Football Fridays in Georgia
GHSA 1A Public Final: Marion vs. Charlton
Season 2013 Episode 27 | 2h 47m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
GHSA 1A Public Final: Marion vs. Charlton - Dec. 14, 2013
Lorenzo Smothers caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from Justin Eckert seconds into the fourth quarter for the game’s only touchdown as Marion County beat Charlton Co. to win the Class A Public School championship. Smothers gained 105 yards on 20 carries. The Marion defense held Charlton to just six first downs and 137 yards. The title comes in just the Eagles eighth season of football.
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Football Fridays in Georgia
GHSA 1A Public Final: Marion vs. Charlton
Season 2013 Episode 27 | 2h 47m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Lorenzo Smothers caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from Justin Eckert seconds into the fourth quarter for the game’s only touchdown as Marion County beat Charlton Co. to win the Class A Public School championship. Smothers gained 105 yards on 20 carries. The Marion defense held Charlton to just six first downs and 137 yards. The title comes in just the Eagles eighth season of football.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipTHE ROAD TO THE DOME IS LONG WINDING AND WITH PLENTY OF EXIT RAMPS MARKED.
NO REENTRY.
OUR JOURNEY BEGAN 100.
PUNISHING DAYS AGO, THIS TEAM'S ENJOYED THE SCORCHING HEAT OF AUGUST, THE FROSTY NIGHTS A FALL, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN BEFORE DAYBREAK BUSTING IT WELL PAST DARK HITTING THE SAME HUNDRED YARDS OVER OVER AND OVER THEN A FEW MOMENTS OF FRIDAY NIGHT GLORY.
BEFORE GOING BACK TO THE LAPS AND THE WEIGHTS AND THE DRILLS UNTIL YOU WERE READY TO DROP, BUT YOU KEPT GOING.
NOW YOU REACHED YOUR FINAL DESTINATION, YOU HAVE ARRIVED COME WITH US AS THE BEST OF THE BEST.
FIND OUT THAT THEY HAVE, WHAT IT TAKES TO BE CALL CHAMPION, GET READY FOR SOME EXCITING, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL AS THE CHARLTON COUNTY INDIANS TAKE ON THE MARION COUNTY EAGLES.
EELS LIVE ON GPB NEXT.
HELLO EVERYBODY AND WELCOME INSIDE.
THE GEORGIA DOME, 72 DEGREES IN ON A RAINY SATURDAY.
NICE TO HAVE YOU ALONG FOR THIS STATE PUBLIC A CHAMPIONSHIP BETWEEN CHARLESTON COUNTY AND MARION COUNTY CHARLTON COUNTY OUT AT FOLKESTONE, GEORGIA AND SOUTH GEORGIA AND MARION COUNTY FROM BUENA VISTA GONNA BE A GREAT FOOTBALL GAME THIS AFTERNOON AND IT'S A PLEASURE TO WELCOME MY PARTNER, LARRY SMITH TO THE BROADCAST LARRY, GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH ME TODAY.
GOOD TO BE HERE.
GREAT GAMES ON FRIDAY, AND FORMER OUTSTANDING CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES TODAY.
GOOD TO HAVE GOOD TO BE HERE WITH YOU.
THANK YOU.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE FOOTBALL TEAMS AT MIDSEASON.
WE HAD A TURNAROUND BY CHARLTON COUNTY AND THERE WAS A REASON.
YEAH, THERE REALLY WAS WHEN YOU'RE MISSING A GUY LIKE ANDREW LEIGH.
HE LISTENED, HE NEEDS A DIFFERENCE MAKER ON THIS TEAM, THERE'S NO QUESTION AND THEIR FORTUNES REALLY TOOK AN UPTURNED ONCE HE RETURNED FROM INJURY, LOOK AT WHAT HE'S DONE.
THESE NUMBERS JUST IN THE LAST SIX GAMES ALONE, 14 TOUCHDOWNS OVER 1,100 YARDS ON THE GROUND AND DROOLY A BIG PART OF THIS CHARLTON OFFENSE.
ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU'VE GOT MARION COUNTY WHO LOST ONE TIME TO HAWKINSVILLE, YOU TALK ABOUT AVENGING A LOSS, THEY WIN 42.
7 IN THE REMAX.
TELL ME ABOUT MARY.
YEAH, THEY DID MARION COUNTY.
THEY ARE JUST ANOTHER OUTSTANDING TEAM THAT GUY YOU WANT TO WATCH RIGHT NOW.
HE DOESN'T ON BOTH SIDES.
BALL AND THAT IS LORENZO SMOTHERS.
34 CATCHES ON OFFENSE 53, TACKLES FIVE INTERCEPTIONS ON DEFENSE.
HE IS SOMEBODY THAT IS GOING TO BE KEY FOR THIS MARION TEAM AT THE EAGLES, ARE TO GET A VICTORY AND TAKE HOME.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP TODAY, LET'S GO DOWN TO THE THIRD MEMBER OF OUR BROADCAST TEAM GRACE, OLSON DOWN ON THE SIDELINES.
GRACE, THANK YOU, TOMMY.
NOT ONLY ARE THE MARION COUNTY EAGLES COMPETING IN THEIR FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME TODAY, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE TEAM IS ALSO EXPERIENCING THEIR FIRST TIME, EVER TO THE GORGE ADAM HEAD COACH MIKE SWEENEY TOLD ME THIS WEEK THAT ONLY TWO PLAYERS ON THE ROSTER HAVE EVER BEEN TO THE GEORGIA DOME BEFORE.
SO TO HELP DIMINISH, SOME OF THOSE NERVES OF PLAYING ON SUCH A MASSIVE STAGE, HE'S GOING TO TELL THE PLAYERS TO JUST ACT LIKE THIS IS ANY REGULAR SEASON GAME LIKE WE'RE PLAYING AT HOME, JUST PLAY YOUR HEARTS OUT.
AND AFTER THE GAME WIN OR LOSE, WE'RE GOING TO SPEND TWO TO THREE HOURS ENJOYING THE GEORGIA DOME EXPERIENCE, TAKING IT ALL IN AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME FOOD READY FOR THE GUYS AND EVERYTHING.
SO WIN OR LOSE THESE GUYS ARE GOING TO BE HERE SAYING AFTER THE GAME TO WATCH.
THE WHOLE THING GO ON AND TAKE PART IN THE ATMOSPHERE BACK UP TO YOU, TOMMY.
THANK YOU GRACE.
IT'S ALWAYS EXCITING WHEN YOU HAVE THE SMALLER SCHOOLS PLAYING FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP.
THIS IS GOOD.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.
IT WON'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS, LARRY THE KEYS TO THE GAME TOMMY.
I AGREE FOR MARION COUNTY STRONG, PLAY FROM THEIR QUARTERBACK.
DUSTIN ECKERD HE REALLY NEEDS TO COME ON AND RUN THIS OFFENSE THE WAY HE'S DONE IT SO FAR FOR THE EAGLES, THE SEASON, ON A DEFENSE GRACE ALLUDED TO IT, DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT.
YOU KNOW, COACH BROUGHT THE PLAYERS INTO NOON AND LAST NIGHT.
TODAY WE'RE GOING TO SPEND THE NIGHT HERE.
DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THIS.
IN THE IN THE AURA OF BEING IN THE GEORGIA.
DOME EXECUTE BETWEEN THE LINES.
DO WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT ALL SEASON LONG AND WE'LL GET THE VICTORY.
CHARLTON COUNTY?
NO, STRANGER TO THE DOME.
THEY'VE BEEN HERE FOR BEEN THERE.
DONE THAT GOT THE T-SHIRT.
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.
ABSOLUTELY FOR THE INDIANS RIGHT NOW LEAVES WERE VISUALLY TO TALK ABOUT THIS.
AGAIN THIS YOUNG MAN.
ANDREW LEE BROKE HIS ARM IN A PLAYOFF GAME AGAINST MARION COUNTY LAST YEAR.
HE WANTS TO COME BACK AND AGAIN GET SOME REVENGE ON THAT ON DEFENSE AGAIN 100% EFFORT.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
COACH RICK, MCWHORTER TOLD US THIS WEEK, HE SAID, LISTEN THESE KIDS REALLY DIDN'T BUY IN 100% UNTIL THE LAST GAME OF THE SEASON.
THEY NEED THAT KIND OF CONCERTED EFFORT TO BEAT THE EAGLES TODAY.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE MARION COUNTY COACH.
GREAT GUY, MIKE, SWEENEY DONE.
A GREAT JOB AT MARION COUNTY.
HE REALLY HAS FORTS.
HE'S IN THERE 42 WINS ONLY SEVEN LOSSES OF WHAT HE HAS DONE HERE.
YOU KNOW, IT'S GREAT TALKING TO HIM THIS WEEK TOO AND JUST AGAIN THE PASSION OF THESE COACHES.
AND CERTAINLY HE HAS THAT AS WELL.
TRY TO GET HIS EAGLE TO VICTORY, ON THE OTHER HAND, RICH MCWHORTER, WHO HAS BEEN THERE?
MANY YEARS, 24 YEARS DOING WHAT HE DOES.
YEAH, IT'S AMAZINGLY GIVE YOU.
LOOK AT HIS TENURE AND WHAT HE IS.
ON.
AND THERE'S BEFORE TO RIGHT THERE, READY TO PULL UP LIKE YOU SAID, BEEN HERE DONE THIS BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
EVEN FIRST, I LOOK AT THAT INCREDIBLE RECORD 251 WINS IN HIS AMAZING CAREER BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
I BET THEY EVEN WITH ALL THAT EXPERIENCE AS MANY TRIPS OF THE DOMES, AS HE'S MADE DAMI, HE STILL HAS, IT'S A LITTLE, IT'S A FEW BUTTERFLIES COME OUT ON THE DOME FOR HERE TODAY.
I'M SURE HE DOES.
HE'S HAD ONE LOSING SEASON AS A HEAD COACH THERE AND THAT WAS THE LAST YEAR FIVE AND SIX THEY WANTED TO WIN SIX GAMES.
THIS YEAR.
HERE THEY ARE WITH NINE WINS AND FOUR LOSSES.
IT'S BEEN A GREAT YEAR FOR CHARLTON, COUNTY AND HAS A DIFFERENT YEAR.
HE WAS TELLING US AGAIN, AS THEY COME OUT ON THE FIELD NOW, CHARLTON COUNTY AND AGAIN, THEY'RE SO FAR AWAY FROM THE DOME ALMOST 300 MILES AWAY, BUT HE MADE A GREAT POINT AND SAID, YOU KNOW, WE JUST WEREN'T QUITE SURE WHAT WE HAD THIS YEAR.
AND SO IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO THEM NOT TO GET HERE, BUT JUST TO GET TO SIX WINS TO GUARANTEE A WINNING SEASON.
THAT SAYS SOMETHING FOR A GUY THAT'S HAD SO MUCH SUCCESS DOWN THERE IN CHARLTON COUNTY AND THEY HAVE MET ONE TIME.
THESE TWO TEAMS CHARLTON COUNTY MARION COUNTY ONE YEAR AGO.
YEP.
THAT'S MEDIAS A YEAR AGO.
AS YOU MENTIONED.
AND IT WAS AGAIN ONE BY A MARION 2110, JUST A YEAR AGO.
AND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, I'M FAIRLY SURE MR. LEE BROKE HIS ARM IN THAT GAME.
YES, ANDREW LEIGH, THAT'S RIGHT.
HE CERTAINLY DID.
AND SO AGAIN, THAT'S WHERE HE WANTS TO COME IN AND GET REVENGE FOR THAT BECAUSE HE IS AS WE TALKED ABOUT THE WHAT HE'S DONE, A THOUSAND YARDS RUSHING OVER 1,100, 1,100 YARDS, RUSHING IN JUST THE FIRST SIX GAMES ALONE THAT BROKEN ARM FROM LAST YEAR TWEAKED IT AGAIN LATER ON.
HE WANTS TO COME BACK AGAIN AND SHOW THAT THAT HE FEELS THAT YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T INJURED.
WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO THEIR SEASON LAST YEAR.
COACH MCWATTERS DAUGHTER WANTED TO GO TO THE DOME BEFORE SHE GRADUATED.
SHE'S A SENIOR AND SHE GETS HER WISH LOOK AT THERE.
YEAH, AND SHE CAN HEAR YOU.
COACH SAID SHE WAS THE FIRST ONE TO RUN UP AND SAID, DADDY I GOT MY WISH I GET TO CHAIR THE DOME.
AND HERE SHE HAS FAMILY AFFAIR RIGHT NOW FOR CHARLTON COUNTY AND THE INDIANS PROGRAM AJ.
WELL, CHECK HIM OUT BUT HE CAN REALLY KICK IT DEEP AT THE FOR CHARLTON COUNTY, RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE GUY.
A GREAT RETURN UP TO THE 48 YARD LINE.
WELL, THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO START THE GAME AND SURE IS WHAT LEAD US 49 YARD RETURN.
SO I DIDN'T MEAN TO SOMEBODY THERE.
BUT ABSOLUTELY, THIS WAS A REALLY IMPRESSIVE.
I, THIS YOUNG MAN COMING RIGHT DOWN THE FIELD AT SKIRT, NIXON TO JUNIOR.
AND THAT'S THE WAY CHARLTON COUNTY WANTED TO START.
FIRST POSSESSION.
ALREADY IN MARION COUNTY TERRITORY.
NOT A BAD PLACE TO START AT THE OTHER GUYS HOME PLACE.
THE PISTOL FORMATION TWO WIDE RECEIVERS LEFT ONE DEEP SNAP GONNA RUN LEAD TO THE CORNER.
GOT A 30-YARD LINE GOES AND CRUELLY BUT ONCE AGAIN SHOWS YOU THE SPEED TOMMY AND HE'S GOT HIM INTO STUFF ON YOU THERE.
BUT YOU KNOW, THIS IS AGAIN WHAT THEY WERE MISSING EARLY IN THE SEASON.
WHEN YOU WATCH THIS YOUNG MAN, RUN DENY SPEED, THE NICE INSTINCTS, GETTING OUTSIDE.
THEY'RE AVOIDING THE, THE TACKLING A COUPLE EXTRA YARDS THERE.
THIS IS WHAT THIS TEAM IS MISSING AND YOU AND NOW HOW THE TWO DIFFERENT TEAMS FROM START TO FINISH.
SURE 17-YARD RUN BY ANDREW LEE.
TREY HARRINGTON, WHO CAN REALLY TRAVEL TO, AT, FOR THAT PISTOL FORMATION, TWO WIVES, RIGHT?
ONE TO THE LEFT, GOTTA GIVE ON THE TRAP RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE DOWN TO THE 24 YARD LINE.
SIX-YARD GAIN BY LEE.
GOOD GET USED TO IT.
THIS GUY WILL THROW IT RIGHT HERE.
TRAY HARRINGTON, 170 OF 377 220, 147 YARDS, 17 INTERCEPTIONS, BUT HE THREW A LOT OF THOSE WHEN IT WAS NOTHING BUT THROW THROW THROW 57 TIMES.
THE GAME AND ONE GAME.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, SLOWLY AS WE WERE TALKING HERE THAT YOU AND I BEFORE THE END OF PREGAME WATCHING THIS YOUNG MAN, THIS TEAM THEY THREW EVERY PASS WITHOUT LEAGUE.
THERE ARE MUCH MORE BALANCED ATTACK NOW, THAT HE'S BACK IN THE LINEUP.
PISTOL FORMATION AGAIN.
TWO WIVES LEFT, ONE BILL, ARRIVED HARRINGTON LOOKS OVER.
A FOUR MAN, FRONT ROW TO BACK HER UP ON THE SIDE.
HERE COMES LEAVE, GOOD PURSUIT THAT TIME.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK NOW AT THE REGION'S BANK STARTERS FOR THIS PARTICULAR FOOTBALL GAME HURRIEDLY.
LET'S GET TO THE CHARLTON COUNTY STARTERS ACROSS THAT FRONT CHESSER, COMBS DAVIS, MORGAN AND CRIB.
IT'S A GOOD GROUP.
WIDE RECEIVERS ARE READ AND BIRCHALL SPLIT IN AS NIXON.
THE TAILBACK AND TRULY TEVIS DASHER IS THE TIGHT END.
NICE PLAY THERE ON THE TACKLE.
BY THE WAY, I JUST THAT LAST PLAY BY G TAVIUS BROWN 6 FOOT, TALL LINEBACKER.
FIRST TIME, THEY'VE HARDLY AND CHECK SO FAR.
THERE'S OPENING DRIVE PISTOL FORMATION.
ONCE MORE FOUR MAN, FRONT GONNA BLITZ LEE'S GONNA BREAK.
THREE VERY CLOSE TO THE FIRST DOWN AND HE'S GOT IT.
LOOK AT THAT SECOND EFFORT, LARRY, IT'S A GREAT SECOND EFFORT RIGHT THERE, AND IT GET A NICE JOB IN A FIRST DOWN FOR CHARLTON, COUNTY.
THEY KNOW WHO BUTTERS THEIR BREAD.
REGION'S BANK STARTING DEFENSIVE LINEUP FOR MARION COUNTY COMING UP.
NOW THAT FRONT FOR BISHOP COX HOLLOMAN AND FREEMAN, THE BACKERS WHO VERY ACTIVE, GREEN BROWN, AND RILEY IN THE SECONDARY THOMAS, SMOTHERS DIXON AND JOHNSON.
KEEP YOUR EYE ON NUMBER ONE, LORENZO SMOTHERS.
HE IS THE REAL DEAL.
VERY ACTIVE ON DEFENSE AND OFFENSE.
FIRST DOWN, 10 INDIANS DOWN AT THE 17, YARD LINE, CRYSTAL FORMATION.
WE'VE GOT TO GET IT AGAIN.
BREAK A TACKLE AND GO INSIDE THE 10 AND STILL GOING.
AND DROOLY JUST AS GOOD AS ADVERTISED.
WE ALL LOOK AT THE SURGE RIGHT THERE.
AND TOMMY, THAT'S THE THING, JUST A POWER BEHIND THIS.
NICE BLOCKING HERE BY 75, YOU GETS IT RIGHT THERE, HITS THE HOME, AND WATCH THIS.
HE'S GOT THREE GUYS ON HIM.
YOU GET A LITTLE LIME IN THERE, HELPING HIM.
BUT AGAIN, THAT'S FROM PUSHING FORWARD, AS A THREE-YARD GAIN.
JUST AFTER CONNOR, CARRIE, SAME FORMATION PISTOL TRAY HARRINGTON GOOD DEFENSE.
THAT BRINGS THE MARION COUNTY CROWD BELOW.
TERRENCE RILEY, THE LINEBACKER.
NUMBER 32, HE READ THAT PERFECTLY OF THE GREAT ROOM BY THE DEFENSE WANTS THIS.
HERE HE SEEMS IT.
COMING RIGHT UP JUMPS, RIGHT IN SPRINT'S THE GAP.
FINALLY TACKLED.
LEAVE FOR A LOSS.
EXCELLENT DEFENSE, THAT TIME, MAN.
LEE IS A WORKHORSE IS HE?
NOT AS HE'S GOING TO BE HIT A FEW TIMES TODAY, THEY SPLIT THE SET NOW OUT OF THE PISTOL AND GO MORE SPREAD SET FOR 43 KAREN'S AND LOLLING.
THE THROW INCOMPLETE, PASS WAS INTENDED FOR HIS WIDE RECEIVER DOWN IN THE END ZONE.
THAT WAS READ.
I BELIEVE NUMBER 17 TOMMY.
YES, IT WAS IS THIS THE PLAY RIGHT HERE?
THEIR FIRST PASS ATTEMPT HERE.
TRIED TO SIDEARM IT.
NICE.
NICE EFFORT.
DIDN'T QUITE?
GET THE RESULT.
HE WANTED, NOT A LOT OF ROOM IN THERE.
LET'S GET THIS ONE IN THERE.
ANY WAY WE CAN, THAT'S RIGHT.
COACH.
MAX CALLING THE PLAYS ON THE SIDELINES.
AND YES, WE HAVE PERMISSION TO CALL IN COACH MACK.
RICH MCWHORTER.
PISTOL FORMATION YET AGAIN, THIRD AND GOAL.
WE'RE JUST UNDER WAY AT THE DONE.
QUICK PASS INCOMPLETE.
OVERTHROWN DOWN IN THE END ZONE DOWN THERE TO MAC BARLOW.
YEP, THERE'S A PLAY RIGHT THERE.
THAT SAID, HE WENT OUT FOR A FIELD GOAL AGAIN, TRYING TO CATCH HIM OFF.
GUARD A LITTLE BIT.
TRY TO THREAD.
THE NEEDLE IS HIS REACTION.
HE KNEW COME ON THOSE LONG GAME, GOING TO GET ANOTHER SHOT AT IT.
THERE YOU GO.
25-YARD FIELD, GOAL ATTEMPT COMING UP, GOOD SNAP, GOOD, HOLD THE LINE DRIVE.
IT'S GOOD ZHAO, THOMAS JOHNSON, I MEAN, THAT WAS A LITTLE INTERESTING, BUT HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT?
IT COUNTS AS THREE POINTS, NONETHELESS AND CHARLTON COUNTY GETS ON THE BOARD.
FIRST.
THE INDIANS ON TOP THREE NOTHING TOM.
IT LOOKS LIKE A HIGH DRIVE AND KICK AND TOMORROW'S PAPER.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THAT'S SURE DOES.
THAT'S THE WAY TO LOOK AT IT THOMAS JOHNSON, HE'S A FRESHMAN.
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
YOUR PUT IN THE DOME WHEN YOU'RE A FRESHMAN, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT WILL MAKE YOU DRAW UP JUST A LITTLE BIT.
WOULDN'T YOU THINK?
OH, I WOULD THINK SO AS WELL.
BUT YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN REALLY IMPRESSED WITH THESE KIDS THESE PAST FEW DAYS HOW THEY ALL HAVE REALLY HANDLED JUST YOU KNOW, GETTING EXCITED ABOUT ABOUT BEING HERE.
AND FOR HIM, HE GETS THE FIRST ONE OFF THE ALBUM UNDER HIS BELT AND WE'RE OFF AND RUNNING CHARLTON COUNTY.
INDIANS RESUME, LOOKS LIKE THIS FOR STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
06, 05 04 99 21, REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THEIR LAST WAS 2009.
THEY MADE THE PLAYOFFS.
ALL ALL 24 YEARS UNDER COACH RICH, MCWHORTER 13, STRAIGHT 10-WIN SEASONS.
95 THROUGH 2008 11 STRAIGHT LOSING YEARS BEFORE.
MCWHORTER SHOWED UP TO THE JOB.
I THINK HE HAS A LITTLE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THEIR SUCCESS THERE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
AND EXCELLENT JOB SECURITY.
ABSOLUTELY.
I WAS TALKING TO HIM ABOUT HIS TENURE THERE, AND HE WAS QUICK TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS MINISTRATION AND REALLY MADE A COMMITMENT TO FOOTBALL, BUT GIVE COACH MAC SOME CREDIT TO AND THE JOB THAT HE HAS DONE AND THAT'S REALLY IMPRESSIVE.
TWENTY FOUR STRAIGHT YEARS, UNBELIEVABLE THAT VARIANTS, BUT THOSE DON'T HAPPEN.
LEE WAS SIX OF 39, JOHNSON KICK IT OFF.
SHORT KICK.
HERE COMES MARION COUNTY MR. SMOTHERS.
I BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE UP TO THE 40 YARD LINE.
THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA, CHARLTON COUNTY SCORING DRIVE NON-PLACE.
39 YARDS, THREE MINUTES, 39 SECONDS, VERY METHODICAL, CULMINATING WITH A 25-YARD FIELD GOAL BY YOUNG MR. THOMAS JOHNSON.
DUSTIN DECKER, QUARTERBACK FROM MARIN COUNTY BRINGS ABOUT 65 OUT OF 114.
ANOTHER PISTOL FORMATION TO GET TO SCHNEIDER FUMBLE RECOVERED BY TROUGHTON COUNTY AT THE 47-YARD LINE.
SOMEBODY GOT A HAND IN THERE AND CHARLTON, COUNTY HAS RECOVERED AS MICHAEL DASHER, THE SOPHOMORES BROTHER, THE LINEBACKER ON THE TEAM.
THE WANT THIS MOTHER'S, GET TRY TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN.
I HIT THE HOLE RIGHT HERE.
YOU CAN SEE I WAS NUMBER 58.
GETTING A HAND IN THERE TO KNOCK THAT BALL LOOSE.
WHAT A GREAT PLAY FOR A RIDE HOME TOO BAD.
HERE FOR CHARLTON, COUNTY ONE MORE.
LOOK AT IT.
JUST A GREAT EFFORT ALL THE WAY AROUND AND JUST LIKE THAT CHARLTON COUNTY, RIGHT BACK IN BUSINESS AT THEIR OWN 49.
DO YOU GO FOR ALL THE MARBLES RIGHT HERE?
DO YOU HIT HIM WITH THE LONG ONE HERE?
I THINK HE USED TO GO WITH WHAT BROUGHT YOU THERE.
YOU GO.
GIVE IT TO LIE, RIGHT?
WE'LL SEE.
WE'LL SEE, COULD BE THE BIG BOMB RIGHT HERE.
TWO WIVES, RIGHT?
ONE TO THE LEFT, AND THERE'S THE BOMB BY MARION COUNTY, THERE WERE THINKING WITH ME.
THAT'S RIGHT.
TOMMY YOU CALL.
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
NUMBER 17 RIGHT THERE.
THE YOUNG RECEIVER DEVRAN, READ THE SENIOR.
HE'S 63 IS A BIG RANGE OF RECEIVING TO SEE THIS GOING DEEP AT THE SAFETY OF GOOD READ BY HIM GOING OVER, THAT WAS SMOTHERS COMING OVER TO BREAK UP THAT PLAY ALONG WITH THE QUARTERBACK.
RIGHT THERE, NUMBER 21, MARQUIS THOMAS, NICE DEFENSE THERE ON THE PASS AND BRINGS UP SECOND DOWN.
NOW WE SEE THE PISTOL FORMATION AND I WOULD IMAGINE WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE WORKHORSE.
GO TO WORK ONCE MORE MR. LEE ADDING TO THAT TOTAL CHARLTON, COUNTY AND BLACK -AND-WHITE MARION COUNTY AND RED.
IF YOU'VE JUST JOINED US TO SCHOOL FORMATION, TWO, WIDES TO THE RIGHT.
ONE TO THE LEFT, HERE GOES LEE GOD BLOCK AT THE CORNER, FIRST DOWN YARDAGE AND MORE DOWN INSIDE THE 40 DOWN TO THE 38 YARD LINE, GOES, AND DROOLY, HE'S GOING TO GET IT ABOUT 30 OR 35 TIMES TODAY.
AND IF THEY RUN THAT MANY PLAYS, MR. HARRINGTON IS GOING TO THROW IT.
PROBABLY 30 TO 35.
ABSOLUTELY NOT GREAT BLOCK THERE, RIGHT THERE TO FREE HIM UP THERE TO GET THEM AROUND THE CORNER AND CREATE THAT GAME.
NICE JOB BY THE LINE AND OF COURSE MR. LEE, THE GREAT SPEED, HE'S IN A HE'S AN IMPRESSIVE TALENT.
