE COULD WIGGLE OUT OF THAT.
>> HE IS PUTTING THE PRESSURE ON THE OFFICIAL, AND LOOKS LIKE HE IS CORRALLED AND HE HAS HIM GRABBING AT THE LEGS, BUT AMARI WHITE IS SO IMPRESSIVE AT THE SIZE, AND THE WAY HE IS FINISHING THE RUNS, AND HE SETS THE TEMPO FOR THE ENTIRE OFFENSE, AND TO GIVE THIS KIND OF EFFORT.
>> 18 FOR 120 AND 16-YARD TOUCHDOWN CATCH, AND THIRD DOWN AND ONE.
FIRST DOWN.
DOWN TO THE THREE.
>> GOOD BLOCKING UP FRONT, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE CENTER THERE WITH SUR RET AND HILL AND ATKINS, AND LOOK AT THE BLOCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN BY GRANDBERRY, AND HE HAS HAD A COUPLE OF KEY KICKOUTS, AND IT IS A BIG DEFENSIVE END.
>> FIRST AND GOAL TO GO.
NOT SURE WHAT HE IS LOOKING FOR.
>> MAYBE HE IS LOOKING FOR THE CONTACT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
>> I THINK THAT MAYBE HE IS TRYING TO GET BACK INTO THE GAME, AND MAYBE HE LOST A CONTACT, AND LOOKING FOR MOM TO BRING HIM A CONTACT DOWN.
>> YES.
>> AND JEFFRIES.
HELMET IS OFF.
SOMEBODY -- AND A FLAG IS OUT, AND HE GOT STOPPED AT THE 1.
>> I AM NOT SURE IF THE CHAIN GOT RIPPED OFF, AND THESE BACKS ARE SO PHYSICAL AT THE END OF THE RUNS.
KI JEFFRIES AND WE SAW HIM GO OUT FOR A SECOND, AND MAYBE HE WAS HIT THERE IN THE LEGS.
WE DID SEE AN O-LINEMAN HELMET GO OFF.
IS THAT CALLED ILLEGAL FORMATION?
>> I AM NOT SURE.
THE MIC IS OFF.
THE DOUBLE HANDS ON THE CAP, AND I'M NOT SURE.
ONE IS ILLEGAL MAN DOWN FIELD.
>> I AM NOT SURE THAT YOU CAN HAVE ILLEGAL MAN DOWNFIELD ON THE RUN.
>> THAT IS JUST ONE HAND ON THE CAP, AND HE HAD BOTH HANDS ON THE CAP.
HOPEFULLY HE IS GOING TO SHARE WITH US THE CALL.
>> Referee: ILLEGAL PARTICIPATION ON THE OFFENSE, AND THAT PENALTY IS 15 YARDS, FIRST DOWN.
>> ALL RIGHT.
A SUBSTITUTION PENALTY, THEY BROKE THE HUDDLE WITH TOO MANY MEN OR SOMETHING, BUT I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT.
AND THE SIGNAL.
>> THEY SAY IT IS 15 YARDS.
>> YEAH, A 15-YARD PENALTY.
>> ESPECIALLY WITH THE OFFENSE OFF OF THE TWO-YARD LINE, AND BACK TO THE 17.
>> NINE PENALTYS THE ON CARTERSVILLE.
THAT IS GRANDBERRY WHO SITS ON THE EDGE, AND JEFFREYS IS GOING TO FOLLOW GRANDBERRY, AND DOWN TO TEN, AND HAMMOND ON THE TACKLE.
>> I CAN'T TALK ENOUGH NOT JUST ABOUT THE LINE, BUT THESE BACKS, JEFFRIES AND WHITE.
IT IS A FUNCTION OF SOME BAD TACKLING ON CALHOUN'S PART, BUT ALSO JUST RARELY DO YOU SEE THE GUYS JUST CONTINUE, AND THEY ARE JUST FIGHTING OUT OF EVERYTHING, AND EVERYBODY WHO GRABS THEM.
>> WE WILL STEP ASIDE AS A TIME-OUT HAS BEEN CALLED, AND WE HAVE A MAN DOWN ON THE FIELD.
>>> AND WE HAVE THE RECRUITING EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT WITH THE RECRUITING NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE OF GEORGIA, AND IF YOU HAVE MISSED IT, YOU CAN CATCH IT FOLLOWING THE LIVE BROADCAST OF OUR GAME FRIDAY AND BIG NEWS THIS WEEK, FORMER MARIETTA QUARTERBACK STAR HARRISON BAILEY ENTERING THE TRANSFER PORTAL AND LEAVING THE VOLUNTEERS.
IT IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHERE THE LANDING SPOT IS GOING TO BE AS HE IS GOING BACK INTO THE RECRUITING PROCESS THIS TIME VIA THE TRANSFER PORTAL.
>> I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY HE IS GOING TO GEORGIA AND I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU ONCE AGAIN, HOW MANY SCHOLARSHIPS.
