Football Fridays in Georgia
GHSA Semifinal: North Gwinnett vs. McEachern
Season 2013 Episode 21 | 3h 32m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
GHSA Semifinal: North Gwinnett vs. McEachern - Dec. 6, 2013
C.J. Leggett’s 53-yard scoring run late in the third quarter broke a 14-all tie and help lead North Gwinnett to a 27-21 win over McEachern to put the Bulldogs into the 6-A state title game. Leggett rushed for 292 yards on 36 carries and two scores for North Gwinnett, whose defense helped overcome four offensive turnovers. Bob Sphire’s Bulldogs have a 91-15 record over the past eight years.
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Football Fridays in Georgia
GHSA Semifinal: North Gwinnett vs. McEachern
Season 2013 Episode 21 | 3h 32m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
C.J. Leggett’s 53-yard scoring run late in the third quarter broke a 14-all tie and help lead North Gwinnett to a 27-21 win over McEachern to put the Bulldogs into the 6-A state title game. Leggett rushed for 292 yards on 36 carries and two scores for North Gwinnett, whose defense helped overcome four offensive turnovers. Bob Sphire’s Bulldogs have a 91-15 record over the past eight years.
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WE'RE LIVE IN POWDER SPRINGS TONIGHT.
IT'S THE SEMIFINALS OF THE GHSA PLAYOFFS.
AND TONIGHT IT'S THE BULLDOGS OF NORTH GWINNETT TAKING ON THE INDIANS OF MCEACHERN PLUS TALK ABOUT LOVE OF THE GAME.
JUST AHEAD.
YOU'LL MEET A WOMAN WHOSE LIFE IS ALL ABOUT FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.
SHE'S NOT ONLY MARRIED TO THE HEAD COACH.
HER SON IS A QUARTERBACK AND THE PROFESSORS ARE BACK WITH OUR CHALK.
AS YOU CAN TELL, IT'S BEEN A DRAMATIC COUPLE WEEKS FOR BOTH.
THESE TEAMS AND WILL TELL YOU WHAT THEY DID TO GET HERE TONIGHT.
THAT'S COMING UP ON THE EXTRA POINT.
TICKET TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN THE GEORGIA DOME IS ON THE LINE TONIGHT.
THE ALL ACCESS PASS PREGAME SHOW IS COMING UP NEXT LIVE ON G&P BE HI AGAIN, EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO FOOTBALL FRIDAYS AND GEORGIA'S ALL ACCESS PASS AT THE START OF THE PLAYOFFS 192 TEAMS AT DREAMS OF MAKING IT TO THE GEORGIA DOME AND PLAYING FOR A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT.
28 TEAMS.
REMAIN A FINAL FOUR IN EACH OF THE SEVEN CLASSIFICATIONS A WIND.
AND I TURNS A TICKET TO THE GEORGIA.
DOME AND A CHANCE AT GLORY.
NOW TONIGHT, WE'RE COMING TO YOU LIVE FROM THE EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL WHERE THE 11 AND TWO INDIANS WILL BE TAKING ON THE TWELVE.
AND ONE BULLDOGS OF NORTH GWINNETT, IT IS A HEAVYWEIGHT MATCHUP BETWEEN 2618.
IT REALLY IS AND WEATHER WISE.
IT'S VERY WEIRD.
WE'RE IN GOLF SHIRTS TONIGHT.
IT'S ABOUT 70 DEGREES AND THERE'S SOME RAIN ON THE WAY.
AND LET'S JUST REMIND EVERYONE AT HOME.
WE'RE ONE WEEK AWAY FROM MID-DECEMBER WIN.
THE CHAMPIONSHIPS WILL BE TAKING PLACE IS VERY STRANGE, BUT EVEN IF YOU COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT, WE ARE SO GLAD YOU'RE JOINING US ON YOUR TELEVISION SCREEN OR EVEN ONLINE AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU JOIN US ONLINE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.
SO LET'S CHECK IN WITH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CORRESPONDENT GRACE OLSON, WITH A LOOK AT WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
HEY GRACE.
HELLO CLAIRE.
THANK YOU, SEMI-FINAL FRIDAY, WHAT A HUGE NIGHT.
IT IS FOR ALL THESE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS BUT IT'S ALSO A HUGE EVENT FOR ALL THE LOYAL FRIENDS FAMILY THAT ARE WATCHING AT HOME ON TV OR ONLINE.
AND ALL OF US HERE AT GPB SPORTS ARE BEYOND EXCITED TO BRING YOU THIS HISTORIC EVENT BETWEEN THE INDIANS, AND THE BULLDOGS ON TV AND THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, WE'RE ON, OUR FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM AND WE'RE GOING TO KEEP YOU AS UPDATED AS POSSIBLE ON TONIGHT'S GAME AND MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE RIGHT HERE WITH US AT THE STADIUM.
NOW, THIS ISN'T JUST A ONE-NIGHT AFFAIR PREPARATIONS BEEN GOING ON ALL WEEK LONG.
I WENT OUT TO BOTH TEAMS PRACTICES, TOOK PHOTOS.
I'VE BEEN POSTING THOSE ONLINE ALL WEEK, SO MAKE SURE TO LIKE, GPB SPORTS ON FACEBOOK.
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, SO YOU CAN HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THAT GREAT CONTENT.
NOW, ANOTHER ELEMENT OF OUR ONLINE COMMUNITY, THAT GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FANS OR LIE ON EACH WEEK IS THE GPB FOOTBALL.
BALL APP.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE APP FOR YOUR IPHONE OR YOUR IPAD IN.
THIS IS A ONE-STOP SHOP FOR ALL THINGS, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FROM BLOGS AND ARTICLES TO UP-TO-THE-MINUTE SCORES, WHICH ARE OBVIOUSLY VITAL ON A NIGHT, LIKE TONIGHT, WHEN THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS WILL BE DECIDED.
SO, DOWNLOAD THE APP.
NOW, SENDING IT BACK OVER TO MARK AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY FREE, WHICH IS ALWAYS GOOD NEWS.
YEP.
WE LOVE FREE.
YOU KNOW, IT'S A HIGH ANXIETY TIME FOR THESE TWO COACHES, BUT COULD YOU IMAGINE BEING MARRIED TO ONE OF THESE GUYS?
LET'S JUST MAKE IT EVEN MORE INTERESTING.
AND SAY YOUR SON IS THE QUARTERBACK.
WELL, THAT'S THE REALITY FOR ONE.
MCEACHERN MOM HERE TONIGHT?
YEAH, THEY EAT A LOT, IT'S LASAGNA NIGHT AT THE HAWKMEN HOUSE BUT NO MATTER WHAT'S FOR DINNER, FOOTBALL IS ALWAYS ON THE MENU AND THEY COME HOME IN THE AFTERNOON.
THEY EAT, THEY WATCHED FILM EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.
MOM, CINDY HOCKMAN SAYS HERE, FOOTBALL IS LIFE.
SHE'S NOT ONLY MARRIED TO MCEACHERN.
HEAD COACH, KYLE HOCKMAN, HER SON, BAILEY PLAYS QUARTERBACK FOR THE INDIANS IF THE OTHER GUYS MESS UP AND GET YELLED AT AT PRACTICE, THEY GET TO GO HOME, BAILEY COMES HOME WITH A COACH THAT STILL FUSSING AT HIM AS A FRESHMAN.
THIS IS BAILEY.
HAWKMAN'S FIRST SEASON PLAYING FOR HIS DAD.
CINDY SAYS, THAT WAS TOUGH AT FIRST, BUT NOW THEY FOUND A RHYTHM.
AND USUALLY, RESERVED CINDY HAS FOUND HER VOICE IN THE STANDS.
I GET REALLY LOUD.
MY BROTHER CAME LAST WEEK AND HE SAT IN FRONT OF ME AND HE SAID, REMIND ME IF I EVER COME TO ANOTHER GAME, WHERE BAILEY'S PLAYING TO SIT BEHIND YOU?
BAILEY WASN'T SUPPOSED TO SEE MUCH PLAYING TIME THIS SEASON, BUT HE HAD TO STEP INTO THE STARTING ROLE AFTER AN INJURY TO SENIOR QUARTERBACK.
TY CLEMENS, MRS. HOFFMAN SAYS SHE DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE TO THINK BAILEY GETS PLAYING TIME BECAUSE HIS DAD IS THE COACH.
HE WOULD SIT HIM ON THE SIDELINES FIRST, BECAUSE HE'S HIS SON, BUT HE WOULDN'T PLAY HIM BECAUSE HE IS HIS SON.
I WANT PEOPLE TO SEE BAILEY AS BAILEY, NOT AS KYLE HOCKMAN, SON WIN OR LOSE HOCKMAN SAYS SHE'S HAPPY HER HUSBAND COACHES AT ME.
TURN EVERY MORNING, SAVANNAH AND BAILEY HOCKMAN RIDE TO SCHOOL WITH THEIR DAD AND TALK ABOUT THE DAY AHEAD.
AND CINDY SAYS THAT QUALITY TIME IS WHAT'S IMPORTANT WHETHER THEY'RE ON THE PRACTICE FIELD OR AROUND THE DINNER TABLE, BUT FOR THEM TO HAVE THAT TIME WITH THEIR DAD.
I MEAN, I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ANY WAY TO REPLACE THAT.
BACK LIVE.
NOW, YOU ARE LOOKING AT A LIVE SHOT OF MISS HOFFMAN AS SHE IS VERY NERVOUS AHEAD OF THIS BIG GAME FOR HER SON.
SHE TOLD ME SHE GETS MORE NERVOUS THAN BAILEY.
IN FACT, SHE SAYS SHE GETS NAUSEOUS EVERY TIME.
HE'S ABOUT TO TAKE THE FIELD BUT YOU KNOW THEY'RE NOT THE ONLY DYNAMIC DUO YOU WILL SEE ON THE FIELD TONIGHT DURING THIS GAME NORTH GWINNETT THEIR HEAD COACH BOB SPIRE AND HIS SON.
HAYDEN SPIRE ARE ALSO A HEAD COACH AND QUARTERBACK DUO.
MARK MEANWHILE THE NORTH STAR WOULD NET BULLDOGS OF BATTLE THEIR WAY.
ENORMOUSLY TOUGH SCHEDULE AND SOME INCREDIBLY WILD TRAFFIC JUST TO GET HERE TONIGHT.
JOHN NELSON IS STANDING BY WITH A HEAD COACH OF NORTH GWINNETT, BOB SPIRE, FOR THIS ONE JOHN.
THANK YOU MARK HERE WITH THE COACH TALKED ABOUT THAT TRAFFIC COMING OVER HERE.
IT'S NOTHING LIKE A WILD FRIDAY, HUH.
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE POLICE ESCORT FOR US.
OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN, 285 WAS BRUTAL.
SO THAT'S JUST PART OF THE DEAL, MAN.
GET ACROSS TOWN.
WHAT'S THE WEEK?
BEEN LIKE WITH PRACTICE?
THAT'S BEEN GREAT.
AND WE PRACTICE OUT OF GARY PIRKLE, PARK UP AND SUGAR HILL BECAUSE WE'RE LAYING ON TURF TONIGHT.
AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, OUR FIELD WOULD HAVE BEEN A MESS WITH THE WEATHER WE'VE HAD.
SO IT WORKED OUT GREAT.
WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS PARTICULAR MATCHUP ONE STEP AWAY, I KNOW THAT YOU'VE HAD A LOT OF CLOSE CALLS.
I KNOW TONIGHT, YOU WANT IT TO BE THE FURTHEST THING FROM ANOTHER ONE OF THESE HEART ATTACK GAMES THAN YOU EVER HAD.
RIGHT?
WELL, BOTH TEAMS HAVE KIND OF EXPERIENCE THAT BOTH TEAMS WERE, KIND OF BAND DATED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AND TAPE THEMSELVES UP.
AND NEXT GUY IN AND IT'S A TRIBUTE TO BOTH TEAMS BEING HERE.
I'VE JUST BEEN REALLY PROUD OF OUR GUYS CHARACTER THEIR EFFORT.
I MEAN, OUR KIDS JUST PLAYED REALLY REALLY HARD.
AND THE REWARD FROM THAT IS THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL LESS THAN 30 SECONDS LEFT WITH YOU.
I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF THESE KIDS.
I MEAN THEY'RE NOT THE BIGGEST KIDS ON THE BLOCK TO IT TO A MAN BUT THEY'RE REALLY STEPPING IT UP FOR YOU.
WELL OBVIOUSLY HE'S SPRINKLING SOME PRIME TIME GUYS BUT YOU KNOW FOR THE MOST PART IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF GOOD, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT LOVE PLAYING TOGETHER AND THEY PLAY REALLY REALLY HARD TOGETHER.
THEY BELIEVE IN WHAT WE'RE DOING AND THEY JUST SELL OUT FOR EACH OTHER.
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT, GO GET HIM.
ALL RIGHT, THANKS JOHN.
ALL RIGHT MARK.
THAT'S THE EARLY WORD FROM BOB SPIRE IN NORTH GWINNETT AND I REMINDED HIM THAT THIS WEATHER'S KIND OF LIKE THE LAST TIME HE WAS IN A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
HE SAID DON'T REMIND ME OF THAT KIND OF STUFF.
HE DOESN'T.
WANT THAT KIND OF MONSOON HERE TONIGHT AT ALL.
ALL RIGHT, JON NELSON.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND NOW, TONIGHT'S ROAD IS THE LAST STOP ON THE ROAD TO THE GEORGIA, DOME.
THE STAKES COULD NOT BE ANY HIGHER.
BOTH OF THESE TEAMS HAVE QUARTERBACKS WITH THE SAME LAST NAME AS THE HEAD COACH.
SO LET'S CHECK IN WITH OUR PLAY-BY-PLAY TEAM TRADE MCDANIEL AND KEELAN JOHNSON FOR LITTLE CHALK.
TALK IN A SEGMENT.
WE CALL EXTRA POINT GUYS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
MARK COACH SAID IT BEST A LOT OF DRAMA IN THESE THREE ROUNDS.
WE'RE GOING TO TELL YOU AT HOME.
HOW THESE TWO TEAMS CAME?
TO BE HERE IN THE SEMIFINALS TONIGHT AND WE'LL START WITH THE MCEACHERN.
INDIANS KEELAN, FIRST AND FOREMOST, MCEACHERN INDIANS HAD ON THE FIRST ROUND, NOONAN COUNTY, OKAY.
NEWTON COUNTY BROUGHT A LOT TO THE TABLE BUT IT WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH BECAUSE MCEACHIN GOT A W. THE LAST TWO, NUNS.
LAST TWO GAMES, THEY PLAYED MCEACHERN PLAY ONCE AGAIN SOME GOOD OPPONENTS GUYS.
IT WAS BATTLE-TESTED NUMBER.
NUMBER SEVEN, THE GUYS AS YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TONIGHT, MR. TODD DIFFERENT.
HE'S BRING SO MUCH TO THE TABLE.
HAD A PUNT RETURN FOR A TOUCHDOWN.
THE LAST COUPLE SECONDS OF THE FOOTBALL GAME LAST WEEK.
HE'S THE REASON WHY THEY'RE HERE.
KEEP YOUR EYES OUT ON HIM.
THIS GUY BRINGS SO MUCH TO THE TABLE.
ONE OF THESE, PAST TWO GAMES, BECAUSE OF NUMBER SEVEN AND A QUARTER BACK ON OFFENSE SIDE OF ALL.
YEAH, QUARTERBACK FOR THE STORY TONIGHT, LET'S TALK ABOUT NORTH GWINNETT ROUTE THROUGH THE PLAYOFFS, THEY BEAT MILTON IN THEIR FIRST GAME, NOT A VERY TOUGH GAME.
THEY WON THAT GAME 34 TO 10, BUT HERE'S WHERE IT GETS.
DRAMATIC.
THEIR NEXT TWO GAMES WERE HIGH DRAMA, THEY PLAYED THE NUMBER ONE TEAM OUT OF GWINNETT COUNTY ARCHER.
IN THIS GAME HERE IN ROUND TWO, AND THEY WON.
34 TO 32 WITH A LAST-SECOND.
FIELD GOAL BY MICHAEL D ANGOLA, HE HAS A PROPENSITY FOR THAT HE WANTED THE CORKY KELL CLASSIC A COUPLE YEARS AGO AGAINST COLQUITT DOING THE SAME THING AND THEN LAST WEEK THEY HAD TO BE A VERY TOUGH HILLGROVE TEAM AND THEY CAME BACK AND WON THAT GAME THEIR QUARTERBACK.
THE COACH'S SON HATE INSPIRE THROWS A TOUCHDOWN PASS WITH A MINUTE LEFT TO HIS TIGHT END SO IT'S NOT BEEN EASY BUT THESE TWO TEAMS KILL AND I THINK YOU'D ALSO AGREE WITH ME THERE WHERE WE EXPECTED THEM TO BE HERE.
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
ALL WE KNOW IS ONE OF THESE TEAMS IS MOVING ON FOR THEIR CHANCE AT THEIR FIRST EVER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
IT'S BACK TO MARC AND CLAIRE.
ALL RIGHT.
THANKS, GUYS, THESE GUYS ARE READY TO CALL THIS GAME.
I'M EXCITED.
JUST LISTENING TO THEM.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT ONE.
IT IS.
IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD GAME COMING UP ON OUR ALL ACCESS PASS PREGAME SHOW.
BOTH NORTH GWINNETT AND THE KITCHEN GRADS HAVE GONE ON TO BIG THINGS AND COLLEGE AND PRO FOOTBALL.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT THEM AND YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD FROM HIS WIFE BUT WE'LL HEAR FROM MCEACHERN HEAD COACH.
KYLE HOCKMAN BAT AND MUCH MORE AS FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA'S ALL ACCESS PASS CONTINUES AS RAIN FALLS RIGHT HERE ON GPB.
WELCOME BACK TO OUR GPB, ALL ACCESS PASS PREGAME SHOW, AS WE GET READY FOR THIS, SHOOT SIX A SEMIFINAL SHOWDOWN.
IT'S THE NORTH GWINNETT, BULLDOGS TAKING ON THE INDIANS OF MCEACHERN WITH A TICKET TO THE GEORGIA, DOME ON THE LINE.
AND JUST, AS SOON AS THE RAIN STARTED, IT HAS STOPPED.
WHAT A WEIRD NIGHT?
WELL, IT'S GOING TO BE A WEIRD AND I PROBABLY WE'VE GOT 14 GAMES OF TALK ABOUT SO WE'RE GETTING RIGHT INTO THE BRACKETOLOGY.
WE TALK TO OUR DOCTOR OF BRACKETOLOGY JOHN NELSON, WHO JOINED US?
LET'S TALK START OUT IN 6A THE BIGGEST SCHOOLS AND COLQUITT COUNTY IN NORCROSS.
TWO TEAMS HAVE BEEN ON PB THIS YEAR AND COLQUITT COUNTY THE ROAD WARRIORS, 17 OF THEIR LAST 20.
PLAYOFF GAMES HAVE BEEN ON THE ROAD AND I THINK THE PACKERS DON'T REALLY CARE BECAUSE THEY'LL PLAY ANYBODY ANY TIME ANY PLACE COULD BE AT I-75 AT 2:00 IN THE MORNING.
I DON'T MEAN TO TOOT MY OWN HORN, BUT TOOT-TOOT, I HAD ALL FOUR OF THESE TEAMS IN THE FINAL FOUR IN 6A, YOU KNOW, MCEACHERN AND NORTH GWINNETT THE GAME.
WE HAVE GOING HERE, JUST SO MANY GREAT STORY LINES COACHING AND SONS AND EVERYTHING.
BUT DON'T LOOK AT NORTH GWINNETT HAS A THREE SEED.
YOU HAVE TWO THREE SEATS HERE.
NORTH GWINNETT IS NOT A THREE SEED.
THE ONLY REASON THERE ARE THREE THEY LOST A COIN.
FLIP IN A TIEBREAKER.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON TO 5A TONIGHT.
WE'VE GOT CREEKSIDE AND KEL, AND THEN GAINESVILLE AND TUCKER LEFT SIDE OF THE BRACKET CREEKSIDE AND TOUCH CREEKSIDE, AND KEL JERICHO HOOKS.
DONE A GREAT JOB WITH THE LONGHORNS, ALL SEASON LONG AND OBVIOUSLY, WE CREEKSIDE ALT AND DOWNS HAS DONE A GREAT JOB IN HIS FIRST YEAR COACHING THERE AT CREEKSIDE DOING IT FOR DISPLAYING, FOR DEANDRE TERM, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE THAT GAMES GOING TO GO ONE OF TWO WAYS, THEY'RE EITHER GOING TO BE PLAYING UNTIL TUESDAY OR THEY'RE GOING TO BE DONE IN AN HOUR AND A HALF DEPENDING ON WHICH OFFENSE RULES THE ROOST WITH TUCKER IN GAINESVILLE, OKAY?
WE HAD THREE TEAMS IN 5A.
THERE'S ONLY ONE UNDEFEATED TEAM IN FOR A.
AND THAT'S THE GRIFFIN BEARS WILL CATCH UP WITH THEM AND JOHN'S GEORGIA.
AND NEXT WEEK AS WELL, WAYNE COUNTY'S HAVING TO TRAVEL ALL THE WAY TO CATCH UP WITH GRIFFIN, MARIST AND CAROLTON.
THIS IS A REPLAY OF THAT MEGA OVERTIME GAME LAST YEAR SO IT'S A REMATCH AT HUE SPALDING LIKE IT WAS LAST SEASON SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT FOR GOOD TEAMS.
ONCE AGAIN RIGHT THERE IN QUAD EGG AND THEN MOVING TO 3A, WE'VE GOT CALLOWAY AND BUFORD AND THEN I KNOW ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES RINGGOLD AND WASHINGTON.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A REAL CINDERELLA, IT'S ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE BRACKET, THE RINGGOLD TEAM I WAS GETTING TWITPICS ALL DAY OF THE ESCORT THEY WERE GETTING, AS THEY WERE LEAVING CATOOSA COUNTY MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE HOUSE OF PAIN.
COULD BE A LONG NIGHT FORM AGAINST A VERY HIGH-POWERED OFFENSE THAT WILL CATCH UP WITH AT HALFTIME CALLAWAY AND BUFORD.
BUFORD HAD A CLOSE CALL WITH CARVER LAST WEEK.
IT WAS ONLY 22 3:06 BUT THEY PUT THE PEDAL DOWN IN THE FOURTH QUARTER.
MIGHT BE A LONG NIGHT FOR CALLAWAY.
ALL RIGHT, AND DOUBLE A, WE'VE GOT LAMAR BENEDICTINE THESE TWO TEAMS UNDEFEATED PERFECT, RECORDS 13.
AND OH, DANNY BRITAIN, THE CADETS HAVE DONE IT.
GREAT JOB.
THEY HAVE TO TRAVEL TO BARNESVILLE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE BRACKET.
EVERYONE KNOWS THE STORY ABOUT BROOKS COUNTY IN THE BC3.
THEY ACTUALLY TRAVELED UP TO ATLANTA YESTERDAY TO PREPARE FOR THEIR GAME AGAINST LOVE IT, AND THEN ONE A PUBLIC.
WE'VE GOT CHARLTON, COUNTY, IRWIN COUNTY, AND THEN HAWKINSVILLE IN MARION COUNTY MORE TEAMS WHO KNOW EACH OTHER A GREAT DEAL BECAUSE THEIR REGION RIVALS.
THESE ARE REMATCHES IRWIN COUNTY ONE OF THE FASTEST TEAMS THAT YOU'LL SEE IN ALL OF THE CLASSIFICATIONS HAWKINSVILLE AND MARION HAWKINSVILLE GAVE MARY.
AND THEIR ONLY LOSS, EVEN THOUGH MARION STILL ENDED UP IS THE REGION CHAMP, WANT A PRIVATE THREE TEAMS ARE UNDEFEATED.
DEFEATED EAGLE'S.
LANDING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.
RANKED NUMBER ONE WILL HEAR FROM THEM AND JOHN'S GEORGE'S WHILE THEY'RE HAVING TO DO IT DIFFERENTLY.
CAVALRY DAYS, HAD A GREAT RUN.
BUT YOU LOOK AT THOSE SEEDS, 1, 2 3, AND 4, EVERYONE, WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO BE MAKING THE SEMI-FINALS MADE THE SEMI-FINALS.
ALL RIGHT.
REMEMBER YOU CAN GET ALL THE SCORES ONLINE.
GPB.ORG/SPORTS GO TO THE APP, GET ALL THAT.
GO TO FACEBOOK, GET ALL THE APP, JOHN'S GOING TO KEEP YOU POSTED THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE DAY AND ON THE TWITTER MACHINE TO ALL RIGHT, LIKE THAT.
TWITTER MACHINE, MCEACHERN.
INDIANS ARE IN THE FINAL FOUR IN CLASS 6A.
THEY'VE GOT AN 11 AND 2 RECORD.
A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
STARTING QUARTERBACK, TIE CLEMENS WAS INJURED.
SO IN COMES A FRESHMAN, THE SON OF THE COACH KYLE HOCKMAN.
THE THE QUARTERBACK IS BAILEY HOCKMAN.
SO I TALKED TO THE COACH JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO BEFORE THE GAME.
WELL, YOU KNOW, TODD IS A, HECK OF A PLAYER.
HE'S BEEN OUR CATALYST ALL YEAR, ALL OFFENSIVELY, AND TO HAVE TO MAKE THAT ADJUSTMENT.
IT WAS, IT WAS ROUGH.
BUT TO WATCH, BAILEY WORK, JUST REAL PROUD OF HIM AS ANY 9TH GRADER IN THAT SITUATION TO HAVE THE POISE, YOU KNOW, THE LEADERSHIP AND THE ACTION AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
NOT SO MUCH THE PHYSICAL PART, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I KIND OF ANTICIPATED.
BUT, BUT THE, THE EMOTIONAL PART, AND LIKE I SAID, THE LEADERSHIP AND POISE UNDER PRESSURES.
IT WAS AS FUN AND AS A COACH, IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST LOVE TO HAVE PLAYERS LIKE THAT.
AND IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR HERE AT MCEACHERN BECAUSE YOUR DAD BAILEY'S GRANDFATHER'S DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR, RIGHT?
MY FATHER'S AN OHIO COACHES HALL OF FAME, IS ONE OF THE BEST COACHES I'VE EVER BEEN AROUND.
AND HE'S 70 YEARS OLD AND NOT SURE IF THIS BE AS LAST YEAR NOT BUT IT MIGHT BE, BUT HE'S RETIRED.
AND AND NOW HELPING US AND DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB AND IT'S JUST A IT'S JUST TRULY A BLESSING TO HAVE THIS FAMILY SITUATION.
YOU'VE GOT THE SEMIFINALS, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TELL YOUR PLAYERS RIGHT BEFORE YOU TAKE THE FIELD TO TAKE ON NORTH GWINNETT?
JUST TO JUST TO THINK ABOUT THE SIMPLE THINGS, YOU KNOW, FIRST OF ALL BREATHING, YOU KNOW, KICK OFF, BUT YOU GOT TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE BREATHING AND THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT RUSH OF ADRENALINE AND YOU GOT TO FIGHT THROUGH IT AND YOU'RE GETTING A LITTLE TIRED AND YOU GOT TO FIGHT THROUGH THAT, PUSH THROUGH THAT WALL, BUT JUST DO SIMPLE THINGS.
WELL, YOU KNOW, BLOCK AND TACKLE SIMPLE TECHNIQUES THAT WE'VE BEEN PRACTICING SINCE, YOU KNOW FOREVER.
AND, YOU KNOW, JUST SIMPLE THINGS LIKE THAT.
BALL SECURITY OBVIOUSLY IS A BIG THING AND THEN REMIND THEM OF A FEW LITTLE THINGS THAT THEY WILL DO.
AND THEN A LITTLE FIRED UP AND MAYBE RAISE MY VOICE A LITTLE BIT AND AND WILL COME JUMPING OUT OF THERE PRETTY READY TO GO.
ALL RIGHT, I TAKE IT TO THE DOME ON GPB AS ON THE LINE.
GOOD LUCK TONIGHT COACH, THANK YOU SIR.
OKAY IT'S DEFINITELY A FAMILY AFFAIR.
AT MCEACHERN, HIGH SCHOOL WITH THREE GENERATIONS OF HAWKMAN'S TAKING PART IN TONIGHT'S GAME.
WELL, EVERY TEAM HAS ITS STAR PLAYERS ARE GO ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS, NORTH GWINNETT, MCEACHERN ARE NO EXCEPTION.
AND OF COURSE, IF SOMEBODY WHO PLAYED ON YOUR FAVORITE TEAM WENT ON TO THE PROS.
YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO BRAG ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT, SO JOINING US NOW.
I NEVER LEFT JOINING US AGAIN IS OUR GURU, JOHN NELSON AND JOHN.
WE'RE GOING TO START WITH ADAM MEADOWS, CLASS OF 1992 FROM MCEACHERN.
FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH PEYTON MANNING FOR ALL HIS TIME.
IN INDIANAPOLIS UGA, GOES FROM HERE TO ATHENS INDY TO DENVER RIGHT NOW HE'S SITTING ON THE BEACH ENJOYING HIS CAREER FROM THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
ALL RIGHT HOW ABOUT ANOTHER MCEACHERN PLAYER THE CLASS OF 2004 GERALD MCGRATH MCGRATH LEAVES MCEACHERN AND GOES TO SOUTHERN MISS.