FIRST DOWN 10 CHARLTON DOWN AT THE 38 YARD LINE LEAST SEVEN CARRIES 52 YARDS.
PISTOL FORMATION FOUR MAN FRONT FOR MARION LEE GOING TO STOP AND GO AND BE KNOCKED DOWN SHORT OF AGAIN.
HE MIGHT HAVE GOT BACK TO THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE, VERY SHORT GAIN, IF ANY THAT WAS QUANTAS, FREEMAN.
NUMBER 17, WHO IS THE FIRST ONE INITIAL CONTACT RIGHT THERE TO FIGHTING THROUGH THE BLOCK AND A GREAT EFFORT RIGHT HERE.
AS YOU CAN SEE THE SHEDS, THE BLOCKER, HE CAN'T HANDLE HIM.
HE'S TOO BIG FOR HIM AND BRINGS HIM DOWN.
GREAT PLAY THERE, TO HOLD LIE TO HIS SHORT GAME, VERY LITTLE AIR, TELL YOU WHAT, MARION COUNTIES FRONT, FOUR PASSES, BUT LOOK TEST TWO.
THEY DO GOOD-LOOKING FRONT.
POOR FOR MARION COUNTY.
THEY'VE GOT TO BE ACTIVE.
NOW I'M GOING TO SWITCH BACK TO THE PISTOL FROM THE SPREAD FORMATION.
OBVIOUSLY HARRINGTON CHECKED OFF, SAW SOMETHING.
HE LIKED GOING TO RUN LEAN, NOTHING THERE, MARION COUNTY, VERY ACTIVE, AGAIN ROBBERY BISHOP THE DEFENSIVE END ON THE LEFT SIDE, REALLY GOT ACTIVE OVER THERE.
YEAH THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG HERE WITH THE PLAY.
CALL IT THERE WAS A HOLE THAT WE THOUGHT WAS GOING TO BE THERE.
THAT WAS NOT.
LET'S GIVE THAT CHALK.
IT UP TO MARION COUNTY DOING A GREAT JOB THERE ON THE DEFENSIVE LINE.
THAT'S IT'S BACK-TO-BACK REALLY GOOD PLAYS BY THEIR D-LINE.
FIRST RATHER THIRD DOWN NOW AND TEN THIRD, AND TEN CHARLTON COUNTY DOWN AT THE 38 YARD LINE.
SAME FORMATION, BUT NOW INTO THE SPREAD THIS TIME, HARRINGTON LOOKS OVER FOUR MAN.
FRONT DROPPING THE THROW.
LOOKING GOT A MAN COMPLETELY OUT OF BOUNDS.
CALL IT OUT.
BELIEVE HE'S THE WIDE RECEIVER OVER THERE THINKS HE GOT THAT ONE.
KEVIN HARRINGTON.
YEAH.
READ ONCE AGAIN GOING UP AND REALLY FELT THE GET IT, GOT IT.
AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE REPLAY, THAT WAS A GREAT CALL RIGHT THERE, THE OFFICIAL WAS RIGHT ON IT.
HAD IT RIGHT?
YEP, HIS FIRST LEFT FOOT COMES DOWN RIGHT FOOT.
NEITHER FOOT WAS IN BOUNDS, NICE CATCH, NICE EFFORT, BUT IT WAS OUT OF BOUNDS GOOD THROW AS WELL, FOURTH DOWN AND TIM.
WHAT DO YOU DO HERE?
YOU GOT UPON IT.
ONE OF THE DEEP.
HARRINGTON WILL KICK IT FROM HIS OWN 47.
SMOTHERS BACK THE 10 FORMAT, DROP THE BALL.
SPIN MOVE, GOT IT, FAIR CAST.
WOW, WHAT A PLAY WAS AMAZING HARRINGTON.
OF COURSE THE QUARTERBACK AS WELL.
VERY ATHLETIC MOVE TO GET THAT BALL AWAY AND PUT MARIAN BACK DOWN IN THEIR OWN.
TIM.
WE'RE ALMOST HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST QUARTER INTERESTING PLAY NEEDLESS TO SAY MORE COMING UP, CHARLTON, COUNTY LEADS, THREE TO NOTHING.
THE GHSA CHAMPIONSHIP.
IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART, BY REGIONS BANK, IT'S TIME TO EXPECT MORE GEORGE'S.
ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION LIGHTING, THE WAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA, LEARN MORE EARN MORE, AND BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU, THANK YOU.
THE GHSA WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE GEORGIA FARM BUREAU, CHARLTON COUNTY LEADS.
IT THREE TO NOTHING FIELD GOAL EARLY IN THE BALLGAME.
LET'S GO DOWN ON THE SIDELINES.
THE GREY CELLS.
THANK YOU, TOMMY CHARLES, AND COUNTIES COACH REPORTER AND HE'S 24 SEASONS HAS FOUR STATE TITLE WINS.
BUT HE TOLD ME THIS WEEK THAT THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST SPECIAL TO HIM.
HIS DAUGHTER IS A SENIOR CHEERLEADER HERE TODAY AT THE GEORGIA DOME DIRT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON.
IT WASN'T LOOKING LIKE THEY MAKE IT, EVEN TO THE PLAYOFFS.
AND HE SAID ALL HIS DAUGHTER WAS TELLING HIM ALL SEASON LONG, WAS THAT SHE WANTED TO CHEER IN THE DUMP FOR HER SENIOR SEASON AND IT JUST BROKE HIS HEART TO THINK THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE IN THEIR SEMI-FINAL WIN.
LAST FRIDAY, SHE RAN UP TO HIM ON THE FIELD WAS ABSOLUTELY ELATED.
AT THE THOUGHT OF BEING ABLE TO CHEER IN THE DOME AND HE SAID, THERE'S NOTHING MORE SPECIAL THAN BEING ABLE TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE WITH THE SENIOR YEAR AND HEAR HIS DAUGHTER HAS GROWN UP WITH ALL THE GUYS ON THE FIELD.
HE'S KNOWN THESE KIDS SINCE THEY WERE IN PRE-K FOR FIVE YEARS OLD.
SO, COACH SAYS, HE HAS A VERY SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A LOT OF THE ATHLETES ON THE FIELD, A LOT OF THE CHEERLEADERS.
SO THIS ONE IS VERY SPECIAL TO HIM BACK UP TO YOU, TOMMY, THANKS GRACE.
I THINK LARRY, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S SO IMPORTANT.
ONE OF THE BOTTLE, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HAS THOSE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE INSIDE STORIES, WHICH TRANSPIRE WHEN THEY GET THIS, THIS TRIP TO THE DUMB, THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE.
THAT'S SO SPECIAL.
I THINK, ESPECIALLY FROM THE SMALLER SCHOOLS SMALLER TOWNS.
IT'S REALLY A COMMUNITY.
AND TO SAY, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THESE KIDS OUR ENTIRE LIVES AND THEY HAVEN'T.
THIS MOMENT, IT'S JUST REALLY SPECIAL HECKER, THE QUARTERBACK FUMBLES YET AGAIN, BACK AT THE 7TH LOW SNAP.
AND ECKERT'S HAVING SOME PROBLEMS BACK THERE, MARION COUNTY.
BY THE WAY, DON'T BE ALARMED WHEN YOU SEE THE QUARTERBACK ROUND OF THE SIDE.
THEY'LL GIVE HIM TWO PLAYS IN THE LET HIM CHOOSE IT AFTER THAT.
IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT WAY TO WORK THINGS OUT.
YOUR, THERE'S NO QUESTION BUT THEY'VE GOT A AGAIN, WE TALKED BEFORE SETTLE DOWN, NOT GET CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT, TWO SNAPS ON OFFENSE AND TWO FUMBLES TO START THIS GAME.
IT HAPPENS IN THE DOME.
YOUR FIRST TIME, IF YOU CAN SURVIVE THE FIRST 10 MINUTES, YOU'RE OKAY.
ACCURATE AGAIN, GOING AROUND THE COUNTER NOTHING THERE.
ACTUALLY.
MAYBE ANOTHER LOSS OF ONE ON THE PLAY, JOHNNY ROYAL ON THE CARRY CHARLTON, COUNTY JUMPING UP IN THEIR CHARLTON, COUNTIES LINEBACKERS.
THE TWO BACKERS ARE REALLY GOOD ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BALL AND THOSE THREE DOWN LINEMEN AS WELL.
AND THEY REALLY ARE DASHER, THOMPSON AND JACKSON.
REALLY THIS AN OUTSTANDING LINEBACKER CORPS.
ROYALS HAD A NICE SEASON AS WELL.
ALMOST 1,400 YARDS ON THE GROUND, 20.
TOUCHDOWN WITH NOTHING TO WIN ON THAT.
AND NOW THEY'RE FACING THIRD AND LONG.
VERY LONG.
THIRD AND 15 IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR OWN GOAL.
POST, NOT A GOOD PLAY FROM.
HE RECORD GONNA THROW HER OVER.
SHOOTS HIM UP AT ABOUT THE 45 YARD LINE, PASS WAS INTENDED FOR TREY SWANSON AND WAS OVER SHOT BY EDGAR AS A NOW, A FOURTH DOWN AND SOME JITTERS RIGHT NOW FOR MARION COUNTY.
I THINK AGAIN THAT COACH AT MIKE'S WHEN HE'S GOING TO JUST SIT DOWN AND TALK TO HIM AND SAY LISTEN, LET'S JUST SETTLE DOWN AND JUST TAKE DEEP BREATH.
YOU DON'T, WE'RE HERE WE'RE DOWN THREE NOTHING BUT WE'RE IN THIS GAME, IT'S JUST A FOOTBALL FIELD.
IT'S 100 YARDS LONG LIKE WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON SINCE AUGUST, JUST RELAX A LITTLE BIT SETTLE DOWN.
STILL VERY MUCH IN THIS BALLGAME GREW DEEP IS JUST MADE A BIG STOP AFTER THAT LAST FUMBLE AND THEY'LL TURN OVER NOW TO THEIR DEFENSE AND STOPPED RAMSEY COUNTY ON OFFENSE.
AGAIN, THIS YOUNG MAN CAN GET HIM OUT OF TROUBLE IF HE GETS A GOOD SNAP MR. WELLS CAN KICK IT.
A HOWITZER SHOT THAT'S GOING TO BOUNCE AND ROLL.
LOOK AT THAT GIG AJ WELLS.
ONE OF THE BEST PLACE KICKERS AND PUNTERS IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
HE IS HE IS THE PLAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE, STATE NEXT YEAR.
52 YARD PUNT FOR HIM.
THERE ON THAT ONE HAS BEEN AN OUTSTANDING.
HE'S A LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL, AND ALL THE HE WANTED HAPPENING TO COMMUNITY AWARD THIS WEEK HERE DIDN'T WANT IN ONE OF THE WEEK DURING THE SEASON WITH THE ATLANTA FALCONS PROGRAM AND WHAT A GREAT, YOUNG KID RIGHT THERE.
HE KNEW RIGHT THERE.
HE NAILED IT WHEN YOU PUT IT UP BUT THAT COMES DOWN RIGHT?
AND IT HITS.
YEAH, IT GETS AT NOTRE DAME, BOUNCE AND NOTHING'S ANY SWEETER?
THAT'S RIGHT.
FIRST DOWN FROM THE 42 CHARLTON COUNTY FROM THEIR OWN 42 HARRINGTON.
BRINGS THEM UP TO WIVES LEFT ONE TO THE RIGHT GONNA GET THE WELLS VERY LITTLE EXCELLENT DEFENSE BY MARION COUNTY BRANDON, GREEN.
ONE OF THE FIRST ONES IN THERE AND LIE HADN'T HAD MANY HOLES SINCE THAT OPENING DRIVE LAYER.
YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT.
I THINK THEY'VE MADE SOME NICE ADJUSTMENTS ON DEFENSE HERE.
THE EAGLES HAVE A TERRENCE RILEY.
32 ALSO WAS IN ON THAT THOSE LINEBACKERS BY GETTING THE JOB DONE.
YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT OPENING DRIVE, LEE AND CHARLTON COUNTY DID ANYTHING THEY WANTED BUT THESE LAST TWO POSSESSIONS.
NOW, HIS DEFENSE HAS TIGHTENED UP THERE IN THE FRONT SEVEN AND MADE THINGS VERY DIFFICULT.
GOT OURSELVES A GOOD BALLGAME.
YES WE DO.
IT WAS ONE SECOND DOWN AND NINE UP AT THE 43 HARRINGTON.
CHECKING OFF AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE RUNNING THAT 443 HARRINGTON LOOKING TO THROW, GOT A MAN OUT THERE TO THE 40 45 AND GOES DOWN AT THE 44 19-YARD RETURN AFTER THE INTERCEPTION FLAG DOWN ON THE PLAY.
YEAH, IT'S OVER HERE ON THE SIDE, BACK UP NEAR THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
SO WE'LL SEE.
IF THIS IS GOING TO BE IT'S GOING TO BE CALLED BACK OR WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
SNAP ILLEGAL FORMATION OFFENSE, THAT PENALTY IS DECLINED.
RESULTS OF THE PLAYERS INTERCEPTION.
FIRST DOWN SMOTHERS REALLY HAD GOOD POSITION AND LOOK HOW HIGH HE GETS UP TO INTERCEPT.
THIS ONE HARRINGTON WITH A NICE HIGH THROW.
JUST PLAYING CENTER FIELD.
THAT PLAY WAS SET UP BY THE BY THE OFF, THE DEFENSIVE LINE.
AGAIN HARRINGTON WAS UNDER PRESSURE HAD TO GET RID OF IT.
THREW IT UP THERE.
SMOTHERS, YOU SITTING BACK WAITING ON THE ONLY SAFETY BACK HERE, SITTING BACK THERE WAITING ON HIM.
AND HE TOOK ADVANTAGE IN THE BALL WAS IN THE AIR.
DUSTIN ECKER TO SETBACKS LOOKING TO THROW.
GOT A MAN OUT THERE OVER SHOOTS HIM AGAIN, DOWN NEAR THE 30.
IT COULD GO ON FOR THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX.
THEIR INTENDED RECEIVER WAS KEYSHAWN BAKER, HE'S GETTING THIS A LITTLE BIT EXCITED, ALL HIS THROWS HAVE BEEN GROSSLY OVERTHROWN AND HE'S A BETTER QUARTERBACK THAN THAT AGAIN I THINK JUST RELAX WAIT THAT EXTRA MOMENT TO MAKE SURE YOU GET THAT TIMING THERE.
HE'S HAD THE GUY OPEN, THESE JUST OVERTHROWN THE BALL.
YOU SAW A COACH MIKE SWEENEY GET IN HIS EAR RIGHT THERE.
ALL HE SAID TO HIM, WAS SETTLE DOWN, SETTLE DOWN, SETTLE DOWN, SON, SETTLE DOWN.
IT'S A FOOTBALL GAME SECOND AND 10 ECKERD GONNA RUN THE SCREEN ON A CORNER AND DOWN TO THE 45 YARD LINE.
JOHNNY ROYAL ON THE CARING WELL THAT WAS OUTSTANDING ONCE AGAIN WELL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
NO MORE YEAH IT'S A THING.
IT REAL ROYALS THAT THE BIG BACK WITH ALL THE STATS BUT AGAINST MOTHER'S IS ONE OF THOSE PLAYERS THAN THERE'S ONE ON EVERY TEAM AND EVERY GREAT TEAM, ESPECIALLY HE CAN DO EVERYTHING WE CAN RECEIVE AND OBVIOUSLY ALREADY INTERCEPTION AND THERE ARE VERY NICE GAIN ON THE GROUND.
FOR A FIRST DOWN FOR MARION COUNTY ROYAL WAS LEADING THE WAY HE WAS BLOCKING.
SMOTHER IS IN MOTION GOING TO GET THE BALL TO HIM AGAIN.
STARTERS, WITH A GASH INSIDE THE 40 DOWN TO THE 34 MARION COUNTY'S.
HEATING UP FOLKS, GET READY?
THEY'VE SETTLED IN WHY?
I THINK AGAIN AND GET BACK TO YOUR GUY, SMOTHERS?
LOOK, IT'S THE SAME PLANE AS RAN THE OTHER DIRECTION.
SMOTHERS IS GETTING WARMED UP.
THE INTERCEPTION, I THINK GOT HIM CHARGED UP, GIVE ME THE BALL.
GIVE ME THE BALL.
WELL HE WAS A GUY TO OF THE BEGINNING THAT'S FUMBLED IN THAT FIRST SNAP AND LOST THE BALL.
AND AGAIN, AS A VETERAN HERE, LET'S MAKE SURE HE COMES BACK AND MAKE IT MAKES AMENDS CHARLTON COUNTY WITH A BLITZ AND SMOTHERS GOES DOWN HARD AT THE 40 BUT MICHAEL DASHER.
SECOND TIME WE CALLED HIS NAME AGAIN.
DASHER AND LUCAS ALONG THE FRONTLINE A CHANCE TO SEE HIM AGAIN HERE.
MAYBE NOT ON THE REPLAY BUT IT'S WHEN YOU TAKE A LOOK IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY DID RIGHT THERE, THAT WAS A GREAT PLAY TO BUST THROUGH THE LINE.
AVOID THE BLOCK MICHAEL DIED.
YEAH SURE 5 10 TO 50, JUST A SOPHOMORE THERE AND THE BIG SACK CARE OF HIS MOTHER'S, MOTHER'S 4 FOR 18 YARDS.
WATCH THOSE TWO LINEBACKERS TO FROM CHARLESTON COUNTY.
THEY WILL GET AFTER YOU'VE DONE AROUND THE SCREEN ECKERT, RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE, GONNA GET OUT OF A LITTLE BIT OF TROUBLE, BUT ONLY GET BACK TO THE 41 YARD LAHORE, THE 40 41 YARD LINE, AND IT'S GOING TO BRING UP FOURTH DOWN AND SEVEN.
WELL, GREAT.
PURSUITS HERE BY THE DEFENSIVE LINE IS, SEE RIGHT THERE.
AT 51 MOOKIE SMITH, WE HAVE TO CALL HIS NUMBER 59.
270 CHASING HIM OUT, HE CAN'T GET TO HIM BUT IT OPENS THINGS UP DRAKE.
GILLIS COMES UP SHORT.
FINALLY ANTHONY JACKSON THE SOPHOMORE LINEBACKER MAKES THE SACK FINALLY.
AND AS YOU MENTIONED, BRINGS UP, FOURTH DOWN AND A J WELLS FOR MARION COUNTY.
WATCH 44, SOPHOMORE LINEBACKER.
HE CAN PLAY.
HE GOES SIDELINE TO SIDELINE.
HEY J, WELLS WILL KICK IT AWAY.
WELLS DIDN'T REALLY STRETCH IT OUT THAT TIME.
OH MY WHAT A NICE KICK.
GOT THE BACK.
BOUNCE A LITTLE TOO MUCH.
ONE OF OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS ON GPB IS GEORGIA TRAVELER THIS SEASON.
THE TRAVELER CREW TAKES YOU TO SOME SCENIC GETAWAYS AND LARGER GONNA FUEL HIGH, ADRENALINE ADVENTURES, AND OF COURSE, DIVE INTO SOME OF THE BEST RESTAURANTS.
THE PEACH STATE HAS TO OFFER ALL THAT AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE YOU EPISODES BEGAN.
JANUARY 19TH, CATCH.
GEORGIA TRAVELER, FRIDAY.
IS AT 8, ONLY ON GPB.
FIRST DOWN, INDIANS BACK OF THE 13 YARD LINE.
HARRINGTON LIE IN THE BACKFIELD STILL THE TWO WIDE RECEIVERS RIDE AND LEFT.
THE GIVE IS TO LIE, MUCH THERE THAT FRONT FOR GETTING VERY ACTIVE.
BISHOP COX, HOLLOMAN AND FREEMAN ARE REALLY GOING TO WORK.
YEAH THEY REALLY AREN'T AS WE TALKED ABOUT IT EARLIER A FEW MOMENTS AGO HOW THEY REALLY HAD SETTLED DOWN RIGHT NOW ON DEFENSE IF SETTLE DOWN.
NOW, IF MARION COUNTY CAN GET THE THE SETTLE DOWN THEY CAN DO SOME THINGS DEFENSE IS REALLY REALLY ACTIVE FOR MARION COUNTY ON THE LAST COUPLE OF POSSESSIONS BY CHARLTON COUNTY, NO GAIN ON THE PLAY, SECOND DOWN AND TEN HARRINGTON.
LOOKS OVER A FOREFRONT, GONNA FAKE, MISSED THE HANDOFF AND BE KNOCKED DOWN BACK AT THE 8 YARD LINE.
A BUSTED PLAY RIGHT THERE.
LEE WENT TO HARRINGTON'S RIGHT HARRINGTON THOUGHT HE'S GOING TO GO LEFT AND THERE YOU GO.
WELL, THAT'S A SCARY FEELING.
WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND AND YOUR GUYS OUT THERE, WE HAVE A TERMINOLOGY FOR THAT IT'S CALLED NO MAN'S LAND.
WE HAVE PLAYED OR WON, IT HAS BEEN PHYSICAL.
IT'S BEEN A GOOD ONE, LOW SCORING CHARLTON, COUNTY LEADS IT THREE TO NOTHING WILL BE BACK WITH A SECOND QUARTER.
WE'RE HAVING A GREAT TIME ON A RAINY SATURDAY AT THE GEORGIA DOME IN ATLANTA.
AS THE DEMAND FOR POWER GROWS GEORGE'S, NONPROFIT MEMBER-OWNED ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING SAFE AFFORDABLE AND RELIABLE, ELECTRICITY TO OUR MEMBERS.
WE'VE BEEN DEDICATED TO BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS AND ARE PROUD TO JOIN THE GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING IN SUPPORT OF OUR STATE STUDENT.
YEET.
THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS HAVEN'T BEEN VERY ACTIVE LATELY BUT BECAUSE OF BUSINESS PEOPLE, LIKE YOU THINGS ARE BEGINNING TO GET ROLLING AND REGIONS IS HERE TO HELP MAKING IT EASIER WITH THE EXPERTISE AND SERVICE TO KEEP THOSE WHEELS.
TURNING FROM BUSINESS LOANS TO CASH MANAGEMENT.
WE WANT TO BE A PARTNER MOVING FORWARD.
LET'S GET GOING TOGETHER.
YOU HAVE TO SEIZE ANY ADVANTAGE, YOU CAN GET TO BUILD A CAREER EVEN WHILE YOU'RE STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL, THAT'S WHY THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA OFFERS DUAL ENROLLMENT.
YOU EARN COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT AT THE SAME TIME.
SAVING YOU MONEY ON COLLEGE TUITION, IT'S ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.
DUAL ENROLLMENT, JUMP -STARTS, YOUR COLLEGE EDUCATION AND PREPARES YOU FOR WORK AND EXCITING CAREER FIELDS TALK TO YOUR PARENTS SCHOOL.
COUNSELOR, OR A TCSG COLLEGE ABOUT DUAL ENROLLMENT OR GO TO TCSG.EDU?
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YOU NEED TO MAXIMIZE YOUR FINANCIAL AID AWARD LEARN ABOUT THE, MANY STATE FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMS TO GEORGIA STUDENT FINANCE COMMISSION, ADMINISTERS INCLUDING HULK, APPLY FOR FEDERAL, AND STATE STUDENT AID WITH THE FAFSA AND EXPLORE CAREERS, OR FIND A COLLEGE OR TECHNICAL SCHOOLS THAT FITS YOUR NEEDS.
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RICH MCKAY PRESENTING GAME BALLS OPEN DOWNS, CREEKSIDE ACCEPTING.
LET'S GO DOWN ON THE SIDELINE TO GRACE.
WE'VE TALKED A LOT OF CHARLESTON COUNTY HISTORY SO FAR IN TODAY'S GAME.
NOW WE'RE GOING TO QUIZ YOU AND SEE HOW WELL YOU KNOW THOSE INDIANS CHARLTON IS THE ONLY FOR LOST TEAM IN THIS YEAR'S FINALS.
WHAT WAS THE LAST FOUR LOSS FOR LOST TEAM TO WIN A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP?
FIND YOU COULD BE SPORTS ON TWITTER OR ON FACEBOOK LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK THE ANSWER IS AND I'LL BE BACK IN THE FOURTH QUARTER TO REVEAL OUR TRIVIA WINNER OF THE DAY.
TOMMY THANK YOU RISE.
WE'VE PLAYED ONE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK LARRY?
WELL, I TELL YOU WHAT, WHAT A GREAT DEFENSIVE BATTLE IN THIS ONE.
I MEAN, WE SAID MARIAN COUNTY A LITTLE BIT COUPLE OF JITTERS ON OFFENSE BUT THERE TOWARD THE END OF THE QUARTER, THEY BEGAN TO SETTLE DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
GOT THE RUNNING GAME GOING BEHIND SMOTHERS.
I'M REALLY IMPRESSED THOUGH WITH THE ADJUSTMENT.
THEY'VE MADE IN THEIR FRONT SEVEN ON DEFENSE WITH MARION COUNTY.
AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT.
WE'RE CALLING THOSE THAT FRONT FOR HIS NAME, IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY SINGLE PLAY AFTER ANDREW LEIGH GETTING OFF FOR A LOT OF YARDS AND OPENING DRIVE, IT LED TO THE FIELD GOAL.
THEY REALLY SHUT HIM AND CHARLTON COUNTY DOWN SINCE THEN.
THE AMAZING THING FIRST DOWNS IN THE FIRST QUARTER CHARLTON, COUNTY, THREE MARION COUNTY, NONE, RUSSIA'S 12, 448 FOR CHARLTON, COUNTY.
WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY THE LOSSES AND MARION COUNTY HAS 74, 20 YARDS AND REALLY 56 YARDS.
BUT I THINK THE BULK OF THAT 39, 40 YARDS OR SO WAS ON THAT OPENING DRIVE.
RIGHT THERE.
JOEY, SALT AND DOWNS.
THERE, HE'S A CREEK SIDE AND WE CAME BACK FROM THE BREAK AND GRACE TALKING ABOUT THAT.
WHAT A GREAT WIN FOR THEM LAST NIGHT.
THAT YOUNG MAN.
A VERY LATE NIGHT.
HE LOOKS FRESH THIS MORNING AND WE COULD GET BACK TO FOOTBALL, HAPPY TO BE HERE.
THIRD DOWN AND 15 CARRINGTON UNDER PRESSURE, THROWS TO THE TIGHT END COMING ACROSS THE MIDDLE, VERY LITTLE THERE AND IT MARION COUNTY AGAIN THE FRONT LINE CAUSING ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS RIGHT NOW.
IS YOU CHECK THIS AGAIN, INHERENT TO THE QUARTERBACK WILL STAY ON AND PUNTER IN FOURTH AND LONG.
SEE THE GREAT PRESSURE THERE.
A GREAT SURGE.
56 HOLLOMAN UP IN THERE, MARION COUNTY DEFENSE, HAS GOTTEN OVER THOSE FIRST FEW MINUTES OF WHAT WE CALL THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF, OH, MY GOODNESS.
AND THEY ARE PLAYING WELL, CHARLTON COUNTY SHELL-SHOCKED THEM.
I THINK WITH THAT OPENING KICKOFF, WHICH REALLY WAS RETURNED.