>> 196 YARDS OF RUSHING FOR CARTERSVILLE, AND THIS IS AMARI WHITE ON THE CARRY FROM INSIDE OF THE 10 DOWN TO THE 8.
JAKE PARKER HAS NOT THROWN A PASS HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
THEY HAVE KEPT IT ON THE GROUND EXCLUSIVELY, AND NOW IT IS THIRD DOWN AND GOAL.
REALLY, ANY CHANCE FOR CALHOUN TO HAVE A SHOT AT COMING BACK AND WINNING THIS GAME IS RIGHT HERE.
>> YEAH, THIS IS THE PLAY RIGHT HERE.
THEY CANNOT LET CARTERSVILLE GO INTO THE END ZONE, AND THEY ARE CAPABLE OF TAKING TIME OFF OF THE CLOCK, SO THIS IS A BIG THIRD DOWN STOP.
ON THIS END OF THE FIELD, AND JUST BLEEDING THE CLOCK.
AMARI WHITE DOWN TO THE 5.
NOW, IT IS GOING TO BE FOURTH DOWN AND DECISION TIME FOR CARTERSVILLE.
DO YOU TRY A FIELD GOAL HERE?
>> I AM NOT SURE THAT YOU DON'T KEEP THE OFFENSE ON THE FIELD IN THIS SITUATION.
CLOSE THE DOOR, AND THE WAY THAT THE DEFENSE HAS PLAYED TONIGHT, AND YOU PUT ANOTHER SEVEN, BUT IF YOU ARE TAKING AMARI WHITE IN THIS SITUATION, MORE THAN LIKELY, YOU ARE GOING FOR THE FIELD GOAL, AND TAKE THE POINTS.
>> WELL, THE FIELD GOAL MAKES IT A 17-POINT GAME, AND MAKES IT A THREE-SCORE GAME, AND THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO SCORE TWO TOUCHDOWNS AND AT LEAST A FIELD GOAL, AND SO THIS IS GOING TO REALLY PUT THE PRESSURE ON THEM.
GUTIERREZ MISSED IT.
SO CALHOUN STILL HAS LIFE.
NEEDED TO PUSH IT A LITTLE BIT TO THE RIGHT SINCE HE WAS KICKING FROM THE LEFT HASH, AND KICKED IT STRAIGHT.
IT WENT STRAIGHT, WHICH MEANS IT DID NOT GO THROUGH.
>> NO REAL PRESSURE, AND JUST MISSED THIS TO THE LEFT.
AND IF YOU ARE CALHOUN, YOU HAVE YOUR BREAK IF YOU HAVE ANY CHANCE, AND YOU KEPT CARTERSVILLE FROM SCORING.
REMEMBER, THEY WERE DOWN ON THE 2 YARD LINE, AND YOU GOT THE PENALTY AND PUSHED THEM OFF OF THE GOAL LINE AND GIVE YOUR TEAM THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE BALL THIS TIME, AND IT HAS TO GO INTO THE END ZONE FOR A TOUCHDOWN, BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN, THE WAY THEY RUN THE BALL, AND THEY COULD GET IT BACK WITH 3:00 TO RUN THE CLOCK OUT.
>> AS IT WAS, CARTERSVILLE ATE UP 8:54.
THEY THROW THE SCREEN TO SPEER.
AND IT IS DRIVEN OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 35 YARD LINE, AND FLAG IS OUT.
>> I AM NOT SURE THAT THIS IS A SCREEN OR JUST A LONG CROSSING ROUTE UNDERNEATH TO GET THIS BALL TO SPEER ON THE BACK SIDE.
>> ON THE OFFENSE.
>> Referee: THAT PENALTY IS 10 YARDS, STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> THIS IS AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN'S NIGHTMARE, AND HOW MANY HOLDING CALLS HAVE WE SEEN ON BOTH SIDES.
JOOT YES, AND POINTS OFF OF THE BOARD FOR THE SAME CALL, HOLDING ON THE EDGE.
THE PLAYERS ARE TRYING TO DO ALL THEY CAN ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE CALHOUN.
THE WAY THAT THE HURRICANE DEFENSE MOVES AROUND AND JUST HUSTLES, BECAUSE THEY ARE BEATING YOU WITH HUSTLE AND EFFORT MOST OF THE TIME.
>> 17 TOTAL PENALTIES FOR OVER 160 YARDS, AND BOTH TEAMS COMBINED HERE TONIGHT.
>> LEWIS BEING CHASED.
THROWS ON THE RUN, AND HE GOT IT OUT HERE TO THE FRESHMAN TIGHT END AMARI WINSTON, AND THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO CALL HIS NAME ON OFFENSE, AND LEWIS TOOK A BIG HIT AS HE DELIVERED THAT BALL.
>> GREAT JOB THERE BY CHRISTIAN LEWIS KNOWING WHERE HIS TEAMMATE IS SUPPOSED TO BE LINED UP.
YOU HEARD HIM LATE TELLING GAGE LEONARD TO GET OFF OF THE BALL.