SO FROM POWDER SPRINGS TO HATTIESBURG, SPEND SOME TIME WITH THE TENNESSEE TITANS CURRENTLY A FREE AGENT.
LOOKING FOR WORK IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
AND OF COURSE WE CAN'T LEAVE OUT NORTH.
WHEN THAT, LET'S TALK ABOUT JARED COOK, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FANTASY STEEL OF THE YEAR, WHEN IT CAME TO THE TIGHT END POSITION, BIG NUMBERS EARLY FOR JARED COOK.
FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT PICKED HIM UP OFF THE WAIVER WIRE, I UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT.
SO HE IS MAKING NUMBERS RIGHT NOW FOR THE ST. LOUIS RAMS, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE GUYS ARE GOING TO SEE PLAY TONIGHT ARE GOING TO PLAY ON SATURDAY AND A LOT OF GOING TO PLAY ON SUNDAY AND IT'S REALLY FUN TO GET TO WATCH THEM KIND OF GROW UP BEFORE YOUR EYES ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
YOU FEEL OLD TO.
WELL, THE CLOSER WE GET TO THE PLAYOFFS, THE CRAZIER.
IT IS GETTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CORRESPONDENT GRACE OLSON.
TELLS ME, THERE ARE A FEW KEY PLAYERS THAT EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT ONLINE.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH GRACE, A GRACE.
HELLO CLAIRE.
THAT'S RIGHT.
BOTH BOOK, BOTH THE BULLDOGS AND THE INDIANS HAVE DOMINANT PLAYMAKERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL AND SOME OF THESE GUYS ARE ALL THE TALK ON TWITTER, BUT ONE ASPECT OF BOTH TEAMS GAME THAT'S BEEN REALLY SUCCESSFUL DURING THE PLAYOFFS IS THE RUNNING GAME, NORTH GWINNETT TANDEM OF HAYDEN'S FIRE AND SEE.
LIKE IT HAVE POSTED INCREDIBLE NUMBERS IN THE RUN GAME.
MCEACHERN QUARTERBACK TIE CLEMENS AND JUNIOR RUNNING BACK TAJ GRIFFIN HAVE EACH ONE FOR OVER 1,100 YARDS.
THIS SEASON, THESE GUYS ON THEIR HEAD, COACHES TOLD ME HOW THEY DONE IT THIS WEEK DURING PRACTICE.
AND THAT VIDEO STORY IS ONLY AVAILABLE WITH GPB SPORTS ON FACEBOOK AND ON TWITTER.
SO FOLLOW US LIKE US AND HEAR FROM THE ATHLETES WHO'VE BEEN DOMINATING.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL THE PAST FEW WEEKS, MARK.
ALL RIGHT.
THANKS VERY MUCH.
GRACE COMING UP ON THE ALL ACCESS PASS.
I'M GOING TO TRY.
TRY.
TO STOP NELLY.
PLUS WE'LL ALSO CHECK IN WITH THE UNDEFEATED GRIFFIN BEARS AND HAVE YOU VOTED IN OUR STOP.
THE DROP CONTEST YET.
$1000 IS UP FOR GRABS AND THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME LEFT THAT AND MUCH MORE AS FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA'S ALL ACCESS.
PASS CONTINUES ON GPB.
WE'RE GETTING GOOSEBUMPS THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BY THE MCEACHERN, MARCHING BAND, GREAT JOB BY THEM.
AND TONIGHT THE INDIANS OF MCEACHERN ARE HOSTING THE BULLDOGS OF NORTH GWINNETT THE WINNER WILL GET TO ADVANCE TO THE CHAMPIONSHIPS AT THE GEORGIA DOME.
ALL RIGHT, I HAVE IN MY HAND THAT ENVELOPE IT IS TIME TO PLAY STUMP NELLY.
JOHN NELSON IS COVERED HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS FOR OVER 20 YEARS, THE GREAT STATE OF GEORGIA, BUT DOES OUR RESIDENT KNOW-IT-ALL REALLY KNOW?
IT ALWAYS HAS FUN.
MAD HATTER.
THIS QUESTION, LET ME DELVE IN NOW.
YEAH, BLOW INTO IT.
JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, JOHNNY CARSON EARLIER IN OUR BROADCAST, CLAIRE SIMMS INTRODUCED US TO A MRS. SPIRE AND MRS. HOCKMAN, MARRIED TO TONIGHT'S COACHES, THE MOM'S TONIGHT, STARTING QUARTERBACKS, WHAT ARE THE FIRST NAMES OF THESE?
TWO WOMEN.
HEY, WENDY AND MARIA, BE MARION AND CINDY, SEE MARCIA AND JAN OR D EVA AND JACQUES MUCH AS I ENJOY CHOICE.
D. LET'S GO CHOICE.
BE MARRYING AND SUNDAY.
YOU ARE.
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB.
IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR JOHN, JUST GO TO FACEBOOK OR TWITTER AND GET US OFF THE WAY THERE.
THANK YOU AGAIN.
WE DIDN'T STUMP GETTING RID OF THE HAT.
OKAY, COMING UP ONE OF OUR MISSIONS HERE AT GPB, IS TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE HIGH DROPOUT RATE IN GEORGIA, HIGH SCHOOLS.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO STAY IN SCHOOL AND TO GET THAT DIPLOMA FOR MORE ON OUR STOP, THE DROP.
IN PAIN.
HERE'S CLAIRE.
ALL RIGHT.
THANKS SO MUCH MARK.
I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME IN A VERY IMPORTANT GUEST.
THIS IS DR. CHARLES BARKER, HE IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EDU TECH ENTERPRISES.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
THANK YOU, CLARA.
HAPPY TO BE HERE.
AND I WANT TO THANK GPB FOR INVITING ME AND MR. LOUIS, LE GRAND OF THE UNITED WAY METROPOLITAN ATLANTA PROGRAM.
ALL RIGHT, SO TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT IS EDGE ATTACK.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO HERE?
JUST TAKE IS A NON-PROFIT, 501, C, 3, C COMPANY AND OUR MAIN MISSION IS TO TO GO OUT AND IDENTIFY HOMELESS CHILDREN, YOU AND SEND THOSE CHILDREN TO COLLEGE.
AND ALL UNIVERSITY.
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A TALL ORDER.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU DO TO HELP THOSE HOMELESS CHILDREN?
GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF EDUCATION.
SO BASICALLY WHAT WE HAVE TO DO, WE HAVE A COLLABORATE WITH ALL THE HOMES LIVES ON THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
AND ONCE WE COLLABORATE WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS, THEY THEN CONTACT US AND GIVE US THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF THOSE HOMELESS CHILDREN HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
THEN WE TRAVEL TO THOSE SCHOOLS AND WE INTERVIEWED ALL STUDENTS.
AND WE FINALLY, THOSE STUDENTS ARE TRULY SERIOUS ABOUT GOING TO COLLEGE.
AND IF THEY ARE INDEED QUALIFIED TO GO, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT LAST YEAR, YOU HELPED 270 STUDENTS GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND GO ON TO COLLEGE, WHAT IS IT THAT YOU THINK MAKES THIS PROGRAM SO SUCCESSFUL?
I THINK THE THING THAT MAKES IT SO SUCCESSFUL.
AS FIRST OF ALL, WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH HOMELESS CHILDREN, YOU HAVE TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS BECAUSE THOSE STUDENTS ARE BASICALLY NOT TRUSTING PEOPLE, THEY DON'T TRUST EASILY.
SO ONCE YOU DEVELOP AN ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE CHILDREN, THEN THEY WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NECESSARY INFORMATION NEED ALSO, WE ALSO HAVE TO WORK WITH THE HOMELESS LIAISONS, WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THE DIFFERENT SHELTERS, JUST DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT ASSIST US IN ASSISTANT ARCHERS ALONG WITH THE DIFFERENT COLLEGES DR. BARKER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOME MORE INFORMATION, JUST VISIT THE WEBSITE AND THERE ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN.
NOW, YOU KNOW, TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON.
TO VOTE IN GPB'S STOP.
THE DROP CONTEST.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU STUDENTS ALL ACROSS THE STATE, SUBMITTED 30-SECOND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS WITH SOME GREAT IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO KEEP KIDS IN SCHOOL.
THE TOP TEN ENTRIES ARE CURRENTLY POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE, SO JUST GO TO GPB.ORG/SPORTS THE DROP AND LIKE YOUR FAVORITE VIDEO.
THAT IS HOW YOU VOTE.
YOU HAVE TO CLICK LIKE YOU ONLY HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON SUNDAY TO CAST YOUR VOTES.
AND THEN DURING THE CHAMPIONSHIPS NEXT WEEK, WE WILL REVEAL IN ORDER.
THE TOP FIVE VIDEOS, THE NUMBER ONE VIDEO, THE CREATOR OF THAT IS GOING TO GO HOME WITH $1000.
SO IF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY WHO'S ENTERED THE CONTEST, NOW IS THE TIME TO HELP THEM OUT.
GPB.ORG/SPORTS THE DROP.
WE NOW WELCOME IN THE AUTHOR OF FOUR BOOKS.
TWO ON HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL IN THE GREAT STATE OF GEORGIA.
JOHN NELSON FOR A SEGMENT, WE CALL JON'S GEORGIA BROUGHT TO YOU BY GEORGIA EMC.
ALL RIGHT.
TOPIC NUMBER ONE TO BE THE MAN.
YOU'VE GOT TO BEAT THE MAN IN THE GRIFFIN.
BEARS HAVE DONE THAT.
WOW!
HE QUOTES RIC FLAIR, WE'RE GOING TO SPEND SOME TIME IN CENTRAL GEORGIA.
KELLY TO FIT AND SOUTHERN RIVERS ENERGY.
LAST WEEK, GRIFFIN KNOCKED OFF SANDY CREEK RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE AT THE TOP OF THE LADDER WHEN IT COMES TO QUAD-A.
HOW DOES HEAD COACH?
STEVE DIVORCE ME?
GET PAST THAT BIG WIN AND GET READY FOR WAYNE COUNTY.
WE WENT TO GRIFFIN TO ASK HIM, THEY'RE 15 16 17 YEAR-OLD KIDS BUT YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO MOVE ON THAT DIDN'T FINISH OUR SEASON OR WHAT?
WE KNOW THAT AIN'T WHAT WE STARTED OUT TO DO IS JUST TO WIN A BIG GAME.
YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO TRY TO GO TO THE DOME AND TRY TO WIN A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TOP.
BIG NUMBER TO EAGLE'S LANDING CHRISTIAN.
THE CHARGERS ARE UNDEFEATED, AND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO IT A DIFFERENT WAY.
WE SPENT SOME TIME IN CENTRAL, GEORGIA, AND SNAPPING SOUL, SHOALS, EMC FOR THIS ONE, DALTON ETHERIDGE, THEIR MAIN QUARTERBACK INJURED.
FIRST ROUND OF THE PLAYOFFS, THEY'RE HAVING TO TRUST A SOPHOMORE, JORDAN LONG.
WE CAUGHT UP WITH HEAD COACH JONATHAN GUEST TO FIND OUT ABOUT WHAT THEY ASK THEIR NEW QUARTERBACK TO DO, WE JUST WANT HIM TO YOU KNOW, HAND THE BALL OFF, RUN IT WHEN WE NEED HIM TO AND AND COMPLETE SOME PASSES HERE AND THERE AND NOT TURN THE FOOTBALL OVER.
SO BUT LOSING DALTON'S ARE BIG DEAL AND I'M VERY PROUD OF THIS.
AND HOW THEY'VE BEEN RESILIENT AND KEPT FIGHTING AND I DIDN'T USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE BUT THERE'S NO QUESTION DALTON'S A SPECIAL FOOTBALL PLAYER.
ALL RIGHT, TOPIC NUMBER THREE THE MEREST WAR EAGLES, NO PASSES, NO PUNTS.
NO NO PROBLEM.
AND WE'RE GOING TO SPEND SOME TIME IN JEFFERSON ENERGY AND PLANNERS EMC FOR THIS ONE MARIST IN BURKE COUNTY.
THAT WAS THE END OF THE CAREER OF GATOR GREEN.
SO LET'S GO TO WAYNESBORO, SHOW YOU THE HIGHLIGHTS, NO PUNT, NO PANTS, NO PROBLEM.
LAST WEEK, IT WAS THE CHASE MARTINSON SHOW, AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE HE HAD 18 THEORIES ALL NIGHT.
YARDS.
BUT FOUR OF HIS 18 CARRIES WERE FOUR TOUCHDOWNS AND EFFICIENCY RATING OF 22.2%, BURKE COUNTY TRIES TO GET IT CLOSE LATE.
BUT A BIG WIN FOR MAYORS WHO HAS NOW 150 OF 52 OF THEIR PLAYOFF GAMES MARKET HOME AND THEY'RE GOING TO TRY IT AGAIN TONIGHT WITH THEIR REMATCH AGAINST CARROLLTON.
YOU GOT TO HAVE A STOMACH OF IRON TO SURVIVE THIS LATE, IT IS MERELY AN OBLIGATION TO SHOW YOU THESE ISLANDS.
ALL RIGHT, JON'S GEORGIA BROUGHT TO YOU BY GEORGIA CMC OVER DECLARE OVER THE CLASS.
ALL RIGHT.
THANKS GUYS.
THERE ARE SOME SORE THUMBS IN THIS STADIUM TONIGHT.
AS PEOPLE ARE BLOWING UP OUR TWITTER AND FACEBOOK PAGES, HEAD OVER TO OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CORRESPONDENT GRACE OLSON.
HEY GRACE.
THANKS, CLAIRE HERE WITH NORRIS NOURSE NUTS.
GWINNETT COUNTY ARE THE GWINNETT STUDENT SECTION THERE.
AD TWEETED EARLIER TEAM FED AWESOME MEAL AT HAMMERHEADS.
CHECK POLICE ESCORT TO MCEACHERN.
CHECK NORTH'S NUTS ON 285, CHECK FANS NOT MAKING NOT COMING TO THE GAME MAKING POPCORN CHECK TO WATCH ON TV.
NOW THEY INCLUDED YOU IN THIS TWEET, YOU MUST BE PRETTY IMPORTANT TO THIS WHOLE ORDEAL.
WELL, OUR SCHOOL IS ALL ABOUT SPORTS AND WE'RE PART OF THE SPORT SO THEY SUPPORT US AS BEST WE CAN, OKAY?
STAY PLUGGED IN WITH YOU.
BP SPORTS ON FACEBOOK AND ON TWITTER, BACK OVER TO CLAIRE.
ALL RIGHT, IT IS FINALLY THAT TIME WE ARE COUNTING DOWN TO KICKOFF.
IT IS THE BULLDOGS OF NORTH GWINNETT.
IT IS THE INDIANS OF MCEACHERN.
IT IS GAME TIME HERE ON GPB LIVE ON GPB NORTH GWINNETT, CHASE THE ROAD TO THE DOME IS A ROUND-TRIP TICKET JOURNEY BEGAN IN AUGUST WHEN TEN TEAMS FROM AROUND THE STATE MADE THEIR FIRST IMPRESSIONS ON THE FIELD IN THE FABULOUS DAY LONG, CORKY KELL CLASSIC.
THEN, BACK TO THE HOME FIELDS WHERE THE HEAT OF LATE SUMMER, GAVE WAY TO AUTUMNS CHILLS.
AS THE DAY'S GROW SHORTER, THE TEMPERATURES COLDER, THE COMPETITION FIERCER.
NOW, IT'S THE FIRE IN THE BELLY.
THAT FUELS GREATNESS BUT THAT FIRE MUST SURVIVE, WIND AND RAIN AND UNSEASONABLE COLD.
THE JOURNEY IS TO CONTINUE TONIGHT TRIMMING OF THE HEARD FROM 192 TEAMS TO NOW ONLY 28 TEAMS AND ONLY HALF WILL MAKE IT PAST TONIGHT'S EXIT ON THE ROAD TO THE DO.
JOIN US TO SEE WHO GOES HOME AND WHO GOES ON AS THE NORTH GWINNETT BULLDOGS, TAKE ON THE MCEACHERN.
INDIANS ON FOOTBALL, FRIDAYS, AND GEORGIA.
IT IS FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA TONIGHT.
GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS LIVE FROM POWDER SPRINGS, GEORGIA FOR AN EPIC SEMI-FINAL MATCH UP BETWEEN THE BULLDOGS OF NORTH GWINNETT.
AND THE HOME, MCEACHERN INDIANS.
GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY, TRADE MCDANIEL, ALONGSIDE KEELAN JOHNSON.
HE LET'S TALK ABOUT THE QUARTERBACKS, THAT'S THE STORY TONIGHT AND LET'S START OFF WITH HAYDEN SPIRE THE SIGNAL CALLER FOR THE BULLDOG.
YEAH, MRS. SPIRE BRINGS A LOT TO THE TABLE FOR THIS FOOTBALL TEAM.
HE'S THE REASON WHY THIS FOOTBALL CLUB IS IN THIS POSITION, FIGHTING FOR A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, HE'S PAUSING THE POCKET.
HE DOES SOME GREAT THINGS WITH HIS ARM, BUT HE'S MOST IMPORTANTLY, HE'S VERY DISCIPLINED WITH THE FOOTBALL AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE LINE.
IT'S A TWO-HEADED MONSTER AT QUARTERBACK.
YOUR GUY, TY CLEMENS AND THE COACH'S SON BAILEY HOCKMAN.
TIE CLEM HAS STRUGGLED THIS YEAR.
LITTLE BIT HAS 1,000 YARDS ON WITH HIS FEET THOUSAND YARDS WITH HIS ARMS.
BUT HE WAS ABOUT TO TEST IT WITH SOME INJURIES THIS YEAR.
TREY, FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE COACH'S SON HOCKMAN COMING IN.
HE'S A GAME MANAGER, HE'S A PROGRAMMER GUY.
HE'S THE REASON WHY THIS TEAM WON THAT GAME LAST WEEK AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE IN THIS POSITION.
ABSOLUTELY.
AND JUST A FRESHMAN, WE MIGHT ADD, WE ALL WANT KICKOFF IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME BUT WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT FIRST.
WE'RE GOING TO CHECK IN WITH OUR SIDELINE REPORTER JON NELSON NELLY TAKE IT AWAY.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TRAY AND KEELAN AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT?
THE SECOND I START TALKING TALKING, THE RAIN STARTS HERE AT CANTRELL STADIUM.
GOOD EVENING.
TO THOSE OF YOU, HOWEVER, YOU ARE ACCESSING US THIS EVENING, WHETHER IT'S ON GPB TV, GPB.ORG, OR THE GPB SPORTS APP IN GOLF, THERE IS A TERM CALLED MOVING DAY.
USUALLY, IT'S THE THIRD ROUND OF A FOUR-ROUND TOURNAMENT.
WHERE IF YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR MOVE AND MAKE YOUR STATEMENT FOR THE FINAL ROUND, YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT ON MOVING DAY.
THIS IS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL IS EQUIVALENT TO MOVING DAY, THINK OF THE BEST GOLFERS NEVER TO HAVE WON A MAJOR USED TO BE PHIL MICKELSON.
NOW IT'S GUYS LIKE LUKE.
AND LEE WESTWOOD THESE TWO TEAMS ARE THE VERSION OF THE TWO BEST TEAMS NEVER TO HAVE ONE.
THAT MAJOR ONE OF THESE TEAMS IS GOING TO GET THAT OPPORTUNITY IN THE RAIN AND PRECIPITATION TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO BE DODGING IT ALL NIGHT LONG.
LAST TIME THAT LOUNGE FACED NORTH GWINNETT IN A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, IT WAS IN WEATHER LIKE THIS BACK, A FEW YEARS AGO, LANDS ENDED UP WITH A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
NORTH GWINNETT HASN'T BEEN BACK SINCE LAST TIME THAT MCEACHERN WAS IN A CHAMPIONSHIP SITUATION, THEY TRAVELED ALL THE WAY DOWN TO VALDOSTA AJ SUGGS.
WAS THE QUARTERBACK FOR JIMMY DORSEY.
WHO IS NOW THE ATHLETICS DIRECTOR HERE AT MCEACHERN?
AND THEY ENDED UP LOSERS.
BOTH OF THESE TEAMS LOOKING TO MAKE MOVING DAY THEIR STATEMENT TO GET TO THE GEORGIA DOME NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT TO PLAY FOR THE 6A CHAMPIONSHIP.
SO GUYS I WOULD NORMALLY SAY LIFE IS SEMI-FINAL CANDLE BUT IF WE LIGHT A CANDLE IN THIS WEATHER, IT'S LIABLE TO EITHER BLOW OUT OR JUST GET DROWN.
SO GO AHEAD AND KICK US OFF GUYS IT'S ALL UP TO YOU.
AS I GET RUN OVER BY THE MCEACHERN INDIANS.
ALL RIGHT THANK YOU SO MUCH JOHN.
THE ANTICIPATION IS BUILDING IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT TONIGHT'S HEAD COACH OF, THERE'S KYLE HOCKMAN IN HIS SIXTH SEASON 54, AND 15, HE'S PUTTING THE HOOD ON BECAUSE THE RAIN HAS BEGUN TO FALL.
AND NOW WE TAKE A LOOK AT COACH HAYDEN SPIRE, ONE OF THE BEST COACHES, PERHAPS THE BEST X'S, AND O'S COACH IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA, EIGHTH SEASON, 90 AND 14, AND ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS SCHEDULE 30TH.
OVERALL, HE DID HAVE A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP WHEN HE COACHED LESSONS LEXINGTON CATHOLIC IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, AND HE'S SEARCHING FOR THAT ELUSIVE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
AND LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW THIS ONE, THEY GO DOWN IN OUR KEYS TO SUCCESS KEY.
LET'S START WITH NORTH GWINNETT, A KEYLESS KEYS TO SUCCESS AND I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING FOR NORTH GWINNETT.
THEY REALLY HAVE TO ESTABLISH THIS RUNNING GAME BECAUSE THE RUNNING GAME ESTABLISH THEIR DEEP BALL GAME DOWN THE FIELD FOR HATING SPIRAL, THIS YOUNG MAN HAS AN UNBELIEVER ARM AND THIS WHAT MAKES THIS OFFENSE WORK?
IT'S JUST DEEP BALL ON THE DEFENSE SIDE OF THE BALL AND HAVE TO ATTACK THIS YOUNG QB HOP ME, HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S GONNA GET FROM THIS FAST DEFENSE BUT YOU HAVE TO GET TORN QUICK ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF OFF WITH MCEACHERN INDIANS ON OFFENSE.
BUT TWO QUARTERBACK SYSTEM MUST WORK FOR THOSE GUYS.
THEY REALLY HAVE TO ESTABLISH AND FIND THEIR GROOVE.
GET THOSE GUYS IN THE GROUP, GET THEM IN THE RHYTHM BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO GET FIRST DOWNS FOR THEIR TEAM.
ON THE DEFENSE SIDE OF ALL, DO NOT ALLOW THE DEEP BALL.
WE ALL KNOW WHAT NOR COULD NET CAN DO ON DEEP DOWN THE FIELD, BUT THE DEFENSIVE BACKS HAVE HAD THAT THEIR BEST GAME OF THE SEASON.
THEY HAVE TO MAKE PLAYS IN THE BACKFIELD.
ALL RIGHT, AND TONIGHT WEATHER IS GOING TO BE A HUGE FACTOR UNSEASONABLE.
WARM.
68 DEGREES IS OUR CURRENT TEMPERATURE.
IT'S NOT GOING TO FLUCTUATE MUCH BELOW THAT AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON, AND RAIN STARTED TO FALL ABOUT FIVE MINUTES AGO, RIGHT BEFORE THE CAPTAIN'S TOOK THE FIELD FOR THE COIN TOSS.
THERE'S GOING TO BE RAIN MOVING IN AND OUT ALL NIGHT LONG.
IT'S BEEN A VERY WET POSTSEASON, BUT THIS IS THE WARMEST GAME THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE LAST FOUR WEEKS.
KEEL, AND VERY, HUMID OUT THERE.
GONNA TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, THIS GAME HERE IS THE THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME ON A SCHEDULE FOR THEM JUST FROM SELF AT THEY EARN.
BEING FIFTH OVER ROUND OF THE STATE PLAYOFFS, YOU'RE FIGHTING FOR A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RIGHT?
NOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SITTING AT HOME RIGHT NOW.
A LOT OF KIDS ARE WATCHING GPP RIGHT NOW, LISTEN TO OUR VOICES, BUT THESE GUYS HAVE A MOMENT, THEY HAVE TO SEIZE THIS MOMENT BECAUSE THIS BIG TIME, SAVE LOOK AT THE STADIUM TRAY.
LET'S LOOK AT THE FIELD.
LOOK AT THE ATMOSPHERE.
IT'S ONE OF THE BEST IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
NO DOUBT.
IT FEELS LIKE YOU'RE ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS HERE IN THE KITCHEN.
THEY DO SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB IN THE HOSPITALITY IS ALWAYS GREAT.
AND WE'RE GLAD TO BE INDOORS FOR THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
KILLING ALL.
YES.
NELSON.
I THINK I'M GONNA BUY HIM A PAIR OF WATER WINGS FOR CHRISTMAS.
CHECK THE SHOES AFTER THE GAME.
HOPEFULLY CAN STAY DRY DOWN THERE.
THERE'S DOMINGUEZ TO KICK OFF THE KITCHEN, WON THE TOSS, THEY ELECTED TO DEFER.
SO THE HIGH-OCTANE NORTH GWINNETT OFFENSE WILL TAKE THE FIELD FIRST AND HERE'S A POOCH KICK THAT IS OVER THE HEAD OF NATE BROWN AT THE 20-YARD LINE.
AND IT CAROMS OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 17 IN OUR FIRST LOOK OF THE NIGHT AT THE COACH'S SON, HAYDEN SPIRE PHENOMENAL, NUMBERS ALMOST TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED YARDS, THROUGH THE AIR, IN 31 TOUCHDOWNS.
HE'S BEEN THE SIGNAL CALLER.
HE WAS NICKED UP A LITTLE BIT IN THAT COLLINS HILL GAME.
THE ONLY GAME THAT THEY LOST THIS SEASON, OTHERWISE, THEY ARE UNBLEMISHED IT JUST TO SEE HOW LIKE WE USE HIS WORD BATTLE-TESTED, WE GOING TO USE THAT ALL GAME.
BUT WITH ADVERSITY, HIT THIS FOOTBALL PROGRAM BUT THIS TEAM WILL RALLY AROUND HIS LEADERSHIP.
HE STUCK IT OUT AND CAME BACK TO TO HAVE THOSE FINISHES.
LET'S SEE WHAT HE HAD FOR US TO SCORE TONIGHT, TRAY.
AND HERE COMES NUMBER 40, STARTING OFF OF THE SHOTGUN WITH FOR RIDE RECEIVERS, FIRST DOWN AND TEN FOR THE 17.
IT'S GOT TIME IN THE POCKET, HE GOES OVER THE MIDDLE AND TO THE / CALEB'S.
GOT HIS START FOR NORTH GWINNETT BUT 17-YARD RETURNED BY PARSONS PARSES.
7TH INTERCEPTION, 6.
HE'S COMING TO THE FOOTBALL GAME.
I SAID, ONE OF MY KEYS THIS DEFENSE HAS TO PLAY THEIR BEST, JUST SECONDARY POINT ALL SEASON BECAUSE WE KNOW AN ORGAN THAT CAN DO DOWN THE FIELD.
GOOD JOB BY THE QUARTERBACK BY MAKING SURE HE GET HIS HANDS UP AND CATCHING THE BALL AT THE HIGH POINT SPIRE NORMALLY DEADLY ACCURATE, BUT INTO DOUBLE COVERAGE, AND PARCELS JUST CUT IN FRONT OF THEIR LEADING RECEIVER, CALEB SCOTT AND PICKED IT OFF.
AND ALL THE SUDDEN MCEACHERN IS IN BUSINESS.
YOU CAN SEE WHO'S IN THE BACK AT QUARTERBACK TIMMONS, IT IS NUMBER TWO, PUMPKIN GOES GOT ALL KINDS OF TIME AND HE GOES FOR THE KILL SHOT INTO THE END ZONE.
TOUCHDOWN TEACHER 26-YARD TOUCHDOWN FOR TJ, RAHMING IN THE KITCHEN STRIKES.
FIRST AND THE SECOND PLAY OF THE GAME, TJ, RAHMING, 12T DEEDS ON THE YEAR, COMING INTO THE FOOTBALL GAME AND MIGHT I ADD ONE MORE 1310.
IT'S DOWNS OVER 1,000 YARDS ON RECEIVING.
HE FINDS HIS FAVORITE TARGET.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUST NOT SURE WHAT THE ATHLETIC CAPABILITY OF TIME CLEMENCY SCIENCE.
IT'S IN THE POCKET.
HE'S SO PAWNS, HE HAS THE TIME.
IF YOU GIVE HIM ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD, HE WILL DEFINITELY PICK YOU APART AND GENEST, AMIGAS BOOMS, THE EXTRA POINT THROUGH AND JUST LIKE THAT, MCEACHERN HAS THE LEAD 7 TO NOTHING.
LET'S TAKE ANOTHER.
LOOK AT THE BIG TOUCHDOWN PASS AS CLEMENS LOOKS AWFULLY COMFORTER OF COMFORT.