GREAT FIELD POSITION, HARRINGTON WILL KICK IT AWAY.
SMOTHERS BACK AT HIS 43 HARRINGTON HIGH KICKS, MOTHER'S FAIR CATCH AND DROP IT.
AT THE 44, DANGER WILL ROBINSON YO, TOMMY ONE MORE POINT ABOUT THAT MARION COUNTY DEFENSE AND HOW THEY'VE ADJUSTED AT THE END OF THE OPENING DRIVE.
I DON'T THINK THAT CHARLESTON COUNTY HAS HAD A FIRST DOWN SINCE THAT OPENING DRIVE, I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE SOMEBODY'S MAKING GREAT ADJUSTMENTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL, AS FAR AS OFFENSES ARE CONCERNED FOR THE DEFENSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BALL.
LET'S SEE HOW CHARLTON RESPONDS HERE.
MARION COUNTY.
NOW, STARTING IN THEIR TERRITORY.
ECKHART LOOKING GONNA THROW A LITTLE DRAG PASS TO THE LEFT SIDE, AND SMOTHERS GONNA GO OUT OF BOUNDS INSIDE THE 40.
THEY USE MR. SMOTHERS.
AND A LOT OF DIFFERENT AREAS ON THIS FOOTBALL TEAM KNOWING, WHY NOT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING CHARLTON COUNTY.
DO THE SAME THING WITH ANDREW LEE, NICE PLAY RIGHT HERE.
WE SAW THE LAST DRIVE THEY GAVE IT TO HIM OUT OF THE BACK DOOR, FOR A COUPLE OF RUNS THIS TIME.
THEY GET I'M OUT OF THE BACKFIELD, PUT IT IN MOTION IN A FAKE MOTION, HE REVERSES FIELD GETS OUT AND A NICE GATE NOW SECOND AND SHORT FOR THE EGOS LITTLE SNEAKY WAY TO GET HIM OUT OF THERE, WASN'T, YES, ANCHOR.
DOWN TO THE 35 YARD LINE GOES.
ROYAL ONE OF HIS FIRST CARRIES OF THE DAY.
MOOKIE SMITH THERE ON THE TACKLE TO HOLD HIM TO NO GAIN, AND IT'S BRINGS UP THIRD AND SHORT.
NOW, ROYAL HAS BEEN ACTIVE 267 CARRIES 1393 YARDS 20 TOUCHDOWNS.
HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO GET HEATED UP HERE IN A LITTLE BIT TO.
I WOULD THINK I WOULD THINK SO, ROYAL TO CARRIES FROM MINUS 1 YARD.
CHARLTON COUNTY LEADS 32 NOTHING FULL SET GOING TO GIVE IT TO THE EYE BACK, BIG POWER.
I FORMATION AND ROYAL IS GETTING HEATED UP JUST WHEN YOU CALLED IT BELLEEK BRUNSON WAS THERE TO SAVE THE TOUCHDOWN BECAUSE HE WAS JUST ABOUT TO BREAK THAT AND BRUNSON THE QUARTERBACK COMING IN ON THE THIRD AND SHORT KEEPS HIM.
IT'S THE FIRST OUT FOR MARION COUNTY.
BUT IF IT WEREN'T FOR BRUNTON, HAD BEEN SIX POINTS, LOVE TO SEE THESE TEAMS, WHO OPERATE OUT OF REDS AND WEST COAST OFFENSES AND THEN THEY LET YOU KNOW, HEY, WE CAN LINE UP IN THE POWER.
I IT'S RIGHT AND WE HAVE SOMEBODY WHO CAN RUN IT WHEN WE PUT HIM BACK AT THE TAIL OF THE EYE.
SMOTHERS BOUNCING OUTSIDE GONNA BE THROWN DOWN AT THE 30.
PRETTY DOGGONE GOOD DEFENSE OVER THERE ON THAT LEFT-HAND SIDE BOUT AT CHARLTON COUNTY LINE OF SCRIMMAGE ON THE LEFT SIDE.
YEAH, IT WAS A NICE PLAY RIGHT THERE BY THIS DEFENSIVE LINE.
AND AGAIN THIS SIZE GAP RIGHT NOW TO BE A REAL DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THESE TWO.
YOU CAN SEE THERE, THAT'S NUMBER OF 55T ON BURROWS, KIND OF SHUTTING THE BLOCK MOOKIE SMITH UP IN THERE AND THEY JUST GANG TACKLING AT THAT POINT.
NICE JOB THERE TO SPREAD ALONG THE AND CONTAINS MOTHERS AND KEEP IT FROM GETTING OUT INTO OPEN, SPACE AND HOLDING DRILL ONE, YARD GAME, LOOPY SMITH FIVE-MAN 270 SECOND DOWN AND NINE RUNNER GOES DOWN IN THE BACKFIELD.
ROYAL, IT'S MICHAEL DASHER AGAIN.
NUMBER 65, THE SOPHOMORE.
WHEN WE CALLED HIS NAME, A LOT ALREADY.
HERE IN THE FIRST HALF, BREAKING THROUGH TRIPPED, HIM UP.
THIS IS AN ACTIVE DEFENSIVE FRONT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL.
GOOD BLOCKING UP FRONT.
BUT VERY LITTLE THERE EVEN IF HE DOESN'T STUMBLE, RIGHT?
THIRD DOWN 11, TWO WIDE RECEIVERS, RIGHT?
ONE TO THE LEFT, ECKERD ROLLING, THE THROW NO TROUBLE.
GETS IT OFF AND INCOMPLETE DOWN AT THE 4-YARD LINE THROUGH IT OFF HIS BACK FOOT.
A LITTLE DIDN'T DIDN'T HAVE IT.
FIRMLY PLACED BUT THEY DID MANAGE TO MOVE THE BALL DOWN TO THE 31 YARD LINE MOVED AT 14, 15 YARDS.
AND HAD TO MOVE IT ON OFFENSE, PICKED UP THAT FIRST DOWN.
THIS IS THE ONE WE WANT TO SEE RIGHT HERE.
THIS IS A J WELLS.
AS LONG AS AMONG THE SHERIFF'S ARE GO AHEAD, 49-YARD BE HIS LONGEST OF THE YEAR AS LONG AS YOURS FULLY SEVEN YARDS.
WELL, I THINK HE'S GOT THE LEG.
BUT IT WAS WIDE RIGHT?
JUST OFF.
WHAT GOOD DISTANCE THOUGH?
WOW, AT THE DISTANCE TO GO FROM TIPS FROM 55.
AND NOW YOU SEE WHY HE'S GONNA BE PLAYING ON SATURDAYS IN THE SUN BELT CONFERENCE FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE.
NEXT YEAR, A.J.
WELLS, REALLY IMPRESSIVE TALENT, BUT LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE KICK.
HERE'S THE WAY IT LOOKS GOOD.
LEGS SLID, RIGHT?
HE OH HE THOUGHT HE HAD THREE THERE HAVE THE DISTANCE.
IT DID.
IT DID CHARLTON COUNTY BALL UP AT THE 20 WE WERE EXPECTING A HIGH-SCORING GAME AT CHARLTON, COUNTY THREE MARION COUNTY, NOTHING.
TAKES THE HANDOFF AND SLIDES TO THE RIGHT SIDE UP TO THE 28-YARD LINE MARQUIS THOMAS ON A STOP.
YOU KNOW, THE BIG DIFFERENCE THERE, THEY GOT LIE OUTSIDE AND THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO RUN SINCE THAT THAT OPENING DRIVE BETWEEN THE TACKLES AND THAT HASN'T WORKED FOR THEM.
THEY BOTTLED THEM UP AND DEFENSIVE LINES BEEN TOO TOUGH TO GET HIM OUTSIDE.
EIGHT-YARD GAIN IS IT'S BEST TO RUN SINCE THE OPENING DRIVE.
SO I AM SET FOR CHARLTON JUST THE BACKS A LITTLE OFFSET.
NOW HE MOVES INTO THE PISTOL, HARRINGTON ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A 4:3 AND LEADS GOING TO BREAK A TACKLE AND SPIN COREY JOHNSON, THEY'RE CATCHING THEM THAT THAT'S A GREAT JOB THERE THAT IF IT'S IT BACK FROM COREY JOHNSON, NUMBER, 22, TOUCHDOWN.
JUST REPLAY HERE IN THE BLOCKING UP FRONT OF FOR ONCE.
THAT'S A BIG NUMBER 75, - THE BIG TANNER MORGAN, SIX FOOT THREE HUNDRED POUNDS TO REALLY CREATE THE HOLE AND THEN LEAD HIS GREAT ATHLETIC ABILITY FOR THE HUGE GAIN RIGHT HERE AND GET THE FIRST DOWN GETTING DEEP.
NOW IN THE MARION COUNTY TERRITORIES, LOOK AT IT ONE MORE TIME, 49 YARD, RUN LOVE THAT SPIN MOVE THAT'S OUTSTANDING.
THAT'S JUST THAT'S JUST TALENT.
AND AGAIN, WHAT A GREAT BACK THAT HE IS 13 CARRIES HUNDRED TEN YARDS DOWN.
WE'VE GOT EIGHT MINUTES LEFT IN THE FIRST HALF AND HE'S OVER 100 YARDS OF GOOD GAMES.
100 YARDS.
REALLY A DIFFERENT LOOKING FORMATION AND HARRINGTON'S GOING TO CALL TIME OUT THERE.
DIDN'T LIKE WHAT HE SAW ON THE OTHER SIDE OVER THERE.
CHARLTON COUNTY LEADS AT THREE TO NOTHING.
LARRY.
YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT ON THE TELESTRATOR AND SHOW US HOW THAT TRANSPIRED I DO.
THIS IS I WANT TO WATCH RIGHT HERE.
I WANT TO WATCH THIS IS A NUMBER 75 AGAIN WITH THE BIG, THE BIG BLOG IS GOING TO TAKE THAT AND COME RIGHT INTO HERS.
WE ROLL IT AND TAKE A LOOK AND SEE HOW HE DOES HERE.
NUMBER 75 AGAIN, TANNER MORGAN WITH THE BIG BLOCK THEIR HURDLE.
AND THEN WATCH THIS, THIS IS, I LOVE THIS RIGHT HERE.
HE'S GONNA COME OVER AND WHOOPS, THAT'S THE WRONG ONE.
HE'S GONNA COME OVER AND DO THIS RIGHT HERE.
THAT GO RIGHT PAST THE MOTHERS, HE'S GOT SOME GREAT.
ANGLE.
GREAT TALENTS, WE RUN IT AGAIN.
AVOIDS, THE THE TACKLE THERE SMOTHERS AGAIN, AN OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYER, AND 49 YARDS.
THERE, DO I JUST WANT TO GET SOCCER IN THERE FOR ONCE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE SOCCER BALL CAME FROM JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
SO, SURE YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION.
IT'S FUN.
IT'S CALLED FOOTBALL.
SOMEWHERE ELSE.
SOMEWHERE IS CALLED FOOTBALL.
JUST NOT HERE.
WE CALL IT SOCCER.
I WAS GONNA ASK YOU ABOUT THAT.
WHERE DID THE BALL COME FROM?
WELL, I GOT EXCITED.
IT'S JUST NICE LITTLE GADGET HERE.
I'M JUST HITTING BUTTONS AND DO IT ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
AND LET ME MAKE SURE YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION, TOMMY.
TRUST ME WHEN I SAW THE SOCCER BALL ISN'T FULL.
HELLO.
OKAY POWER.
I FORMATION THIS TIME.
FOR CHARLTON COUNTY, THEY'RE GOING TO RUN THE EYE AND THERE'S GOING TO BE NOTHING THERE LEFT SIDE OF THAT MARION COUNTY DEFENSE JUMPED UP IN THERE KNOCKED AND DOUBT QUANTAS FREEMAN AND CLIFTON HOLLOMAN THOSE BIG GUYS ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE NOTHING THERE ACTUALLY A LOSS ON THE PLAY SECOND DOWN AND 11 YEAH THAT THAT SIDE OF THE LINE I'M NOT SURE THEY'RE GOING TO GET MUCH.
THEY'VE GOT NOTHING IN THE RUNNING GAME, GOING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LINE, TESTING THE LEFT.
SIDE OF THAT, MARION COUNTY DEFENSE, IT HASN'T WORKED FOR HIM YET.
THOSE BIG GUYS UP FRONT ARE ALMOST IN A FIVE FRONT NOW.
IT IS A FIVE FRONT, I GUESS THEY'RE MATCHING UP WITH THE POWER.
I HERE'S THE THROAT HARRINGTON TO US WIDE RECEIVER IN THE END ZONE.
INCOMPLETE.
IT'S MARQUIS THOMAS THE QUARTERBACK.
TOMMY, PERFECT DEFENSE ON THAT ONE -ON-ONE COVERAGE.
DON'T KNOW, WATCH THIS, WHAT'S THERE'S ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX GUYS RIGHT THERE ALL ALONG THE LINE.
WOW, AND HE CHECKED OFF AND THROUGH AND ALMOST PULLED IT OFF.
THAT WAS A NICE THROW, JUST A NICE, NICE PLAY BY THOMAS TO BREAK THAT UP.
CHALK ONE UP TO THE DEFENSE ON THAT ONE, THIRD DOWN AND 11 HARRINGTON.
NUMBER 15, THEY'RE GOING TO RUN THE END AROUND AND GOT YARDAGE ENOUGH.
MAYBE FOR A FIRST DOWN VERY CLOSE TO A FIRST DOWN.
THAT'S THE SPLIT IN KURT NIXON.
NUMBER 19, 6 FOOT 160 POUND JUNIOR OF THE SPLIT IN HERE.
AND AGAIN, TOMMY, YOU GOTTA RUN AWAY FROM THAT SIDE OF THE LINE THAT REALLY STRONG FOR MARION COUNTY.
NICE.
PLAY HERE, TO GET AGAIN, TO GET YOUR SPEED, GUYS OUT INTO SPACE AND AND GET THINGS GOING.
GET THIS OFFENSE, MOVING THAT LEFT SIDE OF THE MARION COUNTY LINE HAS BEEN SO DOMINANT.
YOU GOT TO CALL SOME PLACE TO GET AWAY FROM THAT.
WHEN THEY'VE DONE THAT, IN THIS DRIVE, IT TURNED OUT TO BE A BIG NUMBER FOR CARLTON COUNTY NIXON.
KEEP AN EYE ON 19, MIX IT IS THERE PUNT, RETURNER HE IS THE SPEED BURNER.
HARRINGTON HERE COMES LEO UP THE MIDDLE, GOT TO BE KNOCKED DOWN.
THEY RAN A STUN ON DEFENSE THAT TIME NOT ENOUGH BODIES TO BLOCK.
EVERYBODY THAT WAS COMING THAT TIME THEY BROUGHT THE HOUSE AND HE DID, THAT WAS A GREAT DEFENSIVE CALL RIGHT THERE.
AS YOU CAN SEE, 32 COMES UP TO MAKE THE INITIAL CONTACT.
HE WAS A WOMAN THAT ON THE STUNTS THAT TYRANT TERRENCE RILEY.
LOOK AT THIS HIGH ANGLE THAT YOU CAN SEE WORD 32 COMES RIGHT IN THERE IS THE WHOLE THAT'S THE WAY THEY DREW IT UP AGAIN.
GOING AWAY FROM THAT SIDE, WE TALKED ABOUT.
BUT IT LATER BY THE LINEBACKER WILEY TO MAKE THEM STOP MONTHLY FEE BRILEY'S.
NOT THEIR LEAD SEES A LOT OF DAYLIGHT GUESS HE DOES.
SECOND DOWN 12 CHARLTON, COUNTY HARRINGTON, SENIOR QUARTERBACK, AND A GOOD ONE AT THE MIDDLE AND TRYING TO PULL THE BALL OUT OF THERE THAT MARION COUNTY DEFENSE EAGLES ARE PLAYING WELL UP FRONT.
WHAT'S THIS?
HERE UP FRONT OF THE TRYING TO STRIP THE BALL?
TRY TO REACH OUT, THAT'S 24, TRY TO REACH IT, YOU KNOW, AND HE DID, HE GETS RID OF IT BUT JUST TO BE ABLE TO FALL ON IT.
COREY JOHNSON THERE, I'M SORRY, RODERICK BISHOP, I'M SORRY.
NUMBER 24, RIGHT, THIRD, AND TEN.
AT THE 13 WIDE RECEIVER SET, HARRINGTON DROPPING THE THROW.
GOT A MAN OUT THERE IS HANDS DOWN IN THE END ZONE.
MY MY DIVER ON READ, 63 1717.
HE WAS GOING FOR THE HEIGHT ALMOST HAD HIM THERE.
YEAH HE HADN'T JUST COULDN'T HANG ON TO IT.
HAD IT IN HIS HANDS COULDN'T.
HOLD ON.
HE THOUGHT HE HAD IT HARRINGTON THOUGHT HE HAD IT.
THOMAS JOHNSON.
GOING TO TRY A 30-YARD FIELD GOAL HERE.
GOOD SNAP.
THE KICK IS UP.
IT IS A LITTLE LEFT 504, LEFT IN THIS FIRST HALF OF PLAY, CHARLTON, COUNTY LEADS, MARION COUNTY.
THREE TO NOTHING WILL BE BACK TO THE GEORGIA DOME WITH MUCH MORE AFTER THIS TIMEOUT.
DECK THE HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY FA-LA-LA-LA-LA LA-LA-LA-LA, WANT MORE JOY.
THIS HOLIDAY PROBABLY SERVING.
GEORGIA FOR OVER 40 YEARS, 83 LOCATIONS, ACROSS THE STATE CHURCHES, CHICKEN SUPPORTS, GEORGIA, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ON, GPB AND WISHES ALL THE TEAMS.
GOOD LUCK OPEN BEFORE.
AND AFTER THE GAME, IT'S CHURCHES WHERE YOU ALWAYS GET MORE.
ANDREW LEE HAS HAD A GREAT DAY OVER 100 YARDS HERE IN THE FIRST HALF BUT ONLY THREE POINTS TO SHOW FOR IT FOR CHARLTON COUNTY.
HE IS DEFINITELY THE READ IT REAL DEAL.
YEAH HE REALLY IS YOUNG MAN HERE.
AGAIN WE TALKED ABOUT BROKE HIS ARM IN THE PLAYOFF GAME PLAYOFF LOSS TO MARION COUNTY A YEAR AGO, BROKE HIS ARM AGAIN IN AUGUST SO HE MISSED THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEASON.
HE'S BEEN THRILLING OVER 1,100 YARDS IN CASE YOU JUST JOINED US.
JUST NOW IN THE LAST SIX GAMES ALONE, IT'S ALL HE'S PLAYED IS REJUVENATED.
THIS INDIANS OFFENSE RIGHT NOW.
HE'S BEEN OUTSTANDING BUT GIVE MARION COUNTY CREDIT AT TOMMY'S.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SEVERAL TIMES A BEND BUT DON'T BREAK DEFENSE, CHARLTON COUNTY KIND OF MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS.
GOT SOME BIG PLAYS HERE BUT AGAIN THE MISSED FIELD GOAL THEY COME UP.
EMPTY STILL A 3.
NOTHING GAME 16 CARRIES 108 YARDS AND MR. LEE HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING.
YES, NOT JUST THE ONE 49 -YARD GASH, BUT THERE HAS NOT BEEN A LOT DUE TO THE MARION COUNTY FRONT FOR WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING AGAINST.
THOSE GUYS, AND GET OVER 100 IN THE FIRST HALF, YOU'RE DOING YOUR JOB.
FIRST DOWN, 10 MARION COUNTY, DUSTIN ECKERT, BRINGS THEM UP CROSS.
THE LEFT SIDE GOES, ROYAL UP TO THE 25, 26 YARD, LINE.
THOSE ACTIVE LINEBACKERS FROM CHARLTON, COUNTY GONNA MAKE THE STOP AS THEY GO LEFT TO RIGHT.
THOSE BIG GUYS UP, FRONT ARE NOT AFRAID TO GO DOWN THAT LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND LOOK HOW GREAT THEY PLAY WITH THEIR HANDS.
YEAH, AGAINST THE BLOCK.
GREAT HAND MOVEMENTS BY THE CHARLTON COUNTY DEFENSIVE FRONT FORD.
SHORTS LOT TO THE RIGHT, ECKERD DROPPING LOOKS LEFT TO LOOKS, RIGHT.
THIS MOTHER GOING TO THROW LONG INCOMPLETE.
OVERTHROWN WAY DOWN THE FIELD TO TREY SWANSON.
HE LOOKED AT SMOTHERS AND THERE WAS NOTHING THERE THAT I THINK THAT WAS A CHECKOFF.
I THINK HE JUST DECIDED HE WASN'T GOING TO THROW IT LARRY.
I AGREE.
AND I THINK THAT'S ONE AGAIN WE'RE JUST GETTING KIND OF EXCITED ABOUT AS YOU WATCH THIS AND WATCH AFTER THE PLAY AS WELL.
WE STICK WITH US ECKERT.
AGAIN, CHECKING OFF ONCE TO GO TO SOME OTHERS DOESN'T SEE IT.
HERE COMES THE SURE AND GETS A LITTLE LITTLE LOVE TAP THERE FROM ANTHONY JACKSON 64, ALL 64 210 OF HIM.
I REST MY CASE HOLY FOR HE ARRIVED AND IN A BAD MOOD MARION COUNTY GOT IT BACK.
WELL, 55 MAKING THE THOMAS HADLEY JUMPING ON THAT, BUT IT WAS 65 ON THE OTHER SIDE, T ON BURROWS, ONE MORE.
LOOK AT THIS, AGAIN, BRINGING THE HEAT TWO GUYS COMING IN BURL'S, MAKING THE SACK AND THE STRIP.
THAT'S 51 MOOKIE, SMITH COULDN'T QUITE COME IN, COME UP WITH THE BALL BOUNCE RIGHT UNDERNEATH HIS HANDS.
THAT'S WHY COACHES SAY JUST FALL ON IT.
DON'T TRY TO PICK IT UP, JUST FALL ON IT.
IT'S A DEFENSIVE LINEMAN'S ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO TOUCH THE BALLS, RIGHT?
THAT'S WHAT EXACTLY.
MOOKIE IS PLAYING ON 59 270, HE'S A LOAD.
WELL, HE'S GOT TO KICK HIM OUT OF DANGER AND BOY.
CAN HE?
IT'S A HIGH FLYING UP TO THE 47 CHARLTON COUNTY TAKES OVER.
35 YARDER.
LET'S GO DOWN TO GRACE OLSON ON THE SIDELINES RIGHTS.
THANK YOU, TOMMY.
MISS MARION COUNTY FOOTBALL PROGRAM IS IN ITS EIGHTH YEAR.
NOW FROM 2006 TO 2009, THE TEAM WAS 21 IN 10 SINCE MIKE SWEENEY TOOK OVER IN 2010.
THE TEAM IS NOW 32 AND SEVEN OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
SO HE REALLY TOOK HOLD OF THIS PROGRAM.
HE WAS AN ASSISTANT WITH MARION COUNTY, TOOK THE HEAD COACHING POSITION AND HE REALLY WANTED TO TAKE HOLD MAKE IT A GREAT PROGRAM, HE SAID IT ALL RESTS ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT THE SUPERINTENDENT.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE ADMINISTRATION REALLY WORKED HARD TO MAKE SURE THIS PROGRAM GOT TO WHERE IT NEEDED TO BE SENT BACK UP TO THE BOOTH HARRINGTON HANDS OFTEN.
NOTHING.
THERE THIS MARION COUNTY DEFENSE, THE FRONT, FOR HIS REALLY, JUST TAKEN OVER THIS FOOTBALL GAME HERE IN THE SECOND QUARTER, BISHOP LONG TO STOP.
BUT THOSE FOUR GUYS WERE THEIR HANDS ON THE CARPET DOWN THERE.
THEY ARE UNREAL.
THE WAY THEY'RE GETTING OFF OF THE BALLS.
YEAH SPEED SPEED.
SPEED AND SIZE LARRY.
YEP.
YOU'RE RIGHT.
TOMMY.
IT'S A HYBRID 43 THAT COACH.
SWANEY RUNS OF HIS TALK ABOUT THAT AND REALLY IF YOU SAID THEY'RE VERY ACTIVE IN AS YOU PUT UP REALLY GOOD WITH THEIR HANDS AND GOING REALLY COME ON STRONG HERE AND AND IT KEPT US AGAIN TO KICK IT OFF AT SCHOOL YET BUT HAVE HELD CHILTON COUNTY BUT ONLY THREE POINTS.
CHECKING IN A LITTLE OVER 10 GONNA GIVE TO LIE, GOT A BLOCK ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND THEN THE WHOLE JUST CLOSE, BUT LEE'S STRENGTH PUSHED HIM DOWN INSIDE THE 45 DOWN TO THE 43.
THE KEY TO A DEFENSE IS LOOKING HOW MANY PEOPLE MAKE THE TACKLE AND LOOK AT GANG?
TACKLING BY MARION COUNTY IS UNREAL.
YEP, HERE'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THAT.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY FINALLY GET A WHOLE AND THAT SIDE, THE FIRST ONE THERE.
HAD THE ENTIRE GAME, BUT WHO'S RIGHT THERE YOUR LINEBACKER BRANDON GREEN.
HE MAKES HE MAKES THE FIRST STOCK TO HIT THEIR IN THE GAP AND THEN HERE COMES THE GANG TACKLING TO KEEP THEM TO A MINIMUM GAME.
TRISHA THE FIELD ON THAT LEFT SIDE OVER THERE, HARRINGTON WHISTLE ON THIRD DOWN AND EIGHT.
I THINK WE'VE GOT A LEGAL PROCEDURE COMING PRIOR TO THE SNAP FALSE.
START OFFENSE, FIVE-YARD MERRIWEATHER.
TIMOTHY MCDONALD, DANIEL MAXON, CHARLES JARVIS JARED WILLIAMS, AND TONY YOUNG.
YOUR OFFICIALS TODAY, DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB LETTING THE TEAMS PLAY AND THEY HAVE REALLY EXPANDED.
LET THEM PLAY THAT WAS NUMBER 18 THERE IN THE SLOTS WHO JUMPED OFF TOOK OFF TOO SOON TO DRAW THAT FIVE-YARD PENALTY.
I LOVE THE WAY THEY SEND PLAYS IN AT CHARLES AND THEY DO IT STILL WITH THE ARMBAND.
WIDE RECEIVER TO THE LEFT, HARRINGTON THOMPSON, FAKES FIRES TOO LONG DOWN NEAR THE 15 YARD LINE, TAY, WHAT TOMMY WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT PLAY, THE QUARTERBACK ACTUALLY HELD HIM, THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT.
SCOTT BIRCHALL WAS THE RECEIVER DOWN THERE, HE GOT BUMPED AND MAYBE MAYBE A LITTLE MORE THAN A BUMP.
AND YOU SAY, OH YEAH, THAT'S WHY COACH MAC IS SO UPSET THERE ON THE SIDELINE.
THAT'S WHY HE'S YELLING OVER THERE AND HE WAS HIS JERSEY WAS PULLING IT.
WHY THAT BALL WAS.
SO OVERTHROWN VIRTUAL SOMEBODY THAT COACH MCWHORTER WAS SAYING, HE WANTS HIS QUARTERBACK HARRINGTON TO REALLY BE AWARE.