HMM, THAT IS A BIG HIT THERE BY JAKE BRASFIELD.
>> THERE WAS CONTACT WITH THE HELMET, BECAUSE THERE WAS, HE WAS SLIDING DOWN AND IT WAS NOT HELMET TO HELMET, BECAUSE HE SLID INTO THE CONTACT, AND TOOK THE BRUNT OF IT ON HIS HEAD.
AND INCOMPLETE.
SPEER WAS THERE AND SO WAS LEONARD AND NOBODY GOT IT.
>> IN THE WORLD OF FOOTBALL AS YOU KNOW, IF YOU ARE WATCHING A LOT OF GAMES, TWO RECEIVERS IN THE SAME SPOT MEANS THAT SOMEBODY WAS RUNNING THE WRONG PLAY OR THE WRONG ROUTE, AND HE WAS THROWING IT UP THERE, AND IT WAS SPEER OR LEONARD OR LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE ANTICIPATING THE BALL ON THAT PLAY.
>> TWO RECEIVERS IN THE SAME SPOT USUALLY MEANS FOUR OR FIVE DEFENDERS IN THAT SPOT, TOO.
THIRD DOWN, AND LEWIS FIRES INCOMPLETE.
TRYING TO GET THE BALL TO BRENDAN GRAY, AND IT IS FOURTH DOWN.
THEY WILL GO FOR IT HERE, AND THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE A CHOICE.
>> GOOD JOB FALLING OFF, AND PLAYING SOFT IS CARTERSVILLE, AND ONLY RUSHING THREE UP FRONT.
NOT A LOT OF PRESSURE, BUT IT IS NOT GOOD EXECUTION BY CHRISTIAN LEWIS AND THESE RECEIVERS.
>> CALHOUN HAS NOT LOST TO A TEAM IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA THIS YEAR.
AND THE ONLY LOSS TO McCOLLIE OUT OF CHAT HUE GA. AND THE SECOND GAME OF THE SEASON, BUT THEY ARE ON THE ROPES HERE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER.
LEWIS DOWNFIELD AND THIS IS CAUGHT.
IT IS GOING TO BE A LONG TOUCHDOWN.
COLE SPEER.
CALHOUN IS BACK ON THE BOARD.
>> TRYING TO GIVE THE BALL TO HIS BIG PLAY RECEIVER ALL NIGHT LONG.
WE KNOW THE KIND OF TALENT AND SPEED THAT COLE SPEER POSSESSES.
THIS IS LOOKING LIKE A GO ROUTE ON THE EDGE, AND RUNNING DOWN THE EDGE OF THE SIDELINE.
COVERAGE IS THERE, AND JUST THROWING IT UP, AND TIGHT WINDOW BEFORE THE SEICHE TI COULD GET OVER WITH CASE ADAMS COMING OVER LATE FROM THAT SAFETY POSITION.
AND YOU KNOW THAT ONCE COLE SPEER IS OUT TO FOOTRACE, IT IS OVER.
BIG TIME TOUCHDOWN AND IN A BIG MOMENT.
>> THE P.A.T.
IS GOOD.
IT IS 21-14.
CHRISTIAN LEWIS STRUGGLING IN THE PASSING GAME ALL NIGHT, BUT THIS TIME, IT WAS PERFECT.
COLE SPEER, AND HE ON.
>>> GOING DOWN TO BE THE WIRE AT WYMAN STADIUM, A 76-YARD TOUCHDOWN PASS, AND CHRISTIAN LEWIS TO COLE SPEER.
YOU COULD ONSIDE KICK IT HERE, BUT YOU COULD JUST KICK IT AND PLAY DEFENSE.
THIS TIME, THEY DO KICK IT DEEPER.
OVER THERE TO THE 24 YARD LINE.
AND WILKEY IS GOING TO STEP OUT OF BOUNDS.
SO, CARTERSVILLE BACK ON OFFENSE, AND THEY JUST CHEWED UP 5:00 ON THE LAST POSSESSION, BUT THEY DID NOT SCORE.
THEY DID NOT THROW THE BALL ONCE, AND THEY KEPT IT ON THE GROUND.
SO WHAT IS THE APPROACH NOW, WAYNE, NOW THAT IT IS CUT TO A TOUCHDOWN?
>> IT IS ALL ABOUT THE BALL SECURITY, AND THAT HAS TO BE THE FIRST THING WHEN YOU TAKE THE FIELD, AND THAT IS THE OFFENSE, AND ALL YOU ARE TRYING TO DO IS TO CREATE A COUPLE OF FIRST DOWNS, AND FIRST AND FOREMOST, GET SOME BETTER FIELD POSITIONS, AND IF YOU TO PUNT THE BALL.
SO FIRST, YOU GET FIRST DOWN, AND THEN THE CLOCK IS IN YOUR FAVOR AND DO WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING ALL NIGHT LONG, IF YOU ARE CARTERSVILLE.