BACK THERE IN THE POCKET AND YOU LOOK AT THE BALL AND HOW WE'RE WAS PLACED CLEMENTS PUMP FAKES.
IT GIVE HIS RECEIVER TIME TO CLEAR THE SECONDARY HE PUTS THE BALL WHERE NOBODY ELSE CAN CATCH THE FOOTBALL EITHER, SIR.
EVEN THIS OVERTHROWN FOOTBALL, OR IS IT TOUCHDOWN?
GOOD JOB BY RUNNING RUNNING UP UNDER THE TOUCHDOWN AND SUE'S NOT KNOWN FOR ITS ACCURACY.
THROWS THE DEEP BALL.
VERY WELL, WHEN OUR VIEWERS JUST SAW THAT ONE RECEPTION, 26 YARDS AND A TOUCHDOWN FOR TJ, RAHMING MEANS HAVING A PHENOMENAL SEASON AND THERE YOU SEE.
NUMBER TWO, GETTING THE START FOR CHOCOLATE TOLD US IF HE WAS 80 PERCENT HEALTHY OR MORE, HE WOULD GET THE START OF THIS FOOTBALL GAME OVER BAILEY HOCKMAN AND HE CERTAINLY EARNED THE START.
ONE PLAY ONE TOUCHDOWN.
I WAS WATCHING TIE IN WARM-UPS AND A SINGLE.
HE'S JUST GOING THROUGH THIS PROGRESSIVES.
WERE CONSIDERING TAKING THIS THREE-STEP DROPS IN THIS?
FIVE-STEP DROPS, IN THIS QUICK GAME, I'LL BE PAYING ATTENTION AT THAT ANKLE PROBLEM, HIGH ANKLE SPRAIN THAT HE HAS AND IT SEEMS TO HAVE TO TURN.
IT HASN'T REALLY TAPED UP TIGHT BOTH OF HIS ANKLES AND TAKE AND THAT'S MOST IMPORTANT THING WHEN YOU FEEL CONFIDENT PLAYS LIKE THAT, THE FIRST ROUND GAME TO COME OUT WITH A TOUCHDOWN PASS, I'M TELLING HIS GENERALS, HIS JOURNEYS PUFFING, VERY, VERY GOOD TONIGHT.
RIGHT.
HE'S HE'S READY FOR A BIG-TIME FOOTBALL GAME.
AND HERE IS DENNIS DOMINGUEZ AGAIN, KICKING OFF.
FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME, THIS TOMMY BOOTS A DEEP AND RETREATING INTO THE END ZONE.
IS CALEB SCOTT FOR THE TOUCHBACK, IT'LL BE FIRST IN 10 AND HAYDEN SPIRAL HAVE TO BOUNCE OFF THE DECK AND WE LOOK AT THEIR SCHEDULE, JUST THAT ONE BLEMISH A LOSS TO COLLINS HILL, 53 228, AND THAT'S THE GAME THAT HAYDEN SPIRE WAS INJURED.
AND YOU SEE, THEY WON THAT LAST GAME OF THE SEASON, REGULAR SEASON 44, 222 OVER PEACHTREE, RIDGE.
AND THEN, THEY HAVEN'T HAD A PROBLEM GETTING THROUGH THE PLAYOFFS, BUT IT'S BEEN NAIL-BITING FOR BOTH TEAMS HERE.
YOU'VE SEEN MCEACHERN THE TO CLOSE VICTORIES 22:21, OVER LANGSTON HUGHES, AND THEN A BIG WIN 35 TO 2032 LAST WEEK, OVER COLLINS HILL.
HERE IS SPIRE HANDS IT OFF SAFELY TO CJ LEGGETT AND HE POUNDS.
HIS WAY AHEAD TO THE 25 YARD LINE AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE NORTH GWINNETT OFFENSIVE STARTERS BROUGHT TO YOU BY REGIONS BANK.
A VERY GOOD OFFENSIVE LINE LED BY OFFENSIVE.
TACKLE MITCH HYATT, THE JUNIOR WILL BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST RECRUITS IN THE STATE NEXT YEAR, TAILBACKS DJ.
LEGGETT HAS A MONSTER SEASON THIS YEAR AND CALEB SCOTT INNATE BROWN OR THE GO TO WIDE RECEIVERS IN.
SEE SCOTT, SEE THE 33 BY ONE MATCHUP LOOK FOR THE MAN.
A MATCHUP ON THE, ON THE TOP OF YOUR SCREEN.
THAT'S LIKE IT AGAIN.
THIS TIME, HE TRIES THE PAINTER.
HE'S GOT THE FIRST DOWN.
HE'S DOWN THE FAR.
SIDELINE ONE MAN TO BEAT IN THERE HE GOES.
30 25, 20 ONE GUY TO BEATEN DOWN AT THE 15 YARD LINE.
THIS IS WHY THIS GAME IS SO IMPORTANT FOR BOTH TEAMS.
YOU LOOK AT THESE OFFICE, THEY DO SO MANY GREAT THINGS.
WELL, THEY WEREN'T TOO SHORT SIDE OF THE FIELD.
THEY GET KALIN'S GOT ON OUT, SO OUT THERE AND THEY WORK, THEIR OFFENSIVE.
LINEMAN ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FIELD OF SHORT SIDE OF THE FIELD WITH THE ZONE.
READ ONE THING THAT THEY DO SO WELL WITH CJ LEGGED, AS YOU CAN TELL, HE'S THEIR GO-TO GUY IN THE RUN GAME AND THEY'VE DEFINITELY HAVE TO ESTABLISH THAT TONIGHT.
LIKE IT CHECKS OUT ON THE FIRST DOWN, PLAY PLAY ACTION HERE AT FOR SPIRE AND THE SCREEN PASS.
SNIFFED OUT IMMEDIATELY BY HENRY FEMORAL AND SO SPIRE JUST FIRES IT INTO THE GROUND AND HEAR YOUR STARTERS ON DEFENSE FOR MCEACHERN.
PROBABLY THE BEST DEFENSIVE LINE IN THE STATE.
J IN ROCHESTER, THE SOPHOMORE HAS NFL TALENT COACH HOCKMAN SAYS, THEIR LINEBACKERS ARE MCGEE TO MASSIMO AND FRAZIER.
AND IN THE DEFENSIVE BACKFIELD YOU SEE NUMBER 31 REMOVED PARSONS, WHO MADE THE BIG INTERCEPTION ON THE FIRST PLAY OF THE GAME THAT LED TO THE TOUCHDOWN.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE STAND NOW.
7 TO NOTHING THE KITCHEN WITH THE EARLY LEAD BUT NORTH GWINNETT THREATENING TRAIL.
THINK I HAVE SEEN A DEFENSE ALL YEAR WITH WHAT THE DEFENSE AROUND ALL YEAR WITH THREE GUYS OVER 100, TACKLES APIECE, ON THE FROM THE DEFENSIVE LINE, AND JULIAN ROCHESTER.
JUST MADE ANOTHER TACKLE FOR A MODEST GAME 1 YARD ON THE CARRY.
AND ONE THING ABOUT THE ONE THING ABOUT BOTH TEAMS HERE, ESPECIALLY THE DEFENSE.
HEY, YOU COME OUT, YOU MAKE A TURNOVER.
THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE THE MOMENTUM ON YOUR SIDE.
YOU COME OUT.
YOU HAVE A BUS ON THE INFORMATION, JULY BACK.
IT DOESN'T SCRAPE OVER, TO TACKLE, CJ ALLEGED IN THE BOUNDARY OF THE FEAR, BUT RIGHT.
THIS IS A DEFENSE IT CAN IT CAN BE IN BUT CANNOT BREAK DOWN HERE.
YOU HAVE TO PLAY SOUND FOOTBALL ENDED IN THE END ZONE ESPECIALLY IN THE RED ZONE OFFICE.
39, HERE FOR SPIRE VERY COMFORTABLE IN THE POCKET AND ACCURATE PASS.
THIS TIME TO CALEB'S GOT DOWN TO THE 4 YARD LINE, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY CLOSE TO A FIRST DOWN.
IT'S A VERY NICE DELAY SLANT BUT CALEB'S GOT COMING IN.
THAT'S A VERY VERY HARD BALL TO CATCH RUNNING FULL SPEED INTO THE HEART OF THE DEFENSE.
YOU HAVE TO TAKE WHAT THEY GIVE YOU NICE TACKLE BY THE BIG DEFENSIVE BACK SO ITS FIRST DOWN AND GOAL NOW THEY BRING IN THE HEAVY PACKAGE.
HERE IS FIRE TO THE BIG DEFENSIVE END, DANTE SAWYER AND HE'S ABLE TO PICK UP A YARD WILL BE SECOND DOWN AND GOAL.
DANTE SAWYER A FULLY-FUNDED TEETH INSIDE A BALL, BUT THEY LOVE TO USE IT IN A SHORT YARDAGE GAME, HEY SOMEBODY WHO'S BEEN VERY DEPENDABLE FOR THEM AND THE RUNNING GAME ALL YEAR LONG.
AND NOW CJ LEGGED CHECKS BACK IN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS 63RD RUN THAT SET THIS DRIVE UP AND SPIRAL, GO BACK TO THE SHOTGUN HERE ON SECOND DOWN AND GOAL WITH LEGGED SCANNING, IT WAS RIGHT AND 3 RECEIVERS ON THAT SIDE AS WELL.
WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO IS SPREAD THIS DEFENSE OUT USED TO USE THOSE OUT.
FOR CJ LADY TO GO THROUGH AND GOING FOR THE TOUCHDOWN.
THERE'S AN ALLEY AND THERE'S A TOUCHDOWN FOR NUMBER SEVEN, HIS 22ND OF THE YEAR AND BOYS NORTH GWINNETT COME OFF THE DECK.
BIG THANKS TO NUMBER SEVEN.
ONCE AGAIN THE SAME PLAY THAT HE SCORED ON THE TOUCHDOWN.
THIS IS ZONE.
READ THIS VERY GOOD BLOCKING, BY THE OFFENSE OF LINE CREATING MILK CRATE IN THAT ALLEY.
DRE SMITH, THE OFFENSIVE GUARD ON THE LEFT SIDE, JUST MAKING SURE WE CLOSE OFF THAT EDGE FOR RUNNING BACK, CJ LATE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN AND THERE IS THE SENIOR MICHAEL DE ANGOLA.
HERE IS THE KICK BY D ANGOLA.
IT'S UP IN TRUE AND WERE KNOTTED BACK UP AGAIN.
LIKE WE WERE JUST SIX MINUTES AGO, EXCEPT NOW, EACH TEAM HAS A TOUCHDOWN.
WE HEAD DOWNSTAIRS TO GRACE OLSON.
WHO'S GOT AN UPDATE ABOUT TONIGHT'S?
WEATHER GRACE.
ALL RIGHT HERE WITH MCEACHERN.
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, JIMMY DORSEY.
HE IS THE ASSIGNMENT GAME MANAGER OF THE NIGHT.
HE'S MONITORING FOR LIGHTNING AND THE WAY HE'S DOING IT, IS WITH AN APP.
HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
WELL, WE PURCHASED AN APP FOR ALL OF OUR COACHES HERE AT MCEACHERN, THAT GIVES THEM ON-SITE WEATHER INFORMATION, AND ALARMS AND SEE IT RIGHT THERE.
YEAH.
AND IT'S REALLY GOOD BECAUSE, NO MATTER WHERE OUR COACHES ARE WHETHER THEY'RE ON CAMPUS OR OFF CAMPUS, IT GIVES THEM AN UP-TO-DATE REPORT ON WHERE LIGHTNING IS OKAY.
THERE YOU CAN SEE OUR RIGHT ON CAMERA, THE WEATHER PATTERNS MOVING, RIGHT?
IT IS VERY MUCH SO SO THEY'RE VERY ACCURATE AND THEY SEND YOU AUTOMATIC ALARMS OF LIGHTNING GETS WITHIN A CERTAIN AREA.
SO THE VERY HELPFUL TOOL FOR ALL OF OUR COACHES TO KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE, VERY IMPORTANT TOOL.
IT'S OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THESE KIDS.
SAFE.
SO GLAD YOU'RE A GAME MANAGER FOR THE NIGHT.
LET'S TURN IT BACK UP TO TRAIN KEY.
LIME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH GRACE.
CERTAINLY A HUGE STORY LINE IN THIS GAME IS WHETHER IT'S BEEN A WET POSTSEASON AND A DRAMATIC ONE FOR BOTH OF THESE SCHOOLS AND I CAN'T SAY HEALING THAT I'M SURPRISED AT THE START 7 TO NOTHING TO HIGH-OCTANE OFFENSE.
HAS NOT AT ALL BAD, THIS IS WHAT WE REALLY EXPECT TO TRY COMING TO THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
WHAT THEY WOULD YOU REALLY KNOW THAT DEFENSE IS JUST NOW STARTING TO SETTLE IN AND HATE EACH COACHES WATCH GAME FILM.
AMOR.
THREE WEEKS AGO.
SO THEY KNOW EACH OTHER'S WEAKNESSES.
THAT'S WHY THIS WAS A CERTAIN GREAT SUCCESS ON THE RUNNING, PLAY FOR A TOUCHDOWN AND THEN IN THE END ZONE FOR CJ LEGGED YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT, THE SAME PLAY THAT HE RIPPED OFF THE 63-YARD.
RUN THAT SET THAT ONE UP AND WE TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR TCSG SCORING DRIVE SUMMARY, SEVEN PLAYS 80 YARDS, 2 MINUTES, AND 34 SECONDS.
AND HERE IS TY, CLEMENS BACK IN THE GAME IN THE PISTOL FORMATION WHERE HE'S BEEN.
SO ACCUSTOMED, LITTLE READ OPTION THERE, PULLS IT OUT OF TIES, GRIFFIN'S BELLY AND PICKS UP SOME YARDS.
YOU CAN'T TELL BY THIS RUN THAT HE'S GOT A BAD WHEEL AND HE'S PUSHED OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 24-YARD LINE AND THEY'LL GIVE HIM FORWARD, PROGRESS UP TO THE 25 AND WE CHECK IN DOWNSTAIRS WITH NELLY.
ALL RIGHT GUYS, OTHER HALF OF THE BRACKET WINNER OF THIS ONE GETS WINNER OF COLQUITT AND NORCROSS RIGHT NOW FIRST QUARTER.
I PUT LEADING THREE.
NOTHING WILL HAVE OTHER SCORES AND UPDATES FROM ALL THE OTHER GAMES AS WE GO TONIGHT.
WE WILL BE CHECKING IN WITH JOHN NELSON FREQUENTLY THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT TO FIND OUT WHO'S GOING TO BE PLAYING IN THE GEORGIA DOME.
ONE THING WE KNOW FOR CERTAIN WILL BE THEIR WEST, GEORGIA, PUBLIC BROADCASTING WILL, HAVE YOU COVERED FOR EVERY ONE OF THOSE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.
NEXT FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY AND HERE'S CLEMENS, PITCHING IT TO THE SPEEDY.
NUMBER 7, TAJ GRIFFIN TO LOOK AT THE YOUNG MAN GOES AFTER YOU GET THE 35 YARD LINE, BUT NOT BEFORE HE PICKS UP A BIG MCEACHERN FIRST DOWN THIS GUY.
SO ELECTRIFYING, MAN, YOU GIVE HIM A RUNNING.
START WITH THE OPTION.
IT'S NO TELLING WHAT HE CAN DO TO YOU.
HEY, AND ALL THE WAY TO STOP THESE YOUNG, MAN, YOU HAVE TO TACKLE HIM TO FIRST OPPORTUNITY.
YOU HAVE TO HIT HIM HARD.
IT'S A VERY NICE ELECTRIFYING RUN.
THERE IS TAJ GRIFFIN.
IF YOU RECOGNIZE THE NAME IS BROTHER.
TY WAS THE, STARTING QUARTERBACK HERE AT MCEACHERN LAST YEAR AND HE'S PLAYING FOR GEORGIA TECH AND NOW BAILEY HOCKMAN IN FOR THE FIRST TIME TONIGHT AND HE HANDS IT OFF TO NUMBER SEVEN AND TRIES TO FIND THE EDGE AND IT STRUNG OUT VERY WELL BY THE NORTH GWINNETT DEFENSE.
AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE STARTING OFFENSE FOR THE MCEACHERN INDIANS BROUGHT TO YOU.
BY REGIONS BANK, A PHENOMENAL OFFENSIVE LINE LED BY THE JUNIOR CHUMMA.
IBOGA NUMBER 7, SEVEN AND THE SKILL POSITIONS THERE.
A LOT OF THESE GUYS IN THE WALL, TOUCH, THE BRAT, THE BALL NUMBER 21, TJ.
RAHMING ALREADY HAS A TOUCHDOWN.
CATCH IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
THERE'S THE BALLAST, I WAS TALKING ABOUT ABOUT MY KEYS DATE.
IF YOU GO TO USE A TWO QUARTERBACK SYSTEM, ONE QUARTERBACK, THROWS THE BALL, VERY, VERY WELL.
ANOTHER QUARTERBACK.
EXACTLY IS A GAME ENGINE.
HE CAN HAND IT OFF TO CAN MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS.
SO THEY DEFINITELY HAVE TO PAUSE HAS ON THAT SIDE NOW.
IT'S GOOD TO SEE THEM GETTING INTO RUNNING SPACE, HAWK ME THROWING IT TO T.J. ROBBIE, HIS FIRST PASS AND THERE GOES RUNNING DOWN THE SIDELINE, BUT A FLAG HAS FALLEN BACK IN THE BACK FIELD AROUND THE 28-YARD LINE THAT IS AT LEAST INITIALLY PRETTY GOOD PITCHING.
H AND A 17-YARD GAME BUT IT'S COMING BACK.
AND THERE'S YOUR OFFICIALS LED BY CHIP HOFFMAN, WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF CHIP THIS YEAR.
TIP TIP TIP CAME OVER TO LISA.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
YOU'RE FOLLOWING US AGAIN.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THE THIRD STRAIGHT WEEK.
WE'VE HAD HIS CREW, AND THEY'VE DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB.
AND THIS IS OUR FIRST FLAG AT THE GAME AND ILLEGAL MOTION ON MCEACHERN, TAKES A 17-YARD GAIN OFF THE BOOKS.
THESE ARE THE TYPE OF PLAYS.
YOU CANNOT HAVE WHEN YOU YOU TALKING ABOUT GOING TO A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, JUST, A VERY FUNDAMENTAL MENTLEMEN MENTAL ERROR, EVERYBODY KNOWS IS A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT YOU PLAYING AT HOME.
TO SUGGEST CAN'T HAVE THESE TYPE OF PLAYS COME BACK.
SO AFTER THE PENALTY, IT'S SECOND DOWN AND 15.
AND CLEMENS NOW IN AND DON'T BE SURPRISED IF AT CERTAIN POINTS OF THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
NUMBER TWO AND NUMBER TEN ARE BOTH ON THE FIELD AT THE SAME TIME.
COACH HOCKMAN LIKES THOSE FORMATIONS WHERE HE HAS HIS BETH BEST ATHLETES ON THE FIELD BUT RIGHT NOW HOT MEANS OUT AND CLEMENS IS IN.
YEAH WHY NOT?
YOU KNOW IF IF WIN OR GO HOME BABY WINDOW, GO HOME AND THE OFFICIALS EXPLAINING THE INFRACTION IN THE OPTIONS TO HATE INSPIRE OVER ON THE SIDELINE.
AND THERE IS COACH SPIRE AND HE'LL BE PACING THAT SIDELINE ALL NIGHT TONIGHT.
REMEMBER BOTH OF THESE FOOTBALL TEAMS HAVE NEVER WON A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
THEY HAVE BOTH BEEN RUNNER-UP, RUNTIME.
SO EACH TEAM ATTEMPTING TO GET TO THE DOME FOR JUST THE SECOND TIME IN SCHOOL HISTORY.
THAT'S TAJ GRIFFIN IN MOTION AND CLEMENS, TEARS IT DOWN HIMSELF, AND CAN'T GET OUT OF THE GRASP OF DANTE.
SAWYER BIG NUMBER 95, AND RIGHT ON CUE.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE NORTH GWINNETT DEFENSE BROUGHT TO YOU BY REGIONS DANTE SAWYER.
THE SENIOR HAS NOT COMMITTED WHERE HE'S GOING TO PLAY FOOTBALL, BUT HE'S ONE OF THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY.
YOU SEE THE FIVE LINEBACKERS LED BY PARKER SEACREST AND AVERY ALFRED AND BRIAN WILLIAMS, BOBBY YOUNG AND CONNOR CLYDE IN THE DEFENSIVE BACKFIELD.
WHERE IS BIG DANTE?
SHIRE TOP TEN DEEP INTO THEM IN THE COUNTRY IS GETTING RECRUITED BY LESTER.
SAVING ACC SEC BIG TEN EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO BUT THAT'S A GREAT THING ABOUT ABOUT THE FOOTBALL TEAM YOU KNOW THEIR COACH POST BY BRINGS SO MUCH TO THE TABLE.
HE MAKES SURE HIS PLAYERS AND IN HIS COACH IS PUTTING PUT HIS PLAYERS OVER POSITION WITH THOSE COACHES COMING.
HEY, WE HAVE SHORT TIME WITH THEM TONIGHT, TIM YESTERDAY ON A CONFERENCE CALL.
HE HAD COLLEGE COACHES COMING IN TO.
LOOK AT THE TYPE OF PLAYERS THAT HAVE ENOUGH AND IN HIGH SCHOOL INCOMPLETE PASS BY TY.
CLEMENS INTENDED.
FOR TJ RAHMING OVER HIS HEAD AND BROKEN UP BY BOBBY YOUNG AND NOW MCEACHERN HAS TO PUNT IT'S GOING TO BE HERNANDEZ AND DEPART NOT DENNIS DOMINGUEZ WILL STAND UP HIS OWN 21-YARD LINE.
HE LOOKS GOT STANDING AT HIS 46-YARD LINE TO RECEIVE THE PUMP.
IT'S A NICE NAP.
AND A HIGH KICK, SCOTT CALLS FOR A FAIR CATCH AND MAKES IT AT THE 36.
COMING UP IN DECEMBER THE ROAD TO THE DAWN TAKES US TO OUR FINAL DESTINATION AS WE BRING YOU THE 2013.
GHSA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES LIVE RIGHT HERE ON GPB.
WE'LL BE LIVE ALL WEEKEND WITH THREE GAMES ON FRIDAY AND FOUR MORE GAMES ON SATURDAY CROWNING.
27 STATE CHAMPIONS, BY THE TIME, IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE.
NEXT WEEK'S CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUPS WILL BE POSTED TO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, MONDAY MORNING.
SO, CHECK US OUT ON GPB SPORTS ON FACEBOOK AND POST.
SOME COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE TEAM.
IT'S TWO SOLID DAYS OF FOOTBALL RIGHT HERE ON GPB AND HERE, CJ LEGGED, TESTING THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD AND HE HAS KNOCKED BACKWARDS FOR MINIMAL GAIN TACKLE, MADE BY WILL LINEBACKER NICK DE MASSIMO THIS DEFENSE, RUNS A FOUR, FOUR FOUR MAN, FRONT WITH THE FOUR LINEBACKERS SET ONE OF THOSE LINEBACKERS MORE LIKE A HYBRID LINE HYBRID DEFENSIVE BACK.
HE GOES TO A HE'S THE ADJUSTER OF THE DEFENSE HE'S GO TO THE STRENGTH OF THE DEFENSE AND THAT'S ONE THING THAT NORTH KOREA IS DOING.
THEY'RE GOING AWAY FROM THE STRENGTH OF THEIR DEFENSE TESTED THEM ON THE WEEKEND TWEAKS, OUT OF THEIR OFFENSE SUCCINATE.
NOW FOR THE BULLDOGS SPIRE WITH TIME STEPS UP LOOKING SIDELINE OVER THE HEAD OF HIS INTENDED, RECEIVER CALEB'S, GOT A COUPLE OF MCEACHERN INDIANS THERE.
ONE OF THEM REMOTELY PARSONS JUST A VERY NICE COVERAGE BY THE DEFENSE THAT YOU CAN SEE THE RUNNING BACK COMING OUT FOR THE WHEEL.
3123 RIGHT THERE, THE FREE SAFETY PARSONS WAS THEIR GO-TO GUY WHEN IT COMES TO MAN-TO-MAN COVERAGE COAST.
DEPENDS ON THIS YOUNG MAN TO MAKE THOSE TYPE OF PLAYS MICHAEL WILLIAMS AND THE GAME 2 AS WELL, THIRD DOWN AND A LONG SEVEN NOW, AND THIS TIME, IT'S CJ, LEGGED UP THE MIDDLE.
AGAIN, HE TRIES TO FIGHT FOR THE FIRST DOWN.
THAT'S GOING TO FALL JUST A BIT SHORT AS IT GOES DOWN AT THE 44, YARD LINE NEEDED TO GET ALL THE WAY TO THE 46 FOR A FIRST LOOK LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO GO FOR IT ON FOURTH DOWN HERE.
IF NOT, WE DO KNOW THAT COACH REALLY LOVE THAT COULD SQUIB KICK FROM THE QUARTERBACK AND HERE THEY COME VERY UNIQUE PUNT FORMATION FOR THIS TEAM, THEY CALL IT THE SIGN.
THESE PUNTING FORMATION WITH MICHAEL, D, ANGOLA AND BRAD HARVEY.
YOU'RE NOT QUITE SURE WHO'S GOING TO GET THE BALL, THEY RUN A FAKE AND WIDE OPEN ON THE SIDELINE AND THEY CONVERT A LITTLE TRICKERATION HERE IN THE EARLY GOING.
MR. SCOTT MR.
DEPENDABLE WAY YOU ALWAYS GO TO SHARE HANDS AND I'M TERRY HE'S WITH THAT'S WHY HE'S ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THIS TEAM WHEN HIS NUMBERS CALLED HE'S DEPENDABLE.
HE SNUCK ON THE FIELD THE LAST SECOND AND MADE SURE HE CATCH THAT BALL.
SO A BIG PLAY HERE, TURN AN EXTRA POSSESSION.
REMEMBER THE FIRST PLAY FROM SCRIMMAGE WAS AN INTERCEPTION THAT SET UP THE MCEACHERN TOUCHDOWN AND SINCE THEN IT'S BEEN JUST ABOUT ALL NUMBER 7 AND LET'S TAKE A GET THE FAKE PUNT.
THEY FAKED EVERYBODY OUT THE GUYS IN THE BOOTH THE CAMERON AND EVERYBODY.
ITS YOU SEE AT THE TOP OF YOUR SCREEN RIGHT THERE, THEY THROW THE BALL RIPPED, VERY QUICKLY OUT THERE TO MAKE SURE SCOTT GET WHAT YOU CAN GET AND GET THOSE CHAINS.
MOVING DOWN THE FIELD, SECOND AND SEVEN.
NOW FROM THE 39 YARD LINE, TOO TIGHT INFORMATION.
THIS TIME FOR NORTH GWINNETT.
THERE'S THE GIFT NUMBER 7, LOWERS HIS HEAD.
AND GETS KNOCKED DOWN AT THE 32 YARD LINE, JULIAN, ROCHESTER NUMBER 99 AND ON THE TACKLE, AS YOU LOOK AT THIS, THIS OFFICE LINE, THIS MOVING WAIT UP FRONT, YOU CAN LOOK AT THAT.
HOLE IS A VERY NICE HOLE FOR CJ LATER TO GO THROUGH DRE SMITH AND JAY HEARN, RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE.
CLEARING THAT LANE FOR THOSE GUYS.
NICE TACKLE THERE BY MIKE LINEBACKER, GLENN FRAZIER THERE YOU SEE C.J.
LEGGED A LOT OF OFFERS 59 STOCKY.
KID 215 POUNDS CARRYING THE LOAD TONIGHT.
SPEAKING OF CARRYING THE LOAD THEY BRING IN THEIR KINGSLAYER PACKAGE AGAIN WITH DANTE SAWYER IN THE BACKFIELD.
SO YOU'RE BLOCKING FOUR-LEGGED AND RUGGED PICKS UP A BIG FIRST DOWN AND MOVES THE STICKS FOR THE BULLDOGS.
TAKE ONE THING BOTH TEAMS ARE DOING TONIGHT, THEY'RE RUNNING THE BALL FAIRLY WELL.
AND ONE THING ABOUT NO CLUE THAT THIS IS, THEY RUN THE BALL JUST AS GOOD AS MCEACHIN BECAUSE THEIR PASSING GAME COMPLIMENTS THEIR RUNNING GAME.
IF THEY STICK WITH THIS PLAN, I REALLY THINK THEY CAN GET THIS.
VERY AGGRESSIVE DEFENSE LINE TIRED AND THEY CAN HAVE SOME SUCCESS TONIGHT.
EIGHTH PLAY OF THE DRIVE UPCOMING FIRST DOWN AND 10 BALL.
JUST INSIDE THE 30-YARD LINE, NORTH GWINNETT TRYING TO GET A SCORE AND TAKE A LEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE FIRST QUARTER, 3:42 TO GO IN THE FIRST AND HERE AGAIN, NUMBER SEVEN, THIS TIME, HE'S GOT A SEAM, HE'S INTO THE SECOND LEVEL, HE DROPS THE FOOTBALL.
IT'S PICKED UP BY GLENN FRAZIER AND HE'S TACKLED AT THE 20-YARD LINE.