HE'S OPEN QUITE A BIT IN GAMES.
HE SAID, WE'VE GOT TO FIND A WAY TO GET IN THE BALL MORE.
THAT WAS A SHOT RIGHT THERE.
THEY FELT THEY HAD HIM RIGHT THERE NOW.
BUT AGAIN LITTLE HOLE GOT AWAY WITH IT.
ITS FOURTH DOWN.
SPEAKING OF PENALTIES CHARLTON, ONE PENALTY FOR FIVE YARDS MARION COUNTY.
NOPE, NONE OF THESE SNAP AGAIN HARRINGTON GETS OFF.
AND IT'S GOING TO BOUNCE AND BOUNCE AND BOUNCE OUT OF BOUNDS DOWN AT THE 14 YARD LINE, MARION COUNTY A GOOD FOOTBALL.
TEAM 35-YARD KICK FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCE FOR THE EAGLES, THEY'VE KIND OF SETTLED IN HERE IN THE SECOND QUARTER SECOND ROUND THE LAST THREE YEARS.
EIGHT, SEASON PLAYING FOOTBALL, THREE REGION TITLES THIS YEAR, 2013 11, AND 10, SIX STRAIGHT WINNING SEASONS.
IS FOR THIS MARION COUNTY FOOTBALL TEAM AND I THINK THEY'RE OVER THE DOME ENVIRONMENT.
I THINK WE CAN SEE THEM JUST REALLY GETTING THEIR LEGS UNDER THEM AND THEY'RE GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS.
BECKER.
CROSS THE 23-YARD LINE GOES, MR. SMOTHERS.
AND HE GASHES IN PRETTY GOOD UP FOR A FIRST DOWN.
I BELIEVE HE LET YOU KNOW THAT HE IS IN FACT IN CHARGE RIGHT NOW.
TOOK A GOOD HIT FROM THAT LINEBACKER NUMBER 44 THAT WE LIKE SO GOOD JACKSON AND KEPT GOING GONNA FAKE THIS MOTHERS AND ECKHART IS GOING TO BE MET RUDELY GUESS WHO MR. JACKSON IS EVERYWHERE.
WHAT A SURPRISE.
THE CLOCK NOW, BEGINNING TO BECOME A FACTORS WERE DOWN UNDER ONE MINUTE AND JUST WE SAY THAT.
NOW WE GET A TIMEOUT.
THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JACKSON IS HE'S A SOPHOMORE PEOPLE?
LOOK AT THE WAY IT GOT, AFTER WRECKER.
MARION COUNTY GETS TO PLAYS WHEN THE QUARTERBACK GOES TO THE SIDELINE AND I WOULD IMAGINE THE COACH SAID WE I'M AT THE QUARTERBACK PROBABLY TOLD THE COACH WE MIGHT NOT NEED TO TRY THAT PLACE AGAIN.
LET'S MOTHERS HAVE IT EXACTLY.
NO QUESTION.
YEAH, YOU LOOK AT ANTHONY JACKSON.
64, 210, COACH, MCWHORTER COACH SWANEY AGAIN, KIND OF TRY TO GET SOMETHING GOING HERE.
MARION COUNTY, TRYING TO GET SOME OFFENSE TO GET ON THE BOARD.
YOU GOT TO KICK HER, THAT CAN KICK IT AGAIN.
BEYOND THE 45 SO THEY LIKE TO GET ABOUT 30 YARDS, DOWNFIELD HERE.
SO YOU CAN GIVE AJ WELLS A CRACK AT IT, THE BACK TO ANTHONY JACKSON TO CHARLTON, COUNTY OUTSTANDING SOPHOMORE.
LINEBACKER WHEN YOU SEE A KID LIKE THAT 64 210 AND ONLY A SOPHOMORE, YOU KNOW, 15 16 YEARS OLD.
HE LOOK AT HIM AND SAY BOY, WHAT A TREMENDOUS UPSIDE HE'S GOT IF HE'S GOT THIS KIND OF NATURAL SKILL ALREADY.
TAKE A LOOK AT HIM AS A GOOD -LOOKING YOUNG PROSPECT AND YOU ONLY.
HE'S ONLY GOING TO GROW AND IMPROVE AND GET BETTER UNDER COACH MACK.
HE IS IS GOOD.
HE IS LET ME TELL YOU, IF HE'S PLAYING LINEBACKER FOR COACH MAC, HE CAN PLAY REALLY PLAY.
HECKER, GONNA BRING ABOUT A THREE-WIDE SET TO THE RIGHT.
AND A ONE RECEIVER TO THE LEFT, ECKERD LOOKING TO THROW.
2010, AN OUT-OF-BOUNDS, TRACE WATSON WITH THE CATCH, AND THE RUN AND THE CLOCK IS STOPPED AT 34 SECONDS.
WOW.
ECKERD GOT THE RIGHT PLAY CALLED AT TIME.
YEAH, HE SURE DID.
THIS WAS A GREAT PLAY RIGHT HERE, GREAT EFFORT BY SWANSON.
HE'S GOT THE DEFENDER ALL OVER, BUT THE GREAT HANDS, THEN OFTEN RUNNING.
ONLY THING IS, YOU'VE GOT A COUPLE OF DEFENSIVE BACKS WITH JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE SPEED, BUT SWANSON, WHAT A THE CATCH IS WHAT I'M REALLY IMPRESSED WITH.
A LITTLE BIT HIGH BUT HE BRINGS IT IN BIG GAIN AND MARION COUNTIES IN BUSINESS DOWN AT THE 10, SMOTHERS WITH A HANDOFF DOWN, INSIDE THE FIVE TIME IS AN ISSUE, BUT THEY GOT PLENTY OF TIME OUTS, TWO TIME OUTS REMAINING FOR EACH TEAM.
WILL TAKE ONE HERE.
SMELLER'S.
YEAH, THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ANOTHER ONE HERE.
YOU'LL TELL YOU WHAT.
I THINK.
WHAT WE WILL DO HERE IS SEE MR. SMOTHERS.
GET THE BALL.
OR MAYBE ROYAL ROYAL IS ALSO THAT BIG BACK?
ARE THEY GOING TO LINE UP IN THE POWER?
I AND GIVE IT TO ROYAL AND TRY TO POUND IT IN?
YO, I WOULD THINK THEY WOULD.
I MEAN, ROYAL AND THE ON THE YEAR 20 TOUCHDOWNS RUSHING HAS REALLY NOT BEEN A FACTOR THAT IS BY FAR, THE BIGGEST PLAY THAT, THAT WE'VE HAD RIGHT HERE.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AGAIN, AS WE'VE GOT A TIMEOUT AND JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENS ON THIS PLAY.
THIS IS THE GOT EVERYONE TO WATCH RIGHT IN HERE THE WORK.
WE'RE HE'S GOING TO LOOK AND SEE.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS, GOING TO ROLL THIS AND WATCH HIM COMING TO A NEW AND YOUR SCREEN HERE.
THE GREAT RIGHT THERE.
THE GREAT PLAY RIGHT THERE IN THE HANDS AND YOU CAN SEE HERE, HERE'S A PROBLEM.
ANYTIME YOU HAVE A DEFENDER THAT'S GOING TO GO FOR THE INTERCEPTION.
THE PROBLEM IS IS THAT THERE'S NOBODY BEHIND HIM.
NOBODY OUT HERE IN OPEN SPACE.
AND SO AS A RESULT AS YOU TAKE A LOOK NOTHING BUT CLEAR SPACES FOR HIM TO GO GREEN SPACES, WIDE, OPEN SPACES, THE BIG, BIG GAIN HERE AND MARION COUNTY, GREAT OFFENSIVE CALL.
BUT AGAIN, GREAT BY SWANSON TO MAKE THAT PLAY HAPPEN AND TURN INTO A BIG GATE.
AND NOW RIGHT BEFORE HALFTIME THE EAGLES HAVE A CHANCE TO GET ON THE BOARD IN DEFENSE MALIK BRUNSON PLAYED IT PROPERLY AS A DEFENSIVE BACK IT HE PLAYED IT.
WELL THAT WAS JUST A GREAT KIT WAS WIDESPREAD.
NO POWER.I YET.
ECKERT ROLLING.
LOOKING TO THROW INCOMPLETE DOWN AT THE FIVE.
ECKERD LOOKING TO THE SIDELINE STILL.
21 SECONDS LEFT HERE IN THE HOUSE.
HALF.
I LIKE THE WAY THEY RUN THE QUARTERBACK TO THE SIDELINE AND GIVE HIM, TWO PLAYS, YOU GOT 21 SECONDS.
HE'S GOT TWO PLAYS.
WE DON'T TELL ME YOU BETTER BE IN GOOD SHAPE BECAUSE HE'S RUNNING BACK AND FORTH EVERY TIME HE'S PROBABLY IN BETTER SHAPE THAN ANYBODY.
THAT'S A LOT OF EXTRA YARDAGE ECKERT.
PROBABLY GAVE THEM TO PLAYS AND SAID, IF THIS DOESN'T WORK, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO RUN.
TIME IS A FACTOR, ECKHART DIRECT SNAP ROLLING.
LOOKING GONNA THROW IN THE END ZONE.
INCOMPLETE.
EXCELLENT CALL ROYAL THE INTENDED RECEIVER, BUT GREAT COVERAGE BY JACKSON THE LINEBACKER.
TAKE A LOOK AT JACKSONS COVERAGE.
YEAH, HE JUMPED TOO SOON AS A GREAT PLATE OF FAKE TO HIM, HE SEE THE LINEBACKER JACKSON B FOLLOWS HIM OUT BUT THE PROBLEM AGAIN, ROYAL GOT SO EXCITED.
IT'S UP A LITTLE BIT TOO SOON.
IT WAS A GREAT PLAY.
JUST COULDN'T COULDN'T COULDN'T CONVERT A J.
WELLS WILL ATTEMPT TO TIE IT RIGHT HERE WITH 15 SECONDS LEFT.
GOOD SNAP THE KICK IS UP.
WHAT WAS THE CALL THAT OURSELVES A BALL GAME THAT WE GOT OURSELVES A BALL GAME.
TOOK A WHILE TO CALL.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CONFERENCE HERE.
MARION COUNTY THREE, CHARLTON COUNTY.
32 STILL 10 SECONDS TO PLAY.
I WAS EXPECTING.
I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU.
LET'S SEE.
LOOK AT THIS.
IT TOOK THEM A WHILE.
YEAH, WELL THAT'S KIND OF TENTATIVE.
YES, RIGHT.
YEAH, THE GUY THERE ON THE RIGHT SORT OF KIND OF HESITATED FOR JUST A MOMENT.
GET AJ WELLS.
REACTION THE SENIOR.
HE WHO IT WAS.
YEAH.
NOPE.
NO QUESTION FOR HIM.
COACH KNEW THE REFEREES.
WERE A SHEPHERD, LOVE IT.
THOSE ARE SOME GREAT SHOTS.
THANK YOU, GUYS.
GREAT SHOTS.
WELLS WILL KICK IT OFF.
I WOULD IMAGINE HERE, SEVEN PLAYS 81 YARDS, TIME OF POSSESSION 111 WHEN YOU GET THAT 69 YARDER IN THERE.
IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG TO CHEW UP SOME YARDAGE, BUT WE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEEDED TO GET ABOUT 30, 35 YARDS DOWNFIELD, TURNS OUT.
THEY GOT A LOT MORE THAN THAT.
BUT AGAIN, TO GET THIS GIRL, RIGHT BEFORE HALFTIME.
NOW THIS, YOU CAN TELL YOUR OFFENSE TO RELAX SETTLE DOWN HERE AT HALFTIME.
EXHALE, WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH IT.
WE KNOW WHAT WE'VE DONE, IT'S ABOUT PLAYING FOOTBALL, THE SECOND AND THEY'LL RECEIVE THE SECOND HALF KICKOFF.
WELL, IT WILL KICK OFF IN THE ENDZONE AND CHARLTON UP FOR CROSS.
THE 36 YARD LINE.
THREE SECONDS LEFT IN THE HALF JULIAN ROBERTS.
NUMBER NINE, ONE MORE.
THAT'S HER.
THAT'S HER SPEED GUY.
PLAYER DOWN RIGHT NOW IS GARRETT, MARION COUNTY.
WOW.
THAT'S NOT GOOD.
I DON'T THINK WE WOULD BE HAVING ANY CRAMPS THIS EARLY, NOT IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
THIS LOOKS LIKE AN E JOEY GARRETT'S, 511 SENIOR, HE'S A SENIOR.
LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO IT.
AND WATCH THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN 85 RIGHT THERE.
JUST KIND OF COMES UP A LITTLE BIT.
DID HE TWIST ON IT?
DID HE TWISTS?
YOU KNOW, I THINK HE DID.
I DIDN'T REALLY SEE ANY CONTACT THEIR OFFICE.
NEITHER I JUST SAW HIM SO I'M TWISTING A LITTLE YOU NEVER WANT TO SPECULATE BUT HE'S NOT PUTTING ANY WEIGHT ON THAT.
THAT'S NOT A GOOD SIGN.
IT'S NOT A GOOD SIGN AT ALL.
IT'S GOOD.
THEY'RE TRYING TO WALK A LITTLE BIT.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
ANOTHER ONE, RIGHT THERE, LITTLE YOUR SCREEN NUMBER.
85, HE JUST, HE JUST ACTUALLY STUCK HIS FOOT ON THE CARPET AND TWISTED A LITTLE BIT.
I DIDN'T SEE ANYBODY TOUCH HIM.
NO, I DIDN'T EITHER, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE.
SOMETIMES SHE HAD THOSE NON -CONTACT INJURIES.
WE SAW THE SAME THING OF THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL LEVEL, GEORGIA, AND TENNESSEE, AND JUSTIN SCOTT WESLEY RUNNING DOWN ON A PUNT.
KIND OF A SIMILAR THING WHERE HIS HE JUST PLANTED.
AND AND AGAIN, NOT TRYING TO COMPARE THE INJURIES, BUT TO SAY THAT, SOMETIMES YOU GET YOUR FLEET CAUGHT IN THE TOTE.
AND THE HANDOFF TO LIE GOES.
ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE UP TO THE 35 AND WE HAVE PLAYED A GREAT GREAT FIRST, HALF 323 WE'RE EXPECTING 3534.
BUT I GUESS 323 IS JUST AS WELL.
WELL I TELL YOU WHAT, IT'S BEEN AN EXCITING 323 WHEN YOU WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE WAY BOWL, TEAMS OF QUANTUM PLAYED BOTH TEAMS HAVE HAD THEIR INDIVIDUAL, GREAT OFFENSIVE MOMENTS, BUT THIS HAS BEEN A FIRST-HALF.
REALLY THE GOES TO THE IT'S ON BOTH SIDES.
WE'VE SEEN MARION COUNTY BEND BUT DON'T BREAK.
CHARLTON WAS SIMPLY OUTSTANDING ON DEFENSE UNTIL THAT FINAL DRIVE.
GREAT DEFENSIVE EFFORT FOR BOTH SIDES.
LET'S TAKE IT DOWN TO GRACE OLSON ON THE SIDELINES.
COACH ANDREW.
LEIGH LOTS OF CARRY SO FAR, LOTS OF GARBAGE.
BUT THE POINTS AREN'T THE AREN'T UP THERE ON THE BOARD.
HOW DO YOU CONTINUE THIS?
GREAT DEFENSIVE EFFORT THAT YOU'VE GOT TO GOING SO FAR?
WELL I OUR KIDS PRIDE THEMSELVES ON SWARMING TO THE FOOTBALL.
WE JUST GOT TO TACKLE A LITTLE BIT BETTER AND HE'S A VERY GOOD BACK.
SO WE JUST GOT TO KEEP PLAYING HARD.
AND BEING IN THE RIGHT SPOTS.
ALL RIGHT, WE THOUGHT THERE'D BE A LOT OF POINTS SCORED SO FAR.
IT'S COME DOWN TO SPECIAL TEAMS IT HAS AND THEY MADE THEIR FIELD GOAL.
WE MADE OURS, WE MADE A BIG PLAY IN THE PASSING GAME.
FINALLY LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE A DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE, SO IT MAY COME DOWN TO THE KICKING GAME IN THE END.
LOTS OF MOMENTUM THERE.
THE END OF THIS FIRST HALF, HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS?
AND KEEP THAT MOMENTUM GOING?
WELL, WE GET THE BALL TO START THE SECOND HALF, I THINK, I OPENING DRIVE OF THE SECOND HALF IS GOING TO BE VERY IMPORTANT.
THANK YOU, COACH, AND GOOD LUCK.
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WELCOME BACK TO THE GEORGIA, DOME, WELCOME BACK THE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND ON GPB, WELCOME TO OUR GPB HALFTIME SHOW.
WE ARE AT THE BREAK CHARLTON COUNTY AND MARION COUNTY ALL TIED UP IN THE SINGLE A PUBLIC SCHOOL.
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME A DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE SO FAR BUT A GOOD ONE.
HI AGAIN EVERYBODY I'M MARK, HARMON PLAY SIMS ALONGSIDE AND CLAIRE.
I LOVE THIS, THIS WHOLE ATMOSPHERE HERE IN THE GEORGIA DOME, IT'S BEEN GREAT.
ALTHOUGH I DO THINK THE FANS HAVE BEEN EXPECTED TO MAYBE BE CURING A LITTLE BIT MORE, MAYBE SEEING A LITTLE BIT MORE SCORING.
SO THEY'RE KIND OF QUIET.
BUT THEY BOTH GOT OUR DIES DURING HALFTIME, I THINK THEY WILL.
AND ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS WE'VE SEEN ALL SEASON LONG IS FANS ARE GETTING ONLINE AND TALKING TO US ABOUT THEIR FAVORITE JEANS.
WE HAVE BEEN HEARING A LOT FROM ALL OF YOU TODAY.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CORRESPONDENT, GRACE, OLSON, GRACE, THANK YOU, CLAIRE, THE STATE FINALS, WHAT AN EXCITING TIME OF YEAR AND YOU'RE SEEING ALL THE ACTION ON TV, BUT WE'RE ALSO REELING YOU IN THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
GPB SPORTS IS ON TWITTER, ON FACEBOOK, ON INSTAGRAM.
WE WANT YOU TO BE A TOTAL PART OF THE ACTION.
EVEN THE BEHIND THE SCENES ACTION.
THAT'S WHY I'VE GOT THIS HANDY, BLUE, IPAD, AND WALKING AROUND, WITH ALL DAY LONG.
WE'RE UPLOADING.
FITTY VIDEOS, WERE UPLOADING PHOTOS.
WE'RE DOING SCORE UPDATES.
WE'VE GOT IT ALL FOR YOU.
ALL DAY LONG HERE, YOU CAN SEE THE IPAD, THAT'S THE GPB FACEBOOK PAGE.
YOU NEED TO LIKE US, YOU CAN HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THAT EXCLUSIVE CONTENT.
IT'S GONNA BE GOING ALL DAY LONG ALSO, MAKE SURE TO TWEET WITH THE HASHTAG GPB FINALS.
WE WANT TO GET THE CONVERSATION GOING WITH YOU ABOUT TODAY'S STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES, LOT OF A LOT OF EXCITEMENT COMING UP ON GPB SPORTS ALL DAY LONG AND WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU BACK OVER TO CLAIRE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH GRACE.
AND NOW SOMEBODY ELSE WE LIKE TO HEAR FROM THIS IS THE PRINCIPLE OF CHARLTON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS IS JOSHUA HOWARD.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
MY PLEASURE.
ALL RIGHT, SO THIS HAS BEEN A PRETTY ELECTRIC ATMOSPHERE.
WHAT'S IT BEEN LIKE DEALING WITH THE STUDENTS AT SCHOOL ALL WEEK?
WELL, THEY'VE REALLY BEEN INTO IT.
WE CAME ALIVE, THE SECOND HALF OF OUR SEASON.
WE ARE TEAM HAD ASKED REAL SLOW START AND WE HAD ANDREW LEAD, COME BACK ABOUT THE A EIGHTH GAME AND JUST HAD A COUPLE OF THINGS HAPPEN.
THE KIDS REALLY GOT ENERGIZED, OUR TEAM DID, AND MADE A HUGE TURNAROUND, RUN IN THE PLAYOFFS.
AND AND THE SUIT OF BODY IS NOW BELIEVING THE OUR PAN.
THIS IS A YEAR AT THE BEGINNING.
WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW MUCH WE COULD DO, BUT NOW WE'RE SEEING THIS TEAM, GREAT THING.
SO IT'S BEEN A REALLY FUN LAST MONTH HERE IN AS FAR AS FOOTBALL GOES FOR US.
ALL RIGHT, WELL NOW IT'S TIME TO PLAY.
EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE GAME, ARE YOU?
OTHER THAN YOUR STUDENTS IF YOU'LL TAKE THAT QUESTION FOR TO ME AND TODAY OUR THEME IS SPORTS QUESTIONS.
VERY APPROPRIATE, RIGHT?
ALL RIGHT.
YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS STUFF IN SUMO WRESTLING.
THE MATCH IS OVER WHEN A WRESTLER IS FORCED TO THE GROUND OR A LEAVES THE RING BE STOPS HUGGING.
SEE GETS HOOKED ON PHONICS OR D. SIGNS UP FOR HULU.
PLUS LEAVES THE RING DING.
DING, DING.
YOU ARE CORRECT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE.
I SENT IT OVER TO MARK.
THANK YOU.
THANKS CLAIRE.
A BIG PART OF THE PAGEANTRY OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL OR THE MARCHING BAND.
SO, LET'S LISTEN IN NOW THE CHARLTON COUNTY MARCHING BAND BROUGHT TO YOU BY REGIONS BANK.
MUSIC OF PAUL SIMON.
CONGRATULATIONS.
THE CHILD COUNTY MARCHING BAND BROUGHT TO YOU BY REGIONS BANK NOW COMING UP ON THE GPB HALFTIME.
TIME SHOW, WE'LL HEAR FROM THE MARION COUNTY MARCHING BAND.
PLUS ANOTHER ROUND OF ARE YOU SMARTER THAN YOUR STUDENTS SLICED?
JOHN NELSON WITH THE STORY OF A TEAM TRAGEDY THAT ONLY LED TO A SHOW OF STRENGTH THAT THE HEAD AND BACK ROADS AND BACK FIELDS PLUS GRACE OLSON.
UPDATES US ON EVERYTHING SOCIAL MEDIA.
IT'S ALL I HAD WHEN THE FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA HALFTIME, SHOW CONTINUES RIGHT AFTER THIS, ON GPB.
AS THE DEMAND FOR POWER GROWS GEORGE'S, NONPROFIT, MEMBER-OWNED ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING SAFE AFFORDABLE AND RELIABLE ELECTRICITY WHO ARE MEMBERS.
WE'VE BEEN DEDICATED TO BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS AND ARE PROUD TO JOIN THE GEORGIA, HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION STUDENT ATHLETE.
NOTHING PREPARES YOU BETTER FOR A GREAT CAREER THAN THE 25.
COLLEGES OF THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA.
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TODAY'S TOP EMPLOYERS ARE LOOKING FOR WITH CAMPUSES ACROSS GEORGIA STATE OF THE ART FACILITIES AND OUTSTANDING INSTRUCTORS WITH REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE, IT'S THE KIND OF AFFORDABLE COLLEGE EDUCATION THAT WILL FAST-TRACK YOU INTO A REWARDING CAREER.
WE ARE BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE FOR YOU CONTACT.
THE TCSG COLLEGE IN YOUR AREA TODAY OR GO TO TCSG.EDU.
'YOU STILL TO COME ON THIS SEASON OF GEORGIA TRAVELER.
I FEEL THE NEED THE NEED FOR SPEED.
TELL YOU WHAT?
THAT WAS INCREDIBLE.
WELCOME TO HERE GOES NOTHING.
THAT IS ALL GOODNESS.
REALLY, REALLY GOOD.
ALL I CAN SAY IS IT WAS COMING SOON ON GEORGIA TRAVELER.
DURING THIS PERFORMANCE, ONE STUDENT WILL DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
BE THERE FOR YOUR BIG FINISH.
GPB WINNER OF 15 EMMY AWARDS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM ON.
GPB IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY SUPPORTERS OF THE GEORGIA, HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING.
THIS BEEN SAID THAT CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE WON BY INDIVIDUALS, THAT ONE WITH TEAM AND TEAMWORK.
HI.
I'M ZIPPY DUVALL PRESIDENT, GEORGIA FARM BUREAU.
WE'RE PROUD OF OUR FILLED WITH GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, ATHLETIC AND ALL OF OUR COUNTY FARM BUREAU'S ACROSS THE STATE.
WE HAVE A CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM, READY TO DELIVER SERVICES TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND ALL OF GEORGIA FARMERS ACROSS THIS STATE.
WE INVITE YOU TO COME TO YOUR LOCAL COUNTY FARM BUREAU AND BE PART OF OUR TEAM.
GO TEAM, VISIT US ONLINE AT G OF B DOT ORG.
WELCOME BACK TO THE GEORGIA DOME.
WELCOME BACK TO THE 2013, GHSA FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS HALFTIME SHOW LIVE HERE ON GPB.
WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SINGLE A PUBLIC SCHOOL GAME AND IT'S ALL TIED UP, CHARLESTON COUNTY AND MARION COUNTY A COUPLE OF FIELD GOALS.
33 IS YOUR FINAL SCORE BUT I THINK THINGS WILL HEAT UP IN THE SECOND HALF.
YEAH, I MEAN THEY'VE BEEN SAYING SO FAR.
SPECIAL TEAMS IS REALLY KIND OF HAD TO LEAD THE CHARGE HERE.
WE'LL SEE IF THE OFFENSE CAN PICK IT UP IN THE SECOND HALF.
INTERESTING.
WELL NOW WE WANT TO WELCOME IN ANOTHER SPECIAL GUEST.
THIS IS THE PRINCIPAL OF MARION COUNTY GLINT.
WELL THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
GLAD TO BE HERE.
ALL RIGHT, YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU GUYS SOLD ALL 1500 OF YOUR TICKETS TO THIS GAME AND YOU, YOU DON'T THINK YOU'VE HAD THAT MANY VANS AT A HOME GAME.
NOW, OUR COMMUNITIES REALLY, REALLY EXCITED.
THEY'RE JUST I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY 15 YEARS AS PRINCIPAL.
THERE EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITIES WANTED TO HELL.
THEY'VE OFFERED TO DO EVERYTHING OR KIDS HAVE BEEN EXCITED.
WE JUST LOOK FORWARD TO TODAY, ALL WEEK LONG, ALL RIGHT?
RIGHT NOW, IT'S TIME TO SEE.
WE'RE GOING TO PUT YOU TO THE TEST SINCE YOUR TEAM'S BEEN ON THE TOUR TO THE TEST ON THE FIELD.
LET'S BRING IN OUR QUESTION.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE YOU SELECT THAT QUESTION.
YOU'RE GOING TO HAND IT TO ME AND OUR THEME TODAY FOR ARE YOU SMARTER THAN YOUR STUDENTS IS SPORTS?
SO LET'S SEE IF YOU KNOW YOUR SPORTS, YOU READY?
SURE.
JOEY CHESTNUT NICKNAME.
JAWS IS A COMPETITIVE.
WHAT A SLEEPER?