RUN THE BALL.
>> AMARI WHITE MAY FINALLY GET HIM ON THE GROUND WITH A THREE-YARD GAIN ON THAT PLAY.
KRISTYANE GREGORY IN ON THAT TACKLE.
I BELIEVE KERNS WAS, TOO.
>> A POSITIVE FIRST DOWN, AND THE THING IS IF YOU ARE CARTERSVILLE, THE ACHILLES' HEEL WAS THE PENALTY, SO YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE THE PLAY CLEAN FOOTBALL, AND NO NEED TO SHY AWAY IN THIS DRIVE.
AS YOU HAVE SEEN JAKE PARKER DIAL UP PULLING THE BALL IN THESE SITUATIONS OUT THERE ON THE EDGE, AND IF HE FEELS LIKE THE DDMs ARE CRASHING DOWN.
>> ANOTHER PENALTY.
NO SOONER HAD THE WORDS LEFT YOUR PENALTY.
>> Referee: PRIOR TO THE SNAP, FALSE START ON THE OFFENSE, THE PENALTY IS FIVE YARDS, STILL SECOND DOWN.
>> YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT.
THIS OFFENSE IS RUN-BASED, AND WHEN YOU ARE A RUN-BASED OFFENSE AND STAYING ON SCHEDULE WHICH MEANS THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS IN THE POSITIVE WHEN IT IS IN THE CHAIN SITUATION AND YOU DON'T BEAT YOURSELF, SO THIS IS NOT THE MOMENT TO HAVE A PENALTY TO SET YOU BACK, ESPECIALLY TRYING TO EAT THE CLOCK UP.
>> THAT IS THE 10th PENALTY ON THE CANES.
>> AMARI WHITE TRYING TO GET TO THE FIRST DOWN MARKER, AND HE IS CLOSE WITH ANOTHER DANCING RUN.
>> I AM NOT SURE WHY THE CLOCK WAS RUNNING THE ENTIRE TIME ON THAT PENALTY PLAY.
NO ONE CAUGHT IT.
>> YEAH, AFTER A DEAD BALL PENALTY, THE BALL SHOULD BE PUT DOWN, AND THE CLOCK NOT RESTARTED UNTIL THE SNAP, RIGHT?
BUT IT WAS RUNNING.
>> IT WAS A RUNNING CLOCK, AND GOOD JOB ONCE AGAIN TO GET TO THE OUTSIDE OF AMARI WHITE GETTING OUT OF THE INITIAL TACKLE, AND THAT HAS BEEN HIS BIGGEST ASSET TONIGHT, GETTING OUT OF THE TACKLE, AND TO THE OUTSIDE.
>> THIRD DOWN AND ONE.
FIRST DOWN CARRY, WHITE.
KNOCKED OUT OF BOUNDS BY SPEER.
JUST A FABULOUS NIGHT FROM THIS SENIOR RUNNING BACK.
>> NICE JOB, AND GREAT VISION.
GETTING OUT ON THE EDGE, THE ROVER CAN'T COME UP WITH THE TACKLE, AND OTHER THAN A COUPLE OF PLAYS WHERE AMARI WHITE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE CONTACT, HE HAS BEEN UNSTOPPABLE.
>> AND THREE CARRIES FOR 157, AND JEFFREYS IN THERE NOW, AND THEY BRING IN THE HAMMER TO GET SOME TOUGH YARDS.
>> YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE MALACHI JEFFRIES THE JUNIOR, AND HIS STYLE BEING SO PHYSICAL RIGHT THERE WHEN YOU ARE TIED UP WITH TWO TO THREE GUYS PULLING YOU DOWN, YOU HAVE TO PUT TWO HANDS ON THE BALL.
ONCE AGAIN, KIND OF LOOSE WITH THE BALL.
COLE SPEER IS TRYING TO RIP IT OUT.
YOU HAVE TO PROTECT THE BALL IN THAT SITUATION, AND ESPECIALLY ONCE THE GANG TACKLING STARTS TO HAPPEN.
>> SECOND DOWN AND FOUR, AND ANOTHER ILLEGAL PROCEDURE CALL.
>> Referee: PRIOR TO THE SNAP, FALSE START, 71.
>> THEY ARE SAYING IT IS JOHNATHAN CLINE THAT IS EARLY WITH THE MOVEMENT.
>> I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING, BUT IT IS SUBTLE.
>> SECOND DOWN AND NINE.
>> THEY LOST ABOUT 20 SECONDS WHEN THEY LET THE CLOCK RUN, AND IT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT.
THEY STONEWALLED JEFFRIES THAT TIME.
>> NICE SHOT BY MASON GREEN COMING DOWN FROM THE SAM BACKER, AND YOU CAN SEE DROPPING OUT OF THE SECONDARY HAMMET WITH IT.
>> IF THEY DON'T GET IT, YOU WILL USE A TIME-OUT, RIGHT?
>> Referee: PENALTY ON THE DEFENSE, FIVE YARDS, THIRD DOWN.