ANOTHER NORTH GWINNETT, TURNOVER AND A HUGE PLAY FOR THIS MCEACHERN DEFENSE TO TALK ABOUT.
ANOTHER GREAT PLAY TURNOVERS HAS BEEN KEY IN IN ANY FOOTBALL GAME.
TWO TONIGHT FROM THIS MCEACHERN DEFENSE.
ONE OF THE FIRST PLAY OF THE GAME, ANOTHER STRIP FROM THEIR DEFENSE.
IT'S WHEN THEY'RE GETTING THE BALL DRIVING ON THEM.
IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, IS ANOTHER ZONE REPOWER STRAIGHT DOWN.
THE MIDDLE, GREAT PLAY BY NUMBER FOUR AT THE MIDDLE LINEBACKER GREEN.
FLAYGER AND HE PICKS UP HIS OWN FUMBLE.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT WITH THE LEADER 121 TACKLES ON THE ARE COMING TO THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
GREAT JOB BY MCEACHERN DEFENSE.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AFTER THESE MESSAGES.
WELCOME BACK, CANTRELL STADIUM.
332 FOR THE FIRST GAME TIED AT SEVEN WITH NORTH GWINNETT AND MCEACHERN GONNA BLOW THROUGH SOME SCORES FOR YOUR REALLY QUICKLY.
SECOND QUARTER, WASHINGTON COUNTY, LEADING RINGGOLD 15 TO NOTHING ALSO ON THE BOARD BUFORD AND CALLOWAY TIED AT SEVEN, BUFORD MR. FIRST QUARTER FIELD GOAL THAT GAMES.
ALSO, IN THE SECOND QUARTER ALSO ON THE BOARD YOU'RE LOOKING AT OTHER GAMES RIGHT NOW, COLQUITT COUNTY STILL THREE.
NOTHING LEVITT LEADING BROOKS COUNTY AS WELL.
EAGLE'S LANDING CHRISTIAN LEADING, 7-NOTHING LATE FIRST QUARTER MORE SCORES AS WE GO BACK UPSTAIRS.
THANKS SO MUCH.
JOHN JOHN WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ALL NIGHT LONG.
MEANWHILE ON THE FIELD.
SECOND TURNOVER HERE IN THE FIRST QUARTER FOR NORTH GWINNETT AND MCEACHERN GETS THE BALL.
GLENN FRAZIER STRIP, CJ LEGGETT, PICKS IT UP AND CARRIES IT ALL THE WAY OUT TO THE 21-YARD LINE AND NOW BAILEY HOCKMAN IN HERE ON THIS MCEACHERN DRIVE IN THE PISTOL FORMATION, WITH TAJ GRIFFIN BEHIND HIM, THEY'LL GIVE IT THE GRYPHON.
AND GRIFFIN IS STACKED UP IN THE BACKFIELD, PROBABLY LOST, FIVE YARDS.
IT'S A VERY NICE DEFENSIVE.
TACKLE OF NICE STOP BY THE NOSE TACKLE, NOAH LYMAN, IT'S A VERY NICE AGGRESSIVE PLAY ON THE DEFENSE ATTACK.
NOW, YOU DON'T NORMALLY SEE A NOSE TACKLE WITH NUMBER 20, 15, 10 TO 15.
SO WE'RE UP HERE IN THE BOOTH SEARCHING OUR DEPTH CHART FOR A DEFENSIVE BACK AND IT'S NONE OTHER THAN MR. LYMAN, IN THE BACKFIELD FOR THE TFL.
THEN HERE'S ANOTHER CATCH FOR TJ, RAHMING, BUT HE'S TAKEN DOWN IMMEDIATELY BY JAY STACKHOUSE BACK AT THE ORIGINAL LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND I'LL SET UP THIRD DOWN AND ABOUT 9 OR 10.
JAY STACKHOUSE SON OF J. STACKHOUSE BOTH OF YOU GUYS REALLY DON'T KNOW, BUT HE'S AN ATHLETE.
YOU WOULD THINK YOU'LL FIND THEM ON THE HALL COURT.
BUT HE'S DEFINITELY OUT HERE ON THE GRASS TONIGHT.
PLAYING SOME FOOTBALL AT THE QUARTERBACK POSITION.
HE SCORED A TOUCHDOWN IN OUR GAME EARLIER IN THE SEASON AGAINST BRACING, A DEFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN THE GAMING LUNCH NORTH, WHERE THAT'S DEFENSE, SCORED TWO TOUCHDOWNS AND HAD TWO SAFETIES TO.
THIS IS A VERY TALENTED DEFENSIVE.
SPEAKING OF TALENT, LOOK AT THE GRAB BY BIG MALIK WILLIAMS AT THE 45 YARD LINE.
THAT'LL MOVE THE STICKS ON A THIRD DOWN AND LONG.
AND LOOK AT BAILEY HOCKMAN, ZARM A BIG ARM FOR A FRESHMAN MAN.
HE SITS IN THE POCKET, HE'S MOVES UP AND HE THROWS A DUCK 21.
HIS FAVORITE RECEIVERS MALIK WILLIAMS, THIRTY FOUR RECEPTIONS COMING INTO THIS FOOTBALL GAME AVERAGING.
TEN POINT TWO YARDS PER CATCH THIS A VERY NICE.
BIG TIME PLAY ACROSS THE MIRROR BY MALIK WILLIAMS.
HOCKNEY COMES OVER THE SIDELINES, GET SOME ADVICE FROM HOCKMAN.
ANTI CLEMENS BACK ON THE FIELD AT QUARTERBACK IN AN EMPTY BACKFIELD FIRST AND TEN FROM THE 45 AND THAT'S GRIFFIN IN MOTION.
STEPPING THROWING TJ RAHMING.
AGAIN, AND HE'S MET IMMEDIATELY WHEN THE BALLS DOWN AND I'LL BLOW THE WHISTLE AND SAY HE WAS DOWN BY CONTACT, TACKLE MADE BY AVERY ALFRED THE JUNIOR.
THIS IS A NICE AGGRESSIVE DEFENSIVE PLAY GRIFFIN.
DID NOT GET OUT THERE AND TIGHTEN UP TO BLOCK THE OUTSIDE LINEBACKER AT 88.
'VERY GOOD PLAYER THIS ALL-AROUND GUY ON FOOT.
HIS DEFENSE COACH TALKED ABOUT HIM, HOW HE'S ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT POSITION AT THE RIGHT TIME AS YOU CAN TELL RIGHT THERE.
VERY NICE, FIRST DOWN, STOP FOR THEM.
SECOND 12.
NOW, TAJ GRIFFIN BACK IN.
AT TAILBACK, YOU SEE A LOT OF DIFFERENT FORMATIONS FROM BOTH OF THESE SCHOOLS.
BUT THIS IS THE BREAD AND BUTTER FOR MCEACHERN THE PISTOL.
THERE'S NUMBER TWO, TIE, CLEMENS SHREDDING TACOS AND PUT HIS HAND IN THE GROUND AND LOOK AT HIM.
GO DOWN THE SCENE, FIRST DOWN THE KITCHEN ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE 35 YARD LINE.
FOR TYPE WOMEN'S 23-YARD KERRY WHO'S ANKLES HURT COACH MY ANKLES, NOT HURT.
YOU'RE GONNA SEE WHAT'S UP.
WE CAN SEE THE ATHLETIC ABILITY WHAT HE BRINGS TO THE TABLE.
YOU THINK HE'S DOWN BUT NO.
IS WILL WILL NOT BE DECEIVED AT NIGHT.
HE'S NOT GOING TO STOP UNTIL THAT, THAT CLOCK STRIKE 0.
VERY NICE PLAY.
AND NOW AFTER THE NICE RUN, HE'LL CHECK OUT AND TALK, MENTAL, CHECK BACK IN.
AND NOW HOCKMAN IN AN EMPTY BACKFIELD, A PAIR RECEIVERS TO EACH SIDE ON FIRST AND TEN, AND THE INDIANS ARE DRIVING.
AND THE LEFTY SLINGS IT TO THE SIDELINE.
HE HAD A MAN WHO WAS MALIK WILLIAMS BUT IT'S BROKEN UP INSTEAD BY NUMBER THREE, ROBERT PUGH TYRELL.
OH, THIS IS VERY NICE, ROBIN STEEL.
HE CALLED THIS, THIS A YOU CALL THAT A GRAY AREA SKIES COVERAGE AND TO COVER THREE COVERAGE.
YOU SEE THE OUTSIDE LINEBACKER, THIS IS OMENS, THE FLATS COMING UP WITH A PAST BREAK UP IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT CLIENTS, RIGHT?
PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.
GETTING YOUR HANDS UP IN THE PASSING LANE.
SECOND DOWN AND 10.
NOW, FROM THE 35 HOCKMAN REMAINS IN AS THE SIGNAL, CALLER FOR THE INDIANS, AND NORTH WHEN IT'S DEFENSE THREATENING BLITZ AND THAT ONE MAY BE A FALSE START.
DELAY OF GANG, AND IT'S GOING TO BE A DELAY OF GAME INSTEAD.
MCEACHERN OFFENSE, THOSE ARE KILLERS WHEN YOU'RE IN, NO MAN'S LAND HERE KIND OF NOT QUITE FIELD, GOAL RANGE, AND NOW YOU'RE DEFINITELY OUT OF FIELD GOAL RANGE.
AND HERE'S THE LAST PLAY, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE OUTSIDE LINEBACKER JOB IS TO ROB NUMBER ONE IN THE GET IN THE PASSING LANE.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A CATCHABLE BALL.
IT'S A VERY NICE JOB BY ROBERT OUTSIDE LINEBACKER.
THIS GUY BRINGS A LOT TO THE DEFENSE AND THAT'S WHY HE'S ONE OF THE LEADERS.
PUT YOUR L. HAS ACTUALLY PLAYED A LITTLE BIT OF QUARTERBACK THIS YEAR.
COMPLETED THREE PASSES FOR A TOUCHDOWN AND THEIR SAWYER TRYING TO THROW HOCKMAN TO THE GROUND.
HE EVENTUALLY DOES BUT HOCKMAN SOMEHOW GETS RID OF IT FOR AN INCOMPLETE PASS BUT HE'S GOING TO REMEMBER 95 AFTER THAT ONE SINCE IT'S VERY NICE, AGGRESSIVE WON'T OUTSIDE.
COMING OFF THE EDGE.
HOFFMAN HAS TO KNOW IS HOW YOU CAN'T SIT IN THAT POCKET WITH THE BALL YOU HAND.
WHEN YOU HAVE NUMBER 95 COMING AT YOU, HEADS UP PLAY BY GETTING RID OF THE BALL.
HOPEFULLY GOOD THING.
IT WAS A RECEIVER IN THE AREA WHEN HE THREW THE BALL AWAY.
TASTE SAWYER A 6-3 255 POUNDS DEFENSIVE IN THAT RUNS A SUB 4740, WHEN HE'S BARRELING DOWN AT YOU GOT TO GET RID OF THE ROCK, THIRD DOWN AND 15 NOW FOR MCEACHERN.
SO IT'S FIVE YARD PENALTY, LOVE YOU COMPLETE PASS.
LOOK FOR SCREENS ON THIS DOWN TOO AS WELL AND LOOK WHO'S IN THE BACKFIELD FOR THE LEGO GAME COME OUT AND BAILEY HOCKMAN CALLS A TIMEOUT TO AVOID.
YES, A DELAY OF GAME THAT BE THEIR SECOND ONE IN THE LAST THREE PLAYS AND NOW THEIR OFFENSE WANTS TO TAKE THE LEAD OF THIS FOOTBALL GAME AND WE'LL TALK IT OVER WITH THEIR HEAD COACH.
LET'S TAKE SOME, TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR RESUME, A VERY IMPRESSIVE ONE.
THAT'S THEIR FIRST SEMI-FINAL APPEARANCE SINCE 1998.
THEY WENT TO THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP THAT YEAR IN LOST A VALDOSTA.
TEEN REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THE LAST ONE COMING LAST YEAR FOR 10-WIN SEASONS, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, FIVE STRAIGHT PLAYOFF APPEARANCES.
AND THIS PROGRAM WAS BUILT BY COACH, JIMMY DORSEY WHO GRACE TALKED TO ON THE SIDELINES MOMENTS AGO, TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER TO 1966 AND ONE.
SO THAT'S NICE.
SCHEDULED AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE NORTH GWINNETT, BULLDOG RESUME, IT'S BEEN BUILDING EVER SINCE.
BOB SPIRE TOOK THE HEAD COACHING JOB EIGHT, STRAIGHT 10-WIN SEASONS QUARTER FINAL, SIX OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, FOR REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THEY SHARE THE ONE THIS SEASON WITH COLLINS HILL.
AND ACROSS, WHO'S STILL IN THE PLAYOFFS, TEN STRAIGHT PLAYOFF YEARS AND TWO STRAIGHT, ONLY TWO PLAYOFF.
APPEARANCES IN THE 40 YEARS, PRIOR AND SPIRE, WHO'S BEEN THE AUTHOR OF ALL THOSE 10-WIN.
SEASONS IS VERY FRUSTRATED HERE IN THE EARLY GOING.
HE THINKS HIS TEAM SHOULD BE UP BY MORE BECAUSE THEY'VE HAD TWO COSTLY TURNOVERS AND WE'RE NOT EVEN IN THE SECOND QUARTER YET.
WELL, THE GAME OF FOOTBALL IS ALL ABOUT INCHES, ALL ABOUT OPPORTUNITY AND I WILL TELL YOU, ONE THING, ON THE DEFENSE SIDE OF THE BALL, YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT TO THE MCEACHERN.
INDIANS.
THEY'RE A LOT MORE, A LOT MORE AGGRESSIVE ON A INSIDE A BALL, YOU CREATE YOUR OWN LUCK WITH TURNOVERS AND THAT'S ONE THING.
THAT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU'RE GONNA SURVIVE AND IT'S IN THE STATE PLAYOFFS.
THEIR DEFENSE IS HAVE TO STEP UP BUT KEEPING THESE DRIVERS BALL, SOMEBODY HAS TO MAKE A PLAY ON HIS DEFENSE FOR NORTH GWINNETT.
THEY HAVE TO MAKE A PLAY IN ORDER FOR THE STOP.
THIS MOMENTUM FROM MCEACHERN, INDIANS MCEACHERN, HAS FARED.
WELL ON THIRD DOWN HERE IN THE EARLY GOING TO HAVE THREE THUS FAR.
THAT'S WHEN I'LL BE A LONG ONE THIRD DOWN AND 15 FROM THE 40 AND HOCKMAN.
LOOKING AT THE LINE TRYING TO GET THE CALL IN.
REMEMBER THEY'VE ALREADY HAD A DELAY, A GAME ON THIS DRIVE AND THEY'VE CALLED A TIMEOUT TO AVOID ANOTHER ONE, AND RIGHT NOW, THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION DOWN ON THE SIDELINE.
KEEP IN MIND, THIRD AND LONG.
LOOK, WHO'S IN THE BACKFIELD FOR MCEACHIN.
NUMBER SEVEN TIMES GRIFFIN, SOAK THEIR BIG PLAY MAKER GUY.
HE'S VERY GOOD WITH SCREAM DOWNS.
THIS IS A SCREEN TERRITORY DOWN RIGHT HERE AND NOW WE'RE READY TO PLAY FOOTBALL AFTER THEY HAD TWO SECONDS TO THE GAME CLOCK.
SO NOW 34 SECONDS TO GO BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST AND THERE IS THE AFOREMENTIONED NUMBER 7 BUT HE'S HEMMED IN BYE.
BUT LINEBACKER, PARKER SEACREST AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID.
KILL THE DEFENSE HAD TO STEP UP AND GET THE INDIANS OFF THE FIELD.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID.
YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THESE TYPE OF PLAYS ON THIRD DOWN, GOOD JOB BY HIS DEFENSE BY COMING UP, JUMPING IN THROUGH THE HOLES BY PARKER.
JUST MAKING SURE HE HAD FITS TWO TACKLES COMING IN THE GAME.
HE'S A HIGH ENERGY LEVEL TYPE PLAYER THROWING HIS BODY OUT THERE SELLING OUT FOR HIS TEAM.
THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES AND NOW THIS TIME THEY'RE PUNTING, IT'S DOMINGUEZ AND REMEMBER THEIR FIRST POINT WAS BY HERNANDEZ AND THAT'S GOING TO TAKE US TO THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER.
IT'S BEEN A CRAZY FIRST QUARTER, EXACTLY WHAT WE EXPECTED AND IT'S NOT IT UP AT SEVEN APIECE, DON'T GO ANYWHERE.
3/4 TO GO HERE ON THE SEMI FINAL EDITION OF FOOTBALL FRIDAYS.
WELCOME BACK TO WALTER CANTRELL STADIUM.
IT'S A TIED GAME.
727 ENTERING THE SECOND QUARTER.
WE'RE GOING TO TEST YOU WITH SOME TRIVIA TONIGHT.
OUR QUESTION IS NORTH GWINNETT HAS WON 10 GAMES IN A SEASON.
EIGHT TIMES.
HOW MANY HAVE COME UNDER HEAD COACH?
BOB SPIRE, FIND GPB SPORTS ON FACEBOOK, FIND US ON TWITTER.
GET ITS YOUR ANSWERS QUICKLY.
I'LL BE BACK IN THE FOURTH WITH OUR TRIVIA WINNER OF THE EVENING.
BACK TO YOU GUYS UP IN THE BOOTH.
THANK YOU SO MUCH GRACE.
WE GAVE YOU A HINT JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO.
SURE DID.
AND MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE FIELD, IT'S FOURTH DOWN AND LONG.
AND MCEACHRAN WAS LINING UP TO PUNT RIGHT BEFORE THE CLOCK, HIT ZERO AND ENDED THE FIRST QUARTER.
SO WE'RE STARTING THE SECOND QUARTER 727.
123 YARDS OF OFFENSE BY NORTH GWINNETT IN THE FIRST QUARTER, BUT TWO BIG TURNOVERS.
AND A NICE LONG TOUCHDOWN.
PASS ON THE FIRST OFFENSIVE PLAY FOR SCRIMMAGE BY MCEACHERN TIE CLEMENTS TO TJ, RAHMING AND CJ, LEGGED ALSO HAVING HIMSELF QUITE A GAME AT THE RUNNING BACK POSITION FOR NORTH GWINNETT, AND AMIGAS BACK TO PUNT FROM HIS OWN.
48-YARD LINE STANDING BACK TO RECEIVE AT THE 10 IS CALEB.
SCOTT MOST IMPORTANTLY SEEING MILL CREEK DEFENSE, FINALLY STEPPING UP MAKING A STOP IT, STOP THE BLEEDING.
YOU KNOW, ALL NIGHT WITH KIDS.
OFFICE BEEN, ROLLIN, ROLLIN ROLLIN THEIR DEFENSE, BEEN TAKING THE BENJAMIN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
BUT FINALLY, HAVING A REALLY GOOD STOP GIVING THEIR DEFENSE OF LIFE, THE 25 YARD PUNT, WE HEAD DOWNSTAIRS TO JOHN NELSON.
JOHN WINNER AT THIS ONE GETS WINNER OF CONQUEST AND NORCROSS RIGHT NOW.
SCORE STILL THE SAME THREE.
NOTHING CAUGHT WITH LEADING.
SECOND QUARTER, SHOW YOU THE 5A BRACKET REALLY QUICKLY.
ONE SURPRISE, ONE MAY BE A SURPRISE BUT JUST BECAUSE OF THE SCORE RIGHT NOW, CREEKSIDE BEATING CAL 14 3 IN THE SECOND QUARTER, GAINESVILLE UP 14-NOTHING OVER TUCKER.
QUARTER AT HALLFORD MORE UPDATES AS WE GO, GUYS.
WOW, NOW PEEL AND YOU'RE PRETTY FOND OF THAT TUCKER DEFENSE.
I AM 14, NOTHING BAD, BUT HAVE VERY GOOD FOOTBALL PLAYER THAT SECONDARY SANDERS FREE SAFETY FOR AND IT'S BEEN THE CJ LEGGETT SHOW ON OFFENSE SO FAR FOR THE NORTH GWINNETT.
BULLDOGS, THEY'LL PICK UP FIVE ON FIRST DOWN, SECOND DOWN AND FIVE FROM THE 18 YARD LINE.
AND HE'S UP OVER 100 YARDS, 103 ON THE NIGHT TO BE EXACT AND THERE'S STILL 11 MINUTES TO GO HERE IN THE SECOND QUARTER.
SO NUMBER SEVEN, WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF TONIGHT WHERE WE HAVEN'T SEEN A LOT OF IS HATE INSPIRE, DROPPING BACK TO PASS AFTER THAT INTERCEPTION ON HIS FIRST PLAY FROM SCRIMMAGE.
HERE HE GOES PASSING AND IT'S HIS TIGHT END.
DANIEL LIMIT OR BABY, CAUGHT THE GAME-WINNING PASSED LAST WEEK WITH A MINUTE 13 TO GO.
THIS TIME HE TAKES A COUPLE STABS AT THIS ONE AND EVENTUALLY HAULS IT IN, BUT IT WILL BE SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN, THIRD DOWN IN ONE.
GOOD THING HE COULD HOLD HELD ON.
THAT BALL BECAUSE I COULD HAVE BEEN A TURNOVER OR BIG PLAY FOR THE DEFENSE ON THE, ON THE, ON THE DEFENSE SIDE WORE A BIG HIT, YOU KNOW, GREAT JOB BIGGEST SURPRISE ON OFFENSE THIS YEAR FOR HIM.
AND THERE GOES LIKE IT AND HE RUNS OVER REMOTELY PARSONS IN THE SHOVED OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 35 YARD LINE.
A BIG FIRST DOWN, PICK UP FOR NORTH GWINNETT AND LEG.
IT CONTINUES TO BE THE STORY HERE IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
WHAT THING?
THAT MAKES THIS OFFENSE CHILDREN.
ONE THING THE REASON WHY LEGGED IS OVER 100 YARDS SO FAR IS THIS OFFICE ONLINE AND IT'S ZONE BLOCKING SCHEME.
TEAM THAT YOU DON'T SEE A LOT OF OFFENSIVE GUARDS PULLING, BUT YOU SEE THE OFFICE OF TACKLES USING FINESSE BLOCKING ON THE DEFENSIVE ENDS OF MCEACHERN, GIVING A LEGGED OPPORTUNITY TO PICK WHAT HOLES MUST REALLY GO INTO.
IT'S A VERY NICE JOB BY THE OFFENSIVE LINE.
NOW INSPIRE MOVES LIKE IT OVER FROM HIS LEFT TO HIS RIGHT.
THAT'S OUR MOMS ARE BROWN AND MOTION SPIRES.
LOOKING THAT WAY TO HIS RIGHT TO OUT, MONZA BROWN AND INCOMPLETE AT THE 37-YARD LINE LITTLE BIT BEHIND NUMBER EIGHT ON THAT PASS.
TRYING TO GET SOMETHING, SHORT SHORT, AND SWEET, SOMETHING SIMPLE TO MOVE THAT CHAIN.
BALL A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH AND BEHIND HIS TARGET.
AND HAYDEN SPIRE CHECKING THAT.
CHART ON HIS ARM ON HIS FOREARM COACHING STAFF.
FOR NORTH GWINNETT WAS SIGNALING A NUMBER.
HE'LL OPEN THAT SUCKER UP AND LOOK AND CHECK THE PLAY.
THEN HE GETS HIS TROOPS LINED UP AND THIS TIME IT'LL BE FOR A SECOND DOWN AND TEN PLAY WITH 10:41 TO GO IN THE SECOND QUARTER.
TAKES THE SNAP DROPS BACK HAS TIME AND YOU GET DOUBLE COVERAGE LOOKING FOR ALMANZO BROWN AGAIN AND GLENN FRAZIER, JUST MISSED AN INTERCEPTION.
JUST A VERY NICE JOB BY THIS MECHANIC FROM DEFENSE TO GUYS THEY'RE REACTING TO THE BALL.
HEY ONE THING BY LINEBACKER.
YOU.
SIT IN THAT.
YOU SIT IN THAT HOLE, YOU CHOP YOUR FEET, YOUR CHOP, YOUR FEET.
ONCE THE QUARTERBACK COMMIT, YOU TURN THOSE SHOULDERS.
YOU, AND YOU DRIVE DOWN HERE, IT'S A VERY NICE JOB.
YOU SEE NUMBER FOUR COMING IN, RIGHT?
IN AFTER, AT THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN, HE DROPPED THE FOOTBALL, THOUSANDS COACH.
IF YOU GIVE ME TEN PUSH-UPS RIGHT NOW, FRAZIER'S A BILL ALL OVER THE FIELD TONIGHT HE STRIPS EJ LEGGETT ON NORTH GWINNETT /DRIVE AND HE'S DARN NEAR INTERCEPTED TWO PASSES HERE ON THIS DRIVE AND THE KITCHENS DEFENSE IS SIGNALING OFFSIDES.
ALL-STAR AND IT IS.
IT'S A FALSE START FLOWING NORTH WHATEVER.
THAT'LL PUSH HIM BACK THIRD DOWN.
SO WHAT WAS THIRD DOWN AND LONG AS NOW THIRD DOWN AND LONGER AND NORTH GWINNETT IS HAVING A HARD TIME SUSTAINING THINGS HERE.
IN THE FIRST, HALF SCREEN DOWN, DRAW DOWN.
THEY DEFINITELY HAVE CJ LEG IS DEFINITELY A GO-TO GUY FOR THEM.
LOOK FOR SCOTT ON THE OUTSIDE OR LOOK FOR DEEP BALL.
NATE GROUND SOMEONE, HE HASN'T CONNECTED CONNECT WITH YET TONIGHT SO FAR.
3015 FROM THE 30.
AND NORTH GWINNETT HAS CHOSEN TO GO NO-HUDDLE FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE FIRST HALF.
LESS FAR.
THAT IS BROWN AND MOTION AGAIN.
AND NOW WE'LL TURN AROUND AND RUN A DRAW AND HENRY FOR MORALE, SWALLOWS HIM UP IMMEDIATELY AND YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT KILLED.
YOU SAID IT WAS A DRAWDOWN AND I THINK NUMBER 15 DO IT TOO?
YEAH.
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE A DEFENSIVE END AND I COULD NUMBER 15.
HIS HENRY DOES A GREAT JOB BY JUST READING THOSE HIGH HAT, SO SLOW.
THAT'S THOSE OFFERS TESTICLES WHAT THEY HAVE.
BIG, LET YOU GO UP THE FIELD YOU HATE.
IT'S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
SLOW YOURSELF DOWN.
LOOK FOR THE RUNNING BACK AND HE DID A GREAT JOB BY SMITH AND THAT ONE OUT THERE.
TREY THE MORULA HEADING TO LOUISVILLE AT 103, TACKLES AS A DEFENSIVE END COMING INTO THE GAME AND HERE'S BRAD HARVEY AND OVER IN RUGBY STYLE, KICK TJ ROBINS GOING TO TAKE IT UP ON THE BACKS, THE 27-YARD LINE LOOKING FOR A SCENE, BUT THEY SWALLOW HIM UP AT THE 30-YARD LINE, 42-YARD PUNT.
AND A SIX YARD RETURN.
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FIRST DOWN AND TEN FOR MCEACHERN IN A TIE BALL GAME FROM THE 31 YARD LINE AND NOW CLEMENS IN AT QUARTERBACK.
AND THE GEAR.
THIS IS THE TAJ GRIFFIN AND HE HITS THE SECOND LEVEL IN A HURRY.
AND THE BALL HITS THE GROUND AND IT'S FALLEN ON.
BYE LUCE AND KADHI, THE LEFT TACKLE AND HE JUST SAVED A TURNOVER.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE KITCHENS FIRST.
THAT'S WHY YOU RUN TO THE FOOTBALL.
IF YOU OFF AS A LAMB, YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THAT BALL IS GOING TO POP OUT.
SOMEONE'S GONNA COME IN AND GET THEIR HAND AND HIT THE RUNNING BACK FROM BEHIND, RUN TO THE FOOTBALL.
GOOD THINGS HAPPEN.
WHEN YOU RUN TO THE FOOTBALL SECOND DOWN AND SIX AFTER THE CARRY AND A FLAG COMES IN, BEFORE WE CAN GET OFF THE SECOND DOWN.
PLAY FROM THE BACK JUDGE.
SNAPPING FRACTION ON THE OFFENSE FIVE YARD PENALTY.
STILL SECOND DOWN.
THEY CALL SNAP INFRACTION ON MCEACHERN THAT WILL BACK THEM UP.
AND NORMALLY THE SNAP INFRACTION.
PENALTY MEANS THAT THE CENTER WAS MOVING BEFORE I SNAP THE FOOTBALL.
NOW, CLEMENS TAKES A SNAP THROWS IT OUT TO WHO HAS BEEN THE GO-TO GUY SO FAR IN THE FIRST HALF.
AND THAT'S TJ, RAHMING ALREADY WITH A TOUCHDOWN, BUT THIS TIME YOU SWALLOWED UP IMMEDIATELY BY NUMBER 24, A REAL FUR.
IT'S A VERY, VERY GOOD DEFENSIVE PLAY BANG, BANG EFFORT.
THAT'S WHAT YOU REALLY WANT FROM YOUR DEFENSIVE BACKS.
WE TALK ABOUT.
THEY HAVE TO HAVE THE BEST GAME WITH HER LIFE TONIGHT.