BEE-EATER.
SEE FINGER.
PAINTER OR D?
KATH.
DO NOT GO WITH BAE.
HE'S RIGHT.
HAVE YOU EATEN ENOUGH HOT DOGS?
DO YOU THINK YOU COULD TAKE JOEY CHESTNUT?
I DON'T KNOW, BUDDY.
WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US AND GOOD LUCK IN THE SECOND HALF.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
ALL RIGHT NOW LET'S LISTEN IN TO THE MARION COUNTY MARCHING BAND PRESENTED BY REGIONS BANK.
WE GOT TO LOVE JAMES BOND, THE MARION COUNTY, HIGH SCHOOL, MARCHING EAGLE BAND, GREAT JOB, BROUGHT TO YOU BY REGIONS BANK TIME.
NOW, TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE GEORGIA, EMC, SCOREBOARD AND SCHEDULE.
YOU HAVE THREE GAMES COMPLETED YESTERDAY.
TODAY AND LEADING THE WAY WAS AQUINAS WINNING.
THE FIRST OF CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND, BEATING CALVARY DAY 6:33.
BUFORD WON ITS 10TH STRAIGHT TO OUR 10TH STATE TITLE BEATING WASHINGTON COUNTY 3519 GREEK SIDE WINS ITS FIRST KNOCKING OFF THE TUCKER.
TIGERS 52-28 TODAY AT THE HALF OF THE ONE A PUBLIC GAME ALL.
TIED UP 33, CHARLTON COUNTY AND MARION COUNTY ON DECK.
THE TO A GAME FROM OUR COUNTY MEETS, LOVE IT AT 5:30 IT'S FOR A GAME CARROLLTON, TAKING ON THE BEARS OF GRIFFIN.
AND THEN IN THE 6TH, CHIP GAME NORTH GWINNETT AND NORCROSS A COUPLE OF REGION, 7 RIVALS, AND CLASS 6A FOR YOU TONIGHT AT 8:30.
WE NOW, WELCOME INTO THE PROGRAM, JOHN NELSON, TIME FOR OUR BACK ROADS AND BACK FIELDS, BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE GEORGIA FARM BUREAU AND JOHN TODAY.
IT'S A VERY EMOTIONAL STORY, FROM QUITMAN, GEORGIA.
THE LAST NIGHT WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT CREEKSIDE AND THEY WERE DOING IT FOR DOUCHE.
YOUNG ATHLETES LEARNING LESSONS, TOO EARLY IN LIFE, HAVING TO GROW UP FASTER THAN THEY NORMALLY WOULD.
SAME THING HAPPENED IN EQUIPMENT, AND FOR THE BROOKS COUNTY, T, TROJANS.
IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE BC3 THIS SEASON.
BROOKS COUNTY, HEAD COACH, MAURICE FREEMAN STOPS HERE AT 6:30 EVERY MORNING TO REMEMBER THE THREE PLAYERS LOST IN A CAR CRASH BEFORE THE SEASON JAKARI WATKINS SEAN WATERS AND JOHNNY PARKER WERE KILLED WHILE TEAMMATE.
DEVON WHITFIELD IS BACK WITH THE TEAM AND THE REMINDER IS CONSTANT ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THE TROJANS ARE BACK ON THE FIELD.
EVERYONE IS ON.
WE HANGING IN THE AS TEAM.
WE'RE GONNA GET THROUGH IT AS A TEAM.
WE WENT TO FILL IT WITH EVERYTHING.
WE'RE GONNA STAY TOGETHER A TEAM, WE'RE GONNA GET THROUGH IT.
WELL, EVERYBODY'S LEFT TO DO.
WILL I THINK I THINK IT'S TOUGH ON THE COACHES THAN THE YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW, THEY WORK PRETTY HARD AND, YOU KNOW, THEY KIND OF CAN GET GOING.
I THINK THE COACHES, ESPECIALLY ME, YOU KNOW, I COACH THE INSIDE, LINEBACKERS OFF TO HEAR THOSE GUYS WERE INSIDE, LINEBACKER.
SO THAT'S KIND OF TOUGH FOR ME BECAUSE EVERY DAY I LOOK IN THAT LOCKER ROOM.
I EXPECT THEM TO WALK OUT OF THERE AND THEY DON'T.
SO THAT'S KIND OF TOUGH.
IT'S KIND OF TOUGH BUT WE'RE WORKING HARD.
WHAT SEEMS TO CARRY THE TEAM THROUGH IS THE RESILIENCE OF ALL THE YOUNG MEN.
REMEMBERING THE BC3 AND TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN A LESSON LEARNED TO SAY, SOON NOT TO GIVE UP AND KEEP FIGHTING FOR THEM.
AND EVERY TIME I GET A CHANCE TO GIVE UP THINKING ABOUT THEM WHEN I KEEP GOING.
AND NOW IT'S JUST SIMPLY TIME TO RECALL YOUR FRIENDS ON THE FIELD AND WHAT THEY MEANT.
THEY MADE IN LIKE, YOU KNOW, HARD WORK IS, YOU KNOW, WE ARE, WE ALWAYS STAY TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, WORK HARD AND PLAY HARD TOGETHER WITH A BIG FAMILY, HEAD COACH, MAURICE FREEMAN.
THEY'RE IMPACTED PERSONALLY BY ALL OF THIS.
THEY MADE IT TO THE DOUBLE A SEMI FINALS.
LOST 11, WHO IS HERE TODAY IN WEEK, 15.
ALL RIGHT, JOHN.
THANKS VERY MUCH.
WE'LL HAVE BACK ROADS AND BACK FIELDS, BROUGHT TO YOU BY GEORGIA FARM BUREAU EVERY SINGLE HALFTIME SHOW, THE REST OF THE DAY HERE, RIGHT HERE.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S CHECK.
NOW, WITH CLAIRE SIMMS.
ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE PUT THE PRINCIPLES TO THE TEST.
NOW IT IS TIME FOR THE PARENTS TO TAKE THEIR TURN.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH GRACE OLSON.
WITH A SECOND, WE CALL RENT CHECK.
THANK YOU, CLAIRE.
IT'S TIME TO CHECK IN WITH FAYE WELLS, THE PROUD MOTHER OF A J WELLS MARION COUNTY'S KICKER.
WHO ACTUALLY JUST PUT POINTS UP ON THE BOARD FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY.
NOW WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO TEST YOU WITH SOME TRIVIA AND SEE HOW WELL YOU KNOW AJ.
OKAY.
WHAT IS HE MOST LIKELY TO MAJOR IN?
BUT LEE SAYS ENGLISH, BUT I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF HE DIDN'T GO INTO JOURNALISM, SO WE'LL SEE.
HE SAYS, CREATIVE WRITING THAT WE SHOULD BE NEAT AND FAVORITE PREGAME MEAL THAT FRIED CHICKEN IN SOUTH GEORGIA.
THEY LOVE TO EAT IT EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT.
IT'S SO TRADITION, I KNOW IT SURE IS.
WHO HAS, WHO'S BEEN HIS FAVORITE TEACHER THROUGHOUT THE YEARS?
STEVE HAUSCHKA.
HE'S ALSO TRAINED BY HIS SAME COACH STEEPLE, SO HE'S BEEN FOLLOWING HIM IN THE PROS.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
HE ACTUALLY TOLD ME?
YOU WERE, HIS FAVORITE TEACHER TEACHER.
YES.
HIS MOM IS HIS FAVORITE TEACHER.
HE'S A SO THAT'S A VERY SWEET LITTLE MEMENTO RIGHT THERE.
HIS FAVORITE CAREER MOMENT WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL.
WELL, PROBABLY THAT KICK IN THE DUALLY GAME THAT GOT US INTO THE SEMI-FINALS.
EXACTLY, RIGHT THERE.
WERE ONLY 45 SECONDS LEFT IN THAT GAME AND HE GOT THE KICK AND HE ALSO WAS PLAYING WITH MONO DURING THAT GAME.
SO IT WAS ROUGH.
YEAH, BUT HE LOOKS LIKE HE PULLED IT OUT FOR THE TEAM.
HE SURE DID NOT.
YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US ON RENT.
SHAG, WE'RE GOING TO BRING YOU IN A LITTLE FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA T-SHIRT.
YOU CAN SPORT NEXT SEASON.
I'M GONNA SEND IT BACK OVER TO CLAIRE.
THANKS FOR JOINING US TODAY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH GRACE.
NOW IT IS TIME FOR OUR CAREER.
PLAY OF THE GAME BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA AS ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS GROWS.
SO DO GREEN INDUSTRIES, GREEN INDUSTRIES, OUR CAREERS AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES, SUCH AS SOLAR POWER, OTHER CAREERS, INCLUDE ENERGY AUDITING, HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION EXPERTS PREDICT A 23 PERCENT INCREASE IN GREEN JOBS, OVER THE NEXT DECADE.
THAT MEANS THERE'S PLENTY OF GREEN IN THESE CAREERS FOR SKILLED WORKERS.
THAT'S THE FIELD OF GREEN INDUSTRIES IS OUR CAREER.
PLAY OF THE GAME.
THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA, FOR MORE INFORMATION ON GREEN INDUSTRIES AND OTHER CAREERS.
VISIT THEM AT TCSG.EDU MARK, WE ARE GETTING READY FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE CHARLTON COUNTY MARION COUNTY GAME.
BUT BEFORE WE KICK THINGS OFF, HE WANT TO TELL YOU A WAY.
YOU CAN SHOW YOUR APPRECIATION ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ON GPB.
YOU CAN HELP US OUT.
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KEEP PROGRAMMING LIKE THIS ON THE AIR.
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YEAH.
AND YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO LIKE US ON FACEBOOK BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE EXTENSIVE COVERAGE ON SIGNING DAY.
AND THEN, OF COURSE WE BRING YOU THE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO STAY TUNED FOR THAT AS WELL.
ALL RIGHT.
TIME NOW TO TOSS IT UP, TO THE TWO GUYS WERE GOING TO CALL THE SECOND HALF OF THIS GAME.
THE LEGENDARY TOMMY PALMER AND HIS PARTNER LARRY SMITH.
THANK YOU MARK.
HARMON WE ARE AT HALFTIME READY TO KICK THE SECOND HALF.
323, IT'LL ALL BE DECIDED IN THE NEXT 24.
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DEVELOPING LEADERS FOR GEORGIA.
AGRICULTURE IS VERY IMPORTANT.
US AT GEORGIA FARM BUREAU.
HI.
I'M ZIPPY DUVALL PRESIDENT OF GEORGIA FARM BUREAU JUST LIKE HIGH SCHOOL.
ATHLETICS DID DEVELOP LEADERS FOR OUR COMMUNITY, IN OUR STATE.
WE HAD GEORGIA FARM BUREAU.
THINK IT'S JUST AS IMPORTANT TO DEVELOP BUILD FUTURE LEADERS OF GEORGIA, AGRICULTURE.
I NATIONAL SECURITY DEPENDS ON TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FARM.
BUREAU'S MANY SERVICES FROM MULTI-LINE INSURANCE TO MONEY-SAVING.
DISCOUNTS VISIT US ONLINE AT GFB DOT-ORG.
DROP DOWN AND ENTER A WORLD.
MOST PEOPLE OVERLOOK AND IT STARTS TO IN AND CELEBRATE THESE ART FOR ME LOVE I'M JOSHUA STEWART HOST OF MORNING EDITION, GPB RADIO.
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO COME BACK TO US.
THERE'S GOING TO BE CHANGES IT DOWN TO NOTHING IS SETTLED.
I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU I CAN'T HOLD IT IN ANYMORE.
WELCOME BACK TO THE GEORGIA DOME CHARLTON COUNTY AND MARION COUNTY CURRENTLY TIED AT THREE HEADING INTO THE SECOND.
HALF HERE WITH COACH REPORTER COACH GREAT OFFENSIVE PRODUCTION.
YARDAGE WISE HAD TO TURN THAT YARDAGE INTO POINTS THOUGH.
IT'S 2:57.
WELL I JUST WANT TO SAY OUR DEFENSE IS PLAYING A DOING A GREAT JOB.
REALLY PROUD OF OUR DEFENSE WE GAVE UP ONE PLAY BUT WITH THEIR GREAT.
FOR ONE PLAY EQUALS THREE POINTS VISIBLY.
WE'RE HAVING WE'RE REALLY STRUGGLING UP FRONT RIGHT NOW AND THAT'S WHERE WE'VE GOT TO.
WE GOT TO BE BETTER ON FIRST DOWN.
NOT START OFF SECOND DOWN, AND TEN.
FIRST DOWN IS GOING TO BE A KEY FOR US.
WE GOT BUILD, RUN THE FOOTBALL AND THEN THAT WOULD OPEN UP THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO IN LATER DOWNS.
OKAY.
AND THE OFFENSIVE LINE WAS FORCED TO STEP UP WHEN LEE WAS OUT, HOW IMPORTANT IS THEIR PRODUCTION GOING TO BE TO THE SECOND HALF SECOND.
THE OFFENSIVE LINE IS GONNA BE THE KEY TO THIS THING ALL RUNNING.
MAX LOOK ALIKE WITH NO BLOCKING.
SO WE'VE GOT A WE'VE GOT TO PICK IT UP ON NOW.
THAT'S A LINE.
WE CHALLENGED, OUR OFFENSIVE LINE AND HALF TIME.
THOSE GUYS HAVE GOT TO PICK IT UP AND GET AFTER IT.
IF THEY DON'T, IT'S GOING TO BE THE SAME THING.
WE'RE JUST NOT GOING TO MOVE THE FOOTBALL.
I KNOW THEY'VE STEPPED UP IN THE PLAYOFFS.
SO WE'LL SEE IF THEY CAN DO IT IN THE SECOND HALF.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME.
COACH.
GOOD LUCK.
I'M GOING TO SEND IT BACK UP TO THE BOOTH.
THANK YOU GRACE.
LARRY, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT A 3 3 GAME, YOU SAID, WHERE ARE THE OFFENSIVE HIGHLIGHTS?
THERE WERE SOME, WE HAD SOME BIG PLAYS, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS FIRST HALF HIGHLIGHTS.
YEAH, THERE WERE SOME INDIVIDUAL THIS FIRST HALF DONE WITH THE 33 SCORE FOR YOU HOW ABOUT THE VERY FIRST DR. ANDREW LEE AGAIN THE BIG STORY BROKE HIS ARM IN THIS SAME MATCHUP IN THE PLAYOFFS A YEAR AGO.
HE WAS A WORKHORSE FOR 39 YARDS AND OPENING DRIVE THAT LED TO THE FIELD GOAL AND THE EARLY THREE.
NOTHING LEAD FOR CHARLTON COUNTY COACH MAC HERE STILL HOPING TO GET MORE OUT OF HIS OFFENSE AND THEN NOT MUCH GOING UNTIL THIS PLAY LATER ON ABOUT THE HUGE CONNECTION HERE IN THE FINAL MINUTE OF THE GAME THAT LED TO A FIELD GOAL AS WELL, BY AJ WELLS FOR MARION COUNTY AND THAT'S HOW HE GOT THE 33 MIKE'S.
WANING HAPPY TO GET THAT BUT I TELL YOU WHAT AGAIN 33 SCORED, THIS IS ONE FOR THE DEFENSE, A LOT OF STRIPS AND WE SAW THE INTERCEPTION AS WELL.
IT'S BEEN A WELL PLAYED BALL GAME.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE STATS CHARLTON, 116, MARION COUNTY 27 IN RUSHING YARDS.
IT'S FAIRLY EVEN IN THE SCORE AND IN THE TOTAL YARDAGE AS WELL.
YEAH, IT IS.
AS YOU SAID BEFORE, WE THOUGHT WE'D SEE A HIGH-SCORING GAME INSTEAD, IT'S THE DEFENSE, I THOUGHT COACH, MCWHORTER WAS PERFECT.
HE REALLY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT ALL FITS.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, THAT DEFENSIVE FRONT FOR MARION COUNTY IS REALLY KILLING HIS GUYS UP.
FRONT CAN MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS HERE IN THE SECOND, HALF THE KEY.
AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED AS A BROADCASTER, THE THING THAT YOU NEED TO WATCH IS WATCH THE GUYS WITH THEIR HANDS ON THE GROUND.
THE SECOND HALF.
IF THEY MAINTAIN WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING, IT'S GONNA BE A TOUGH SLEDDING FOR BOTH OFFENSIVE SOLUTELY.
ABSOLUTELY.
ONE THING TO TO LOOKING AT THE HALFTIME STATS THERE ON THAT BOARD, NO PASSING YARDS FOR CHARLTON COUNTY ALL THEIR YARDS HAS BEEN ON THE GROUND OLD 49 THROUGH THE AIR WILL SEE IF THEY TRY TO MAKE THAT CHANGE IN THE SECOND HALF.
LITTLE SQUIB KICK GONNA BE PICKED UP AT THE 37-YARD LINE, MARION COUNTY WITH EXCELLENT FIELD POSITION TO START THE SECOND HALF HERE LARRY AND THAT'S ONE THING YOU REALLY WANT IS THAT GOOD FIELD POSITION TO START THE SECOND HALF.
I THINK COACH SWANEY WAS REALLY PLEASED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO RECEIVE THE SECOND HALF KICKOFF TIED THREE TO THREE.
YEAH ABSOLUTELY.
AND AGAIN THE MOMENTUM THEIR OFFENSE HAD GOT NOTHING GOING THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF UNTIL THAT FINAL DRIVE AND HE TOOK IT DOWN.
JUSTIN WE SENT ME NEEDED A BIG PLAY.
THEY GOT IT THERE BY THE YOUNG MAN AT NUMBER 14, MAKING THE GREAT PLAY A TRACE SWANSON THAT WE SAW THERE.
AND YOU'RE, THERE ARE NOW IN BUSINESS FIRST AND TEN, AND IT'S A TIE GAME MAKER.
GONNA GET TO ROYAL, WHO'S GOING TO BE CHASED AND CAUGHT ENTHRONED.
NO GAIN, ACTUALLY ON THE PLAY, GOOD MOVEMENT ON THAT.
LEFT HAND SIDE.
THOSE DOWN LINEMEN THOSE THREE INSIDE DOWN LINEMAN FOR CHARLTON.
COUNTY ARE SPECIAL PLAYERS.
WATCH EM.
WATCH HOW THEY MOVE EITHER LEFT OR RIGHT.
THESE ARE GUYS, FOLKS, AND THEY'RE JUST RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE OUT THERE WHILE I PRESS THROUGH THAT PURSUITS.
HE OUR GIRLS AND OUR 55, HE'S ONLY A SOPHOMORE IN ITS IS ONE OF A COUPLE OF SOPHOMORES, AND I'M MICHAEL DASHER, AS WELL, NUMBER 65.
BUT YOU'RE RIGHT.
NOT ONLY THAT THE GREAT THROUGH THAT THE BLOCK, BUT THE PURSUIT AND THE LATERAL MOVEMENT OF FEET TO STAY WITH THE PLAY.
AND AGAIN, NO GAIN ON.
THE PLAY ROYAL HAS A TARGET ON HIS BACK NUMBER 8, BUT HERE'S THE GUY THAT'S GOT TO MAKE THE PLAYS FOR MARION SMOTHERS HAS GOT TO MAKE THE BIG PLAYS.
LEFT SIDE AND NOT MUCH THERE.
SMOTHERS.
COULDN'T GET IT GOING.
GOT HIT IN THE BACKFIELD.
IT'S EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.
LIKE COACH MAC SAID, VERY FEW RUNNING BACKS ARE REALLY GOOD WITH NO BLOCKING.
THEY REALLY ARE.
THAT WAS ANOTHER BIG PLAY THERE.
NUMBER 52 WILL GOWEN THE SENIOR AGAIN, GETTING IN THE BACKFIELD RIGHT FOOT MOVEMENT BY BOTH THESE DEFENSIVE LINES TO 70 TO 50 TO 70 THE DOWNED THREE LINE.
THOSE LINEBACKERS ARE TALL AND CAN RUN TICKET GONNA THROW INCOMPLETE UP FOR THE, ABOUT THE 45?
EXCELLENT COVERAGE OUT THERE BY CHARLTON COUNTY.
YET AGAIN, THAT'S KURT NIXON NUMBER 19. WHO DID A NUMBER OF GREAT PLACE FOR THE INDIANS ON BOTH ENDS, WELL-TIMED, PLAY TO BREAK THAT UP AND PASS INTENDED FOR SMOTHERS.
AND AGAIN, CHARLTON COUNTY, REALLY.
KEEPING HIM OUTSIDE OF A COUPLE OF NIGHTS.
RUNS FOUR, FIRST DOWNS IN THE SECOND QUARTER GRILL.
HE KEPT SOME OTHERS AND CHECK ON OFFENSE IF THEY'RE MARION COUNTY.
THAT'S NOT THE SERIES YOU WANTED.
IF YOU'RE CHARLTON, THAT'S THE PERFECT SERIES.
THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF THE SECOND HALF DEADLY YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL.
BUMPS GONNA GO BACK TO THE 20 YARD LINE WHERE CHARLTON COUNTY WILL TAKE OVER WELDS WITH A 43-YARD KICK.
HE HAS DEFINITELY HE'S REALLY A BUT HE IS DEFINITELY A WEAPON.
THE GUY TO WATCH AGAIN THERE.
IT'S THERE'S WE SEE A J WELLS POINTING THE CAMERA.
HE LIKES THAT.
HERE'S LADY SENIOR.
YEAH.
AND LEE SAYS, OKAY IT'S CAMERA TIME NOW FOR ME.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THAT'S RIGHT.
A HUNDRED YARDS, VERY EARLY IN THIS GAME, EARLY IN THE SECOND QUARTER, BUT IT HELD IN CHECK FOR THE MOST PART.
LET'S SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO TO GET THE BALL IN HIS HANDS AND OPEN SPACES.
19 CARROTS, 110 YARDS.
GOT A NICE LITTLE MOVE OFF THE LEFT SIDE.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE CAUGHT AND THROWN AFTER A GAIN OF ONLY A COUPLE THERE, THOSE ACTIVE FOUR DOWN LINEMEN AND MR. SMOTHERS COMES UP FROM THE SECONDARY TO MAKE THE STOCK AS MOTHERS ARE BRANDON, GREEN AS WELL.
BUT THEY GO AGAIN, THE AWAY FROM THE STRENGTH OF THAT LINE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE LINE, SPEND MOVE HERE TO TRY TO BREAK AWAY FROM ONE TACKLE.
BUT AGAIN, THE GREAT PURSUIT, AS YOU MENTIONED IN THE FIRST HALF GANG, TACKLING GREAT PURSUIT OF THE BALL VERY WELL COACHED DEFENSE FOUR-MAN FRONT AND THEY ARE FLIP-FLOPPING.
THE TACKLES AND THE ENDS.
WRONG SIDE, WEAK SIDE, HASH MARK LEFT HASH MARK, RIGHT?
PISTOL FORMATION TWO WIDES RIGHT?
ONE TO THE LEFT.
WHOOPS, WRONG WAY MIGHT BE THE BEST PLACE SO FAR IN THE SECOND HALF HARRINGTON AND POLLY WAS NOT THERE, BUT IT WORKED.
HEY, THEY CALL THAT THE NAKED BOOTLEG.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THAT'S RIGHT.
ONE MORE LOOK AT THIS.
WHOOPS, THE SECOND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED.
THE LAST TIME HE WENT THE OTHER WAY, HARRINGTON LOOKED LEFT AND LEE WENT RIGHT?
THIS TIME THEY WERE REVERSED IT BUT IT THE DIFFERENCE THIS TIME WAS HE ACTUALLY I WAS ABLE TO MAKE SOME POSITIVE YARDAGE AND CREATE A THIRD AND SHORT SITUATION FOR CHARLTON, COUNTY.
HEY, LET'S RUN IT AGAIN.
THAT'S RIGHT, THE BACKERS WENT AWAY, THE BACK THERE, READING LIE, SO MAYBE THEY NEED TO RUN THAT AGAIN.
I KNOW THAT WAS NOT PLANNED THIRD AND SHORT AT THE 29, ARRINGTON GIVES TO LIE, NOT GONNA GET THERE AT MARION COUNTY FRONT, JUST REALLY PUSHING AND SHOVING.
THESE TWO LINES, THE OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE LINES OF CHARLESTON.
AND MARIAN ARE REALLY GETTING AFTER.
WATCH THIS, PHYSICAL BATTLE UP INSIDE HERE.
THIS IS JUST DESIRE RIGHT HERE.
AGAIN THE GREAT SEARCH COUNT THE RED SHIRTS, ALL RIGHT THERE AT THE POINT OF CONTACT, BY THE TIME HE FINDS THE HOLE, IT'S ALREADY SWALLOWED UP BY THE THIS MARION COUNTY DEFENSE.
YOU KNOW, THE COACHES WERE SAYING THAT THESE TEAMS OF PLAYERS FROM BOTH TEAMS WERE TWEETING AT EACH OTHER ALL WEEK.
JUST SOME FRIENDLY COMPETITION.
NOTHING NASTY, BUT CERTAINLY, AGAIN, YOU GET TO THIS LEVEL, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S ON THE LINE PLAYING FOR PRIDE.
MUCH MORE MEREDITH.
IT'S A LOT OF GREAT AFTER THE ALL MARION COUNTY, REMINDING THEM OF WHAT THEY DID TO HIM LAST YEAR AND CHARLTON COUNTY.
REMINDING THEM OF WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO TO THEM THIS YEAR.
GOT A WHISTLE AND A TIMEOUT CHARLTON.
COUNTY GOING TO HAVE TO CALL A TIMEOUT HERE, OBVIOUSLY NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ON THE FIELD.
MARION COUNTY HAS BEEN TO THE PLAYOFFS FOUR TIMES.
AND HERE'S THE WAY IT LOOKS 34.
27, THAT WAS THEIR FIRST ONE CLENCHED WINS.
THAT ONE ECI.
A VERY GOOD TEAM THAT WON A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HERE.
BE THEM 10:31.
THEN THEY LOST TO BREMEN, ANOTHER, VERY GOOD FOOTBALL, TEAM AND A HEARTBREAKER, 10 TO 7 AND THEN WILCOX COUNTY.
WE KNOW ABOUT ALL THOSE ATHLETES AT WILCOX, COUNTY DOWN IN ROCHELLE AND THAT AREA 39:21.
THE FINAL THEY'RE CHARLTON COUNTY.
HERE'S THE WAY THEY HAVE DONE OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, LOSING TO A VERY GOOD FITZGERALD.
TEAM 39.
27 BACK WHEN THEY WERE DOUBLE A AS WELL AS LOVE IT.
35 232 SAVANNAH.
CHRISTIAN GOT THEM PRETTY GOOD 37 26 PRINCE AVENUE, BEAT THEM, 21, 23 BACK IN AN 11.
AND THEN LAST YEAR, 31 TO 12 MARION COUNTY AND THAT WAS WHAT ALL THE TWEETING WAS ABOUT OVER THE PAST WEEK.
31 TO 12.
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE THESE TWO TEAMS, NOT SCORING MORE POINTS THAN THEY HAVE.
BUT THESE DEFENSIVE LINEMAN HAVE BROUGHT THEIR LUNCH PAILS TO THE DOME, AND HAVE GONE TO WORK.
HARRINGTON KICK AGAIN, GOOD SNAP.