>> MATT, ON THIS DRIVE, YOU SAW EARLIER JOHNATHAN CLINE POINT TO THE OFFICIAL THAT THE D-LINE IS FLASHING THEIR HAND AS THOUGH THEY ARE MOVING.
AND THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE CALLING RIGHT THERE.
YOU CAN'T TRY TO DRAW THEM OFFSIDE WITH HAND MOVEMENT, AND THAT IS A BIG CALL, AND THE FIRST TIME THAT WE HAVE SEEN IT AGAINST CALHOUN.
>> WELL, THIS IS BIG RIGHT HERE.
>> AND EIGHT MEN IN THE BOX TO TRY TO STOP THEM EXPECTING THE RUN PLAY.
>> WHITE WITH THE FIRST DOWN AND THAT MIGHT DO IT.
CALHOUN HAS TWO TIME-OUTS REMAINING.
>> IT IS A PHYSICAL RUN BY A VERY TALENTED SENIOR IN AMARI WHITE, AND NOT SURE -- >> Referee: TIME-OUT, CALHOUN.
>> ABOUT THE RECRUITING OF AMARI WHITE, BUT VERY IMPRESSIVE.
>> I AM PRETTY SURE THAT HE IS GOING TO BE THE "MAKE THAT KID AN OFFER" CANDIDATE FROM TONIGHT'S BALL GAME ON THE NEXT FOOTBALL FRIDAY RECRUITING 202 IS NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT AT 7:00, AND IN THE MEANTIME, WE WILL CHECK IN WITH NELLY.
>> I THINK THAT AMARI WHITE IS IN CONSIDERATION FOR THE GEORGIA COTTON COMMISSION PLAYER OF THE GAME, AND I HAD TO GET THAT IN.
THE POST GAME IS AROUND THE CORNER, BECAUSE THIS MAN SAYS WHEN THE GAME IS OVER, IT IS NOT OVER.
GIVE YOU SOME SCORES COMING UP.
LEE COUNTY LEADING VALDOSTA, AND THIS IS LATE.
LEE COUNTY IS THE REGION CHAMP.
THIS IS THE LAST GAME OF THE YEAR FOR VALDOSTA, AND THEY HAVE NO POST-SEASON.
MARY PERSONS OVER JACKSON, 23-21, AND A BIG REGION GAME, AND REGION RIVALRY GAME IN CENTRAL GEORGIA.
ON THE BOARD, KOL QUIT KNOCKING OFF TIFT.
AND KOL QUIT IS GOING TO GET THE TWO SEED WITH THAT WIN OVER TIFT.
AND ROME KNOCKS OFF DOUGLAS, AND MORE FINAL SCORES ARE COMING UP AROUND THE CORNER, AND WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS HERE WITH 2:13 TO GO ON A FIRST AND TEN.
>> THANK YOU, NELLY.
NEXT FRIDAY IS THE LAST REGULAR SEASON GAME, AND FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA TOMORROW, AND WE WILL MAKE THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT WHERE WE WILL BE, AND PLUS, BRACKETOLOGY NIGHT, AND JON NELSON IS HANDLING ALL OF THE BRACKETS AS WE FIGURE OUT THE PLAYOFF FIELD, AND ALL SEVEN CLASSIFICATIONS.
CALHOUN HAS ONE TIME-OUT REMAINING.
>> YOU TALK ABOUT A MAN ON A MISSION.
NOW, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE HELMET THERE.
AND I GUESS THAT THEY WERE IN THE LOCKER ROOM TRYING ON EACH OTHER'S HELMETS.
HEY, I'M NOT USING IT.
YOU CAN TAKE IT.
GO INTO THE GAME.
>> SO THE SECOND DOWN AND TWO.
AND THE CANES BURNING CLOCK HERE.
GOING TO GIVE THE BALL TO JEFFRIES, AND ANOTHER FIRST DOWN.
AND THIS IS GOING TO DO IT.
CARTERSVILLE WILL CONTINUE A PHENOMENAL STREAK.
THIS'LL BE THEIR TENTH STRAIGHT REGION CHAMPIONSHIP, AND THEIR REGION WINNING STREAK NOW STRETCHES 62 GAMES DATING BACK TO 2011.
I WAS A LOT YOUNGER THEN.
>> COACH FOSTER, HE TOLD US THAT THIS O-LINE, AND HE HAD A WHOLE BUNCH OF QUESTION MARKS AROUND IT, AND I DON'T THINK THAT HE HAS TA THE QUESTION MARKS AFTER THIS PERFORMANCE UP FRONT.
>> AMARI WHITE WITH ANOTHER CARRY, AND CHERRY ON TOP OF WHAT IS GOING TO BE AS NELLY POINTED OUT, GEORGIA COTTON COMMISSION PLAYER OF THE GAME PERFORMANCE.