THEY'RE DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB JUST BY CONTAINING THESE GUYS SO FAR AS COURT, SO NOW, THIRD DOWN, WE'LL CALL IT 10.
YOU GOT TO GET 41 YARD LINE FOR A FIRST DOWN HAWKMAN'S IN.
NOW STEPS UP IN THE POCKET, FLINGS IT DOWN THE FIELD AND IT'S CAUGHT AND IT LOOKS LIKE TIED IN TRACE GOT AND IT IS.
AND IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR A MCEACHERN FIRST DOWN AND IT'S INSIDE AND WORK WHEN THAT TERRITORY A 19 YARD PITCH AND CATCH FROM NUMBER 10.
THE NUMBER 9, TO TALK ABOUT TEXTBOOK AND THIS YOUNG MAN IS JUST A FRESHMAN, LOOK AT HIM WORK, HIS FEET, LOOK AT HIM, JUST STAND IN THE POCKET, HE THROWS THAT DART ACROSS THE MIDDLE TO ONE OF HIS FAVORITE TARGETS THE TIDE IN.
TRE SCOTT ON A VERY NICE PLAY.
NOT BAD COVER.
IT'S EITHER BY BOBBY YOUNG BUT HOCKMAN.
PUT IT WHERE YOUNG COULDN'T GET IT TO IT.
BUT TRACE GOT COULD, AND NOW MCEACHERN TRYING TO MOUNT A DRIVE, IT'S HOCKMAN AGAIN, THROWS IT TO THE OUTSIDE, COMPLETED PASS, AND TACKLE DOWN AT THE 39 YARD LINE.
THAT'S ARTIS CLARK, THE STARTING WIDE RECEIVER WHO JUST RECENTLY MOVED INTO THE STARTING WIDE RECEIVER POSITION.
THIS GUY'S BEEN A GOOD SHOT IN THE ARM HERE IN THE PLAYOFFS FOR MCEACHERN HOCKMAN, APPROACHING 1,000 YARDS PASSING ON THE YEARS AND HE HAS EVEN PLAYED THE WHOLE FOOTBALL SEASON.
THIS GUY HAS SO MUCH UP, BRING IS GOING TO BE A BIG-TIME LEADER FOR THIS, MCEACHIN OFFICE FOR YEARS TO COME.
HARD TO BELIEVE, HE'S JUST A FRESHMAN.
TRY TO LEAD HIS TEAM TO A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
AND THERE IS NUMBER SEVEN PUTTING ON MOVE AFTER MOVE AND ALL THAT TO PICK UP TWO YARDS.
BUT IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR AN INDIAN FIRST DOWN.
AND SPEAKING OF HOCKMAN BEING JUST A FRESHMAN TAJ GRIFFIN IS JUST A JUNIOR.
HE'S AT THE GYM AND LOOK HOW HE RUNS WITH.
INTENSITY, I LOVE THE INTENSITY LEVEL IS VERY HARD TO TACKLE, SOMEONE WHO HAS SO MUCH VERSATILITY ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD, IT HAD TO BE DISCIPLINED WHEN YOU BRING SOMEONE LIKE THAT.
YOU HAVE TO WRAP THEM UP AS YOU CAN TELL, IF YOU DON'T WRAP THEM UP, HE'S GOING TO GET OFF YOUR VERY FAST.
FIRST DOWN UNTIL NOW FOR THE INDIANS.
AT THE 37 YARD LINE AND MCEACHERN IS GOING TO TAKE A TIME OUT COACHING STAFF.
CALL ME YOUNG MAN OVER.
OBVIOUSLY, THEY SAW SOMETHING IN THE ALIGNMENT, THEY WANT TO TALK OVER.
SO A 718 TO GO BEFORE HALF, THEY UNDERSTAND HOW CRITICAL THIS DRIVE IS AND WE'LL CHECK IN DOWNSTAIRS AND GET SOME MORE SCORING UPDATES FROM JOHN NELSON.
ALL RIGHT, GUYS.
UPDATING THE GAME FOR THE WINNER OF THIS.
ONE, GETTING THE WINNER OF COLQUITT COUNTY AND NORCROSS, COLQUITT COUNTY.
ANOTHER FIELD GOAL ON THE BOARD.
6-NOTHING, SECOND QUARTER IN QUAD A COUPLE OF SURPRISES, ON THE LEFT-HAND, SIDE OF THE BRACKET, IT'S GRIFFIN AND WAYNE COUNTY RIGHT NOW.
WAYNE COUNTY LEADING AT GRIFFIN 14-6 SECOND.
MARIST IN CARROLLTON ARE TIED AT 7 AS THEY ARE HEADING TO THE HALF MORE SCORES AS WE GO.
NEXT UP, MAYBE AAA GUYS.
ALRIGHT THANKS NELLIE WE APPRECIATE YOU.
KEEPING US UPDATED.
AND KEELAN THINGS HAVE SLOWED DOWN A BIT.
WE GOT OFF TO QUITE A HOT START.
IT WAS LIKE THE TWO TEAMS WERE FIRED OUT OF A CANON BUT THINGS HAVE SETTLED DOWN A LOT HERE IN THE SECOND QUARTER.
BOTH TEAMS ARE SELLING IN TRAY.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THIS TYPE OF ATMOSPHERE, YOU LOOK AT THE STAIRS AND, HEY, THIS IS WHOEVER WINS FOOTBALL GAMES GOING TO STATE, YOU CREATE MEMORIES, AND YOU GOT A LOT OF EMOTIONS, BUT BALLED UP ON THE DEFENSE SIDE AND OFF AND SIDE.
AND BOTH OF THESE TEAMS ARE REALLY GETTING INTO THEIR GAME PLAN.
THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
ONCE YOU GET INTO YOUR GAME PLAN, YOU CAN STRATEGIZE COACHES, GO BACK AND FORTH ON THE WALKIE TALKIES, THEY GET THEIR PLAYERS TO RIGHT INFORMATION.
SO NOW YOU CAN REALLY START TO SEE SOME REALLY GOOD FOOTBALL FOR BOTH TEAMS.
BOTH TEAMS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MOVE THE BALL AND YOUR STOCK MEET.
AGAIN, A BEAUTIFUL THROW BY THE LEFT-HANDER, THEN AGAIN, IT'S TRE SCOTT IS MOMENTUM.
CARRIES HIM OUT OF BOUNDS WITH THE 24 YARD LINE.
IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR AN INDIAN'S FIRST DOWN, AND SCOTT WHO CAME INTO THE FOOTBALL GAME, WHICH IS THREE RECEPTIONS ON THE YEAR, HAS TO, IN THIS DRIVE, TALK ABOUT ONE OF MY KEYS TO TALK ABOUT FINDING SOME BALANCE OF RUN PAST BOUND.
AND ALSO FINDING SOME SOME STABILITY IN THESE TWO QUARTERBACKS SYSTEMS RIGHT NOW.
YOU CAN SEE HOCKMAN THROWING TO FIRST DOWNS AND NOW GUESS WHO COMES IN THE GAME?
SOMETHING OFF THE RECORD HERE, TIE CLEMENS TO MOVE.
THOSE CHAINS TO TRY.
HOPEFULLY TO GET ANOTHER TOUCHDOWN AND CONSISTENT PART IS CAUSE GRIFFIN'S IN THE BACKFIELD, BUT NOW CLEMENS TRYING TO IMPROVISE AND THROWS IT TOWARD THE END ZONE.
AND THIS ONE WAS CAUGHT, THEY SAY BY TJ ROBBING AND THEY'LL GIVE HIM THE TOUCHDOWN.
THE TOUCHDOWN PASS AND CATCH FROM CLEMENS TO ROMNEY, BUT WE HAVE A FLAG ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE 35 YARD LINE AND I'D LIKE TO SEE A REPLAY OF THAT TOUCHDOWN AS WELL IF IT STAYS BECAUSE IT CERTAINLY LOOKED LIKE THE BALL MAY HIT THE GROUND.
AS YOU SEE THE HOLDING ON THE OFFENSE, TEN-YARD, PENALTY, FROM THE SPOT OF THE FOUL REPLAY FIRST DOWN AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE REPLAY, THE HOLDS VERY OBVIOUS AS CLEMEN, FAKES, THE GIVE AND IT'S ON RAY ST. AMOUR BEING HELD CHANDLER JONES AND THAT'S GOING TO TAKE A TOUCHDOWN OFF THE BOARD.
THAT'S THEIR FOURTH PENALTY ON OFF, INSIDE A BALL, AS YOU CAN TELL THAT HE WAS DOWN THERE APPROACHING THAT, THAT RED ZONE.
NOW THE STARTING RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD, THE BACK THE BALL, ALL THE WAY UP TO THE 45 YARD LINE.
SO, FIRST DOWN AND 30 ARE NO TRADE, MISSED OUT ON SOMETHING THERE AND THERE IS CLEMENS BALL UP IN THE AIR UP FOR GRABS TO WHEN IT COMES DOWN WITH IT MIDFIELD, INTERCEPTED BY NUMBER 18, ELIJAH EDWARDS, THE JUNIOR DEFENSIVE BACK.
AND FINALLY, A BIG PLAY FOR THE NORTH GWINNETT DEFENSE.
HERE YOU GO, THIS, THE SCREEN DOWN, RIGHT HERE.
TRYING TO KICK THE BALL TO THE NUMBER ONE GUY.
AS GRIFFIN IN THIS GET TIP BUT NO OTHER NUMBER 95, DANTE SAWYER.
THE HEART SOLD THEIR DEFENSE IS COMING UP MAKING A BIG TIME PLAY FOR THEIR DEFENSE.
AND THERE YOU SEE, ELIJAH EDWARDS, JUST COMING UP AND TAKING THE BALL RIGHT OUT OF THE AIR AND CREATING THE FIRST TURNOVER OF THE GAME FOR MCEACHERN.
AND NOW, ITS FIRST DOWN AND 10 AT THE 45 YARD LINE FOR HAYDEN SPIRE AND COMPANY, THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO MOVE THE BONE.
THEY'VE DONE IT LARGELY ON THE LEGS OF NUMBER 7, BUT HERE SPIRE THROWING IT, I'M ON JOE BROWN AND HE IS POUNCED ON IT'S OBVIOUSLY IT'S ACTUALLY NATE BROWN AND IT'S TACKLED BY NICK TO MASSIMO THE LINEBACKER AND THAT'S NATE BROWNS FIRST TOUCH OF THE GAME.
HE IS ONE OF THE MOST DYNAMIC WIDE RECEIVERS AND ALL OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL AND HE'S FINALLY BEING INTEGRATED INTO THE GAME PLAN HERE.
TONIGHT.
THIS A DESPERADO SCREEN FOR NATE BROWN IS GETTING HIM, SOMETHING VERY NICE HYPERTENSION, HIGH PERCENTAGE, SAFE ROUTE COMING ACROSS THE MIDDLE, TO GET BACK UPFIELD TO GET SOME POSITIVE YARDAGE.
SO A 7-YARD GAIN ON FIRST DOWN BRINGS UP SECOND DOWN AND THREE BALL IS INSIDE, MCEACHERN, TERRITORY AND SPIRE.
JUST THROWS IT AWAY TO AVOID THE INTERCEPTION, AND IT'S DE MASSIMO AGAIN, COVERING NATE BROWN.
JUST VERY NICE COVERAGE SACK, I LIKE TO CALL THEM, YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING THERE, YOU FORCED A QUARTERBACK TO THROW IT DOWN NICE, GOOD PRESSURE BY THE, BY THE DEFENSIVE LINE AND A VERY GOOD JOB BY THE SECONDARY COVERING UP FOR ACROSS THE MIDDLE.
YOU LOOK AT NATE BROWNS, NUMBERS, 50 55 RECEPTIONS, 984 YARDS ON A YEAR, IN 19 TOUCHDOWNS ON THE YEAR, HUH?
NORTH GWINNETT.
ONLY ONE OF THREE ON THIRD DOWN CONVERSION SO FAR TONIGHT.
WE'RE TAKING THEIR FOURTH CRACK AT IT AND WHY NOT WITH NUMBER SEVEN IN THE BACKFIELD.
A BIG FIRST DOWN FOR NORTH GWINNETT AND LEG.
IT'S ALL THE WAY DOWN AT THE 40 YARD LINE FOR A 12-YARD GAIN.
NOTHING TO DO A REALLY GOOD JOB IN THIS PULLING.
THOSE OFTEN CIGARS ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF THAT OFFICE.
THIS GUILLOTINE TO SEE THEM OFFICE ATTACK WITHOUT THEIR GUARD IS COMING ON UP MR. CHANGING JOSHUA CHANGI, CLEARING THAT HOLE FOR THE FIRST DOWN FOR CJ LEGGETT AND THAT'S 120 YARDS.
RUSHING FOR BIG NUMBER 7, AND IT GETS IT AGAIN.
AND LOOK AT HIM DRAG, MCEACHERN INDIANS WITH HIM, DOWN TO THE 34, A 5-YARD GAIN ON FIRST DOWN, AND NOW DEFENSIVE PERSONNEL, STARTING TO SWAP OUT A BIT FOR MCEACHERN.
AND THERE'S LEGGETT'S NUMBERS.
14 CARRIES FOR 195, AND A TOUCH.
GAME.
KNOTTED UP AT SEVEN OF PEACE, WITH 528 TO GO HERE IN THE SECOND TALK TO COACH.
BOB SPIRE THIS WEEK.
WE TALKED ABOUT SUCCESS OF THIS OFFENSE ALIGNED SAY THEY REALLY HAVE STEPPED UP, ESPECIALLY IN THE POSTSEASON HAS FOOTBALL CLUB AND THE END.
HE JUST SO SURPRISED AND HOW THEY'RE RELENTLESS AND THEIR WORK ETHIC IS REALLY HELP THEM AND THEIR RUNNING GAME.
MCEACHERN MOVES SOUTHERN GUYS INTO THE BOX TO STOP LEGGETT AND THEY DO.
BUT THERE IS ALSO A FLAG DOWN, TACKLE MADE IN THE BACKFIELD BY ANDREW TARVER AND MACKENZIE BILLINGSLEY.
SOME HARD-HITTING GOING ON DOWN THERE ON THAT DEFENSIVE LINE.
NOW THEREFORE FORM TRAY ILLEGAL MOTION ON THE OFFENSE FAMILY, IT'S THE CLIMB.
ILLEGAL MOTION.
YOU HEARD HIM PENALTY DECLINED?
AND HERE'S THE REPLAY OF THE NICE.
TACKLE FOR LOSS BY BILLINGSLEY AND TARVER.
WE TALKED ABOUT IT AT THE TOP OF OUR BROADCAST, PROBABLY THE BEST DEFENSIVE LINE.
AT LEAST THE BEST DEFENSIVE LINE THAT WE'VE SEEN HERE ON GPB THE SEASON WITH FAMILY RUA.
ANDREW TARVER, JULIAN, ROCHESTER AND MACKENZIE BILLINGSLEY AND THERE YOU SEE.
BIG NUMBER 98, 6 3250, THIRD DOWN AND EIGHT PLAY ACTION.
THEY'LL PITCH IT OUT TO ALMANZO BROWN, AND HE'LL THROW IT DOWN THE FAR SIDELINE.
HE'S GOT A MAN STREAKING, AND IT'S PICKED OFF BY THE FREE SAFETY, CHRISTIAN FORD AND HE'S DOWN THE FAR SIDELINE ALL THE WAY TO THE 23-YARD LINE.
THE THIRD TURNOVER OF THE NIGHT FOR NORTH GWINNETT TO TALK ABOUT BIG TIME PLAYERS SHOWING UP IN BIG TIME GAMES.
KRISTEN FOR JUST COMING OUT OF NOWHERE, JUST MAKING AN UNBELIEVABLE INTERCEPTION.
IT'S WHAT WILL YOU THROW THAT BALL UP AND YOU LEAVE IT UP IN THERE TOO?
TOO LONG.
HE BEAT THE SET, HE BEAT THE CORNERBACK BUT JUST SAFETY IS THERE TO BACK THEM UP.
THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
THAT'S WHY YOU'RE THE LAST MAN STANDING THAT SECONDARY NOBODY GETS BEHIND YOU SO YOU CAN MAKE PLAYS LIKE THAT WHEN THE QUARTERBACK DOESN'T DO HIS JOB.
AND BELIEVE ME, NORTH GWINNETT HAS BEEN DRIVING THE BALL EVERY TIME THEY'VE TOUCHED IT TONIGHT AND YOU SEE THE TURNOVER STORY 3 FOR NORTH GWINNETT, ONE FOR MCEACHERN COMING ON THEIR LAST POSSESSION.
AND TWO INTERCEPTIONS BY HATE INSPIRE AND A FUMBLE BY CJ.
LEGGETT HAS MADE THIS THE GAME THAT IT IS RIGHT NOW.
IT'S 727.
AND THERE IS NUMBER TWO, AGAIN, WITH A NICE CARRY ON FIRST DOWN FOR SIX YARDS.
WE'VE GOT A PLAYER WITHOUT A HELMET FOR MCEACHERN AND THE PLAYER IN THE HELMET ARE SEPARATED BY ABOUT 30 YARDS.
THAT'S NEVER GOOD.
THAT'S NEVER GOOD.
HE SHOULD HAVE HIS CHIN STRAP, BULK IT UP A LITTLE BIT TIGHTER, 79 CENTER, CJ NORELL, ENDED UP DOWN AT THE 35.
YARD LINE IS SUMMIT WAS BACK IN THE 15TH AND HE GETS THE HEAD GEAR BACK ON AND WE RESUME PLAY, IT'LL BE SECOND DOWN AND TWO FROM THE 31-YARD LINE.
THEY CAN SEE TY CLEMENS, THEY'RE HAVING A LITTLE BIT AFTER THAT LAST PLAY.
THIS IS A NICE AGGRESSIVE TACKLE BY THE DEFENSE AND YOU KNOW WHAT A THAT'S WHAT YOU POST TO DO.
YOU HIT THEM HARD.
SEE WHAT WE SEE WHAT HE'S MADE OF AND RIGHT NOW AS WE HAVE A BRIEF STOP AT, SHE'S REACHING DOWN AND GRABBING THAT RIGHT ANKLE AND NOW KICKING HIS TOE INTO THE TURF.
AND HE IS IN CONSIDERABLE PAIN.
GOOD THING, HALF TIMES, COMING UP, GOING INSIDE TO SEE WHAT YOUR TRADE IS.
HALFHAND.
CJ NORRELL HAS TO COME OFF THE FIELD BECAUSE HE LOST HIS HEADGEAR AND THAT'S WHY THEY STOPPED IT.
SO HE'LL AT LEAST FOR THIS PLAY AND CHECKING IN IN HIS STEAD WILL BE AUSTIN.
GREG, THE JUNIOR AND THERE YOU SEE A SHOT AT I CLEMENS TO HAS THAT HIGH ANKLE SPRAIN, WHICH YOU HEAR SO MUCH THESE DAYS AND IT'S JUST PRETTY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE TO REHAB FROM IN SEASON.
YES IT IS.
THIS IS VERY HARD.
I HAVE ONE OF THEM, MY SOPHOMORE YEAR IN COLLEGE.
SHE WAS TELLING YOU, IT TAKES YOU AWAY FROM BEING AGGRESSIVE WHEN YOU REALLY WANT TO.
AND SPEAKING OF AGGRESSIVE, THE DEFENSIVE FRONT FOR NORTH POLE ANNETTE SWALLOWS UP TAJ GRIFFIN.
AND I DON'T THINK HE MADE IT TO THE FIRST DOWN MARKER NEEDED TO GET.
TO THE 46 YARD LINE, AND HE'LL BE ABOUT A YARD SHY ITS FOURTH DOWN IN ONE.
WHAT ARE THE INDIANS DO?
HERE'S THE HEAVY PACKAGE, HOW DOES A TUB IS IN THE GAME DIRECT SNAP SHOW UP OUT OF THE WILDCAT AND HE DOESN'T GET IT ON RAY ST. AMOUR AND COMPANY.
STIFFEN UP WHEN THEY NEED TO.
AND THEY'LL BE JUST A LITTLE BIT SHY, NOT A BAD IDEA.
LOSE EACH OTHER HAS BEEN THERE FULLBACK FOR MOST OF THE SEASON AND NORTH GWINNETT STEEL FENCE HAS STEPPED UP HUGE ON THE LAST TWO POSSESSIONS.
IT'S NOW FORTH IN ABOUT A HALF YARD, DID YOU SEE THIS DEFENSE REALLY GET PENETRATION OFF THE EDGE THAT YOU CAN SEE NUMBER THREE COMING ON IN THERE, MAKING SOME EFFORT, ROBERT PELLA CELLO, THAT'S WHAT YOU REALLY WANT SELLING OUT FOR YOU DEFENSE AND THEY'RE GOING TO MEASURE THIS ONE.
NELSON.
WHAT DO YOU GOT DOWN THERE ON THE SIDELINE?
EAGLE-EYE SAYS HE'S ABOUT LENGTH OF THE FOOTBALL SHORT.
MORE THAN THAT.
NOT BAD, JOHN ABOUT A FOOTBALL LINKS SHY EITHER WAY, THEY'RE GOING TO BE JUST A BIT SHORT AND THAT MEASUREMENT GAVE HOW HOCKMAN AND COMPANY A CHANCE TO THINK OVER THEIR STRATEGY HERE WITH THREE MINUTES TO GO BEFORE HALF IN A TIE FOOTBALL GAME HEALING, DO YOU RISK GOING FOR IT?
HERE, I'M TELLING YOU.
YEAH, LOOK YOU WANT THE ONE THING.
YOU DEFENSE PLAYING FAIRLY WELL, YOU GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITY.
IF YOU DON'T GET, IF YOU DON'T GET THE FIRST DOWN YOU GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITY ON THE SHORT FIELD.
THEY WANT TO GO FOR IT RIGHT HERE.
WE KNOW HE'S A PHYSICAL BATTLE, WE KNOW THEY HAVE THE MANPOWER TO DO IT.
TRYING TO DRAW NORTH GWINNETT OFFSIDES.
AND THE BULLDOG FRONT FOR VERY DISCIPLINE HERE.
AND IT'S A TIMEOUT FOR MCEACHERN.
SO A GREAT JOB BY THE NORTH GWINNETT DEFENSE WILL TAKE A TIMEOUT TO WITH TWO MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS TO GO BEFORE HALF-TIME.
IT'S A TIE GAME HERE AND POWDER SPRINGS.
KNOTTED UP AT SEVEN APIECE.
TIE BALL GAME.
7, A PIECE HERE LATE IN THE SECOND QUARTER AND THERE YOU SEE COACH BOB SPIRE DOWN ON THE SIDELINES.
ONE OF THE MOST GRATIFYING PARTS ABOUT BEING A HEAD COACH IN THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.
YOU GET TO SEE THE GUYS, YOU COACHED MOVE ON TO PLAY BIG-TIME COLLEGE, FOOTBALL GAME.
THE TOP TWO GUYS ON THAT LIST RIGHT THERE.
CJ, UZOMA AND AUSTIN SHEPARD.
BOTH PLAYED IN ONE OF THE BEST GAMES ANYBODY'S EVER SEEN DOWN HERE IN THE SEC.
LAST WEEK AS YOU ZOOM HAS ON THE SIDELINES AT AUBURN AND AUSTIN, SHEPARD MUCH TO HIS CHAGRIN WAS ON THE AND FOR BAMA AND OUR OWN JOHN NELSON, WAS THERE?
WHAT A CRAZY GAME NELLY?
AND THE BEST PART OF IT WAS THAT THE QUARTERBACK FOR THE AUBURN TIGERS.
NICK MARSHALL FROM WILCOX COUNTY.
SO YOU HAD AT LEAST EIGHT TO TEN GUYS WHO WERE HUGE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL.
THE FRONT LINE FOR AUBURN LAWSON FROM MILTON GABE RIGHT FROM CARVER COLUMBUS.
NICK MARSHALL UZOMA WANT TO TALK ABOUT A GEORGIA INFLUENCE ON BOTH OF THOSE ROSTERS.
IT'S HUGE AND IT IS AWESOME.
THANK YOU JOHN, I'M SURE KILLING WITCHES.
WE CAN JUST BUILD A BIG TALL, FENCE AROUND THE STATE AND KEEP ALL THOSE GUYS RIGHT HERE.
UGA, I'M HOME MAN.
I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH YOU.
SO MCEACHERN IS GOING THE CONSERVATIVE ROUTE AND THEY'RE PUNTING THE FOOTBALL.
THE WAY HERE ON FOURTH DOWN AND SHORT POSITION GAME HERE, KNOW THEY GO FOR A FAKE AND THEY PICKED IT UP.
BIG TIME.
IT'S GRAHAM FRASER RIGHT UP THE GUT, BUT A FLAG IS DOWN AT THE 31 YARD LINE.
OH MY GOODNESS, THEY HAD THE RIGHT NUMBER CALLED, AND HAD THEM OUT NUMBER ON THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND JUST GOT HIM WITH THE FAKE.
HOPEFULLY, IT'S ON THE DEFENSE NOT OFFENSE, AND IT IS A FALSE START ON THE OFFENSE, AND THAT IS A KILLER.
WE'VE SEEN TWO FAKE PUNTS HERE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
AND THAT'S FIVE PENALTIES FOR 30 YARDS ON THE INDIANS AND THAT ONE REALLY HURT.
IT DEFINITELY, JUST GO AHEAD AND PUNT THE BALL NOW TRAY, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE LOOK AT THE FRUSTRATION OF COACH HOCKMAN THERE.
HERE'S A GOOD SHOT OF THE FAKE PUNT DIRECT SNAP TO GLENN.
FRAZIER, IT WAS BLOCKED VERY WELL AS FRAZIER WASN'T EVEN TOUCHED, UNTIL HE WAS ABOUT 10 OR 12 YARDS AWAY FROM THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
AS YOU SAID, I'D BE SURPRISED FEELING TO SEE THEM.
TRY THAT AGAIN HERE ON FOURTH DOWN AND SIX INSTEAD OF FOURTH AND A FOOT AND IT IS NOT A GOOD POINT BY DOMINGUEZ AND IT TAKES A NORTH GWINNETT.
BOUNCE BIG TIME AND IT'S TOUCHDOWN AROUND THE 40 YARD LINE.
IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT FIELD POSITION.
HAD A START FOR NORTH GWINNETT, 12, YARD PUNT.
ANOTHER GREAT SEASON.
THE GEORGIA TRAVELER THIS FALL ON GPB WATCH.
DAVID'S ELSE, CAN THE CREW AS THEY UNCOVER MORE OF THE HIDDEN GEORGIA AND MAYBE ACROSS THE STATE OR AROUND THE CORNER.
IT'S GEORGIA TRAVELER THIS SUNDAY AT 7:00 RIGHT HERE ON GPB.
YEAH, TREY, THAT'S A GREAT SHOW, MAN.
I LOVE WATCHING THAT SHOW.
I LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY TIME I WATCH IT, MAN.
IT GOES SOME CRAZY PLACES.
THEN CRAZY TONIGHT HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS AS WELL.
FOUR TURNOVERS IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
WE'VE SEEN A COUPLE OF FAKE PUNTS AND NOW NORTH GWINNETT IN PRIME POSITION TO PUT SOME POINTS ON THE BOARD, AND TAKE THE LEAD BEFORE THE HALF ON A GREAT PASS.
BROKE UP BY RAMONA PARSONS DOWN AT THE 30 YARD LINE.
IT'S A VERY NICE FOOTBALL.
PLAY HARD BOY PARSONS THERE.
GO TO GEICO'S ALWAYS PUT HIM ON THEIR NUMBER ONE RECEIVER.
AS YOU CAN SEE HIM COMING OUT HIS BREAK, SOME HIS BODY OUT ALMOST ANOTHER INTERCEPTION FOR HIM TONIGHT.
GREAT PLAY BY THE QUARTERBACK SECOND DOWN AND TEN.
NOW, PAID INSPIRE HAVING A ROUGH.
GO OF IT.
JUST THREE COMPLETIONS ON 10 ATTEMPTS.
SO FAR HERE IN THE FIRST HALF, HE HAS PLENTY OF TIME TO THROW HERE THOUGH AND A NICE SLIDING CATCH MADE BY CALEB, SCOTT IN GOOD ENOUGH FOR A NORTH GWINNETT.
FIRST DOWN, EASILY SPIRES BEST PASS OF THE NIGHT OF 15 YARD GAIN.
THERE WAS USING THE BRACKET DEFENSE QUARTERBACK ON THE OUTSIDE SAFELY ON THE INSIDE.
SAFETY, JUST GOT A LITTLE BIT TOO HIGH ON THE ROUTE AND HE JUST MISSED OUT ON THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE UP FOR PLAY.
SPIRE ROLLING, RIGHT.
THIS TIME AND COMPLETED TO ALMANZO BROWN FORWARD PROGRESS.
MIGHT GIVE BROWNIE YARD, WHICH WILL BRING UP SECOND DOWN AND 10.
KEEP IN MIND.
NORTH GWINNETT HAS A PRETTY DOGGONE GOOD FIELD GOAL.
KICKER IN MICHAEL D ANGOLA.
NICE.
NICE STOP BY CHRISTIAN FOR COMING UP FOR THE BANG-BANG PLAY, BUT NO GAME.
AND HERE IS LEGGETT AND GOING UP AGAINST HENRY FOUND MORULA AND HE IS SWALLOWED UP AND PUSHED BACK.