HI, GET OUT OF THE BACK AT THE 37-YARD LINE, 34 YARD KICK, BUT IT WAS PROBABLY 50 YARDS UP IN THE AIR.
NICE WITH GOOD COVERAGE.
KICKED THAT TIME.
AND MARION COUNTY.
ONCE MORE, NEITHER OFFENSE HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD OTHER THAN ONE OR TWO REALLY BIG PLAYS LARRY.
YEAH, IT REALLY IS.
YOU'RE RIGHT.
WE SAW THAT AGAIN THE BIG CATCH.
WE SAW THERE IN THE RESET OF THE TOP OF THE SECOND HALF HERE, THE BIG CATCH AND RUN BY SWANSON.
WAS THERE A BIG PLAY?
LEE?
HAD A COUPLE OF BIG PLAYS FOR CHARLTON COUNTY BUT OTHERWISE IT IT'S BEEN DEFENSE ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND WE CAN'T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THIS AGAIN THAT THE BATTLE ON THE ALONG THIS LINE IS LOGAN IMPRESSIVE TO WATCH FIVE MAN FROM FOR CHARLTON COUNTY AND IT.
THEY GIVE IT TO SMOTHERS.
CHARLESTON COUNTY GONNA KNOCK HIM DOWN UP THERE?
THOSE LINEBACKERS ARE REALLY GETTING ACTIVE, THEY REALLY ARE, THAT'S JULIAN ROBERTS, NUMBER NINE, THE CORNERBACK COMING UP, AND JUST AGAIN, MAKING THE BIG RUN RIGHT HERE KING ON SMOTHERS AND KIND OF WATCH AND SEE IF THERE'S THEY'VE GOT KIND OF A ROLL OVER THERE, JUST WATCHING TRAILING HIM ONLY YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT ROYAL WITH ALL THE GARBAGE THAT ROYAL HAS AMASSED THROUGH THE SEASON, YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THEY'D BE LOOKING AT NUMBER 8, ROYAL WOULDN'T YOU THINK THAT YOU WOULD THINK THAT BUT JUST 10 YARDS ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW.
HE HAS NOT BEEN A FACTOR.
THIS GAME FAKE DOING THE GONNA THROW EDGAR, GOT A MAN OUT THERE.
COMPLETE 33-YARD LINE, NICE THROW BY MR. ECKHART HAD TIME AND REALLY THREW A BULLET RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD, BAKER ON THE RECEPTION 32 YARDS.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS REALLY IMPRESSIVE RIGHT THERE.
ECKERT AGAIN ONE OF THE MORE RELAXED.
PROBABLY HIS MOST RELAXED, THROW HIS HEAD THIS ENTIRE GAME.
GAME NICE TIMING RIGHT THERE IN THE PLAY, GREAT PLAY BY BAKER AS YOU MENTIONED.
I COULD EXCITED ABOUT IT AND I DON'T BLAME HIM.
IF I'M A QUARTERBACK.
I'M THRILLED WITH THAT.
FOR SURE.
34-YARD BULLET STILL GOOD COVERAGE IN THE SECONDARY BY CHARLATAN HAD THE THREAD THE NEEDLE IN.
DID THAT?
YEP.
ROBERTS DID A GREAT JOB AND NOW MARRIED TALK ABOUT IT.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO TO BE ABLE TO RUN THE BALL.
THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO THAT TO RUN THE BALL.
THEY GOT A THROW AND GOTTA THROW IN THESE UNUSUAL SITUATIONS.
NICE, THROW BY ECKERD.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO MARION COUNTY THIS YEAR.
TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THESE.
THEY LOST A HAWKINSVILLE BACK ON NOVEMBER.
THE FIRST 9:46 THEY STILL WON THE REGION.
THEN THEY HAD A REMATCH WITH HAWKINSVILLE.
LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED.
ON THE 6TH OF DECEMBER, 42 7, WOULD YOU CALL THAT AVENGING A LOSS?
OH, JUST A LITTLE BIT.
OH, ABSOLUTELY.
SURE ALTON COUNTY, 9 AND 4.
BUT LOOK AT SOME OF THE PEOPLE THEY PLAYED FIVE, A WARE COUNTY TO A FITZGERALD, CLINCH COUNTY WHO IS VERY GOOD IN REGION 2, IRWIN COUNTY 2926.
LOOK WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK THEY AVENGE THAT IRWIN COUNTY LOSS BLOCKING AN EXTRA POINT IN THE LAST FEW.
ENDS OF THE GAME 3433 KNOW.
AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT IT.
IT'S WHY I LOVE TOURNAMENTS.
WE TALK TO YOU.
AND I HAVE TALKED BEFORE ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENTS, HIGH SCHOOL, PLAYOFFS HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS, THESE TWO COACHES GREAT SEASONS.
THEY HAD SPECIAL SPECIAL PEOPLE TO COACH.
THEY ARE LOOK LIKE SOMEBODY JUMPED BUT NOW INCOMPLETE PASS.
ECKHART DOWN THERE ON THAT PREVIOUS SHOT.
I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING.
HOW RELAXED COACH RICH?
MAKE WATER LOOKED AT HOW COACH SWANEY WAS WALKING?
THE SIDELINES, WHAT A DIFFERENCE?
HECKERT, LOOKING TO THROW.
GOT A MAN OUT THERE HAD HIM OUT THERE WIDE OPEN.
NO, HE KNEW THAT WAS A PLAY.
THEY CALLED UP AGAIN, TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN RIGHT THERE.
LOOKING FOR JACOB.
DIXON COMING OUT OF THE BACKFIELD FOR MARION COUNTY GUILT.
I LIKE THAT PLAY CALL.
EXCELLENT.
YEAH, YOU KNOW, WHY NOT TAKE A SHOT OUT AT YOUR, RIGHT?
YOU GOT TO GET THE PASS GOING TO OPEN UP THE RUN GAME.
NOW, I'M HVAC SAID, FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN THAT TODAY GOT A LITTLE TRAP UP THE MIDDLE, AND HE MISSED THE WHOLE WITH THE WRONG.
RIGHT?
DID ROYAL ACTIVE LINEBACKERS UP THERE?
WATCH THE HOLE OPEN TO THE RIGHT AND HE WENT TO THE LEFT SHOULD HAVE SLID TO THE RIGHT.
OF COURSE, IT'S EASY TO SAY THIS FROM THE PRESS BOX.
WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A BALL IN YOUR HAND, LARRY, WE ALWAYS MAKE THE PERFECT CALL.
SURE AFTERWARDS, RIGHT?
THAT IS EXACTLY, RIGHT.
THIRD DOWN AND 10 DOWN AT THE 31 AND YOU GOT TO REMEMBER NOW, WELLS IS STILL A WEAPON FROM RIGHT HERE.
ECKERD DROPPING THE THROW ROLLING LOOKING IN TROUBLE AND GOT TO BE BROUGHT DOWN AT THE 30.
FOR, IF THEY DO IT FROM HERE, I DON'T KNOW THAT HE CAN KICK IT FROM HERE.
KENNY, NOT SURE.
HE HAS, HE MISSED ONE EARLIER, FROM 49.
HIS LONG ON THE YEAR HAS 47.
THIS IS BIG WATCH ANTHONY JACKSON.
AGAIN, THE GREAT PURSUIT MIGHT NOT BUY JUST ONE, IT'S A BIG LINEMEN OUT THERE.
NUMBER 52, WILL GALLON AT 270 POUNDS.
CHASING HIM DOWN.
JACKSON, FINALLY, CATCH THEM.
THEY'RE THE 64 SOPHOMORE LINEBACKER.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE GOOD SPEED, BUT THE KEY IS THAT I THAT MY BECAUSE THEY LOSE FOUR YARDS ON THAT, THAT MIGHT HAVE TAKEN THEM OUT OF FIELD GOAL, RANGE, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THAT.
YES, IT'S COMING WELLS HUNTING INSTEAD.
YEAH, HE'S HE'S CHECKING OFF HOW FAR IT IS.
OBVIOUSLY HE KNOWS HOW LONG HE NEEDS TO CUT THE BALL.
HE'S STANDING BACK AT THE 48.
GOOD SNAP.
WATCH THIS NICE LITTLE KICK GOING TO BOUNCE IT OUT OF BOUNDS INSIDE.
LOOK AT THIS, LOOK AT THIS.
LOOK AT THAT.
WHAT A GREAT KICK.
WHAT A GREAT KICKER CHARLTON.
COUNTY, THREE MARION COUNTY THREE.
WE'VE GOT US SOME NICE LITTLE PHYSICAL AFFAIR IN THE GEORGIA DOME.
WE'LL BE BACK WITH MORE AFTER THIS.
THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS HAVEN'T BEEN VERY ACTIVE LATELY BUT BECAUSE OF BUSINESS PEOPLE, LIKE YOU THINGS ARE BEGINNING TO GET RUNNING AND REGIONS IS HERE TO HELP MAKING IT EASIER WITH THE EXPERTISE AND SERVICE TO KEEP THOSE WHEELS.
TURNING FROM BUSINESS LOANS TO CASH MANAGEMENT.
WE WANT TO BE A PARTNER MOVING FORWARD.
LET'S GET GOING TOGETHER.
LET'S GO DOWN TO THE SIDELINES.
HERE'S THE GRACE OLSON.
GRACE, THANK YOU, MARY ENCOUNTERS, COUNTIES KICKER, AJ WELLS IS QUITE A THREAT ON THE FIELD, NOT JUST IN THE KICKING GAME, BUT ALSO AS A PUNTER HIS LONGEST OF THE YEAR WAS A 47-YARD.
ER, LIKE TOMMY SAID EARLIER THIS IS A PLAYER-COACH.
REPORTER TOLD ME HE WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT COMING INTO THE DOME TODAY.
HIS MOM JUST SHOW ME A PHOTO ACTUALLY.
I'VE BEEN WHEN HE WAS ON THE BEACH WHEN HE WAS VERY LITTLE, GET A HUGE FOOT.
YOU COULD SEE IT IN THAT PHOTO AND THEY LOOK BACK AT THAT PHOTO.
NOW AND SAY WOW, I GUESS THIS WAS A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME, HE'S SHOWING HOW THAT FOOT REALLY HELPS HIM OUT ON THE FIELD TODAY AND WE'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, THIS GAME HAS COME DOWN TO THOSE FIELD GOALS.
SO WE'LL SEE IF IT COMES DOWN TO THAT.
ALSO AT THE END, BACK TO YOU GUYS UP IN THE BOOTH.
THANK YOU GRACE.
HE IS DEFINITELY A WEAPON.
HE IS REALLY A WEAPON, DON'T YOU THINK LEHREN WHY DO I KNOW HE'S GOING TO MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE NEXT YEAR, AS WE MENTIONED, JUST OUTSTANDING GREAT LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE TALKED ABOUT TO WINNING ONE OF A ATLANTA FALCONS CAPTAIN IN THE COMMUNITY WEEKLY AWARDS DURING THE SEASON.
HE'S UP FOR EVERYTHING.
YEAR AWARD AS WELL.
AND THAT WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER TODAY.
JUST AN OUTSTANDING TALENT, ALL THE WAY AROUND A COACH WITH WATER SAID, HEY, THIS MAY BE A KICKING GAME.
IT COMES DOWN TO IT AND THEY'VE GOT ONE HECK OF A WEAPON OVER THERE.
IF IT DOES COME DOWN TO THIS, IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, SURE DO.
FIRST DOWN FROM THE SHADOW OF THE GOAL, POST HERONS AND BRINGS THEM UP TO WIVES TO THE RIGHT.
ONE WIDE RECEIVER TO THE LEFT, THEY'LL THROW FROM ANYWHERE GIBB TO JUST OUTSIDE THE GOAL LINE.
WHOA!
NOT A PLACE TO TRIP AND FALL THERE BUT WATCH THE MARION COUNTY FRONT FOR ON THIS.
THEY'RE REALLY GOING TO PIN THEIR EARS BACK NOW.
YEAH THIS IS WATCH THIS.
HE BARELY GETS OUT OF THE END ZONE.
RIGHT HERE COMIC STRIPS A LITTLE BIT.
HE TRIPPED AND FELL OVER THE GOAL LINE.
AND FACT I'M NOT SURE, HIS KNEE DIDN'T GO DOWN BEFORE HIM AND THE END ZONE.
BUT AGAIN, THE BALL WAS ACROSS THE PLANE WHICH IS WHY IT IS PINNED UP SO SNUGGLY ON ABOUT THE SIX-INCH LINE RIGHT THERE.
LEE 22 CARRIES 112 YARDS.
405 LEFT IN THE THIRD QUARTER.
TIE GAME AT THREE HARRINGTON BARKING SIGNALS LOOKING DROPPED IT.
I'M NOT SURE WHO GOT IT SAFETY.
THAT'S A BIG PLAY RIGHT THERE.
QUANTAS FREQUENTLY CALLED HIS NAME SO MANY TIMES AND THEN A LOW SCORING GAME, WHAT A BIG PLAY THAT IS FITTING THAT THE DEFENSE WILL MAKE A SCORE FUMBLE THERE ON THE SNAP.
A HARRINGTON COULDN'T HANG ON TO IT.
IT WAS ALMOST A TOUCHDOWN BUT HE SLID OUT OF BOUNDS WATCH ALL OF THE FOR THEY PIN THEIR EARS BACK AND REALLY COME INTO THE ENDZONE.
HARD LOOK AT BIG GUY, QANTAS FREEMAN.
LOOK AT HIM.
HE'S THINKING BALL THE WHOLE WAY.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT ALL THAT OTHER STEP THAT'S THE BALL.
THIS IS COACH SO NICE.
WHY ME?
HE'S SIGNALING TOUCHDOWN, BUT I THINK HE'LL TAKE THE SAFETY HERE AND A TWO POINT LEAD AND WE'LL GET THE BALL BACK.
ABSOLUTELY QUANTAS FREEMAN, 6 FOOT 200 POUND THE OFFENSIVE END.
YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE DON'T DO REPLAY.
I'M NOT SURE THAT WASN'T A TOUCHDOWN LOOKING AT IT, IN TERMS OF JUMPING.
JUMPING ON THE BALL.
YEAH, I THINK HE, HE JUMPED ON IT AND YOU LOOK BACK NOW.
BUT IF WE GOT AN A J WELLS, ABSOLUTELY, IT WAS HIS PUNT THAT CREATED THEM.
YES.
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
YOU DON'T HAVE MANY PLAYS IN YOUR ARSENAL WHEN YOU'RE SITTING FIRST AND GOAL AT THE ONE GOING, THE OTHER WAY HE FORCED.
BALL OUT OF THE END ZONE LINE.
YEAH.
AND THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S THE RIGHT CALL.
YEAH, THAT BOILED, HE'S JUST OBSERVING.
YOU KNOW WHEN YOU NEED ME CALL ME YANK I'M NOT UP HERE WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE THE BALL WHERE YOU WANT TO PUT?
I STILL WANT TO SEE HIM KICK A LONG FIELD GOAL BEFORE THE DAYS OVER AND WE MAKE IT THAT CHANCE.
THE WAY THIS GAME IS GOING TO DO DEFENSE IS PLAYING SO WELL TO THE 35 SMOTHERS TWISTING TURNING BACK IN THE CHARLTON COUNTY TERRITORY, DOWN AT THE 48.
IF YOU EVER HEAR THE WORD MOMENTUM, MARION COUNTY'S GOT IT RIGHT NOW.
SMOTHERS LOOKING FOR SOME ROOM.
FOUND A BIT AND MAKES SOMETHING OUT OF VERY LITTLE RIGHT THERE.
VERY IMPRESSIVE PLAYER.
NUMBER ONE SMOTHERS LIKE THIS GUY?
YEAH, I THINK HE'S GONNA BE THE KEY OFFENSIVELY IN THIS SECOND HALF, I REALLY DO.
THEY'VE SHUT, OIL DOWN SMOTHERS IS THE LOAD IS ON HIM.
I THINK I AGREE.
I AGREE.
LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS HERE IN MARION COUNTY LEADS 5 TO 3.
THERE GOES SMOTHERS DOWN INSIDE THE MID STRIPE OVER TO THE 46 YARD LINE, GAIN OF ONLY A COUPLE.
THESE TWO DEFENSES ARE VERY PROUD DEFENSES.
THE THING THAT IS AMAZING IS TO LOOK BACK AT THEIR SCORES ON THE YEAR AND SEE HOW MANY POINTS THEY BOTH HAVE GIVEN UP TWO OTHER TEAMS AND HOW MANY THEY'VE SCORED.
AND WE'RE SITTING HERE.
THREE MINUTES LEFT IN THE THIRD QUARTER AND IT'S 543 SOUNDS LIKE A BASEBALL GAME.
GAME, WE'RE PLAYING FOOTBALL, FOLKS.
THERE'S BEEN A SAFETY INVOLVED.
NO, NEED TO PANIC.
IT'LL GET BETTER.
THREE SETBACK, EDGAR.
THROW EM DOWN NEAR THE 30, AT THE 20.
THE DEFENSES ARE REALLY GETTING AFTER IT.
WHAT'S THIS?
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AGAIN, IT'S JUST NOT NOT MUCH REAL ESTATE THERE.
THAT WAS A VERY FIRST PLAY FROM SCRIMMAGE SMOTHERS WITH THE FUMBLE.
HE MAKES UP FOR WHAT A DEFENSE WITH A BIG INTERCEPTION ARE TO STOP AT CHARLTON, COUNTY DRIVE.
FUMBLE THERE, SACK HERE AND JUST AN OUTSTANDING AND PROBABLY, AGAIN, THE SAFETY.
IT'S BEEN A DEEP INTO GAME ON BOTH ENDS.
THE EXCITING IF YOU WANT, ROCK'EM SOCK'EM FOOTBALL, YOUR LOVING THIS.
WE'RE HAVING A GOOD TIME.
POWER ON POWER.
I LOVE IT.
YEAH, IT IS.
PECKER LOOKING THROWING OVER SHOOTS HIM AGAIN OVER AT THE 30.
DO YOU THINK THEY'VE GIVEN UP ON THE RUN GAME?
NO, I, I THINK THAT REALLY, WHAT THAT THE BIG PAST THEY'VE HAD.
THEY'VE HAD TWO NICE PASS PLAYS AND I THINK WHAT THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ESTABLISH THAT TO GET THE RUN OPEN RUNNING GAME OPEN AGAIN, BECAUSE IT JUST HASN'T BEEN ANYTHING THERE WITH AGAIN, THE CARLTON COUNTING FRONT SEVEN, BUT FOURTH DOWN, AND ONCE AGAIN, NOW YOU'VE GOT A PUNCH BOY.
IT'S YES, HE IS.
THE BEST WHEREVER THEY'RE AT.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THAT'S RIGHT.
IT'S JUST BEEN TOUGH FOR EITHER ONE OF THESE TEAMS TO REALLY SUSTAIN ANY KIND OF DRIVE.
IT'S BEEN REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT, CHARLTON COUNTY.
HE'S GOT NOTHING GOING ON SINCE THE OPENING DRIVE AND THEY GOT THEM, THEIR ONLY FILMING WELLS AT THE 40.
GOOD PROTECTION.
WOW.
HOWITZER SHOT.
YOU NEED TO CATCH A CUZ HE'S GOTTA BACK IT UP TO THE 7.
UNBELIEVABLE, LOOK AT HIM.
THIS KID IS GOING TO BE GREAT AT THE NEXT LEVEL.
YEAH, HE CERTAINLY IS AND IT WAS AMAZING, VERY TELLING TO KIND OF, LOOK AT LOOK AT KURT NIXON.
THE RETURN OF NO WATCH THIS THE PUN HERE.
NOW, WATCH NIXON.
THE RETURNER NUMBER 19, HE'S GOT A GAMBLE.
HE SEES WHERE IT'S GOING TO LAND.
HE SAYS, WELL, IT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE END ZONE AND IT TAKES HER ON BOUNCE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS AND I SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT, BUT LOOK AT WELLS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I'LL GO OVER AND HAVE A SEAT.
CALL ME IF YOU NEED ME.
THAT'S RIGHT.
BUT HE'LL GET SOME HIGH FIVES ON THE OUTLINE WHAT A NICE YOUNG MAN.
HERE'S CHARLTON.
PISTOL FORMATION FROM THE SHADOW OF THE GULF COAST LEAGUE NOTHING THERE BLEEP POTS.
HIS WIFE FORWARD FOR MAYBE A COUPLE OF YARDS.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THERE.
THOSE FOUR WITH THEIR HANDS ON THE GROUND WEARING RED ARE HAVING A GOOD DAY TODAY.
THEY'RE GETTING MUGGED BUT IT'S NOT MAKING MUCH DIFFERENCE.
REALLY LARRY.
NO IT'S NOT FREEMAN'S IN THEIR GREAT CAMERA WORK.
BY THE WAY OF OUR CAMERA CREW CAMERON COX, NUMBER 75 ALSO WAS RIGHT THERE, THAT WAS A GREAT LOW ANGLE SEE WE GET A CHANCE TO SEE WHAT ANDREW LEAVES LOOKING AT NOTHING.
BUT A SEA OF RED IN FRONT OF HIM.
EVERY TIME HE GETS THE BALL, WATCH THESE MUGGINGS THAT ARE GOING ON BETWEEN THESE TWO LINES OF SCRIMMAGE.
HARRINGTON DROPPING TO THROW, GOT A MAN OUT THERE AT THE 11-YARD LINE.
HARRINGTON'S JUST TRYING TO GET THE BALL OFF.
IT IS DANGEROUS BACK WHERE THEY'RE PLAYING THEY DON'T WANT ANYTHING BAD TO HAPPEN.
AGAIN.
I THINK THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE AND GET OUT OF THIS AND SWITCH THE FEEL A LITTLE BIT.
YEAH WE'RE LOOK AT THIS SKIRT NIXON'S.
THE INTENDED RECEIVER HE WAS THE GUY WHO WENT IN MOTION, I DON'T CARE FOR THIS PLAY BECAUSE IT FORCES YOU TO TURN AWAY FROM YOUR BODY OR MOMENTUM IS GOING ONE WAY.
YOU'VE GOT TO TURN THE OTHER WAY.
IT'S A REALLY HARD CATCH TO MAKE IT.
THE BALL IS NOT PERFECT.
RIGHT?
YOUR BREAD BASKET.
IT WINDS UP JUST LIKE THAT AND COMPLETE HARRINGTON HAVE ENOUGH.
TOUGH DAYS OVER 10 1, INTERCEPTION DIRECTING TRAFFIC, A LITTLE BIT DROPPING TO THROW.
GOTTA HURRY GOT A MAN OUT THERE COMPLETE OUT ABOUT THE 14 YARD LINE, BUT GOOD COVERAGE BY MARION COUNTY, JACOB DIXON ON THE COVERAGE.
NOW THAT'S A PLAY.
I LIKE BETTER WHERE AGAIN, YOU GET THE RECEIVER GOING IN MOTION, DIDN'T HAVE TO TURN HIS BODY AND CHANGE MOMENTUM HERE.
IT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR THE FIRST DOWN.
BUT AGAIN, I LIKE THAT THEY'RE DIXON'S ALL OVER.
I'M VERY GOOD DEFENSE.
BUT AGAIN, LOOK AT THE DEFENSIVE LINE.
IT'S HIS FIRST COMPLETION OF THE DAY, BUT HE REALLY HAD TO HURRY TO GET RID OF THAT BALL BEFORE THAT THE DEFENSE, GOT UP TO THE DEFENSIVE LINE THAT WAS CLOSING IN FAST NIXON ON THE CATCH, AND HE WAS THE SPEEDIEST RECEIVER THERE, TRYING TO GET HIM IN SPACE.
IT'S GOING TO BE FOURTH DOWN NOW AND FOR A MINUTE 14 AND HARRINGTON TAKES A SNAP GONNA KICK IT NICE KICK BY HARRINGTON AND GETS A GOOD CHARLTON.
COUNTY BOUNCE.
OH MAMA SMOTHERS PICKS IT UP, SMILE BACK TO NEAR MIDFIELD, JUST OVER THE 47, 50 YARD KICK, CHARLTON COUNTY OBVIOUSLY SAID, HEY, YOU BECOME A WEAPON AND HEARINGS AND DID YEAH, WATCH THIS PLAY.
YOU CAN SAY THIS KID.
DIDN'T EVEN HAVE HIS OWN DRIVER'S LICENSE YET, AND YET HE JUST CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE.
LOOK AT THIS.
YOU CAN SEE THE BALL HERE.
YOU CAN SEE HIM IF IT BOUNCES, IF IT BOUNCES.
AND YEP, I'M GONNA TAKE IT.
AND HE DID AND A NICE RETURN AND SEE MARION COUNTY CAN AGAIN.
CAPITALIZED.
AND AGAIN, TRY TO GET SOMETHING GOING ON OFFENSE AND COKE SWIMMING JUST SCREAMED ON THE SIDELINES.
DON'T TOUCH IT.
PROBABLY RIGHT BEFORE HE DID ECKERT THE QUARTERBACK BACK OF THE 41 WHISTLE.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT HE'S TELLING OCCURRED BUT HE SAID SOMETHING TO IT.
YEAH.
DID HE NOT WAIT FOR THE PLAY CLOCK?
POSSIBLY THINK WHAT IT WAS.
HE DID NOT ALLOW THE DEFENSE TO GET SUBSTITUTED.
MAYBE HE WAS HURRYING OR MAYBE HE SAID, YOU GOT TO GIVE THEM TIME TO GET SET.
I DON'T KNOW.
THEY'RE GETTING ANOTHER SHOT AND I DIDN'T SEE A FLAG AND THE FLAG FIRST AND TEN.
OKAY?
NO HARM.
NO FOUL.
FIRST DOWN 10 MARION COUNTY EAGLES REALLY KNOCKED OUT OF BOUNDS.
WELL BIG COLLISION, THAT'S MALIK BRUNSON.
257 JUNIOR ON THE CORNER MAKING THE TACKLE THERE AND AGAIN IT'S MOTHER'S 58.
THIS IS JUST TOO SHORT STOCKY BUT POWERFUL, OUR FOOTBALL PLAYERS.
LOOK, LOOK AT THAT.
AT.
GIVE ME A PLAY.
GIVE IT TO ROYAL NEXT TIME.
BOTH OF THESE TEAMS ARE THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE NOT LEAVING ANYTHING TO WAIT.
THEY'RE PUTTING IT ALL ON THE LINE HERE.
HERE'S ROYAL AT THE CORNER AND HE GETS WHACKED OUT OF BOUNDS.
LANCE THOMPSON, SENIOR 62 215, ANTHONY JACKSON 64.
210 TEVIS DASHER, 510, 185 ONE MORE.
LOOK AT THIS AGAIN, GOING OUTSIDE BECAUSE NEITHER TEAM CAN GET ANYTHING GOING IN BETWEEN THE TACKLES NOTHING CONSISTENTLY AND THIS GAME REALLY MAKE THEM DOWN TO AS WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER HERE.
THE TEAM THAT CAN PUT TOGETHER AN OFFENSIVE DRIVE, JUST ONE TO SCORE, MAY BE YOUR CHAMPION COULD BE LOOKY, GOT A LITTLE ANTSY THERE.
THAT'S MICHAEL THERE.
SURE, ISN'T IT?