>> I GUESS THAT THE SECOND HELMET WORKS FOR HIM, AND HE IS BACK IN, AND MAYBE AN UNSPORTSMANLIKE PENALTY AT THE END OF THE PLAY.
>> ALL RIGHT.
WAYNE, FINAL TO LOOK AT THE PLAY OF THE GAME PRESENTED BY BESTIES, AND SHARE WITH YOUR BESTY.
>> Referee: PERSONAL FOUL -- >> WE GO BACK TO THE HOLD, AND SECONDS OF THE FIRST HALF AND A LONG TOUCHDOWN PASS FROM JAKE PARKER TO JACOB RAY, AND CERTAINLY NOT A KNOCKOUT BLOW, BUT IT CHANGED THE WAY THAT THE SECOND HALF WOULD BE PLAYED.
>> IT IS A BIG TIME PLAY RIGHT BEFORE THE HALF TO GIVE THIS TEAM THE KIND OF ENERGY IN PASS GAME THEY DON'T REALLY LIVE ON, AND THEY THRIVED TONIGHT WITH THE BIG PLAY DOWN THE FIELD WITH JAKE PARKER.
>> THAT IS THE BESTIES PLAY OF THE GAME.
STICK AROUND, AND THE ALREADY FAMOUS GPB SPORTS POST GAME SHOW IS COMING UP IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF THIS GAME, AND THE PRESENTATION OF THE GEORGIA COTTON COMMISSION PLAYER OF THE GAME WITH JON NELSON AND HANNAH GOODIN IS STANDING BY WITH THE SCORES AND THE INTERVIEWS FROM THE WINNING COACHES TONIGHT AS THIS IS THE NEXT TO LAST WEEKEND OF THE REGULAR SEASON IN THE GHSA.
SO CARTERSVILLE AND CALHOUN, AND THIS IS THE FINAL REGULAR SEASON GAMES.
THEY WILL HAVE A BYE WEEK GOING INTO THE PLAYOFFS.
AND IT IS NOW GOING TO BE PRETTY APPARENT THAT CARTERSVILLE IS GOING TO BE THE NUMBER ONE SEED AND CALHOUN GOING TO BE A NUMBER TWO SEED.
VICTORY FORMATION.
KNEE BY PARKER.
>> WHAT A GOOD JOB TONIGHT BY THIS CARTERSVILLE TEAM AND REALLY OUTSIDE OF THE PENALTIES OFFENSIVELY, UNTIMELY PENALTIES, THEY HAD A VERY DOMINANT PERFORMANCE AND THE WAY THEY RUN THE BALL, AND FOR THIS DEFENSE TO COME IN HERE, AND ONCE AGAIN THE SWEETEST PLAY IN FOOTBALL IF YOU ARE THE VICTOR IS THIS VICTORY FORMATION, AND THE EASIEST PLAY TO INSTALL IN PRACTICE.
>> AND THE REGION WINNING STREAK THAT STARTED UNDER HEAD COACH FRANK BARDEN CONTINUED ALL OF THE WAY THROUGH JOEY KING'S TENURE AS THE PURPLE HURRICANES' HEAD COACH AND NOW CONTINUES UNDER CONOR FOSTER AS THE CANES WIN THE 2021 REGION 7-5A CHAMPIONSHIP.
NUMBER TEN IN A ROW WITH THE 21-14 VICTORY OVER THE CALHOUN YELLOW JACKETS.
WAYNE, THE SECOND TIME THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE CARTERSVILLE PLAY ON GPB THIS SEASON, AND DEFEATED CREEKSIDE EARLIER IN THE YEAR, AND NOW A VICTORY OVER CALHOUN TONIGHT.
UNDEFEATED REGULAR SEASON, AND NUMBER ONE RANKING GOING INTO THE PLAYOFFS.
>> WELL, YOU CAN GET THIS PRODUCTION OUT OF THE RUN GAME, AND EFFICIENCY THAT JAKE PARKER BRINGS TO THE FIELDT THAT QUARTERBACK POSITION, AND ONCE AGAIN, NOT TO OVERLOOK THIS DEFENSE.
ONLY 13 1/2 POINTS GAME, AND TONIGHT, AGAINST A HIGH-POWERED OFFENSE ONLY GIVING UP 14, AND YOU CAN'T OVERLOOK THE WAY THEY PLAY ON THAT SIDE OF THE BALL WITH NASIR GRANDBERRY AND BEN ROBINSON AND THOSE GUYS.
>> SO THEY HAVE A WEEK TO GET READY FOR THE PLAYOFFS AS TWO SEED.
THEY WILL BE HOSTING A FIRST-ROUND GAME BUT AS A TWO SEED.
IF THEY WIN THE FIRST-ROUND GAME, THEY SHOULD BE A PRETTY HEAVIED FAVORITE TO DO SO.
AND THEN THEY GO ON THE ROAD.
>> THAT IS WHAT YOU TALK ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL, AND HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE IN THE STATE YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL TO.