HE MAY HAVE GOTTEN BACK TO THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND I'LL BRING UP THIRD DOWN AND LONG AND NOW I'M MICHAEL D. ANGOLA FIELD GOAL IS A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY.
REMEMBER THE YOUNG MAN BOOTED THROUGH A GAME WINNER?
WITH SEVEN SEX ON THE SECONDS, ON THE CLOCK VERSUS ARCHER A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.
ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE BIG TIME FOURTH-QUARTER COMEBACKS FOR NORTH GWINNETT THAT THEY'VE BECOME SO FAMOUS FOR THIS SEASON RIGHT NOW.
THE TRY TO PUT POINTS ON THE BOARD BEFORE THE HALF, THIRD DOWN, AND LONG SPIRE SIDELINE.
NICE!
CATCH THERE, MADE BY CALEB SCOTT, AND HE MAY BE JUST A BIT SHY OF THE FIRST DOWN.
HE HAD TO GET RIGHT TO THE 15 AND HE DID THE CHAIN CRUZ.
THAT'S THE ONLY SETTING THE CHANCE FIRST AND TEN AT THE 15-YARD LINE.
YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
KEY ON LOOK LIKE LOOSE FROM OUR ANGLE THAT HE WAS JUST ATTACH SHOT.
LOOK AT THAT.
NICE TO BALL THROWN.
NICE TACKLE.
THEIR SAFETY COMING UP AND THEY ACTUALLY GAVE HIM I GUESS FOR PROGRESS.
IT'S A VERY NICE PITCH AND CATCH AND THERE IS HAYDEN.
SPIRE GOING OVER TO TALK TO HIS DAD BOB SPIRE.
AND NORTH GWINNETT HAS BEEN THE CARDIAC KIDS THIS SEASON.
IT ALL STARTED BACK ON OCTOBER 11TH AGAINST MILL CREEK, 47 228.
THEY TRAILED IN THE FOURTH QUARTER THEY CAME BACK TO WIN THAT GAME AND SO THEY DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING.
THE PLAYOFFS THEY HADN'T SEEN BEFORE THEIR COOL UNDER PRESSURE AND THAT D ANGLE OF FIELD GOAL AND THE ARCHER GAME IS WHAT PUT THEM AHEAD.
AND ONE THAT FOOTBALL GAME, AND IT WAS A LAST-MINUTE TOUCHDOWN PASS BY HATE INSPIRE TO DANIEL LIMIT OR BABY WITH A MINUTE.
13 TO GO TO BE HILLGROVE LAST WEEK.
SO, NEITHER ONE OF THESE TEAMS GOT HERE EASILY.
WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
SHOWS ME THAT SHOWS ME THAT THEY KNOW HOW TO FIGHT ADVERSITY.
AND WHEN YOU HAVE A TEAM THAT THAT COMEBACK WIN CLOSE GAMES, THAT'S WHAT MAKES THESE TYPE OF GAME SO SPECIAL AND WHEN IT GETS CLOSE ON THE LINE BUT KEEP THEM THE SAME WAY.
THEY HAD TO COME BACK THE SAME WAY AND COME BACK AND WIN AS WELL.
THAT'S WHY WE CHOSE TO COME AND SEE THIS FOOTBALL CLUB.
THAT'S WHY WE CHOSE TO CALL THIS GAME THIS WEEK BECAUSE THESE GUYS ARE SIMILAR AND HOW THEY WON IN THE PREVIOUS WEEK'S IN THE PLAYOFFS.
NOW, BOTH FAN BASES WOULD TELL YOU THAT IT'S A SEASON OF DESTINY BUT UNFORTUNATELY AFTER FOR TONIGHT'S GAME, ONLY ONE TEAM OF DESTINY WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE ON FOR A CHANCE TO THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AND FOR ONE OF THESE SCHOOLS THAT WILL JUST BE THEIR SECOND EVER APPEARANCE IN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
AND NEITHER ONE OF THESE TEAMS HAS ONE IT RIGHT NOW, SPIRE AND COMPANY ARE TRYING TO PUT SOME POINTS ON THE BOARD AND TAKE A LEAD GOING INTO HALF FIRST AND TEN FROM THE 15 AND INSPIRE HANDS.
IT TO LEGGETT, AND HE'S RUNNING BEHIND HIS BLOCKERS AND BOWLING OVER BLUE SHIRTS AND THEY'LL SPOT HIM DOWN AT THE 6 YARD LINE AND I STUFF RUN FOR NUMBER 79 YARDS ON THE CARRY AGAIN THAT ZONE READ TO THE BOUNDARY BOUNDARY OF THEIR OFFENSE.
HAS ONE THING THAT YOU REALLY LIKE, THIS IS JUST A GO TO BUTTER PLAYS STRETCH PLAY, THEY LEARN TO LIKE AND LIKE JUST FIND HIS HOPE IS VERY, VERY NICE BLOCKING SCHEME BUT OFFICE ALIGNED WITH LEGGETT MOVING THOSE LEGS.
IF YOU RECOGNIZE THE NAME CJ LEGGED HE ACTUALLY PLAYED FOR CHATTAHOOCHEE LAST YEAR AND IN MY OPINION WAS A BIT UNDER UTILIZED IN THEIR OFFENSE AND NORTH GWINNETT SOFTLY.
HAPPY TO HAVE HIM.
HE IS THE PERFECT COMPLEMENT IN THIS PAST, HAPPY OFFENSE, THE YOUNG MAN IS RACKED UP.
89 YARDS COMING INTO TONIGHT.
AND IT'S WELL OVER 100 SO FAR TONIGHT.
HUNDRED.
THIRTY FOUR TO BE EXACT AND HE'S GOT EXPECTEDLY.
SO SOME BIG-TIME COLLEGE OFFERS THAT UCLA AND VANDY ARE FIGHTING FOR HIS SERVICES COMING UP AT HALF-TIME AND JUST ABOUT 24 SECONDS.
IT'S THE ARE YOU SMARTER SEGMENT?
YOUR THE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ALSO WILL CHECK IN WITH THE MARCHING BANDS AND WE'LL CHECK IN WITH GRACE OLSON WITH AN UPDATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE NIGHT, DR. DAY IT'S 200, REALLY GOOD JOB.
I JUST MILKING THAT.
CLOCK CO SPIRE JUST MAKING SURE WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE THIS.
WE KEEP IT OFF THIS NO TIME ON THE CLOCK.
WE DON'T WANT THEM DRIVING THE BALL DOWN ON US BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN IN THE WEEKS TO QUICK PAST WEEK STRAIGHT.
WE SEEN THIS OFFENSE SCORING THIS WITHIN TWO OR THREE SECONDS LEFT ON THE CLOCK.
THEY CAN DO IT, THEY CAN SCORE ANY, ANY GIVEN MOMENT?
VERY, VERY NICE PLAY CALLING BY COACH SPIRE.
SECOND DOWN AND ONE BALL AT THE SIX AND NOW, LEGGED MOVES OVER TO HATE INSPIRES RIGHT HAND SIDE TO RECEIVERS ALSO SPREAD OUT THAT WAY.
THE STRETCH PLAY, THE LEGGETT, S THIRD EFFORT, CAN'T GET INTO THE END ZONE AGAINST PICK UP A FIRST DOWN.
BUT HENRY FROM WAR, WAS THERE TO MAKE THE TACKLE AND IN HIGH SCHOOL, FIRST DOWN STOPS, THE CLOCK MOMENTARILY FOR THEM TO RE SPOT THE BALL.
AND THEY'LL HAVE TO GET ON THE BALL FROM HERE ON OUT WITHOUT THE TIMEOUTS.
THEY JUST BURN THEIR LAST ONE AND THEY GO OVER TO CHECK IN WITH BOB SPIRE AND KAHLAN.
WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT BOB SPIRE?
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT A TURNAROUND ARTIST?
HE HAS DONE THE MIRACULOUS HERE AT NORTH GWINNETT 10-WIN SEASONS EVERY YEAR THAT HE'S BEEN HERE, AN APPEARANCE IN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP BACK.
IN 2007, THE FANBASE UP THERE AND SWANNY IS CLAMORING FOR A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AND IT COULD ANY SWEETER THIS YEAR TO BE DOING IT WITH HIS SON AT QUARTERBACK.
YOU LOOK AT THEIR LAST FIVE PLAYOFF APPEARANCES ARE QUARTERS, QUARTERS QUARTERS, COUPLE SECOND ROUND EXITS.
THEY'VE HAD A HARD TIME GETTING PAST THE QUARTERFINALS, BUT THEY'RE HERE TONIGHT, WHICH MEANS THEY'VE MADE IT PAST THE QUARTERFINALS AND THEY'RE ONE STEP AWAY FROM THE DOME.
THE PAST TWO QUARTERFINALS.
ARE THEY HAVE SEEN THIS, BUT THEY LOST BY BIG MARGINS.
AND ONE THING THAT COACH TALKED ABOUT A, WE PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL HERE.
AND ONE THING THAT COACH HAS PREACHED ON THE OFFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL, IN THE DEFENSE OUT, BALL IS DETAIL WHEN YOU PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
YOU CAN'T GREAT PRODUCTION OUT OF DETAIL BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S GREAT.
EVERYBODY'S FAST.
EVERYBODY CAN DO GOOD THINGS BUT EVERYBODY CAN'T PLAY THE FOOTBALL GAME WITH THEIR MIND.
AND THAT'S ONE THING ABOUT GOING FROM A THIRD ROUND OR FULL-FRONTAL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
AND THE RAIN HAS BEGUN TO FALL AGAIN HERE AND POWDER SPRINGS FIRST, DOWN AND GOAL FOR NORTH GWINNETT WITH 17 SECONDS TO GO BEFORE HALF GAME TIED AT SEVEN APIECE.
THAT'S CALEB SCOTT IN MOTION.
SPIRE WILL ROLL OUT THAT WAY.
HE'S GOT ALL DAY TO THROW.
NOW WATCH IT UP BACK OF THE END ZONE TO CALEB SCOTT AND THEY GET IN THE TOUCHDOWN, WHAT A CATCH.
AND THAT'S ACTUALLY NATE GROUND WITHOUT THE LADDER TO MAKE THE CATCH, JUST A VERY WELL COVERED BY THE KITCHEN.
BUT SOMETIMES, WHEN DO YOU THINK THE PLAY IS OVER THE OFFICE OF RECEIVER?
THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING AND HE FINDS IN THE BACK OF THE END ZONE OVER TO SAFETY.
DB JUST LOST TRACK OF THIS, GET HIS FEET DOWN.
I'M NOT QUITE SURE IF HE GOT IT DOWN.
IT WAS REPLAYED COLLEGE AFTER HER NOT BEING A TOUCHDOWN, BUT IT IS A TEST DOWN BECAUSE HIS NUMBER REPLAY TRAY, THERE'S A VERY NICE CATCH.
VERY NICE THROW BY HATE INSPIRED TO HIS MAIN TARGET.
NICK BROWN, WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN THE STAT LINE IS THE 20TH TOUCHDOWN CATCH OF THE SEASON FOR NATE BROWN.
WE SAW HIM CATCH FOR AGAINST NORCROSS ON GPB FOOTBALL, FRIDAYS.
A FEW WEEKS AGO, HE'S A SPECIAL PLAYER AND HE'S JUST PUT THE BULLDOGS UP BY A SCORE OF 14, TO 7 WITH 11 SECONDS TO GO BEFORE THE HALF AND DESPITE THREE TURNOVERS BY NORTH GWINNETT.
THEY'VE GOT A TOUCHDOWN LEAD.
IT'S A VERY NICE JOB OF NICE ROLL OUT, DIDN'T HE?
HAVE ANYTHING THERE BUT HAGUE INSPIRE KEPT.
IT, ALIVE KUDOS TO THE OFFICE ALIGNMENT BY CREATING TIME FOR HATING ASPIRE TO FIND HIS NUMBER ONE GUY, NATE BROWN AVERAGING.
17 POINT NINE YARDS PER CATCH.
EVERY TIME HE TOUCHES THE BALL, THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE.
THIS GUY DOES SO MANY GREAT THINGS FOR THIS OFFENSE, THAT'S WHY HE'S SUCH A THREAT AND NOW LOOKING OVER AT THE STANDS ON THE FAR, SIDELINE, THE NORTH GWINNETT, FAITHFUL BACK INTO THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
THERE'S YOUR TCSG SCORING DRIVE SUMMARY, EIGHT PLAYS, 40 YARDS, A MINUTE 54, AND THE GOLD MINE IN THE BACK OF THE END ZONE IS ACTUALLY OUT OF BOUNDS AND YOU'LL SEE HIS RIGHT FOOT COME DOWN ACTUALLY ON TOP OF THAT LINE.
SO KEELAN, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
HAD THIS BEEN REPLAY ELIGIBLE OR THERE.
HAD BEEN REPLAY IN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.
THEY'LL PROBABLY NOT COUNT THAT YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY THE FACT THAT IT WAS A PHENOMENAL CATCH THOUGH.
YES, I'M GONNA CATCH.
YOU KNOW, THIS YOUNG MAN COMMITTED TO MISSOURI SEC CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND, I'M SURE HE'S GONNA PROBABLY GO CHECK THAT ONE OUT, BUT HE HAS A LOT OF COACHES IN THE STANDS UGHS HERE.
CLEMSON'S HERE JUST TO SEE HIS TALENT AND THERE IS TJ, RAHMING GOING DOWN AT THE 21 YARD LINE.
EIGHT YARD RETURN.
AND WITH FIVE SECONDS TO GO HEALING, WOULD YOU BE SURPRISED IF THEY RAN A PLAY HERE?
I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED KNOWING KNOWING MCEACHERN AND KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE ON THE SKILL POSITION AND MY MAIN MAN, TY CLEMENS AND THE TAJ, GRIFFIN AND MALIK WILLIAMS AND TJ REMING IT.
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN IT RIGHT HERE ON GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING WEEKEND, AND WEEK OUT.
AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, NUMBER TWO, IT'S GUTTING IT OUT.
FAVORING THAT RIGHT?
ANKLE SIGNIFICANTLY ON THE LAST FEW PLAYS THIS TIME.
HE'LL JUST HIT A KNEE AND THESE TWO TEAMS WILL GO TO THE LOCKER ROOM AND WILL BE NORTH GWINNETT.
WITH THE LEAD 6:46.
IT'S BEEN A WACKY.
IT'S BEEN A WACKY.
FIRST HALF, FOUR TURNOVERS THREE BY NORTH GWINNETT.
SOMEHOW THEY'VE MANAGED TO OVERCOME THAT AND THEY HAVE A SEVEN-POINT LEAD.
YEAH, DEFINITELY HAVE A SEVEN POINT LEAD AND THE REASON WHY THEY HAVEN'T A SEVEN-POINT LEAD, THEIR TOOK THEIR TIME AND DROVE THE FOOTBALL DOWN THE FIELD.
THEY TOOK WHAT?
IS MCEACHERN DEFENSE, REALLY GAVE THEM AND, AND THEY RAN THE FOOTBALL VERY WELL.
LET'S HEAD DOWNSTAIRS.
TO JOHN NELSON STANDING BY, WITH THE COACH.
I KNOW THAT THE MISTAKES DRIVE YOU CRAZY, BUT YOU'RE OUT OF HERE.
THE FIRST 24 WITH A SEVEN-POINT LEAD.
YEAH, THREE TURNOVERS.
WE HAVEN'T TURNED THE BALL OVER LATE IN THE SEASON OR IN CRUCIAL GAME.
SO JUST TO BE AHEAD AFTER THREE TURNOVERS IS, HE'S KIND OF MIRACULOUS, BE HONEST WITH YOU, GOOD FOOTBALL TEAM.
GREAT COVERAGE GUYS.
THEY'RE BETTER THAN THE SECONDARY.
I REALIZE THEY WERE AND AT THE SAME TIME DEFENSIVELY.
YOU CLAMPED DOWN ON THAT REALLY HIGH, POWERED OFFENSE.
YEAH, I'M REALLY PROUD OF OUR DEFENSE.
WE GOT 48.
FOUR MORE MINUTES.
I MEAN, THEY THEY GOT THE BALL START TO HALF AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S THEY'RE VERY DANGEROUS.
THEY CAN GO 80 AND ON ANY SNAP.
GO GET DRY.
THANK YOU.
ALL RIGHT.
SO NOT OVER TO MARK, HARMON BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE.
THE BEST DRY SEAT IN THE HOUSE.
IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO STAY DRY BECAUSE THE RAIN IS PICKING UP, THE WIND IS PICKING UP COMING UP AT HALF-TIME.
WE WILL HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN, CHEERING MARCHING BAND ALSO IN BACKROADS AND BACKFIELDS JOHN NELSON, IT'S A TRAIL.
THE SANDERS WILL TO CHECK IN WITH SOME HIGH-FLYING.
GOLDEN HAWKS GRACE OLSON WILL CHECK IN WITH SOME PROUD PARENTS AND THE SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD RIGHT NOW NORCO.
LEEDS, MCEACHERN 6:46, A TICKET TO THE DOPE ON THE LINE.
WE'RE BACK AFTER THIS.
WELCOME BACK TO WILLIAM CANTRELL STADIUM ON THE CAMPUS OF MCEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL.
WE ARE AT HALFTIME THE GHSA SEMI-FINALS, NORTH GWINNETT LEADING BY A TOUCHDOWN.
14 TO 7 AT THE HALF RIGHT NOW, GPB WANT YOU TO GET INVOLVED WITH OUR GPB APP AND ONLINE.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CORRESPONDENT.
NOW, GRACE, OLSON GRACE.
THANK YOU.
MARK THE GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCENE IS INTENSE RIGHT NOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
THIS HAS BEEN A HEATED COMPETITIVE GAME, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF OTHER SINGING FINAL GAMES ACROSS THE STATE ARE IN JUST THE SAME SITUATION.
WE'VE GOT TWEETERS ALL ACROSS THIS PEACH STATES ARE SHARING THEIR STORIES.
THEIR GAME STORIES WITH US, AND I'M GOING TO RELAY THOSE STORIES WITH YOU.
SO MAKE SURE TO LIKE, US ON FACEBOOK AND FOLLOW US ON TWITTER FOR ALL THAT INFORMATION.
NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ON TV, DID YOU KNOW, YOU CAN ALSO WATCH THE GAMES LIVE ON THE GPB FOOTBALL APP.
THERE ARE CURRENTLY NEARLY 50,000, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FANS, THE RELY ON THIS APP WEEK, IN, AND WEEK OUT.
FOUR SCORES SCHEDULES RANKINGS AND IT DOESN'T COST YOU A PENNY.
SO DONUT.
NOW FOR YOUR IPHONE OR IPAD, WE HAVE ONE TWEETER NAMED MADDIE WHO SAYS SHE'S WATCHING ON HER IPAD WHILE CAMPING WITH THE FAMILY.
HOPEFULLY MADDIE STAYING DRY BECAUSE WE SURE AREN'T HERE.
WE ALSO HAVE A TWITTER NAME.
RILEY WHO SAYS MY DECEMBER FRIDAY'S ALWAYS INVOLVE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL, BROADCASTS BY GPB SPORTS SEEMS LIKE THE NINTH STRAIGHT YEAR.
I WATCHED THOSE.
THANK YOU RILEY FOR CONTINUOUSLY WATCHING.
ALSO, WE HAVE WEATHER UPDATES.
WE'VE BEEN HAVING THEM ALL DAY LONG, ALL WEEK.
LONG COMING TO YOU ON FACEBOOK.
AND ON TWITTER, WE HAVE A METEOROLOGIST FROM THE WEATHER CHANNEL, HELPING US OUT.
SO STAY TUNED TO US FOR THESE WEATHER UPDATES.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO GET REALLY BAD IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES OR SO.
SO LIKE US ON FACEBOOK TO GET ALL OF THAT INFORMATION BACK OVER TO YOU, MARK, GREAT, THANKS SO MUCH.
IT IS WINDY, IT IS RAINY.
IN THE WEATHER, CONDITIONS ARE GOING TO IMPACT THE SECOND HALF OF THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
LOTS OF EXCITEMENT THOUGH, IN THE FIRST HALF AS NORTH GWINNETT, LEADS THIS ONE ON A LAST SECOND TOUCHDOWN, 6:46 OVER THE MCEACHERN, INDIANS IT'S NORTH GWINNETT WAS RANKED NUMBER ONE COMING INTO THIS GAME.
SO LET'S CHECK IN WITH JON NELSON IN THE BRAND, NEW SPANKIN PRINCIPLE OF NORTHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL.
NATHAN BALLENTINE JOHN.
THANK YOU MARK.
UNDER A I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'D CALL, IS THIS A GAGGLE OF UMBRELLAS FOR THIS PARTICULAR SEGMENT TIME TO CATCH UP WITH THE NEW GUY?
SO WHAT'S IT LIKE BEING THE NEW GUY?
WELL, I'LL TELL YOU FIRST.
I'M SO PROUD TO BE HERE TONIGHT AND REPRESENT NORTHBOURNE AVENUE.
ALSO HIT THE CITY OF SWANEE AND GWINNETT COUNTY AND PROUD OF OUR COACHES.
OUR GUYS ARE FAN OF MY BRAVING THIS THESE, THIS RAIN TONIGHT, BUT LAST TWO WEEKS HAVE BEEN PRETTY INTENSE YOU KNOW, I'VE COME INTO THIS KIND OF MID SEMESTER AND HAD A GOOD CHANCE TO MEET A LOT OF GREAT PEOPLE.
GREAT TEACHERS, GREAT STUDENTS AND REALLY LEARNED A GREAT FOUNDATION HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THERE ALREADY AND I'M WORKING HARD TO CAN.
MAKE SURE I CONTINUE TO GREAT LEADERSHIP EDGE SHADDIX, WHO'S THERE BEFORE ME AND CONTINUE, THE LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE.
THEY'VE ESTABLISHED, IT'S A GREAT PLACE.
I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD TO BE THERE.
ALL RIGHT.
IT IS TIME.
NOTHING LIKE THE FIRST TIME OUT OF THE BLOCKS.
HERE WE GO.
IT IS TIME TO FIND OUT IF HE IS, SMARTER THAN HIS PREDECESSOR OR JUST AS SMART AS HIS PREDECESSOR.
AND SMARTER THAN ME, IT IS TIME FOR.
ARE YOU SMARTER HER IN THE QUESTION IS VERY WET QUESTION.
THE CITY OF ATLANTA WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED TERMINUS BECAUSE IT MARKED THE END OF WHAT IS IT?
A THE END OF THE WORLD WILL HAVE THIS RING KEEPS UP.
THIS COULD BE THE CORRECT ANSWER, BE THE RAILROAD, SEE THE HUNGER GAMES OR D BIEBER FEVER, WHICH I'M SURE A LOT OF US WOULD LIKE TO MARK THE END OF WHICH IS IT.
I'M GOING TO SAY THE RAILROAD TONIGHT.
THAT IS CORRECT TERMINUS.
YOU ARE CORRECT.
YOU ARE SMARTER THAN ME AS SMART AS YOUR STUDENT'S SMARTER THAN YOUR STUDENTS.
AND THANKS FOR HANGING OUT AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE NEW GIG.
APPRECIATE IT.
THANKS SO MUCH.
GO GET DRY.
MARK, WE'RE STILL WET BACK OVER TO YOU, YOU KNOW, NATHAN DIDN'T TELL YOU THAT HE SPENT 12 YEARS NORCROSS HIGH SCHOOL.
NOW HE'S OVER AT NORTH GWINNETT.
SO BOTH THOSE TEAMS COULD MAKE IT TO THE DOME COMING UP ON THE GPB FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN HALFTIME SHOW ON THIS RAINY NIGHT.
THERE'S STILL MUCH MORE TO COME.
ANOTHER ROUND OF.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN YOUR STUDENTS, JOHN NELSON HITS THE TRAIL OF SANDERSVILLE TO CHECK IN WITH SOME HIGH-FLYING, GOLDEN HAWKS.
IT'S ALL AHEAD ON FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA 6:46 RIGHT NOW THE BULLDOGS OVER THE INDIAN STAY WITH US.
WELCOME BACK TO FOOTBALL, FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA'S HALFTIME, SHOW ON A RAINY AND WINDY NIGHT HERE IN THE SEMIFINAL ROUND OF THE GHSA CHAMPIONSHIP.
I APPLAUD, ALL THESE FANS WHO ARE HUDDLED UNDER THEIR UMBRELLAS, THEY ARE TRUE FANS, ROOTING ON THEIR TEAM.
AND HOPING THAT THE NEXT 24 MINUTES SENDS THEIR FAVORITE TEAM TO THE GEORGIA DOME.
NOW LET'S SEND IT OVER TO JOHN NELSON, WHO STANDING ALONGSIDE THE PRINCIPLE OF MCEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL.
REGINA MONTGOMERY JOHN.
THANK YOU MARK.
WE HAD A BIT OF AN ISSUE BECAUSE ONE OF THE THREE UMBRELLAS THAT WE HAVE HERE WAS A RED AND BLACK UMBRELLA AND AT ONE POINT IT WAS OVER MISS MONTGOMERY SAID, SHE SAYS, I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO DO THIS SEGMENT WITH THAT RED AND BLACK MONTGOMERY WITH THAT UMBRELLA, OVER MY HEAD BECAUSE HER UMBRELLA IS THE MCEACHERN NUMBER ALL, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE NOW OVER OUR HEAD.
OKAY, WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON?
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS TIME?
WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO TALK ABOUT, WHAT'S THE WEEK BEEN LIKE GETTING READY?
IT'S BEEN A GREAT WEEK.
WE'RE IN THE THROES OF TESTING AND TRYING TO STAY FOCUSED ON TESTING AND A FOOTBALL GAME HAS BEEN A LITTLE DIFFICULT BUT I THINK WE'RE THERE.
ALL RIGHT?
YOU'RE DOWN SEVEN, BUT IT'S TIME TO GO AHEAD AND ASK THE QUESTION.
GO AHEAD AND THROW THAT HELMET RIGHT IN HERE.
AND I WILL GRAB THE QUESTION, WHICH IS, OF COURSE, VERY WET QUESTION TO SEE IF SHE CAN GO 343 THIS YEAR.
WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL STATE AND PHIBIAN THE STATE OF JORDAN A NIGHT LIKE THIS?
THIS IS A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
IS IT A GODZILLA?
BE THE SWAMP THING?
SEE THE GREEN TREE FROG OR D THE NINJA TURTLES WHO WE'D LIKE MAYBE COULD HELP OFF THE RAIN WHICH IS IT SEE THE GREEN TREE FROG YOU ARE CORRECT, YOU ARE SMARTER THAN YOUR STUDENTS SMARTER THAN ME AND ABOUT AS WET AS I AM.
MARK, I'M GOING TO RACE OVER THERE AND MAYBE MY PHONE WILL STILL HAVE SCORES WHEN WE GET BACK.
ALRIGHT, I HOPE YOU CAN DRY OFF JUST A LITTLE BIT JOHN.
NOW IT'S TIME TO CHECK OUT SCORES FROM THE SEMIFINAL ROUND OF THE GHSA PLAYOFFS ON OUR GEORGIA.
EMC SCOREBOARD IN CLASS 6A IT IS COLQUITT COUNTY.
LEADING NORCROSS, NINE TO SEVEN AT THE HALF RIGHT HERE.
IT'S A NORTH GWINNETT AND MCEACHERN BY A TOUCHDOWN, 14-7 AT THE HALF IN CLASS.
5A, CREEKSIDE UNDEFEATED LEADING ANOTHER UNDEFEATED TEAM.
OW, 2:39 THAT GAME AT THE HALF GAINESVILLE AND TUCKER GAINESVILLE A TOUCHDOWN BETTER THAN THE UNDEFEATED IN TOP-RANKED TUCKER.
TIGERS MOVING.
NOW TO THE FOR A SEMI FINALS IT IS WAYNE COUNTY OVER UNDEFEATED GRIFFIN.
5:46 CARROLLTON LEADS MARIST 15 TO 7 AT THE HALF IN THE 3A.
SEMIFINALS BUFORD IS TRAILING CALLOWAY 6:46 THAT GAME AT THE HALF WASHINGTON COUNTY OVER RINGGOLD TONIGHT THIRTY SEVEN TO NOTHING IN THE SEAWAY FINALS.
IT HAS ADDICTING OVER LAMAR 7 TO NOTHING THAT GAME AT THE HALF.
LOVE IT LEADS BROOKE COUNTY 21 TO 6 AT THE HALF IN THE CLASS 1A PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
IT IS TIED UP RIGHT NOW, CHARLTON COUNTY AND IRWIN COUNTY IN THE SECOND QUARTER.
IT IS MARION COUNTY LEADING, HAWKINSVILLE 6:34 IN ONE A PRIVATE IT IS CALVARY DAY.
LEADING ELCA 21 TO 7 AT THE HALF AND AQUINAS LEADING MOUNT PISGAH CHRISTIAN BY.
A FIELD GOAL, TEND TO 74 COMPLETE GEORGIA SCORES FOOTBALL SCORES AND HIGHLIGHTS.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE GPB SPORTS APP ON YOUR IPHONE OR YOUR IPAD LIVE UPDATED INFO ON ALL THE TEAMS, ALL THE GAMES, ALL THE BLOGS.
WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED THERE.
SO DOWNLOAD THE GPB SPORTS APP OR VISIT GPB.ORG/SPORTS TODAY.