ENCROACHMENT DEFENSE, FIVE -YARD, STILL FIRST DOWN.
LET'S SEE IF THIS IS A MAYBE THE QUARTERBACK THROWING OFF OF THIS CADENCE.
GROSS.
YEAH.
WHEN HE DROPPED HIS HAND?
YEP.
TO GET THE SNAP.
HE CHANGED SOMETHING FROM DASHER JUMPED ACROSS HACKER HANDS TO SMOTHER.
AND BEGRUDGINGLY, CHARLTON COUNTY GIVING UP A FEW YARDS HERE.
YEP.
YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE OF AGAIN THAT DRIVE AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF THAT WAS REALLY BUILT ON THAT ONE, BIG LONG PASSES, WE TAKE ONE MORE.
LOOK AT THIS MOTHER'S AGAIN, I'M OUTSIDE IN SPACE.
YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT WAS A GREAT MOVE.
THAT NUMBER 44, ANTHONY JACKSON GOT CAUGHT UP AND COULDN'T GET AROUND THE BLOCK TO GET TO HIM.
BUT THIS IS THE BEST DRIVE, THEY HAD THE ENTIRE GAME.
EXCEPT FOR AGAIN, THE ONE THAT AT THE END OF THE HALF OF IT, THE GUY ON THE FIELD GOAL SMOTHER IS NOT 11, CARRIES 467 YARDS AND WE SAID HE HAD TO BE THE ONE TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE TRAFFIC AND CHARLTON.
COUNTY'S DEFENSE, REALLY JUMPED UP IN THERE AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN.
MARION COUNTY, LEADING 523 A SAFETY, A FEW MINUTES AGO, AS WE RUN DOWN THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER HERE.
20 SECONDS LEFT, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IS GOING TO BE IN A HURRY COACH SWAIN.
HE'S JUST SAYING JUST STAY THERE, JUST STAY THERE.
LET'S RELAX, AND THAT'S THE FIRST TIME HE'S BEEN RELAXED TODAY THAT WE'VE SEEN HIM ON THE SIDEWALK.
WELL, HE'S GOT THE LEAD, ALBEIT TWO POINTS AND THE BALL.
GOOD PLACE TO BE.
YOU NEED TO FEEL GOOD.
THAT'S RIGHT.
HE'S GOT A PEP IN HIS STEP AS WE GO DOWN THE OTHER END FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER.
YES, HE DOES.
WE HAVE PLAYED THREE 12, MORE MINUTES FOR SOME REALLY TOUGH HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CLASS A PUBLIC SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP MARION COUNTY LEADS CHARLTON COUNTY BY TO FOURTH AND FINAL QUARTER.
RETURNS.
AFTER THIS TIMEOUT, YOU HAVE TO SEIZE ANY ADVANTAGE, YOU CAN GET TO BUILD A CAREER EVEN WHILE YOU'RE STILL OH, IN HIGH SCHOOL.
THAT'S WHY THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA OFFERS DUAL ENROLLMENT.
YOU EARN COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT AT THE SAME TIME.
SAVING YOU MONEY ON COLLEGE TUITION, IT'S ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.
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GOOD LUCK OPEN BEFORE.
AND AFTER THE GAME, IT'S CHURCHES WHERE YOU ALWAYS GET MORE.
DURING THIS PERFORMANCE, ONE STUDENT WILL DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
HIGH SCHOOL.
BE THERE FOR YOUR BIG FINISH.
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LET'S GO DOWN TO THE SIDELINES AND GRACE OLSON PINKY, TOMMY.
IT'S TIME TO REVEAL OUR TRIVIA WINNER AND OUR TRIVIA ANSWER.
CHARLTON COUNTY IS THE ONLY FOR LOST TEAM IN THE STATE FINALS THIS YEAR.
YEAR.
SO WE ASKED YOU WHAT WAS THE LAST FOUR LAST TEAM TO WIN A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
THE ANSWER THOMAS COUNTY CENTRAL, THEY WON THE 1992 3A TITLE THEY FINISH THE SEASON 10 AND 5, BUT THEY STARTED THE SEASON AT ONE IN FIVE, AND AT, FOR A LITTLE EXTRA BIT OF HISTORY IN 1965.
WEST, ROME WAS 75 AND ONE, AND THEY WON THE 2A TITLE WHEN THEY STARTED THE YEAR WITH NO WINS, 3 LOSSES, AND 1 TIE.
SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA HISTORY FOR YOUR BOOKS.
LISTEN TO BACK UP TO TOM, BUT BEFORE I DO THAT, WE NEED TO REVEAL OUR TRIVIA WINNER, DALE CRANBERRY, YOU'RE OUR WINNER FOR THE DAY, SO I'M GOING TO SEND YOU THAT YOU COULD BE FOOTBALL.
FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA TEACHERS.
THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN TRIVIA IS A LOT OF FUN, BACK UP TO TOMMY.
THANK YOU, GRACE, MARION COUNTY'S.
GOT IT GOING THERE IN HIGH GEAR.
NOW, FOR PLAYS IN THE LAST 55 SECONDS AND THAT INCLUDED A PENALTY.
THEY'VE GOT IT.
THEY'VE GOT THE PEDAL TO THE METAL AS WE SAY.
YEAH, THEY DO.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
A VERY LOW-SCORING GAME LIKE THIS THAT THEY CAN FIND.
THE END ZONE HERE.
THIS COULD BE VERY TOUGH FOR CHARLTON COUNTY TO COME BACK FROM 12 FEET UP, SAKURA LOOKING TO THROW GOT HIM OUT THERE.
OVER SHOOTS HIM AGAIN.
THEY'VE HAD THE OPEN RECEIVERS ECKERT'S, JUST A LITTLE STRONG, AS A GOOD WAY TO PUT IT.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THAT'S RIGHT, COACH SWANEY.
REALLY LOVES HIS KID THOUGH SINCE HE'S REALLY A TOUGH NOSE KID.
AS YOU MENTIONED, HE GIVES HIM TO PLACE.
EACH TIME HE RUNS YOU SEE HIM RUNNING IT OUT, RUNNING BACK IN THE RUNNING OUT, RUNNING BACK IN AS WE JOKED HE'S THE HE'S THE MARATHON MAN.
HE REALLY DOES WELL BECAUSE HE JUDGES THE GAME.
WELL, THAT'S THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT FROM A QUARTERBACK.
YOU WANT TO MANAGE THE GAME?
HE'S ONLY 3 OR 14400, BUT GUESS WHO'S AHEAD?
THAT'S THE WAY YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT.
ANCHOR DROPPING THE THROW.
MR. SMOTHERS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, 22-YARD TOUCHDOWN STRUCK TOMMY.
HERE'S THE DIFFERENCE, HE'S PLATED THAT'S THE FIRST TIME THIS IN THIS GAME AND THE PASTY SHOWED THEIR TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA.
TOUCHDOWN REPLAY LOOK AT MR. SMOTHERS.
HE MADE THE BREAK AND WE SEARCHED.
HE HAD TO BE THE GUY AND HE WAS EXTRA POINT.
ATTEMPT IS UP AND GOOD BY AJ WELLS.
IT'S 2:48 MARION COUNTY WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE DRIVE BY MARION COUNTY.
LET'S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AND JUST WATCH THIS MUSICALS RIGHT NOW, BUT SEE, HE WAITS THE EXTRA SECOND THAT ALLOWS SMOTHERS TO GET OPEN.
THE ALLOWS THE BREAK TO HAPPEN.
WE TAKE ONE MORE.
LOOK AT THIS AGAIN ONCE AN EFFORT TO WATCH SMOTHERS TURN AROUND.
YEAH.
ACCURATE JUST JUST GOT COMPLETELY.
WATCH THIS THE END OF THE PLAY.
HE GETS POPPED PRETTY GOOD RIGHT THERE.
WOW I DIDN'T CATCH THE NAME OF THAT TRAIN BUT YOU KNOW WHATEVER DECKER DIDN'T EITHER TOUCHDOWN YES SIR COACH SWEATY ENJOYED THAT DRIVE?
YES HE DID.
HE'S PACING A LITTLE BIT BUT IT'S WITH A LITTLE MORE ENTHUSIASM THAN I WAS BEFORE I TELL YOU.
HE'S BEEN SOME SIX PLAYS 53 YARDS.
TIME OF POSSESSION 108.
THERE'S STILL 1147.
LIFT.
TCSG SCORING DRIVE SIX PLAYS 53 YARDS.
TIME OF POSSESSION.
108.
I TELL YOU THAT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE DRIVE AND MR. ECKHART.
HE TOOK A SHOT, BUT WOW, HE HUNG IN THERE, HE DID AND WE TALKED ABOUT AGAIN, THE FIRST HALF THIS OFFENSE, ESPECIALLY REALLY SEEM LIKE IT HAD A LOT OF JITTERS.
YOU NEED TO SETTLE DOWN.
THEY'VE DONE, ON THAT.
NOW, HERE EARLY IN THE FOURTH QUARTER WELL IT'S GOING TO KICK IT OFF.
WOW, LOOK AT THAT.
DRIVING KICK AJ WELLS.
LET'S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AND WATCH SMOTHERS GET, TURNED AROUND.
AND WE HAVE THE RIGHT VIEW HERE.
WHAT'S MOTHER'S WHEN HE COMES RIGHT?
PAST THE IN HERE WATCHING, TURN THE OTHER WAY.
NICE FOOTWORK BY SMOTHERS.
WELL, HE'S ABLE TO AGAIN BECAUSE ECKERT WAITED, HE'S ABLE TO LOOK UP AND FIND THE BALL.
THE RECEIVERS RIGHT NOW.
BY THE TIME THEY TURN TO LOOK FOR THE BALL, IT'S ONLY IN THE PAST ECKHART, HE WAITED FOR THE PLANET DEVELOPED, IT UP.
LET YOUR PLAYMAKERS GO AND GET THE BALL TOUCHDOWN.
YOU'VE GOT A NICE LEAD RIGHT NOW.
THE EARLY IN THE 4TH AT 11 :47 LEFT CHARLTON.
COUNTY'S, GOT TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN HERE.
HARRINGTON BRINGS THEM UP THREE WIVES MARION COUNTY AND THAT FULL MAN, PROBABLY GONNA BREAK TO THE COURTLY.
GOT A BLOCK AT THE CORNER AND LEAVE, GET SOME GOOD YARDAGE RIPPING ACROSS THAT LEFT SIDE.
YOU KNOW, SOMETHING IT'S INTERESTING IS TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AS LIE AGAIN GOALS AND OUTSIDE MARION COUNTY, WE SAW ON THEIR LAST DRIVE, RIGHT THERE, IT'S A GOOD SEAL, THERE IS A NUMBER 70 COULDN'T QUITE GET A HOLD OF HIM, THAT'S QUANTAS.
FREEMAN CALLED HIS NAME SEVERAL TIMES.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, WE SAW MARION COUNTY GO AROUND THE LEFT AND TO GET THEIR RUNNING GAME GOING AND ON THAT DRIVE.
IRONICALLY CHARLTON COUNTY STARTS THEIR DRIVE THE SAME WAY ON FIRST DOWN, HE GETS A NICE GAIN OUT OF IT.
SECOND AND FOUR, LAY 24 CARRIES 118 YARDS ON THE DAY HAS NOT HAD MUCH HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
LINEMAN FOR MARION IS GOING TO BE HIT IN THE BACKFIELD AT LINEBACKER.
NOBODY IS PICKING UP THE LINEBACKER FOR CHARLTON LINEBACKER.
NUMBER 32, TERRENCE RILEY.
REALLY GOING TO WORK, LOOK AT THIS GAP WHERE HE COMES THROUGH, HE DOESN'T GREAT JOB, JUST WHAT A LINEBACKER SHOULD READS.
IT SEES WHERE THE GAP IS WHAT'S THE BLOCKING SCHEME FOR THE OFFENSE AND HE COMES IN AND FILLS US.
WE'VE SEEN HIM DO THIS, AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN TIMES ALREADY TODAY.
HE'S A GUY RIGHT THERE DOESN'T QUITE COMPLETE THE TACKLE.
BUT AGAIN, SLOW THEM UP ALLOWS HIS TEAMMATES TO RESPOND AND THEY MAKE THE BIG PLAY.
I THINK THEY GIVE HIM THE FREEDOM TO PLAY ANYWHERE HE WANTS TO ON THE LINE BEHIND THE LINE.
LONG PASS INCOMPLETE UP NEAR THE 39 YARD LINE HARRINGTON ROLLING RIGHT LOOKING TO THROW AND REALLY SHOT IT OUT THERE TAKING A LOOK AT THAT WIDE RECEIVER OUT THERE.
DENVER ON, READ THE SENIOR 63 170.
THOMAS WITH A NICE.
NICE MOVE OUT THERE DEFENSIVELY MARQUIS THOMAS, HE DID A GREAT JOB TO REACT AND COVER RIGHT HERE, SMOTHERS BACK BEHIND HIM.
THAT WAS A NICE THROW AND READ THE HAD A BEAD ON IT.
BUT AGAIN, GIVE THAT CREDIT TO MARQUIS THOMAS RESPONDING ON THE CUT, MAKING UP GROUND, MAKING A BIG PLAY TO TAP THAT AWAY, ENFORCE A FOURTH DOWN, PUNCH 10:57 LEFT IN THE GAME.
FOURTH AND FOUR.
YOU GOTTA KICK IT AWAY.
HARRINGTON OFF THE SIDE OF HIS FOOT, GOING TO GO ACROSS MIDFIELD AND OUT OF BOUNDS.
EVERYTHING GOING MARION COUNTY'S WAY.
RIGHT NOW THE EAGLES, WE MENTIONED, FIRST APPEARANCE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, ONE OF THE FEW TEAMS IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA THAT HAD BUFORD'S.
NUMBER WAS CHARLTON COUNTY.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
TWENTY-ONE SEVEN, TWENTY SIX, SEVEN 26:21 CHARLTON COUNTY 3520 OVER.
BUFORD VERY FEW TEAMS HAVE DONE THAT TO BE FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS.
SMOTHERS IS TAKING CONTROL SMOTHERS.
WHOLE LEFT SIDE.
ECKERD HANDS TO SMOTHERS.
I THINK THAT TOUCHDOWN KIND OF DID IT FOR MR. SMOTHERS.
I THINK HE'S READY FOR A WHOLE LOT MORE.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT HIM GO AND LEFT SIDE LARRY.
YEAH, AGAIN THEY'RE GOING AROUND THE LEFT AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL IN THAT LAST DRIVE SO WHY NOT STICK WITH IT?
GOOD.
LOCKING TO GET THEM AROUND ON THE OUTSIDE, HE KICKS GET ADVANTAGE OF HIS SPEED AND THEY MOVE THE CHAINS.
NOW FOR A FIRST DOWN MARION COUNTY AND CONTROL TWO MOMENTS JACKSON, THE LINEBACKER FROM CHARLESTON COUNTY GETS PULLED IN THERE AND WHEN HE IF HE MISSES THE TACKLE TROUBLE THAT HE'S WIDE OPEN, HERE COMES MARION COUNTY WITH THE LEAD AND THE BALL DOWN AT THE 38 YARD LINE.
GOING TO GIVE IT THE ROYAL WHO'S GOING TO CRACK DOWN INSIDE.
ADD THE 35-YARD LINE DOWN TO ABOUT THE 33, ECKERT IS MANAGING THE GAME AND THE CLOCK RIGHT NOW, TEN MINUTES LEFT IN THIS ONE MARION LEADS IT BY 9.
WELL, CERTAINLY ACCURATE IN MARION COUNTY AND CONTROL RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THE WAY YOUR DEFENSE HAS PLAYED, THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GIVE UP TWO SCORES SO YOU JUST TO TAKE ADVANTAGE, TAKE SOME CLOCK OFF.
YOU'VE GOT THE BOOMING KICKER AND WELL, IF YOU CAN GET THREE MORE, I CAN BE CUTE.
BECAUSE IT'S UNLIKELY TO SCORE TWO TOUCHDOWNS REST AWAY.
SECOND AND SEVEN MOTHERS CRACKS ACROSS THE LEFT SIDE DOWN TO THE 31 UNFRIENDLY, WELCOME RIGHT THERE BY THAT CHARLTON COUNTY.
DEFENSE RISING UP A LITTLE BIT.
THIRD DOWN AND FOUR, LANCE THOMPSON TO SENIOR ON THE STOP.
YOU KNOW, SMOTHERS WAS NOT THE FEATURE BACK IN THIS OFFENSE DURING THE YEAR FOR MARION COUNTY.
ONLY 52 CARRIES 473 YARDS, SEVEN TOUCHDOWNS YOU CAN SEE HIM THERE.
HE'S TIRED, HE IS IS HE BUT HE'S THE BALLS IN HIS HANDS ALMOST EVERY TIME AND HE'S AGAIN PLAYING BOTH WAYS.
I DON'T THINK HE'S BEEN OFF THE OFF THE FIELD ON HIS ANY PLAY.
OFFENSE, DEFENSE OR SPECIAL TEAMS IS ENTIRE GAME.
GETS WHEN HE'S PROBABLY SAYING YOU CAN REST TOMORROW.
THAT'S RIGHT.
AND FOR WE GOT A GAME TO WIN.
SMILER IS LEFT SIDE.
GOT SOME ROOM FIRST DOWN.
SMOTHERS CORNERBACK, HAD TO COME UP AND KNOCKING DOWN, WHEN YOU GET PAST THE LINEBACKERS.
IT'S BIG TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY.
NO?
TOMMY, I TELL YOU WHAT, IF WE SEE A REPLAY ON THIS?
I THINK THAT ACTUALLY THE BALL WAS FALLING OUT OF THE QUARTERBACKS HANDS.
LET'S SEE.
YEAH, IT WAS DROPPING IT S MOTHER-DAUGHTER.
LOOK AT THAT.
EXACTLY.
IT'S GONNA BE A COMPLETION IF IT WAS I THINK IN FRONT OF HIM, RIGHT?
SO YEAH, SO AWKWARD.
CONGRATULATIONS.
THAT YOUR FIFTH COMPLETION FOR ONE INCH.
THAT'S RIGHT.
FIRST DOWN AND TEN, ROYAL TRY TO GET TO THE CORNER CAUGHT AND THROWN BACK AT THE 25-YARD LINE.
TEVIS DASHER, THE BACKER ON THE LEFT SIDE PULLING DOWN.
WATCHED A SURE HERE.
WHEN HE COMES ACROSS OUTSIDE LINEBACKER LOOKING LOOKING, GOT IT CLOSE TO A HORSE COLLAR, DID NOT CALL IT A KEY, SHAUN BAKER, NUMBER THREE DIDN'T HOLD HIS BLOG AND THAT ALLOWED A SURE TO COME THROUGH.
IT'S GOING TO REPLACE MOTHER'S IS GOING ON THE BLOCK.
DOWNFIELD THAT ROYAL NEVER GOT THERE.
PLEASE CHARLES ENCOUNTER, LINEBACKERS AND THREE DOWN LINEMEN HARD GOOD.
GIVE US A SMOTHERS HEADED TO THE CLUTTER BREAKS, A TACKLE DANGER AND GOES OUT OF BOUNDS.
SMOTHERS HAS REALLY TAKEN CONTROL OF THIS GAME.
AND ECKHART IS GOING TO GIVE IT TO HIM.
YEAH.
WHY NOT RIGHT?
I AGREE WITH YOU COACH SWANEY.
YEAH, YOU CAN REST ABOUT 5 :00 THAT I CAN TAKE A NAP.
HOW'S THAT?
THERE YOU GO.
HERE'S MOTHER'S LIPS.
I'D MISSED TACKLE.
GOOD BLOCK BY ROYAL ON THE CORNER, AND THEN DASHER HAS TO RUN HIM DOWN AND THEN MISSES HIM.
AND IT GOES OUT OF BOUNDS 17, CARRIES 107 YARDS AND THIS IS A VARIED DUTY PLAYER.
I MEAN, HE DOESN'T PLAY THAT MUCH ON OFFENSE.
HE DOESN'T CARRY THE LOAD.
ROYAL IS THE BIG YARDAGE BACK NUMBER 8.
BUT SMOTHERS HAS BEEN ALL THAT TODAY.
HERE'S ROYAL TRY TO GET TO THE CORNER AND THEY'VE GOT HIM CORNERED AND KNOCKING DOWN BACK THERE.
GOOD PURSUIT BY THE OUTSIDE LINEBACKER YET AGAIN.
DASHER, 510, 185 AND A JUNIOR GOOD PURSUIT BY ALTON COUNTY WAS REAL JUST KICKING IT BEEN GOING TODAY AND THAT'S WHY THEY KEEP GOING TO SMOTHER.
SO OFTEN CAN'T FIND ANY HOLES IN THE NEATH.
11 CARRIES 7 YARDS IN THE GAME FOR HIM.
HE HAD HE HAD TEN AND HALF SO HE'S ACTUALLY A NEGATIVE YARDAGE HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
SMOTHER STILL IN THEIR ROYAL STILL IN THEIR THREE WIVES TO THE RIGHT.
SECOND AND TEN GUY, GET THE SMUGGLERS AND HE'S GOING TO BE HIT AND KNOCKED DOWN HARD DASHER.
THE LINEBACKER.
ONCE AGAIN, CAME ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE FORMATION TO MAKE THE STOP.
YEAH, TEVIS DASH.
IS THERE AS BROTHER?
MICHAEL WAS THERE, THAT TWO BROTHERS ARE BOTH A YEAR APART.
ONE MORE.
LOOK AT THIS AGAIN, HERE, ON THE PURSUIT, BUT GREAT PLAY THERE BY THAT BY MICHAEL DASHWOOD AND KIND OF SHED THE PLAY.
MAKE IT HAPPEN.
THIRD AND GOAL NOW FROM THE 8TH.
YOU SEE, HE'S ALREADY TORN HIS MOUTHPIECE AWAY FROM THE TIN STRAP HOLDER.
HE'S JUST GOT MOUTHPIECE IN MOUTH.
NOTHING HOLDING IT IN HERE.
SAID GRITTING HIS TEETH.
NOT A PROBLEM.
COACH, NOT A PROBLEM.
I'M GOOD, I'M GOOD.
THEY'RE GOING TO CALL A TIMEOUT, SMOTHERS, TRYING TO GET TRYING TO GET SOME OTHERS LITTLE BREAK THERE.
SIX MINUTES, 19 SECONDS LEFT.
IT'S MARION COUNTY 12, CHARLTON, COUNTY THREE, YOU'RE WATCHING THE CLASS, A PUBLIC SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP FROM THE GEORGIA, DOME ON GPB.
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MARION COUNTY LEAKS, AT 2 :48, IT'S THIRD DOWN, RELATIVELY LONG YARDAGE.
LOOK AT THIS, 18 KARAT.
110 YARDS TO RECEPTIONS, 31 YARDS AND A TOUCHDOWN.
AND HE HAD TO TURN AROUND TO CATCH THAT ONE.
YEAH, HE'S HAD A CAREER, GREAT, AN INCEPTION.
YEAH, THAT'S TRUE.
BY THE WAY, IF YOU NEED ANYTHING ON DEFENSE UNDER, YES, HE COULD.
AFTER HE TAKES A NAP, HE'S GONNA NEED ONE, BABY.
YOU MAY DRIVE.
WELL, YOU KNOW, HE DIDN'T HAVE HIS LICENSE YET.
HE'S ONLY A SOPHOMORE.
THE NUMBERS, DRIVER'S LICENSE.
WELL, HE COULDN'T POSSIBLY FOUND THE BUS HOME.
COULD HE THEN HEY WELL EVERYTHING ELSE?
WHY NOT TAKE THIS ON HOME?
THERE YOU GO.
6:19 LEFT IN THIS ONE.
CARLTON DEFENSE.
THE BALL GOES TO SMOTHER WHOSE SLIDES INSIDE MAKES A QUICK MOVE DOWN INSIDE TO ABOUT THE TWO OR THREE SMOTHERS HAS HAD A DAY.
AND HERE'S HIS JAY, LOOK AT THIS.
LEFT SIDELINE, LEFT SIDE AGAIN, LEFT.
SIDELINE, WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO CATCH ONE HERE?
YES, THANK YOU.
THERE'S ANOTHER ONE.
WELL, THEY FOUND MONEY ON THE OUTSIDE WITH SOME OTHERS.
GETTING THEM AGAIN.
OUT AWAY FROM THAT INTERIOR DEFENSE OF CHARLTON COUNTY.
IT'S BEEN SO TOUGH AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO GO FOR IT HERE ON FOURTH DOWN.
POWER OF ROYAL, IN THE BACK OF THE EYE, THE GIFT OF ROYAL NO DID NOT GET IN.
DID NOT GET IN AND THERE IS JACKSON THE BACKER, THE SOPHOMORE LINEBACKER.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
WHAT'S THE SEARCH HERE ON FRONT?
THERE'S NUMBER SEVEN.
DASHER 54, IS THERE THOMAS TO THOMPSON 44 JACKSON.
THERE YOU GO.
YEP.
PRIDE SHOWING UP FOR CHARLTON, COUNTY.
COULD NOT GIVE UP A POINT AND DID NOT GIVE UP A POINT.
LEE.
HERE WE GO, I'LL LIVE HARRINGTON, DROPPING THE THROW DON'T BE CAUGHT AND THROWN TWO OR THREE YARD LINE, LITTLE HITCH PASS OUT TO THE RIGHT.
RIGHT.
GOOD THROW, BUT GOOD COVERAGE RIGHT THERE UP AT THE THREE.
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BALL, LEE 19 CARRIES 110 IN THE FIRST HALF.
SIX CARRIES 48 YARDS IN THE SECOND HALF AND COUNTY HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN DEFENSE.
CARRINGTON'S LOOKING TO THROW MISTERS MAN UP NEAR THE 11 YARD LINE.
PASS WAS INTENDED FOR DEBORAH NOREEN, HARRINGTON OVER SHOT HIM OUTSIDE JUST A LITTLE BIT, HAD TO GOOD LANE BUT MISS TEAM UP THERE.
HE IS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER UNDER FIVE MINUTES TO GO.
NOW IN THE GAME AND STARTING TO WORRY TIME.
NOW FOR RICK MCWHORTER AND CHARLTON COUNTY BECAUSE YOU NEED TWO SCORES AND YOU HAVEN'T SCORED SINCE THE OPENING DRIVE OF THE GAME.
IT'S BEEN ALL MARION.
COUNTY'S DEFENSE PARENT, GOOD PROTECTION, HARRINGTON THROWS INCOMPLETE.
4:41 WITH THE GUN COMPLETE GOING TO STOP THE CLOCK.
IT WAS INTENDED FOR KURT NIXON.
NUMBER 23, COREY JOHNSON ON THE PLAY RIGHT HERE IN GOOD POSITION IS COULDN'T COPE WITH THE INTERCEPTION.
FOURTH DOWN.
CHARLTON COUNTY HAS TWO TIMEOUTS LEFT.
MARION COUNTY HAS 1441.
ARE THEY GOING TO PUNT IT AWAY HERE OR TRY TO PICK UP THAT 9 OR 10 YARDS?
YEAH, IT'S A TWO POSSESSION.
THEY GOT TO DO SOMETHING, HE'S GOING TO PUNCH, HE'S MEASURING UP.