AND WHEN YOU ARE LIKE CALHOUN IN A REGION WHERE YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT FAR AWAY FROM EVERYONE, YOU GO TO TRAVELING, THAT CAN WEAR ON, YOU KNOW, THE TEENAGED KIDS.
>> 21-14, CARTERSVILLE.
9-0, REGULAR SEASON S REGION CHAMPS AT 5-0, AND THEY HAVE WON 17 OF THE LAST 18 GAMES, DATING BACK TO LAST SEASON.
THE ONLY LOSS IN THAT SPAN WAS THE 2020 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, AND THEY'LL CERTAINLY BE AMONG THE FAVORITES TO GET BACK INTO THE 2021 FINALS AS THEY WRAP UP THE REGULAR SEASON UNDEFEATED.
WE WILL SEND IT TO JON NELSON.
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>>> YOU HAVE WON GAMES IN DIFFERENT WAYS THIS YEAR, AND YOU HAVE BEEN LIGHTS OUT OFFENSIVELY, AND YOU HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF GRINDERS, AND MAYBE IT IS BEING ON GPB WHERE YOU HAVE HAD GRINDERS, BUT IT IS ANOTHER GRINDER TONIGHT, SO IT SPEAKS OF HOW YOU CAN WIN GAMES THIS YEAR.
>> YES, SIR, AND IT IS A GREAT TEAM, THAT WE CAN FIND WAY EVERY WEEK.
SOME WEEKS IT IS PRETTY, BUT SOME WEEKS IT IS GRITTY.
TWO GREAT FOOTBALL PROGRAMS TONIGHT, AND PROUD OF OUR KIDS TO FIND A WAY.
>> WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE GROUND GAME, AND WE WILL HAVE AMARI COMING UP IN A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT IS SPEAKING TO THE OFFENSIVE LINE TO CLEARING THE WAY TO WORK THE CLOCK AND GET THOSE BIG DRIVES THAT YOU HAVE, AND A LOT OF CREDIT TO THE O-LINE.
>> THEY HAVE DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB ALL YEAR, AND WE HAVE CHALLENGED THEM TO GET BETTER, AND WITH THE RUNNING BACKS BEING PHYSICAL AND THE OFFENSIVE LINE, I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF THAT GROUP WHO HAVE COME TOGETHER TO BE BETTER AND BETTER EVERY WEEK.
THEY GOT THE GAME FOR US, AND THIS IS HUGE.
>> SO CLAMPING DOWN ON A GUY LIKE COLE SPEER, AND ELECTRIC OFFENSE THAT COACH HAS PUT OUT, AND I KNOW THAT YOU WANT TO WORK ON THE TOUCHDOWN THAT COULD HAVE MADE IT A SEVEN-POINT GAME, AND WHAT DO YOU SEE THERE?
>> HE IS A GREAT PLAYER AND THEY ARE GREAT TEAM, AND OUR KIDS HAD GREAT DISCIPLINE TO TEND, AND ONE WE WOULD LIKE TO GET BACK, BUT PROUD.
OUR KIDS THREW SOME DIFFERENT LOOKS AT THEM, AND OUR KIDS AND COACHES DID A TREMENDOUS JOB.
>> SO LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THE GEORGIA COTTON COMMISSION PLAYER OF THE GAME SPECIFICALLY, AND HOW MANY SCHOOLS ARE LOOKING AT HIM, AND WHY SHOULDN'T MORE LOOK AT HIM TONIGHT?
>> WELL, NOT ENOUGH.
NOT ENOUGH SCHOOLS ARE LOOKING AT HIM.
EVERYBODY WHO HAS COME THROUGH HAS LOVED THE FILM, AND SOON, HE IS GOING TO HAVE OFFERS TO TURN DOWN.
HE IS A TREMENDOUS YOUNG MAN, AND MORE IMPORTANT GREAT STUDENT ATHLETE AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU COULD WANT AND HE EMBODIES EVERYTHING THAT WE WANT IN THE PROGRAM.
>> REGIONAL CHAMP, AND GO GET YOUR TROPHY.
>> ALL RIGHT.
GO CANES.
AMARI.
THIS HAT BELONGS TO YOU, AND I HAVE TO PUT THE TOWEL OVER THE SHOULDER, AND LET ME SEE, WE HAVE TO GET THE LOGO TO MAKE SURE.
THERE WE GO.
ACTUALLY, WOULDN'T YOU KNOW THAT I WOULD DO IT INSIDE OUT.
THERE WE GO.
GEORGIA COTTON COMMISSION PLAYER OF THE GAME, AN NORTH OF 170 YARDS OF TONIGHT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE OFFENSIVE LINE.
AND WHAT IS IT LIKE FOR THEM TO CLEAR THE HOLES FOR YOU TONIGHT.
WHAT HAS IT BEEN LIKE TO WORK WITH THOSE GUYS?
>> THEY DID GREAT.
I HAD TO LEARN TO BE PATIENT WITH IT.
AND THE HOLES WERE OPENING UP WELL, AND I GOT THROUGH THEM.