IT'S NOW GOING TO BE AN ACTION-PACKED YEAR ON FOOTBALL FRIDAYS.
IN GEORGIA, IT HAS BEEN AN ACTION-PACKED PLAYOFF SEASON AND WE HAVE A HALF IN ONE MORE WEEKEND TO GO ONE MORE ROUND TO GO.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK AND NEXT WEEK FRIDAY AT 2:30, WE HAVE THE SINGLE A PRIVATE SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP.
FOLLOWED BY THE 3A TITLE GAME AT 5:30 AND THE 5A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT 8:30.
THEN ON SATURDAY FOR GAMES, COMING AT YOU ON GPB, THE SINGLE A PUBLIC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME KICKS OFF AT 11:30 AT 2:30, IT'S THE DOUBLE A TITLE GAME.
5:30 THE FOR A SCHOOLS WILL GO FOR IT.
IN AT 8:30, THE 6A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AND ONE OF THE TWO TEAMS ARE WATCHING, TONIGHT WILL BE THERE ON G&P BE TIME.
NOW FOR BACK ROADS AND BACK FIELDS WITH JON NELSON.
LESSON BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE GEORGIA FARM BUREAU AND GIVE YOU A HUG RIGHT NOW.
HERE TOO WET OR TOO SLOPPY.
I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.
OKAY, WELL JOHN IS HERE AND YOU'VE GOT THE STORE OF SOME HIGH-FLYING, GOLDEN EAGLES.
YOU GAVE THE SCORE THAT RIGHT NOW.
WASHINGTON COUNTY PRETTY MUCH PUTTING IT INTO RINGGOLD, CINDERELLA, RUN, 37, NOTHING AT THE BREAK.
IN SANDERSVILLE WE WENT TO THE HOUSE OF PAIN JUST TO SEE HOW THINGS ARE SHAPING UP AS THEY PREPARED FOR GAME 13.
COACH WASHINGTON, COUNTIES OFFENSE, MOVES QUICKLY WITH AN ATTITUDE TO MATCH, JUST ASK THEIR 168 POUNDS CENTER.
PEOPLE CAN SAY THAT OTHER PEOPLE WOULD HAVE AN ADVANTAGE BECAUSE I'M SMILING.
BUT THE WHOLE THING IS JUST MAN WITH THE OFFENSE, WE RUN.
YOU GOT TO BE FAST.
THEY DOING THAT ABOUT THE SIZE, AND I DON'T CARE WHAT SIZE THE GUYS IN FRONT OF ME, MAN.
IF YOU'RE NOT FAST ENOUGH, YOU CAN BE ABLE TO STOP THE OFFENSE.
WE RUN AND AAA HAS SEEN WHAT THE GOLDEN HAWKS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO.
GETTING TO THE SEMI-FINALS.
12 WINS NEVER SCORING LESS THAN 36 POINTS IN ANY GAME THIS SEASON AND WRAPPING UP THE SCHOOL'S 14TH.
AGENT IDOL ALONG THE WAY.
IT'S LIKE THEY GET IT YOU KNOW, VERY RARELY.
DO YOU HAVE A TEAM THAT THEY TOTALLY GETS?
YOU NEED TO HAVE A TEAM THAT BUYS IN THESE GUYS MAKE GOOD DECISIONS AND TO THIS POINT AND HOPEFULLY, WE'LL KEEP MAKING THOSE DECISIONS AND THEY ENJOY PLAYING TOGETHER.
THEY COMPETE VERY HARD AND THEY'RE JUST, IT MAKES COMING TO WORK FUN.
BUT ONE OF THE, MANY SUCCESS STORIES.
IN SANDERSVILLE THIS WEEK IS PART OF A FAMILY AFFAIR, DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR, MARLO GRAY COMES HOME AND GETS TO OCCASIONALLY COACH YOUNGER BROTHER AJAY SOMETIMES THIS I GUESS IS A GREAT THING.
I LOOK AT IT.
SOMETIMES I LAUGH TO MYSELF LIKE HE WAS JUST A KID WE PLAYING IN THE YARD AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.
THE SAME THING GOES MY SISTER, I LOOK AT THEM AND SOMETIMES IT ALMOST BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES TO SEE A GOOD THING HAPPENED WITH HIM AND WHAT HE'S DOING ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD AND AJ, THE THIRD OF FOUR GOLDEN HAWK, GRAY'S, UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE WAS GETTING INTO.
BUT KNOWS WHAT BIG BROTHER'S TELLING HIM EVERY DAY AT PRACTICE.
I COULDN'T, I COULDN'T.
WAIT, WHEN I WAS A KID, I COULDN'T WAIT TO GET THE HIGH SCHOOL TO PLAY FOOTBALL, I KIND OF LIKE IT HERE.
IT'S LIKE HE CAN GET ON ME AND I CAN LIKE I COULD TAKE BECAUSE I KNOW HOW HE DID.
HEY, MARK.
YOU SEE THE T-SHIRT THAT MARLO GRAY WAS WEARING, POP STRONG.
THEY HAD ONE OF THEIR LEGENDARY COMMUNITY COACHES, WHOSE NICKNAME WAS POPPY PASSED AWAY THIS YEAR AND THAT'S BEEN ONE OF THE RALLYING CRIES THIS YEAR IN SANDERSVILLE, TO BE POP STRONG AND THEY'RE LOOKING THAT WAY AS THEIR ONLY 24 MINUTES AWAY FROM MAKING IT BACK TO THE DOME, YOU KNOW, SANDERSVILLE IS THE HOUSE OF PAIN.
THIS SEEMS TO BE THE HOUSE OF RAIN RIGHT NOW.
YOU AIN'T LYING.
YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING INDOORS.
HOW ABOUT YOU?
WELL, INDOORS AT THE GEORGIA DOME AND YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE TEAMS HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO START IN THE DOME AND FINISHING THE DO.
NORTH GWINNETT WOULD BE ONE OF THOSE CATS MCEACHERN.
ALSO, THEY START AT THE CORKY KELL CLASSIC AND THEN THEY MIGHT GET TO THE GEORGIA DOME AND MORE TALK ABOUT NORTH GWINNETT.
YEAH.
AND YOU, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE HIGHLIGHTS FOR WIND NORTH WHEN I STARTED OFF THEIR SEASON AT THE GEORGIA DOME IN THE CORKY KELL CLASSIC TAKING ON CAMDEN COUNTY.
WE SEE.
JESUS FIRE THERE WITH THE QUICK, SLANT FOR THE EARLY POINTS ON THE BOARD AND HATE THIS IS THE PLAY OF THE YEAR TO ME.
HEY DAD, WHAT WAS THE PLAY CALL?
IT WAS A FAKE, HANDOFF TO CITRIX OUT TO SEE THIS TO CJ LEGGETT FOR THE SCORE AND THEN CAMDEN COUNTY GETS A SCORE ON THE BOARD LATE.
ONE OF THEIR SOPHOMORE RUNNING BACK TO PICK SOME UP.
PUT SOME DOWN FROM ABOUT 60 YARDS BUT NORTHWEST GETS THE WIN OVER CAMDEN COUNTY THERE AT THE GEORGIA DOME IN WEEK ONE.
SO THAT KIND OF SET THE TABLE FOR NORTH GWINNETT IS THEY WERE GETTING READY FOR THIS PARTICULAR RUN THAT THEY'RE ON RIGHT NOW, ONLY 24 MINUTES AND A SEVEN-POINT LEAD AWAY FROM GETTING BACK.
ALRIGHT STAY DRY IF YOU CAN OUT THERE NOT HAPPENING.
ALL RIGHT LET'S CHECK IN WITH GRACE OLSON FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF WHAT WE CALL RENT.
CHECK, THANKS MARK.
TIME TO CHECK IN WITH SOME PARENTS.
I'VE GOT HER BAND TO MECO GRIFFIN HERE, THE PARENTS AND MCEACHERN JUNIOR RUNNING BACK, TAJ GRIFFIN, WE'RE GOING TO PLAY WRENCH WE'RE GONNA DO SOME TRIVIA.
WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW MUCH YOU KNOW ABOUT TAJ.
BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT LET'S SHOW AN ADORABLE PHOTO UP ON THE SCREEN.
THIS WAS TAJ'S FIRST TOUCHDOWN, WHAT A PHOTO IT WAS AWESOME.
HE PLAYED DEFENSE THE ENTIRE TIME AND FINALLY THE COACH HE WANTED TO RENT, PLAY RUNNING BACK IN THE COACHES SAID, GIVE HIM THE BALL AND HE WENT IN DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE THE HANDOFF BUT HE GOT INTO THE END ZONE.
SO AWESOME.
I'M GLAD THEY GAVE HIM THE BALL AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S WORKED OUT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, OKAY?
NOW, LET'S GET TO SOME TRIVIA FIRST.
QUESTION IS FOR YOU, DAD, FAVORITE RUNNING BACK AS A KID.
FAVORITE RUNNING BACK AS A KID WHEN HE WAS A KID.
HIS FAVORITE RUNNING BACK THE DAMIEN THOMLINSON, YOU GOT THAT ONE QUICKLY, A FAVORITE MEAL TO EAT WITH THE OFFENSE, MOM TO EAT WITH OFFENSE.
PROBABLY STEAK.
STEAK CHEESE.
YOU GUYS ARE FAST.
OKAY?
JAKE.
NO, YOU GOT IT QUICKLY.
MOST DREADED DRILL DURING PRACTICE DAD.
PROBABLY BLUR PIECE THE BLASTER.
HE SAID THE BLASTER.
IT SOUNDS INTENSE.
DOESN'T IT AND BIGGEST GAME DAY SUPERSTITION MOM.
HIS, I DON'T KNOW.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
HE TOLD ME?
AT ALL THE HOME GAMES, HE ALWAYS HAS TO EAT WHERE HIS YELLOW MOUTHPIECE.
SO THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
WELL, YOU GUYS ARE SO QUICK, THREE OR FOUR.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON RENT.
CHECK AND WE'LL SEND YOU YOUR FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN T-SHIRTS WHEN THEY'RE NICE AND DRY.
SO, THANK YOU, GUYS.
LET'S SEND IT BACK OVER TO MARK.
ALL RIGHT, GRACE, GREAT JOB THERE TIME NOW, FOR OUR CAREER PLAY OF THE WEEK PRESENTED, BY THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA, THE FIELD OF INFORMATION.
TECHNOLOGY HAS GROWN RAPIDLY OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES AND IT TO ADD JOBS AND TO OUR ECONOMY CAREERS, LIKE, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, NETWORK ADMINISTRATION, AND COMPUTER HARDWARE ENGINEERING ARE VITAL TO INDUSTRIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
THERE'S ALSO AN INCREASED DEMAND FOR AN EXCITING CAREERS AND VIDEO AND FILM PRODUCTION INCLUDING EDITING ANIMATION AND 3D GRAPHICS THAT MAKES INFORMATION.
TECHNOLOGY.
A PERFECT FIT FOR OUR CAREER.
PLAY OF THE WEEK, THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIA.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT TC TCSG.EDU FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE NEXT CHAPTER OF YOUR LIFE.
WE'RE GETTING READY TO TO KICK OFF THE SECOND HALF.
THERE'S A WRITING, THERE'S A LIGHTNING DELAY RIGHT NOW.
SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK RAIN LIGHTNING AND ABOUT A 30-SECOND DELAY HERE, I THINK.
BUT YOU CAN HELP 30 MINUTES YOU CAN HELP.
KEEP SHOWS LIKE THIS ON THE AIR AND SHOW YOUR APPRECIATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ON GPB.
YOU CAN TEXT THE TEN DOLLAR DONATION, GPB TO HELP KEEP THIS ON THE AIR.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TEXT THE LETTERS.
GPB TO THE NUMBER 85, 944 FEATURED REPLY.
YES AND MESSAGE.
AND DATA RATES MAY APPLY.
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK HERE AND WE'LL COME BACK AND LITTLE BIT MORE WITH MORE ON THE SECOND HALF OF THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IN A LIGHTNING DELAY AT MCEACHERN.
HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE BACK IN A MINUTE.
WELCOME BACK TO FOOTBALL, FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA ON GPB.
RIGHT NOW.
WE ARE IN A 30-MINUTE LIGHTNING DELAY OF THE SEMIFINAL GAME BETWEEN NORTH GWINNETT AND MCEACHERN.
WE WILL COME BACK AND WE WILL SHOW YOU EVERY SINGLE PLAY OF THIS GAME, BUT RIGHT NOW BY RULES OF THE GHSA, THERE IS A 30-MINUTE LIGHTNING DELAY.
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AND HAVE A RAIN DELAY, TRAVELER EDITION FOR 30 MINUTES.
WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS THE GAME BEGINS.
AND WE WILL TAKE IT TO ITS CONCLUSION.
SO WE'RE LIVE FROM POWDER SPRINGS AND WE'LL BE BACK IN POWDER SPRINGS.
ABOUT 30 MINUTES, STAY WITH US.
I CAN EVERYBODY AND WELCOME TO FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA.
RIGHT NOW WE ARE IN A LIGHTNING DELAY AT HALFTIME WITH A NORTH WIND AT MCEACHERN GAME WITH NORTH GWINNETT.
LEADING AT 6:46 THE PLAN RIGHT NOW IS FOR THE ACTION TO KICK BACK OFF ABOUT 951 ABOUT 10 MINUTES AFTER THAT THEY'RE GOING TO WARM UP AND THEN WE'LL HOPEFULLY WE'LL KICK OFF RIGHT ABOUT 10:00.
SO JOHN NELSON IS WITH ME.
WE'RE GOING TO UPDATE EVERYBODY ON ALL THE SCORES.
IT'S THE SEMIFINAL ROUND OF THE GHSA.
SAY THE WINNERS TODAY.
GO TO THE GEORGIA DOME NEXT FRIDAY.
AND NEXT SATURDAY, ON GPB AND JOHN RIGHT OFF THE BAT COLQUITT COUNTY IN NORCROSS, 97.
IN THE THIRD COLQUITT HAS MISSED FIELD GOALS AND THE WEATHER'S HEADING THEIR WAY.
SO DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY GET A DELAY LIKE WE HAVE RIGHT HERE.
THE OTHER SIX, A GAME, OF COURSE, WE'RE IN A LIGHTNING DELAY.
HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE BACK PLAYING IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES OR SO CLASS.
5A.
IT'S CREEKSIDE LEADING KILL BIG-TIME 3410 IN.
THE THIRD WAS 34 THREE AT ONE POINT CREEKSIDE KNOWLTON DOWNS ROLLING RIGHT NOW.
GAINESVILLE AND TUCKER BEEN TRADING, HAYMAKERS.
A LOT OF TURNOVERS FOR THE RED ELEPHANTS TO KEEP THAT ONE TIED IN THE THIRD.
ALRIGHT, CLASS 4A.
YOU GOT GRIFFIN UNDEFEATED.
THE BEARS ARE LEADING WAYNE COUNTY.
NOW, 1814 IN THE FOR I CAN UPDATE THAT THAT'S NOW 2514 IN THE FOURTH QUARTER GRIFFIN.
NOW, LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO THE DOME AND THE CARROLLTON MAYOR'S GAME THAT GAME.
HAD JUST BEEN TIED UP AT 22.
THERE'S SEVEN MINUTES TO GO REGULATION THERE.
NOW, IN A WEATHER DELAY, THE MAGIC OF THE GPB SPORTS APP, FOLKS.
IT'S ABSOLUTELY FREE AND WILL UPDATE ALL THESE SCORES.
BUFORD AND THREE A LEADING CALLOWAY 24.
2010 AT GAME IS ACTUALLY A FINAL.
NOW BUFORD ADVANCED BY WINNING 24, 214 RUNNING CLOCK IN THE WASHINGTON COUNTY GAME, BENEDICTINE, AND LAMAR FOURTH QUARTER THAT ONES TIED AT SEVEN, LOVE IT ROLLING RIGHT NOW AT BROOKS COUNTY A BAD NIGHT FOR MALCOLM PARISH, OKAY.
AND CLASS 18 PUBLIC, WE'VE GOT A TIE GAME 21:21, CHARLTON, COUNTY AND IRWIN COUNTY AND HOW ABOUT MARION COUNTY ROLLING.
OVER HAWKINSVILLE, THEY ARE RIGHT NOW AND I CAN UPDATE THE IRWIN COUNTY SCORE CHARLTON'S.
NOW UP 2821 THE BEAUTY OF THE ACT.
ALL RIGHT, ELSEWHERE, WE'VE GOT CALVARY.
A LEADING ELCA 28 TO 29.
THAT'S PROBABLY THE SURPRISE ON THE BOARD RIGHT NOW BUT WE'VE HEARD IN THE PREGAME SHOW THAT THEY'RE HAVING TO DO IT WITH A SOPHOMORE QUARTERBACK EAGLE'S LANDING CHRISTIAN VALIANT EFFORT BY BOTH OF THOSE GUYS GAME WAS TIED AT 10 BETWEEN AT AQUINAS AND MOUNT PISGAH.
CHRISTIAN PISGAH HAS PULLED AHEAD FOURTH QUARTER THERE.
ALL RIGHT, WE ARE IN THE SEMIFINALS WITH GHSA CHAMPIONSHIPS.
REMEMBER, YOU CAN GET ALL THE SCORES ON THE APP AND GO TO OUR WEBSITE.
GPB.ORG/SPORTS GET EVERYTHING UP TO DATE AS YOU CAN BE AND OF COURSE WE'RE GOING TO A BIG, BIG WEEKEND, NEXT FRIDAY.
DAY AND SATURDAY.
ALL THE WINNERS TONIGHT.
ALL OVER THE STATE ARE HEADING TO THE GEORGIA DOME AND FRIDAY AT 2:30.
WE HAVE THE SINGLE A PRIVATE SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP FOLLOWED BY THE 38 TITLE GAME AT 5:30 AND THEN THE VIVE A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT 8:30.
THEN ON SATURDAY, WE KICK THINGS OFF AT 11:30 WITH A SINGLE, A PUBLIC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT 2:30.
IT'S THE DOUBLE A TITLE GAME AT 5:30.
IT'S THE FOR A GAME THEY 30.
IT IS A 6, A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AND EITHER MCEACHIN OR NORTH GWINNETT IS GOING TO BE IN THE GEORGIA DOME COUPLE OF UPDATES REAL QUICK.
MARK COUNTY KICKED A FIELD GOAL AS TIME EXPIRED.
THEY BEAT BENEDICTINE LAMAR COUNTY ADVANCES TO THE GEORGIA, DOME AND THE WEATHER DELAY IN THE CARROLLTON MARIS GAME.
THEY'RE GOING TO START ABOUT TWO MINUTES AFTER US.
SO RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE STUCK IN A WEATHER DELAY.
JUST LIKE WE ARE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE 953 FOR THE CARROLLTON.
MAYOR'S KICK.
ALL RIGHT, RIGHT NOW, THE PLAN IS FOR THE GAME TO CONTINUE ABOUT 951, WE'RE IN A HALF AN HOUR LIGHTNING DELAY.
RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE THE PLAYERS ABOUT 5 TO 10 MINUTES TO WARM UP ONCE THE OKAY HAS BEEN GIVEN AND WE'RE GOING TO TELEVISE ALL THAT FOR YOU ALL THAT FOR YOU WHEN WE COME BACK BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO A SHORT TRAVELER SEGMENT, THEN IT'S BACK FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE SIX, A SEMIFINAL GAME BETWEEN NORTH GWINNETT AND MCEACHERN WILL BE BACK IN JUST A FEW MINUTES.
I CAN EVERYBODY WELCOME BACK TO FOOTBALL FRIDAYS ON THIS SOGGY FRIDAY NIGHT IN GEORGIA RIGHT NOW.
NORTH GWINNETT LEAVING MCEACHERN, 14 DOES IT.
WE ARE AT THE HALF AND WE ARE ALSO IN THE MIDDLE OF A WEATHER DELAY, A LIGHTNING DELAY.
NOW, THE LIGHTNING DELAY SHOULD BE OVER IN ABOUT MINUTES AT ABOUT 950 WON AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
THE TEAMS WILL COME BACK ON THE FIELD.
THEY WILL WARM UP FOR BETWEEN FIVE AND TEN MINUTES AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO PLAY THE SECOND HALF OF FOOTBALL RIGHT HERE ON THE GREAT GPB.
NOW WE GAVE YOU SOME SCORE JUST A MINUTE AGO.
JOHN NELSON IS STANDING BY.
HE HAS THREE OR FOUR TO UPDATE.
HE'S GOT THREE OR FOUR FINALS FOR YOU.
AND THOSE WINNERS ARE GOING TO THE GEORGIA, DOME MARION COUNTY, FINAL BUENA VISTA.
THE FOLKS ARE HAPPY THERE, YOU CAN GET ALL THE SCORES AND UPDATES ON THE UPPER ALSO TWEETING WEATHER UPDATES AS WELL.
42 7 MARION COUNTY DEFEATS HAWKINSVILLE IN SINGLE A A PUBLIC MARION COUNTY ADVANCES ALSO WASHINGTON COUNTY.
THEY HAD A RUNNING CLOCK IN THE FOURTH QUARTER THAT GAMES NOW FINAL THIRTY SEVEN TO NOTHING, THEY BEAT RINGGOLD.
RINGGOLD CINDERELLA RUN IS OVER, BUFORD WINS.
THEY BE CALLOWAY 24:14 BUFORD ADVANCES AS WELL AND A LAST-SECOND FIELD GOAL BY LAMAR COUNTY SENDS THEM TO THE DOME FOR THE FIRST TIME.
THEY BEAT BENEDICTINE 10-7, THE TROJANS, BEAT BENEDICTINE, THE CADETS SNAKE BIT AGAIN IN THE PLAYOFFS.
ALL RIGHT.
THAT'S FOUR TEAMS HAVE QUALIFIED FOR THE GEORGIA DOME, THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
YOU CAN GET ALL THESE INFORMATION ON THE APP, ALL THE SCORES ON THE APP.
IT'S ABSOLUTELY FREE.
AND ALSO ON OUR WEBSITE AT GPB.ORG/SPORTS AGAIN WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A LIGHTNING DELAY IN ABOUT TWO MINUTES THAT'S GOING TO BE OVER THE FANNY PACK BEHIND ME, I CAN SEE THE PLAYERS ARE COMING BACK OUT ON THE FIELD RIGHT NOW.
I CAN SEE MCEACHERN BEHIND ME.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE GIVEN FIVE TO TEN MINUTES TO WARM UP, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO PLAY THE SECOND HALF OF FOOTBALL IS A VERY IMPORTANT SEGMENT, FOOTBALL NORTH GWINNETT SCORED LATE IN THE FIRST HALF.
THEY LEAD IT 14 TO 7 AT THE HALF.
LET'S CHECK IN NOW WITH GRACE AND WHO'S BEEN MANNING THE SOCIAL MEDIA WARS ALL NIGHT LONG?
SHE'S GOT A LOT FOR ITS GRACE, TAKE HER AWAY.
THAT'S RIGHT.
MARK, WE HAVE TONS OF FANS AND VIEWERS JUMPING ON BOARD WITH GPB SPORTS RIGHT NOW ON FACEBOOK.
AND ON TWITTER, WE HAVE A TWEETER NAMED DEBORAH, WHO TWEETED US, MY VIEW OF THE GAME, FLANNEL JAMMIES, AND CHINESE TAKEOUT.
SHE TWEETED THIS PHOTO OF HER LAPTOP WITH THE GAME PLAYING.
SO SHE'S REMINDING US THAT SHE'S NICE AND WARM INSIDE AND DRY.
WHILE WE'RE OUT HERE ALL SOAKING WET NOW.
HAVE ALSO A TWEETER NAMED ELIJAH WHO TWEETED US.
HE'S BEEN TWEETING US UPDATES OF THE BUFORD CARROLLTON GAME ALL NIGHT LONG AND HE TWEETED US A PHOTO OF ALL THE RAIN.
AND HE'S, YOU CAN SEE ALL THE UMBRELLAS AT THE GAME AT BUFORD, YOU CAN SEE ALL THE RAIN STREAMING DOWN.
SO WE'VE GOT EVERY ONE UPDATING US AROUND THE STATE AND WILL KEEP RELAYING ALL THOSE STORIES BACK TO YOU.
AND WE'LL KEEP THE WEATHER UPDATES COMING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA ALL NIGHT LONG, ON FACEBOOK AND ON TWITTER.
SO YOU'VE GOT TO LIKE US, YOU'VE GOT TO FOLLOW US TO KEEP UP.
TO DATE WITH THOSE WHETHER POST BECAUSE THIS IS SEVERE STUFF.
AND YOU WANT TO, YOU WANT TO STAY POSTED WITH THAT.
SO, BACK OVER TO YOU, MARK.
ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH GRACE.
WE ARE ABOUT SIX MINUTES AWAY.
NOW, FROM KICKING OFF THE SECOND HALF, BOTH TEAMS ARE OUT ON THE FIELD, THEY'RE BOTH WARMING UP.
THE LIGHTNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
SO WE'RE GOING TO PLAY THE SECOND HALF OF FOOTBALL AND JUST ABOUT SIX MINUTES THEY'LL KICK OFF THE SECOND HALF.
NOW IN THE MEANTIME LET'S LOOK BACK OVER THIS GREAT YEAR.
WE'VE HAD ON FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA, THERE'S BEEN TOO MANY GREAT PLAYS TO MENTION BUT PRODUCER SAMMY JONES AND I LOOKED THE WHOLE LIST OF GREAT PLAYS AND WE CAME UP WITH SOME WE THINK YOU'LL ENJOY TAKE A LOOK.
YES.
WHO THINK THEY KEPT HIM IN FRONT OF THEM?
LOOK AT THIS.
UNBELIEVABLE BURRIS.
94 YARDS.
SHE'S FROM THE THROW AND TRY TO GET OFF THE SNIDE.
HE'S GOT A GUY DEEP ITS CARTELS, HUH?
IT'S PICKED UP BY JAY STACKHOUSE.
HE'S AT THE 40 YARD LINE DOWN THE FAR SIDELINE AND HAS A HOST OF BLOCKERS IN FRONT OF THEM.
TIM 5, TOUCHDOWN, NORTH GWINNETT J. STACKHOUSE ON THE PICK SIX, THIRD AND LONG AND NOW THE WARRIOR VINCE GETS A CHANCE TO STIFFEN UP AND GET THE INDIANS OFF THE FIELD.
CLEMENS, LITTLE READ OPTION ON HIS OWN RUNNING.
THROUGH PLAYERS, PICKS UP THE FIRST DOWN, HE'S DOWN THE SIDELINE, 40, 30 20, HE GO TOUCHDOWN THE CREATURE, 85 YARDS, THIS ONE, WE'LL START WITH THE NOSE OF THE BALL ON THE 40-YARD LINE.
THERE'S A FLEA-FLICKER.
THEY TRY TO GET BEHIND THE DEFENSE.
IT'S A SHORT THROW AND IT'S THE CULPRITS ADVANTAGE AND KIEL POLLARD DRAGGING DEFENDERS IN.
THE END ZONE FOR THE COLQUITT TOUCHDOWN TO ANOTHER FOUR WIDE RECEIVER FORMATION AND OTHER SHOTGUN BALL GOES OVER MCDONALD'S HEAD.
HE TRIES TO ESCAPE DANGER.
AND DOES NOW, LOOKING TO OFFLOAD, THE FOOTBALL HAS SEVERAL RED JERSEYS IN PURSUIT, AND HE FINDS THE CORNER AND HE'S GOT A CONVOY.
HE'S HAD A PRETTY QUIET NIGHT, BUT HE JUST GAVE HIS TEAM.
THE LEAD IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, JUST A FIVE-POINT LEAD, TO MISSED EXTRA POINTS, MISSED KICK AND TWO POINT CONVERSION FOR MCEACHERN.
THEY'VE KEPT IT CLOSE.
HERE'S TORRANCE MCGEE DOWN THE SIDELINE, COUPLE MEN TO BE CROSSES FIELD AND HE MIGHT GO ALL THE WAY.
20, 15, 10 5 AND MCGEE'S IN THE END ZONE.
ALL RIGHT, THOSE ARE SOME GREAT MOMENTS ON FOOTBALL FRIDAYS.
IN GEORGIA, WE'RE GETTING READY NOW FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THIS GAME, WE'RE GOING TO TOSS IT BACK UP TO THE TWO GUYS ARE GOING TO CALL THIS SECOND HALF.
HORSE KEELAN AND TRAY RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST MINUTES AWAY FROM GETTING THE SECOND HALF UNDERWAY.
THE LIGHTNING DELAY IS OVER.
THE RAIN HAS MOVED OUT FOR RIGHT NOW.
SO GUYS, TAKE IT AWAY AND HAVE A GREAT CALL OF THE SECOND HALF.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARK.
IT'S BEEN AN EXCITING FIRST HALF BUT IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I PLAYED FOOTBALL HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS.
IT'S BEEN AN EXCITING GAME, FOUR TURNOVERS THREE, BY NORTH GWINNETT, THEY'RE VERY LUCKY TO STILL BE IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
NOT ONLY ARE THEY IN IT, BUT THEY'RE WINNING.
I'M SURE.
BOB SPIRE WILL TAKE THAT.
BUT WHEN HE TALKED TO NELLY BEFORE, HE HEADED TO THE LOCKER ROOM, HE REMINDED ALL OF US, HE'S GOT 24 MORE MINUTES OF FOOTBALL.