AND AGAIN YOU'VE GOT TO GET A GOOD SNAP OR YOU COULD WIND UP ANOTHER SAFETY SNAP AND A HIGH.
WHAT?
THAT GETS A CHARLTON COUNTY BOUNCE.
UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES DOWN THERE IN THE DANGERS ARE NOT BAD.
42-YARD PUNT.
LOOK AT SOME OF THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE PLAYED AT CHARLTON COUNTY.
I WOULD SAY THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD AREA TO PLAY FOOTBALL AND CHANT BAILEY, WASHINGTON AND DENVER NINETY.
NINE TO THIRTEEN BOSS BAILEY AT DETROIT.
LARRY SMITH, JACKSONVILLE, IT'S NOT ME BUT I'VE LEARNED BY THE WAY.
NOT LARRY YES LOOK AT NOT THIS LARRY JACKSONVILLE AND GREEN BAY HENRY MCMILLAN PHILADELPHIA ELDRIDGE MILTON CHICAGO AND THIS GOES BACK 87-88 ALL THE WAY.
2013, THAT'S IMPRESSIVE.
THOSE PLAYERS ARE IMPRESSIVE, GREAT PROGRAM, VERY GOOD PROGRAM.
HERE'S MARION COUNTY NOW WITH THE BALL AND THE ROYAL GETS A LITTLE MOVEMENT.
GOING STRAIGHT AHEAD ACROSS THE LEFT SIDE, THERE'S THAT YOUNG SOPHOMORE.
LINEBACKER YET AGAIN, ANTHONY JACKSON, THINK RIGHT NOW CHARLES YOU GOT TO START LOOKING FOR TIME OUT TO THE 4-MINUTE MARK HERE.
I THINK THAT THEY CAN'T STOP HIM HERE TO GET A FIRST DOWN.
YOU GOT TO START DOING MY USUAL TIMEOUTS.
GOT TWO LEFT, AND YOU NEED TO BE THINKING TRICK PLAY.
ANYTHING THAT CAN GET YOU A SCORE, IF YOU GET THE BALL BACK AND A HURRY, ECKHART GONNA GIVE IT THE ROYAL.
AGAIN WHO'S HEATING UP NOW ROYAL WITH THAT POSITIVE YARDAGE ACROSS THE LEFT SIDE?
LET'S SEE.
NOW IF THEY CALL TIMEOUT, CHARLTON COUNTY CALLS TIME OUT HERE AND, OF COURSE, MARION COUNTY TRYING TO RUN CLOCK.
I DON'T LOOK FOR HIM TO THROW THE BALL AGAIN.
THEY WILL NOT.
SO NOW, YOU'VE GOT A THIRD AND TWO HERE.
AND WE COME BACK FROM A TIMEOUT.
337 TO GO THIRD AND 2337 LEFT.
IN THIS ONE MARION COUNTY 12.
CHARLESTON COUNTY, THREE BACK AT THE DOME AFTER THIS TIMEOUT.
THE GHSA CHAMPIONSHIP IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART.
BY REGIONS BANK, IT'S TIME TO BACK MORE GEORGE'S, ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION LIGHTING, THE WAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA, LEARN MORE EARN MORE, AND BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU, THANK YOU.
THE GHSA WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE GEORGIA FARM BUREAU.
THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS HAVEN'T BEEN VERY ACTIVE LATELY BUT BECAUSE OF BUSINESS PEOPLE, LIKE YOU THINGS ARE BEGINNING TO GET RUNNING AND REGIONS IS HERE TO HELP MAKING IT EASIER WITH THE EXPERTISE AND SERVICE TO KEEP THOSE WHEELS.
TURNING FROM BUSINESS LOANS TO CASH MANAGEMENT.
WE WANT TO BE A PARTNER MOVING FORWARD.
LET'S GET GOING TOGETHER.
AS THE DEMAND FOR POWER GROWS GEORGE'S, NONPROFIT MEMBER-OWNED ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING AFFORDABLE AND RELIABLE ELECTRICITY TO OUR MEMBERS.
WE'VE BEEN DEDICATED TO BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS AND ARE PROUD TO JOIN THE GEORGIA, HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND SUPPORT OF OUR STATE STUDENT ATHLETE.
THIRD DOWN AND TO KEEP POSSESSION.
THE ONE THING WE HAVE BEEN POINTING UP AND POINTING TO HAS BEEN THE MARION COUNTY DEFENSE OF WINE AND WE NEED TO GIVE ACCOLADES OVER THE LAST 10 OR 12 MINUTES, THIS OFFENSIVE LINE MADE UP OF THOMAS, HADLEY QANTAS FREEMAN.
DUSTIN PICKERING, MICHAEL TYLER, AND TREY SMITH HAVE REALLY GONE TO WORK.
THEY PICKED UP THEIR LUNCH, PAILS.
YEAH, THEY REALLY HAVE AND YOU'RE RIGHT HERE.
BUT SINCE THE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF REALLY NOT OUTSTANDING JOB, THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER AS WELL.
WHAT A GREAT JOB THEY'VE DONE HERE SCHOOL HERE AT SEPARATE, NEVER BEEN TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BEFORE ROMAN ABOUT 360 STUDENTS.
NONE OF WINDOWS VISTA, THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE DOWN NEAR COLUMBUS AVENUE FROM THIS AREA AND MR. ECKHART AND QUARTERBACK HAS REALLY MANAGED THE GAME WELL HERE, ESPECIALLY IN THE SECOND HALF, AND I GET TO SMOTHER AGAIN TROUBLE.
GONNA REVERSE, HIS FIELD MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE AGAIN, AND GONNA BE KNOCKED DOWN, HARD AND HELMETS.
GOING TO COME OFF.
MOOKIE, SMITH'S HELMETS, GOING TO COME OFF.
SMOTHERS TRIED TO MAKE A LOT HAPPEN THERE.
SOMETIMES YOU CAN DO TOO MUCH BUT HE'S A GOOD PLAYER AND THOUGHT HE COULD MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN, THE PURSUIT BY CHARLTON COUNTY.
EVEN AT THIS POINT IS AMAZING.
AND LOOK AT BIG 51.
YEAH THEY'RE TRYING TO PLAY BY HIM.
YEAH, CHARLTON COUNTY CALLS TIMEOUT.
SO YOU'VE GOT FOURTH AND 12 BUT YOU GOT YOUR WEAPON COMING OUT TO PUT THEM DEEP AGAIN.
THAT'S RIGHT.
AND SO NOW FOR CHARLTON COUNTY, AS YOU SAID BEFORE THE BREAK BETTER, COME WITH SOMETHING.
NOW, YOU GOT 3.
ONE LEFT YOUR TWO SCORES DOWN AT 12:00 3:00, YOU HAVEN'T SCORED SINCE THE OPENING DRIVE, YOU GOT THAT FIELD GOAL THERE, THEY'RE OPENING MINUTES, THIS HAS BEEN AN OFFENSE RIGHT NOW THAT HAS GOT NOTHING DONE CREDIT THE MARION COUNTY DEFENSE AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE ON THIS, THIS HYBRID 43 THAT FRONT SEVEN IS JUST BEEN SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT THIS ENTIRE GAME.
AND NOW THE THING IS, YOU RICK MCWHIRTER AND ALL THE SUCCESS YOU'VE HAD, IN THE CHAMPIONSHIPS, CAN USE SOLVE THIS EAGLES DEFENSE, TO GET NOT ONE, BUT, TWO SCORES IN THE FINAL 321.
WELL, HE'S HE'S THINKING AHEAD, YOU KNOW, IF I DO THIS, WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND WHAT WILL I DO WITH THIS?
BUT WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IS KIND OF SOLVE THIS THING RIGHT HERE WITH A GREAT HUNTER.
DO YOU RUSH HIM OR TO YOU?
YOU TRY TO.
HE'S BEEN VERY RELAXED BACK THERE AS A PUNTER.
NOBODY HAS REALLY RUSHED HIM TODAY.
HE'S AT ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD.
DO YOU SEND SOMEBODY TO BLOCK IT?
WE HE'S BEEN VERY RELAXED.
LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
WELL, IT'S DROPPING BACK TO KICK BACK AT HIS 40.
GOOD RUSH THAT TIME BUT NOT IN TIME AND GONNA GO OUT OF BOUNDS.
WELLS DRILLED IT OUT OF BOUNDS, GOOD KICK AND POOR FIELD POSITION YET AGAIN FOR CHARLTON COUNTY.
LOOKS LIKE GOING TO BE RIGHT ABOUT THE 20-YARD LINE.
THAT 19 IS WHERE HE STOPS.
HE'S A, AS I MENTIONED LAST NIGHT, HE'S A GUEST OLOGIST OVER.
THEY'RE GONNA GUESS WHERE THE BALL?
WENT OUT OF BOUNDS, THAT'S GOOD, I GUESS.
HAULAGE, THAT'S THE OKAY GONNA HEARD THAT ONE.
HE'S GOT HIS DEGREE.
I JUST MADE IT UP LAST NIGHT, SO IT'S AN ORIGINAL GOOD.
THAT WAS LARRY SMITH, WHO SAID THAT BOOKS, CHARLTON COUNTY, 44 PLAYERS, 137 YARDS TIME, THE POSSESSION 2102, MARION COUNTY, 54 PLAYS 225 23:37 AND MOST OF MARION COUNTY'S YARDAGES COME HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
IT'S IT'S JUST BEEN A BALL CONTROL POSSESSION.
DOMINATED FOOTBALL GAME BY MARION COUNTY HERE IN THE SECOND HALF CHARLTON COUNTY HAS NOT SCORED SINCE THEIR FIRST DRIVE.
YEAH.
MARION COUNTY WERE AT 225 YARDS IN THE GAME.
I THINK ABOUT 70 OF THAT HAS COME HERE AND THAT TOUCHDOWN DRIVE I BELIEVE.
SO, 2:48 IS YOUR SCORE, 319 LEFT.
HARRINGTON THREE WIDE RECEIVERS TO THE RIGHT AND ONE TO THE LEFT.
GOT PLENTY OF TIME.
IT'S INCOMPLETE.
THAT'S YOUR THE BALL WASN'T TIPS.
IT WAS TIPPED, DEBORAH, ANNA REED, THE SENIOR WIDE RECEIVER 63 170 BROKE ACROSS THE MIDDLE ON A LITTLE SLANT.
THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHAT I THOUGHT.
I MIGHT SEE ONE OF THE OFFENSES READ LOOKED LIKE IT HAD IT ONE MORE.
LOOK AT IT.
HERE IS READ AGAIN.
NO, I WAS NOT TIP.
YEAH, I THINK HE JUST HE JUST DIDN'T CAN GET HIS HANDS ON IT.
HARRINGTON BACK AT THE 12 YARD LINE, SECOND DOWN AND 10 FOR WIVES.
HERE COMES A STUD, GOT HIM DOWN THE MIDDLE, HE HIT THE SLOT RECEIVER IN THE HANDS.
WHAT AN EXCELLENT THROW BUT WOW, WAS HE WHACKED?
WHEN HE CAME ACROSS THE MIDDLE?
THAT'S ANDREW LIE RIGHT THERE.
AGAIN TRYING TO GET HIM OUT THERE AND KICK UP WITH THE BALL MAY HAVE HEARD FOOTSTEPS.
IT'S 23 RIGHT THERE TO LOWER THE BOOM.
COREY JOHNSON, IT'S RUNS INTO HIM, IT'S BACK-TO-BACK DECENT PASSES BY HARRINGTON IS RECEIVERS CAN COME UP WITH AND LEE COMES OUT OF THE GAME FOR A PLAY HARRINGTON, HAS HAD A TOUGH DAY TODAY BUT HE'S HAD A LOT OF GRAZ, LOT OF CLOTHES CATCHES THAT DID NOT GET DONE.
BAUBLES TO OUT OF 17 8-YARD HARRINGTON.
JUST WHEN WE TALK ABOUT NOT CATCHING THE BALL, WE GET A GREAT CATCH AT THE SNAP ILLEGAL FORMATION OFFICE AND COMES BACK.
NOT EXPERIMENT, FIVE YARDS, REPLAY THIRD DOWN, GREAT, CATCH GREAT, THROW BY HARRINGTON.
SO WE CAN SEE THIS HERE, YOU'VE GOT 5 MIN.
IT LOOKS LIKE RIGHT UP THERE ON THE LINE.
COULD IT BE 83 RIGHT OVER HERE?
COULD THAT BE IT MAYBE CAN'T QUITE TELL FROM THAT ANGLE.
I COULD NOT SEE WHERE IT WAS AN ILLEGAL FORMATION.
NO.
BUT THEY HAD THE FIVE DOWN LINEMEN NOBODY WAS BACKED UP TOO FAR.
HERE IT IS.
LET'S SEE, ANDY.
DO YOU NEED TO HAVE IS IN THE RIGHT POSITION?
THIS GUY RIGHT HERE IS THAT IT NEVER ENDS.
IT'S GOT A BIG GUY.
HE'S FARTHER US BACK.
GOTTA BE HARRINGTON, DROPPING THE THROW INCOMPLETE UP NEAR THE 30.
AND NOW YOU CREATES A FOREIGN 15 RIGHT NOW.
TOUGH DAY, TOUGH DAY FOR HARRINGTON.
WHO IS A PROLIFIC PASSER?
HE HAS BEEN GREAT ALL SEASON LONG.
YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR STATS.
HE HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING AS A THROWER.
2,100 YARDS TWO TOUCHDOWNS TO A 91 YARDER CARS AT 25 YARDS, A GAME, BUT IT COMES DOWN TO THIS FOURTH AND 15 IN THE LAST CHANCE, RIGHT NOW FOR CHARLTON COUNTY WITH NO TIMEOUTS AND DOWN BY 9251 LEFT.
HERE'S YOUR BALL GAME.
HARRINGTON QUICKSILVER A FOUR-MAN FRONT LOOKING CURLING INCOMPLETE SMOTHERS.
YES.
WHO ON THE COVERAGE HARRINGTON WALKS OFF THE FIELD.
I'LL 44 BRANDON GREEN.
WE CALLED HIS NUMBER SO MANY TIMES AS PART OF THAT FRONT SEVEN THOSE GREAT QUORUM LINEBACKERS RIGHT THERE.
THIS TIME HE FALLS BACK WATCHING, THEY'RE FALLING BACK INTO COVERAGE OBVIOUS PASSING DOWN.
REEVES.
THE QUARTERBACKS EYES VERY WELL FALLS BACK.
A MIKE SWANEY HE CAN SENSE IT WITH 246 ON THE CLOCK.
HE DID ACTUALLY THOUGHTS MOTHERS HAD HIS HAND ON THE BALL BUT IT WAS GREEN WHO HAD HIS HAND ON THE BALL.
SO THOSE WAS THERE AND GREAT COVERAGE, BUT GREEN DROPPING BACK WINE BACK HER POSITION.
YEP.
YEP IN THE GOT INTO POSITION.
YEP, VICTORY FORMATION NOW.
FORMATION POWER CHARLTON JUMPS UP IN THERE, KNOCKS HIM DOWN TO 35 LEFT.
THAT'S ROILED WHO'S HAD A TOUGH DAY AT THE OFFICE.
THEY PUT THE STOP ON.
ROYAL THEY REALLY HAVE AND ROYAL WAS A FACTOR.
HE'S HAD 15 CARRIES FOR 21 YARDS AS A RUNNING BACK.
THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF DAY YOU WANT TO HAVE, BUT IF YOUR TEAM WINS, IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER.
WHAT A JOB BY THIS MARION COUNTY EAGLES DEFENSE.
FRIENDS TO SHUT DOWN AN INDIAN'S TEAM AVERAGING, 37 POINTS PER GAME DURING THE POSTSEASON AND HOLD THEM TO ONLY 3.
IT'S BEEN A REALLY IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE BY THE DEACONS IN RED.
LET'S WATCH THIS BIG OFFENSIVE LINE ONE MORE TIME.
WHOOPS FUMBLE I BELIEVE MARION COUNTY RECOVERED IT.
ONE OF THOSE BIG LINEMEN.
I MIGHT, LET'S SEE.
I THINK IT'S PROBABLY THE SETTER YEP.
RECOVERED.
IT WASN'T READY AND IT CAME RIGHT BACK TO ONE OTHER RIGHT GUARD?
GOT IT.
MICHAEL.
TYLER WAS RIGHT THERE.
GREAT CAMERA WORK BY OUR CREW ON THAT REPLAY AND THE SHOT BEFORE THAT TO SHOW THEM.
THEY'RE ON THE BALL AGAIN, THINGS GOING RIGHT FOR MARION COUNTY, HOW MANY GO WRONG, HADLEY FREEMAN, PICKERING, TYLER AND SMITH UPFRONT.
WATCH THESE BIG GUYS WORK.
WOW, GETS IT DOWN TO THE TUBE.
EXCELLENT.
BLOCKING UP FRONT, THESE BIG GUYS HAVE REALLY DONE THE JOB HERE IN THE SECOND, HALF THE OWN.
WHAT A GREAT RUN BY.
ROYALS YOU MENTIONED EVEN BOTTLED UP THE ENTIRE GAME AS WE TAKE ONE MORE LOOK AT IT.
BUT ROYAL THE WORKHORSE THOUSAND YARD RUSHER, 20 TOUCHDOWNS.
ALMOST SCORES HERE.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
HE'LL TAKE THE FEWER YARDS FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
I'M SURE MALIK BRUNSON ON THE TACKLE.
MALIK BRUNSON DOWN TO THE TWO.
NOW, UNDER A MINUTE TO GO.
55 SECONDS LEFT.
AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE VICTORY FORMATION ECKERT.
TAKES A KNEE TOSSES TO THE OFFICIAL MARION COUNTY IS GOING TO BE YOUR PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASS, A CHAMPIONS MARION COUNTY, THE EAGLES BEAT CHARLTON, COUNTY IN THE PLAYOFFS AT THEIR PLACE AND IN MARION COUNTY LAST YEAR.
IT'S WIN A LITTLE BIT SWEETER FOR THEM.
WHAT A GREAT, PHYSICAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME.
IF YOU LIKE ROCK'EM SOCK'EM FOOTBALL, YOU HAVE ENJOYED THIS ONE AND WE CERTAINLY HOPE YOU HAVE ONE MORE KNEE BALL GAME AND COACH SWAIN IS GOING TO GET THE HUGS AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE EAGLES.
GREAT SCENE RIGHT HERE.
I TELL YOU WHAT.
I JUST READ, COACH MCWATTERS, LIPS, HE WALKS UP SHAKES COXSWAIN, HE'S HAND NEEDS THAT I'M REAL HAPPY FOR YOU.
THANKS AND HAPPY FOR IT.
HE'S A CLASS ACT IS REALLY IS AS WE SAID BEFORE 24 YEARS AND ALL THE SUCCESS.
WE JUST SHOWED YOU A GRAPHIC OF SOME OF THE PLAYERS THAT COME THROUGH HIS PROGRAM, HAVE GONE ON TO DO SOME GREAT THINGS TO VERY HARD -NOSED TEAMS.
TAKE NOTHING AWAY FROM CHARLESTON.
COUNTY TO GET HERE AND AGAIN, EARLY SETBACKS AS THEY WERE, WITHOUT THE RUNNING BACK, LEE GOT THINGS GOING LATER IN THE SEASON TO MAKE IT HERE AND IMPROBABLE RUN WITH ALL THE LOSSES EARLY ON REALLY RIGHT OF THE SHIP.
BUT TAKE NOTHING AWAY THOUGH, FOR MARION COUNTY AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SCHOOL HISTORY.
LET'S GO DOWN TO GRACE ON THE SIDELINES, RICE COACH EARLIER, YOU CALLED SMOTHERS YOUR LITTLE PLAYMAKER, HE WAS THAT AND MORE IN THIS GAME.
OH ABSOLUTELY.
WHEN WE GET IN A TIGHT, WE GOT TO GO TO LORENZO.
CAN'T THE CHANGE MOVING AND THEN THE DUSTIN WAS OFF ON HIS PASSING GAME BUT FINALLY, RELAXED AND HITS MOTHERS ON THE WHEEL ROUTE AND JUST SO PROUD OF OUR DEFENSE, WE BASICALLY MAKES EVERYTHING WE DO ON OUR DEFENSE.
I'M SO PROUD OF THEM AND THIS KICKING GAME.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT A.J.
WELLS?
I MEAN, YOU CAN JUST SEE IT ALL IN THE FIELD SELF-EXPLANATORY.
AJ, AND BEEN WITH ME FOR FOUR YEARS.
HE'S WON AT LEAST TEN TO TWELVE BALL GAMES FOR US.
AND FOR YEARS, FOR REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS, AND HE'S A BIG PART OF IT AND COACH YOU, WHEN YOU STARTED IN 2010, YOUR GOAL WAS TO BUILD A TRADITION IN MARION COUNTY.
HOW CAN THIS FIRST STATE TITLE, WHEN HELPED TO BUILD THAT TRADITION?
WELL, WE BUILT IT ALREADY.
WE FEEL LIKE WE CAN PLAY WITH ANYBODY IN CLASS A BUT I REALLY WANT TO THANK ROBERT NEIGHBORS.
TOMMY, PURDUE BILL, MONTGOMERY JIMMY STEWART, DOUG MILLS.
THE FIVE HEAD COACHES.
I'VE WORKED WITH, IN 29 YEARS, HAVE TAUGHT ME HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME AT COASTERS GAME, AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THEM.
IT SURE IS A TEAM EFFORT.
CONGRATULATIONS COACH.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND GO CELEBRATE WITH YOUR TEAM.
GOING TO SEND BACK UP TO YOU GUYS IN THE BOOTH.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOUR GRACE, MIKE SWEENEY.
WHAT A GREAT GIVING ALL THOSE GREAT COACHES.
THAT HE'S WORKED WITH THE PROPS THAT HE NEEDED TO WHAT A GENEROUS MAN.
A GENEROUS MAN IN A WIN THERE.
ABSOLUTELY, YEP.
YEP, THEY NEEDS WHAT A GREAT JOB FOR HIM.
IS AGAIN, HE GETS HIS FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, THE FIRST ONE FOR MARION COUNTY TO REAL CLASSY HEAD, COACHES, ONCE DAD, IS WE KIND OF LOOK BACK ON THIS RIGHT NOW THAT STANDS OUT FOR ME.
ME IS, AGAIN, THIS MARION COUNTY DEFENSE, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW CHARLTON COUNTY HAD FOUR FIRST DOWNS, EARLY IN THE GAME.
THEY HAD ONLY HAD ONLY TO THE REST OF THE WAY.
THIS WAS A DOMINANT PERFORMANCE RIGHT THERE ON THAT, ON THAT DEFENSIVE LINE, RUNNER-UP TROPHY, BEING AWARDED TO CHARLTON COUNTY AND COACH RICH.
MCWHORTER, GRACIOUSLY WALKED OVER TO MIKE SWANEY AT THE END AND SAID, I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU AND THAT WAS A GENUINE STATEMENT FROM A VERY NICE MAN.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS GAME.
IT WAS A DANDY.
IT WAS A DEFENSIVE SLUGFEST REALLY WAS.
IN FACT, THIS WAS THE ONE BIG OFFENSIVE PLAY TO TRACE SWANSON LATE IN THE FIRST HALF THAT LEADS TO THE AJ WELLS, FIELD GOAL AND THE 3 -3 TIE GOING INTO HALFTIME AND MOMENTUM TURNING AT THAT POINT AJ WELLS.
AGAIN, SPECIAL TEAMS WHAT A DIFFERENCE CAN MAKE WELLS.
A MAN AMONG BOYS WHEN IT COMES TO PUNTERS NEW RIGHT, WE HAD TO PUT THE BALL, THAT LEADS TO THIS, THE FUMBLE BY HARRINGTON AND THE SAFETY RECOVERED BY FREEMAN FIVE THROUGH THE STORE ALLEY.
THEY WOULD NEVER RELINQUISH CREAM HAS PUMPED UP YOUR OFFENSE.
IT'S GOING, THEN YOU MENTIONED SMOTHERS HERE, TURNING AROUND, HAVING A PRESENCE OF MIND TO FIND THE BOMB GUINNESS FEET INBOUNDS FOR THE TOUCHDOWN AND THE 12/3 WIN FOR MARION COUNTY, WHAT A GREAT GREAT WIN TODAY BY THE EAGLES AND COACH MIKE SMITH LARRY.
I REALLY THINK THAT WAS A VERY IMPRESSIVE FOOTBALL GAME BY BOTH FOOTBALL TEAMS.
LET'S GO DOWN TO MARK ON THE FIELD.
ALL RIGHT TIME NOW TO PRESENT THE AWARD FOR THE CLASS SINGLE A PUBLIC SCHOOL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TO MARION COUNTY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GHSA DR. RALPH SWEARENGEN.
THANK YOU MARK.
I WANT TO SALUTE BOTH DROUGHT AND COUNTY AND MARION COUNTY TO FIND FOOTBALL TEAMS TO PUT ON A WHALE OF A GAME FOR US RIGHT NOW, OUR FRIENDS FROM FARM BUREAU OR GOING TO MAKE THE CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTATION.
OKAY.
SO ANDY ON BEHALF OF GEORGIA FARM BUREAU, WE WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU AND PRESENT YOU WITH THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY.
CONGRATULATIONS ON A GREAT SEASON.
COACH SWANEY.
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HOIST THAT TROPHY UP?
THE SCHOOL BEGAN IN 2006?
THIS IS YOUR FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN FOOTBALL.
IT FEELS TREMENDOUS, JUST SO PROUD OF MY KIDS, THE WAY THEY DUG IN AND PLAY TODAY.
SO, PROUD OF MY COACHES, MY ADMINISTRATION.
SO PROUD OF THE COACHES THAT HAVE, LET ME COACH FOR HIM THROUGH THE YEARS.
29 YEARS OF HARD, WORK ENDS UP HERE TODAY WITH A TREMENDOUS EFFORT AND JUST JUST SO PROUD, RIGHT?
WE GOT BRANDON WELLS RIGHT HERE.
A SENIOR ON THE TEAM AGREED, TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU.
IT'S A BLISS AND I'M GLAD WE'RE BRINGING THE TERMS OF HOW IN THE MIRROR ECONOMY.
ALL RIGHT, AJ, WILD KICKER FOR THE TEAM.
TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU TO WIN THIS CHAMPIONSHIP.
SO IT'S GREAT WHEN ALL THIS HARD WORK AND PAY OFF EVERY DAY, WE GO KNOW THAT WE GOT TO BE THE ONE OF THE BEST, THE BEST TEAM IN THE STADIUM AND THAT I THINK WE PROVED THAT TODAY.
THE TAKE A LOOK OVER THERE, ALL THE FOLKS FROM BUENA VISTA IN RED, TELL THEM WHAT YOU FEEL.
I FEEL LIKE IT'S A, WE FINALLY DID IT AND WORKING HARD, ALL THESE YEARS AND WE FINALLY BROUGHT IT HOME.
ALL RIGHT, THE EAGLES ARE SOARING HIGH TODAY.
CONGRATULATIONS MARION COUNTY, THE CLASS, SINGLE A STATE, PUBLIC SCHOOL CHAMPIONS.
AND NOW LET'S SEND IT OVER TO CLAIRE SIMMS FOR OUR GPB TAILGATE PARTY.
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