>> WHAT WAS THIS WEEK OF PRACTICE LIKE KNOWING THAT IT IS A REGIONAL RIVAL AND REGIONAL RIVAL KNOWING HOW IMPORTANT THE WEEK WAS, AND WHAT WAS THE WEEK OF PRACTICE LIKE LEADING INTO THE GAME?
>> AND THE WEEK OF PRACTICE, IT WAS ROUGH, AND PREPARING FOR A TEAM LIKE THAT, AND THEY WERE WERE A VERY GOOD TEAM, AND THE TEAM PLAYED VERY GOOD TO ME, BUT IT WAS HARD WEEK OF PRACTICE.
>> THE KNEE INJURY THAT YOU HAD LAST SEASON, WHAT IS IT LIKE TO COME THROUGH THAT AND OUT THE OTHER SIDE, AND HAVE THE GAMES THAT YOU ARE HAVING THIS YEAR?
>> YEAH, MY JUNIOR YEAR, I TORE MY MENISCUS, AND IT HAS BEEN A STEP UP.
I FEEL GOOD.
I AM JUST READY TO PLAY, AND I AM READY TO BE BACK.
>> AND SO YOU GET THIS WIN TONIGHT.
AND YOU HAVE A GREAT GAME NORTH OF 170 YARDS ON THE GROUND, AND GREAT MOMENTUM TO GO INTO THE PLAYOFFS WITH, AND I THINK THAT IT SPEAKS A LOT OF TALKING TO THE COACH ABOUT WINNING GAMES IN DIFFERENT WAYS, AND YOU CAN LIGHT UP THE SCOREBOARD OR DO A GRINDER LIKE IT WAS TONIGHT.
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO HAVE THAT KIND OF VERSATILITY OFFENSIVELY?
>> WELL, REPEAT THAT, I AM SORRY.
>> WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A VERSATILE OFFENSE TO WIN GAMES LIKE TONIGHT, GRINDING IT OUT, AND GRINDING IT OUT, AND GETTING THE LONG DRIVES, BUT THEN YOU HAVE GAMES WHERE YOU CAN PUT 40 OR 50 POINTS ON THE BOARD AND WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE VERSATILE?
>> WELL, IT IS GOOD, BUT TODAY, IT WAS A DOG FIGHT, AND ESPECIALLY CREEKSIDE, I HAD 84 YARDSED AND THEY WERE A GOOD DEFENSE, BUT I LOVED IT.
>> THE GEORGIA COTTON COMMISSION PLAYER OF THE GAME AND YOU SHOULD GO TO CELEBRATE, BECAUSE NOW YOU HAVE THE REGION CHAMP.
THE HAT AND THE TOWEL, AND EVERYTHING.
AND YOU ARE READY.
THE POST GAME SHOW STARTS POSTHASTE, AND THAT IS THE OFFICIAL WORD, AND BIG NIGHT HERE AT WYMAN STADIUM, AND BIG NIGHT HERE FOR THE 264 TEAM.
>> WELL, ONE OF THE GOLD STANDARDS PROGRAMS IN THIS STATE, AND PROVING IT AGAIN, THIS SEASON.
YOU KNOW, THEY REPLACED A LOT OF GUYS FROM LAST YEAR'S TEAM, AND THE TEAM THAT GOT TO THE STATE FINALS THAT LOST TO WARNER ROBINS BE AND ALMOST A TOTAL REBUILD OR MAYBE A RELOAD, BUT THEY WERE IMPRESSIVE THIS YEAR, AND IMPRESSIVE TONIGHT.
>> AND YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE HAT OFF TO THE COACHING STAFF, CONOR FOSTER, AND THIS TEAM FOR BEING ABLE TO MAKE THAT ADJUSTMENT WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE THAT EXPLOSIVENESS, AND YOU HAVE TO WAIT ON THE O-LINE TO COME AROUND AND YOU HAVE THESE KINDS OF BACKS.
GREAT JOB.
>> SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CARTERSVILLE' PURPLE HURRICANES AND 24-14 WINNERS OVER CALHOUN, AND THEY WIN THE 10th CONSECUTIVE REGIONAL TITLE, AND STREAK OF 62 GAMES HEADING INTO THE PLAYOFFS WHICH START TWO WEEKS FROM NOW, AND WE HAVE ONE MORE REGULAR SEASON GAME TO GO, AND TOMORROW ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, WE WILL BE ANNOUNCING THAT GAME.
SO BE SURE TO BE FOLLOWING US TOMORROW.
AND BECAUSE IT IS OVER, IT IS NOT OVER, AND THE GPB SPORTS POST GAME SHOW IS COMING UP NEXT.
AND NOW FOR WAYNE GANDY AND JON NELSON AN HANNAH GOODIN, AND THE ENTIRE GPB ARMY, I'M MATT STEWART SAYING GOOD NIGHT FROM WYMAN STUDIO, AN CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CANES, AND THEY DO IT AGAIN.
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