ONE OF THESE TWO TEAMS TONIGHT IS GOING TO PUNCH THEIR TICKET TO THE GEORGIA DOME AND TRY TO BRING HOME THE FIRST EVER STATE TITLE FOR EITHER MCEACHERN OR NORTH GWINNETT.
LET'S LOOK THE FIRST HALF HIGHLIGHTS BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EVERYTHING OUT ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD RIGHT NOW FOR THE SECOND HALF, YOU GOT TO, YOU GOT TO GET RID OF THE ALL THE RAIN.
DELAYS PUT THESE TWO TEAMS HAVE SHOWED UP FROM THE MOMENT.
THEY TOUCH DOWN ON THE FIELD DEFENSIVELY SPECIAL TEAMS AND OBVIOUSLY BOTH TEAMS ARE PLAYING PRETTY GOOD RIGHT NOW AND THEY JUST HAVE TO BRING IT ALL TOGETHER.
AS YOU SEE, MY FAVORITE PLAYING AND STATE OF GEORGIA, TIE CLEMENS, JUST COMING TOGETHER WITH A HIGH ANKLE SPRAIN, GETTING A TOUCHDOWN AS WELL.
LEGATUS TAKING ONE TO THE HOUSE, PUT THE ZONE READ.
HE'S BEEN DOING THAT ALL NIGHT LONG.
SOMETHING HE DOES.
AS WELL.
HE'S BEEN DOING ALL SEASON.
YEAH, THAT WAS A 63-YARD RUN, WHICH SET UP A SHORT-RUN YOUNG MAN'S GOT 137 YARDS ON THE NIGHT AND A TOUCHDOWN.
HE'S BEEN THE WORKHORSE FOR THIS NORTH GWINNETT OFFENSE AND HERE IS HAYDEN SPIRE THROWN IN NICE TOUCHDOWN PASS AND EVEN BETTER CATCH QUESTIONABLE.
WHETHER HE WAS IN, BUT THEY GIVE NATE ROUND THE TOUCHDOWN AND THAT'S WHERE WE STAND AT THE HALF 6:46, NORTH GWINNETT WITH THE LEAD AND LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE STATS.
DOMINATED BY NORTH GWINNETT.
BITE THE TURNOVERS.
SO, FIRST AND FOREMOST, YOU CAN LOOK AT THESE STATS, JUST KIND OF EVEN LOANS IT ALONG DOWN THE LINE.
I THINK THERE'S DIFFERENCE TO SEPARATE THEM A 50 YARDS WHEN IT COMES TO RUSHING IN PASSING.
BUT ONE THING THAT STUFF JUMPS OUT TO ME IS MCEACHIN PILLOW.
THESE FIVE PILLARS FOR 30 YARDS, THOSE 30 YARDS AND PUT THEM IN BAD POSITIONS.
FOR NORTH GWINNETT TO CAPITALIZE ON THOSE TOUCHDOWNS.
THAT'S WHY THEY REALLY THAT'S WHY THEY DID A REALLY GOOD JOB IN THE SECOND HALF.
YOU CANNOT HAVE THOSE TYPE OF PENALTIES NORTH GWINNETT.
CAPITALIZE ON THAT.
THAT'S WHY IT ON TOP AND LET'S NOT FORGET ONE OF THOSE PENALTIES TO TOOK A FAKE PUNT OFF THE BOARD.
THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL.
LET'S CHECK IN DOWNSTAIRS WITH JOHN NELSON.
ELLIE THANKING HERE.
WITH THE COACH.
YOU GOT RID OF HIS BAD LUCK GUM.
WHAT DID YOU DO DURING THE DELAY?
TO KEEP THEM FOCUSED.
WELL, THIS DAY AND AGE, YOU'RE ALLOWED TO DO SOME VIDEO STUFF.
SO WE WATCHED WE WATCHED NOT EVERY SNAP OR ANYTHING BUT QUITE A FEW SNAPS WITH THE GUYS TO GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO SEE IT YOU KNOW AND JUST A MOTIVATIONAL THINGS AND TAPED UP A COUPLE GUYS AND YOU KNOW JUST TO TRY TO KEEP THEM FOCUSED AND YOU KNOW, YOU WORK, THE TWO QUARTERBACK SYSTEM.
WE KNEW IT WAS KIND OF COMMON.
TALK ABOUT THE GOODNESS OF BOTH OF THEM OUT THERE FIRST HALF, I THINK THE QUARTERBACKS ARE PLAYING WELL WE GOT TO GET A COUPLE MORE THINGS DONE IN THE BLOCKING SCHEMES, THEY DID A COUPLE THINGS THAT THEY HAVEN'T SHOWN AND AND I THINK WE GOT THAT TAKEN CARE OF.
SO I EXPECT TO SPRING NUMBER SEVEN, A LITTLE BIT THIS THIS HALF AND AND THEN KEEP MIXING IN THE PAST BECAUSE THEY DID GO TO THE BACK OF THE PLAYBOOK FOR A COUPLE OF THINGS IN THE FIRST HALF.
YOU THINK.
NO QUESTION.
THAT'S PART OF THIS PART OF THIS TIME DAY.
YOU KNOW, YOU TRY TO PULL SOME THINGS OUT AND TRY TO CATCH THEM AND THEY CAUGHT US ONE.
WE CAUGHT THEM BUT WE DIDN'T LINE UP, RIGHT?
AND WE'LL DISAPPOINTED IN THAT.
BUT THAT'S PART OF LIFE.
ALL RIGHT, GO GET EM, SECOND HALF.
ALL RIGHT.
KYLE HOCKMAN BACK UPSTAIRS TO WHERE IT'S DRY TO TRAY AND CAITLIN.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH NELLY.
AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US AND COACH HOCKMAN BRUNSWICK'S, BRINGS UP SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING.
BACK IN OUR DAY, YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT SO TO SPEAK.
BUT NOW THE COACHES ARE ALLOWED TO USE IPADS TO COMMUNICATE FROM THE BOX DOWN TO THE SIDELINE AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO LOOK AT THINGS THAT HAPPENED.
JUST A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE IN THE LOCKER ROOM AND WHEN YOU HAVE A 30-MINUTE DELAY THAT CAN REALLY BE ADVANTAGEOUS IN A ALSO USE IT ON THE SIDELINE TO US.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY HAVE CHAIRS DOWN THERE.
THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A 37 INCH TV DOWN DOWNSTAIRS.
SET IT UP BEFORE THE GAME I ASKED TO DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS.
HEY MAN, WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING THIS?
WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S CHEATING?
I SAID I PLAYED AT GEORGIA AND WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS ON THE SIDELINE MAN.
BUT HEY, HEY, GET A MILLION DOLLARS EVERY YEAR.
YOU COULD DO GET BIG THINGS AND YOU CAN MAKE SURE YOUR TEAMS ARE SUCCESSFUL.
YOU SEE THAT THEY'RE COVERED UP WITH THE.
THE RAIN IS NOT ON IT AND YOU KNOW IT DOES A GREAT TO GREAT JOB.
HAS A POSITIVE AND THE NEGATIVE, THE NEGATIVE 2 THAT THEY CANNOT ZOOM IN AND THAT'S ONE THING THAT THE DEFENSE COORDINATORS.
LET ME KNOW.
KEELAN WE CAN WE CAN ISOLATE PLAYERS, BUT WE CANNOT ZOOM IN TO DEFINITELY SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
SO, EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS RIGHT NOW, KEELIN FROM THE PLAYER'S PERSPECTIVE, WHEN YOU GET AMPED UP FOR A GAME LIKE THIS, AND WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT HOW BOTH TEAMS SEEM LIKE THEY WERE SHOT OUT OF A CANNON IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
BUT NOW YOU HAVE THIS LULL IN THE ADRENALINE SEEMS TO DISSIPATE A LITTLE BIT.
WHAT DO YOU DO TO GET YOURSELF BACK ENGAGED IN THE FOOTBALL GAME?
TELL YOU WHERE I'M TELL YOU RIGHT NOW MAN.
A LOT OF PLAYERS ARE SITTING HOME RIGHT NOW.
TRAY LOT OF PLAYERS DO NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY FOR A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
YOU SHIP RIGHT NOW.
AND IF YOU CAN'T GET YOURSELF UP, WHETHER IT, WHETHER A 35-MINUTE OF RAIN DELAY, AND YOU CAN'T COME BACK UP HERE AND GET YOURSELF TOGETHER, SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH, YOU DON'T DESERVE TO PUT ON THE UNIFORM, YOU DON'T DESERVE TO PUT ON THE HELMET BECAUSE I'M TELLING YOU, PLAYING FOR EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET THESE MEMORIES BACK.
WELL, SAID, PARTNER I COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER MYSELF.
THAT'S THE ANSWER.
I WAS LOOKING FOR, SO JUST A FEW MINUTES AWAY FROM KICKING THIS BALL OFF IN A HUGE SEMI FINAL GAME.
AGAIN, STATE CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCE ON THE LINE, NEITHER ONE OF THESE FOOTBALL PROGRAMS DESIGNED DESPITE THEIR SUCCESS AND THE RESUMES THAT WE SHOWED YOU EARLIER HAVE EVER WON A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
THEY'VE BOTH PLAYED FOR ONE MCEACHERN BACK IN 1998.
THEY LOST TO VALDOSTA.
AND THEN IN 2007 LOUNGE, BEAT NORTH GWINNETT FOR THEIR LOAN APPEARANCE IN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
A LOT ON THE LINE.
WE'VE ALSO TOLD YOU BEFORE THIS GAME STARTED BUT THE PROPENSITY FOR THESE TWO TEAMS TO PLAY DOWN TO THE WIRE, THE LAST TWO GAMES, FOR EACH OF THESE TWO TEAMS HAVE COME DOWN TO LAST SECOND OR LAST MINUTE TOUCHDOWNS.
SO TONIGHT, IF YOU HAVE A HEART PROBLEM MAY BE TUNE IN FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER.
BUT IF YOUR TICKERS GOOD STICK WITH US FOR THE FINAL 24 MINUTES, THIS OUGHT TO BE A GOOD ONE.
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT TODAY.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT HOW CLOSE THESE TEAMS, HAVE ONE FOOTBALL GAMES AND THAT JUST SPEAKS ABOUT THEIR DEFENSE IN THEIR SPECIAL TEAMS, SPECIAL TEAMS HAVE PUT THEM IN A REALLY GOOD FIELD POSITION DEFENSE AND PUT THEM IN THE POSITION TO HAVE TWO TURNOVERS BOTH COACHES.
THE COACHES TALKED ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT TURNOVERS ARE AND IS BIG TIME GAME FORM.
SQUIB, KICK BY HARVEY TAKEN BY ELIJAH VAN DORN.
AND HE TRIES TO GET TO THE FIVE-YARD LINE AND FORWARD, PROGRESS WILL GET HIM RIGHT TO IT.
AND SO IT'S A BIG ADVANTAGE FOR MCEACHERN TO HAVE THE BALL FIRST COMING OUT HERE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOOTBALL GAME, AS THEY TRAIL BY 7 AND THERE IS CLEMENS WHO'S GUTTING, IT OUT.
ON A BAD WHEEL TONIGHT NEAR HIS NUMBERS FOR THE NIGHT, 5 CARRIES FOR 38 YARDS.
HE'S BEEN DYNAMIC AND HE'S THROWN THE DEEP BALL, VERY WELL.
HOPEFULLY, HE'S SPENT SOME TIME ON THE BICYCLE IN THE TRAINING ROOM AT HALFTIME A KUDOS TO THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE AT HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE.
SO THE DOCTORS CAN DO A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WHAT THEY CAN DO ON THE ROAD.
IF THERE'S PLAYING THE STATE GAME OR SPLIT STATE PLAYOFF GAME ON THE ROAD BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, PAY ATTENTION TO THE WET FEEL SO SO MUCH.
SO EXPECT THEM TO PUT THE BALL ON THE GROUND AND SECOND HALF AND THERE IS CLEMENS WITH THE BAD WHEEL.
PICKING UP FOUR YARDS ON FIRST DOWN AND KILLING ONE THING THAT WORKS TO BOTH OF THESE TEAMS ADVANTAGES.
THE FACT THAT THIS IS A BRAND NEW ARTIFICIAL SURFACE HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS AT MCEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL, IT DRAINS VERY WELL THERE'S NO EVIDENCE AT LEAST UP HERE AND THE PRESS BOX IS ANY POOLING OF WATER ANYWHERE SO IT SHOULD BE IT'D BE A PRETTY GOOD SURFACE.
IT'S AN ALWAYS BEEN A FAST SURFACE AND THAT WORKS TO BOTH OFFENSES ADVANTAGE.
YOU GET REALLY GOOD GRIP BY PLAYING ON ARTIFICIAL SPIT FILTER.
SO I PLAYED ON THAT AND THE NEXT LEVEL IN THE NFL LEVEL TWO AS WELL.
THE PRACTICE ON IT, YOU GET USED TO IT.
THE GOOD THING THAT MCEACHERN HAS THEY WORK?
THEY WORK ON THIS 24/7.
SO, EXPECT A LOT OF PRODUCTION RIGHT NOW ADVANTAGE FOR THEM.
THERE'S A NICE RUN BY CLEMENS ON THE BLOCK OF TRACE.
GOD FOR THE FLAG GOES RIGHT DOWN AT THE 33 YARD LINE RIGHT IN THE AREA WHERE TRE SCOTT WAS ENGAGED IN A BLOCK.
AND THERE YOU SEE CLEMENS, AGAIN, HOBBLING WITH THAT HIGH, ANKLE SPRAIN, AND THAT'S A GREAT SHOT BY OUR CAMERA CREW.
SHOWING YOU JUST HOW MUCH TAPE OR ON THOSE ANKLES.
FOR NUMBER TWO, HE'S GOING TO TOUGH IT OUT AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S A SENIOR, YOU KNOW, I THINK HE'S GOING TO CHECK HIMSELF OUT OF HERE.
BUT ONE THING I KNOW ABOUT THIS, PLAY RIGHT HERE, HE'S GOING TO WORK HARD.
HE'S GOING TO PLAY HARD AND HE'S NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO HURT HIS TEAM.
AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS WHERE HE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, HE'S COMMITTED TO GEORGIA SOUTHERN RIGHT NOW, IS THAT HEY COACH.
HEY, I CAN'T GO.
SO LET'S GET SOMEBODY ELSE IN HERE SO I CAN SO IT CAN REALLY GET MY TEAM IN THE POSITION TO WIN, AND THAT'S WHAT HE JUST DID SUCKING DOWN IN LONG.
NOW AFTER THE PENALTY AND KILLING HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO CLEMENS DIE BEFORE THE GAME.
AND I KNOW THAT YOU PERSONALLY THINK HE CAN PLAY FOR A MUCH BIGGER SCHOOLS IN GEORGIA, SOUTHERN.
OH YEAH.
IN THE MEANTIME HOCKMAN CHECKS IN AND THROWS A NICE PASS TO TJ, RAHMING FOR AN 11-YARD GAIN.
WHEN YOU JUST LOOK AT HIS NUMBERS, MAN.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN 68 FOOTBALL, OKAY?
AND IN, AND IF YOU THROW FOR 1,000 YARDS, ACID AND YOU RUSH FOR THE OVER 1,000 YARDS.
YOU GOTTA GIVE THIS MAN OPPORTUNITY AT ANOTHER BIG-TIME D1 SCHOOL.
YOU GOT YOU A IF HE'S NOT A QUARTERBACK, LOOK AT HIM OUT OF A DEFENSE OF THAT LOOKING AS AN ATHLETE, HE COULD BRING SO MUCH TO THE TABLE.
HE IS ONE OF THE MAIN REASON WHY THIS FOOTBALL TEAM IS OUT HERE ON THIS ON THIS FOOTBALL FIELD TONIGHT.
SO, YOU NEVER KNOW, I WAS A SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL.
I ONLY HAD TWO OFFERS AND I TORE A PERCENT OR 80 PERCENT UPSIDE AND HE HAS A COUPLE MORE GAMES TO GO, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT KIND OF FILM IS GOING TO GET IN RIGHT, COACHES, HANDS.
THERE'S AN INCOMPLETE PASS FOR BAILEY, HOCKMAN IN THE MEANTIME, WHEN CLEMENS IS OUT AND WINNING.
MISS TIME EARLY IN THE SEASON, OR LATE IN THE SEASON, WHEN HE WAS HURT, BAILEY HOCKMAN, A FRESHMAN AND THE COACH'S SON CAME IN AND HE HASN'T MISSED A BEAT AND KILL HIM.
WE WERE TALKING WHILE THEY WERE WARMING UP ON THE FIELD.
THE YOUNG MAN DESPITE BEING A FRESHMAN HAS TREMENDOUS SIZE POISE AND A CANNON FOR AN ARM.
YES, HE DEFINITELY HAS SIZE AND WAS ONE THING I REALLY LIKE HE KEEPS HIS FEET VERY HAPPY IN THE POCKET OF A GOOD SIZE TO A LITTLE BIT FOR HIS FEET AND THERE'S A TACKLE FOR LOSS TAJ GRIFFIN ON THE CARRY BAG LINEBACKER THE JUNIOR AVERY ALFRED ON THE TACKLE AND IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT FART LOOK NO FURTHER.
THE NUMBER 24 FOR NORTH GWINNETT TO THE UNDERSIZED KID.
510 180 POUNDS BUT HE COMES INTO THE GAME.
WITH FORTY FIVE TACKLES, HE IS BEEN THE HEART AND SOUL OF THIS DEFENSE THIS YEAR.
NUMBER 24 AND NOW IT BRINGS UP A THIRD DOWN TO A 5 ON THIRD DOWN THUS FAR FROM MCEACHERN.
THIS WILL BE THIRD DOWN AND 11 AND THEY'LL SPOT THE BALL.
AND 34 TAKEDOWN COMING OUT RIGHT HERE.
WE HAVE YET TO SEE THEM.
TAKE A CHUNK DOWN THE FIELD JUST YET AND HERE IS POP MEN STANDING TALL IN THE POCKET AND A PERFECT PASS TO MIDFIELD FOR MALIK, LEWIS IN A BIG FIRST DOWN FOR THE INDIANS, 16 YARDS ON THE PITCH AND CATCH.
OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 50-YARD LINE, YOU LOOK AT THE HAPPY FEET.
I WAS TALKING ABOUT TREY, HOW HE STANDS IN HAS BEEN THE POCKET, KEEP HIS FEET ACT.
LOOK AT THOSE HAPPY FEET, HAPPY HAPPY FEET AND HE STANDS IN THE POCKET.
VERY TALL, HE THROWS A DARK.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE TO BE BORN WITH YOU JUST CAN'T TEACH THAT TYPE OF SKILL, SET NEITHER, COME RIGHT BACK TO TAJ GRIFFIN.
HE'S DANGEROUS IN THE OPEN FIELD.
HE'S UNABLE TO FIND THIRD GEAR BUT HE DOES FIND ANOTHER FIRST DOWN FOR MCEACHERN AND HE GOES OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 37 YARD LINE.
CHECK-IN DOWNSTAIRS WITH JOHN NELSON.
AN INJURY UPDATE.
ALL RIGHT, THIS IS A BEEN ABOUT AS FAST AS A NASCAR PIT STOP AND TRYING TO PULL THE TAPE OFF AND PUT THE TAPE BACK ON THAT, RIGHT?
ANKLE.
AND YOU SEE WHAT HE'S GOING TO TRY TO DO RIGHT NOW WORK HIS WAY THROUGH IT.
I DON'T THINK THAT A SEMI-FINAL WITH 935 AND POUNDED ON THE THIRD'S GOING TO KEEP HIM OUT OF THE GAME, GUYS, THANKS FOR THE UPDATE.
NELLIE MEANWHILE, THE CARRY FOR TAJ GRIFFIN YIELDS MINIMAL RESULTS.
AND WE JUST GOT WORD THAT THE COLQUITT NORCROSS GAME IS NOW SING.
UM, OF THAT THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, THAT WAS HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS, A LITTLE BIT EARLIER AND THAT GAME HAS NOW MOVED INTO A WEATHER DELAY.
THE WINNER OF THAT GAME WILL FACE THE WINNER OF THIS GAME ON GPD.
NEXT WEEK, IN PRIME TIME FOR THE 6A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT 8:00, ON SATURDAY NIGHT TO SPEND A HEAVY DOSE FROM TIRES GRIFFIN.
HE'S A WORKHORSE FOR THEM, HE GIVES THEMSELVES, THE BEST OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE THE CHAINS.
HE BRINGS A LOT TO THE TABLE FORM AND THEY TEST THE INSIDE AGAIN, WITH TAJ GRIFFIN.
HE'S NOT YOUR NORMAL BRUISER.
BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, IF HE MAKES THAT WAS CUT AND GET SOME THE OPEN FIELD.
HE'S ONE OF THE FASTEST BACKS IN THE STATE AND HE'LL PROBABLY GO INTO NEXT SEASON.
AS THE NUMBER ONE TAILBACK IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
THEY DEFINITELY HAS THE CRITERIA IN ANY ACCOLADES TO HAVE THAT.
NUMBER ONE, STEPPED ON HIS CHEST WHEN IT COMES TO RIVALS.COM ON THE PENALTY COMES IN.
BEFORE THE 36 PLAY CAN GET OFF.
THAT'S A FALSE START.
THE SEVENTH PENALTY.
FOR THIS MCEACHERN TEAM WE TALK ABOUT AS WE CAME BACK FROM OUR DELAY.
HOW COSTLY PENALTIES HAVE BEEN FOR MCEACHERN AND HERE THEY ARE WITH ANOTHER FLAG.
WE'RE TAUGHT TO COACH HOCKMAN EARLY.
IN THE YEAR, WE TALKED ABOUT.
HEY COACH, YOU SURE HAVE A LOT OF PONIES.
HE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, I HAVE A LOT OF ATHLETES WILL ALLOW US TO MAKE UP FOR THOSE PILLARS.
WE HAVE SO HE HAS A LOT OF YOU AS A POSITIVE WAY OF THINKING ABOUT IT, BUT MAN, DO NOT WANT TO GIVE YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR TEAM, BUT ALL THOSE PANTIES AND HAPPENING, THROWS UP A WING AND A PRAYER.
SOMEHOW, AVOIDS, THE BLITZING LINEBACKER AVERY, ALFRED TO GET OFF THE PASS AND HE WAS LUCKY TO NOT HAVE THAT ONE PICKED OFF THE DEEP, WHAT DOES DEFENSE OF NORTH TO CONNECT THEIR ATTACKING?
THIS YOUNG QUARTERBACK?
ONE OF MY KEYS COMING INTO THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO GET YOUR HANDS ON HIM ATTACK HIM.
MAKE HIM FORCE THOSE BAD THROWS.
THAT'S THAT'S THE KEY TO THEIR SUCCESS ON DEFENSE.
THIS YEAR, EVERY OFFERED MISSED THE FIRST TIME AND THEN TOOK A LATE SHOT LUCKY.
HE WASN'T FLAGGED ON THAT BUT HOCKMAN, EQUALLY LUCKY TO NOT HAVE JACE.
THAT'S PICK THAT ONE OFF FOURTH DOWN AND 11 HERE, AND THEY'RE GOING FOR IT.
THEY THINK THE GIBB TO TAJ GRIFFIN THAT STEPPING UP INTO THE POCKET, IS TRACED BACK TO THE TOUCHDOWN THIS FIRST OF THE SEASON PASS FROM BAILEY HOCKMAN, AS HE STEPS UP AND DELIVERS A STRIKE ON 4TH AND 11.
YOU TALK ABOUT A PLAYMAKER SHOWING UP IN BIG-TIME PLAYERS SHOWING UP IN BIG TIME GAMES IN THEIR POCKET, WITH GREAT PROTECTION UP TO OF THE FRONT WITH THIS.
SMART GROUP OFFICE ALIGNMENT.
AS YOU CAN SEE, I'M FINDING HIS TIGHT END TRACE GOT ACROSS THE MIDDLE.
VERY NICE CATCH AND NICE RUN FOR THE TOUCHDOWN.
THAT'S YOUR TCSG TOUCHDOWN REPLAY AND TRACE.
GOD HAS BEEN A FAVORITE TARGET HERE IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME FOR BAILEY HOCKMAN.
AND WE'RE GOING TO GO TO BREAK AND TAKE ANOTHER.
LOOK AT THE STRIKE FROM HOCHMAN TO SCOTT.
THIS JUST GOT INTERESTING, IT'S NOT IT UP AT 14.
APIECE HERE ON THE SEMI-FINAL ROUND ON FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA.
BACK HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS.
MCEACHERN IS JUST DRIVEN THEIR OPENING.
POSSESSION OF THE SECOND HALF DOWN THE FIELD FOR A TOUCHDOWN AND NOW WE'RE KNOTTED UP AT 14 APIECE.
IN THE TOUCHDOWN, LIKE, TO TEST OUT DANCE.
TRYING TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, MAN.
JUST PRESSING IT DOWN.
THIS IS A VERY NICE CANCER OVER ROUTE, NICE, READ BY HOCKMAN.
CHECK IT OUT, CHECK IT OUT, CHECK IT OUT.
THERE'S HAVING A LITTLE FUN, MAN.
THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT, MAN.
YOU GOT TO CREATE THESE MEMORIES, THE JOB TRAINING, TCSG, TOUCHDOWN, REPLAY, SEVEN, PLAYS, 75 YARDS, THREE MINUTES AND 47 SECONDS.
AND THE TULANE COMMIT HAS FOUR RECEPTIONS FOR 65 YARDS AND A TOUCHDOWN.
DOWN.
AND HE HAS CAUGHT SOME BIG PASSES TONIGHT AND ALL FOUR OF THEM CAME FROM NUMBER 10.
YES, WHAT THING ABOUT TRACE GOT COACH TALKED ABOUT, HE RUNS VERY WELL AS YOU CAN TELL ON THAT TOUCHDOWN PASS, HE MOVES AROUND A LOT IN THE OFFICE.
THEY SPLIT THEM OUT WHERE I, THEY PUT THEM IN A, WHY FORMATION THEY BRING THEM IN?
THEY BRING THEM IN MOTION AND HE BLOCKS VERY WELL.
THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE REALLY THOUGHT COMING TO THE FOOTBALL GAME, WE'RE GOING TO SEE HIM SITTING EDGE, BUT HEY, COACH HAD A DIFFERENT GAME PLAN FOR HIM.
HE SEES SOMETHING WE DIDN'T SEE AND HE FINALLY FOUND OUT THAT IT REALLY WORKED FOR DOMINGUEZ HIS KICK IS TAKEN AT THE 4 YARD LINE BY CALEB'S, GOT SWARMED UNDER AT THE 23-YARD LINE, AND LET'S CHECK IN DOWNSTAIRS WITH JOHN CHRISTMAS SCORING UPDATES.
NELLIE ALL RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, THE GAME IN THE OTHER HALF OF THE BRACKETS IN A WEATHER DELAY RIGHT NOW.
97, LET'S GO TO FIVE A AND HERE'S YOUR BIG SCORE RIGHT HAND BRACKET TUCKER, FINAL OVER GAINESVILLE 2214 AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO PLAY CREAKS.
SIDE THERE RUN IS CONTINUING.
THEY ARE ROLLING RIGHT NOW.
5510 OVERKILL FOURTH QUARTER AT TELL MORE IN A MINUTE.
MCEACHERN ARE CARRYING THE FLAG THIS WEEKEND FOR COBB COUNTY AND CARROLL.
LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE THAT FOOTBALL GAME AND MCEACHERN.
JUST SITS COME BACK TO TIE THIS ONE AND A BAD SNAP.
ON THE FIRST PLAY FROM SCRIMMAGE ON THIS DRIVE AND NORTH GWINNETT ABLE TO MAINTAIN POSSESSION.
HEY, I TELL YOU THAT BALL IS GETTING SLIPPERY OUT THERE.
THAT'S ONE THING I TELL YOU PAY ATTENTION.
TO GOOD JOB OF FOLLOWING ON IT.
MACKENZIE BILLINGSLEY WAS THAT UPON IT?
IT'S FIRE COULDN'T IT'S A SIX YARD LOSS SECOND 16 NOW FROM THE 16, THAT'S OUR MOMS ARE BROWN IN MOTION CONTINUES TO DOWN TO THE 25 YARD LINE.
NICE, TACKLE MEET ME IN THE RUNNING, BACK IN THE HOLE BY KRISTEN FOR NUMBER 13.
AS YOU CAN SEE THIS OFFENSIVE LINEMAN WORKING SO HARD ALL NIGHT BY CLEARING THOSE LANES AND HE'S GONNA SEE STRONG SAFETY COMING UP, MAKING THAT GREAT TACKLE, AND A GREAT BLOG AS WELL BY NUMBER 54 ANDREW SCRUBS AND CJ LEGGETT ADDING IT TO ME.
THIS FOOTBALL TEAM ON OFFENSE, IF THEY HAVE NOT HAD IN A FEW YEARS.
THIRD DOWN AND EIGHT FROM THE 25 WITH A 92 RUN.
THE RARELY DOES AND HE DOES GET RID OF IT TO MAKE IT THE LAST SECOND HE IS SUBMARINE AT THE 26-YARD LINE.
IT'S A FIRST DOWN.
SAVING TACKLE BY CAMERON MCGEE NUMBER 51 AND IT BRINGS UP FOURTH DOWN TO THE BULLDOGS HAVE TO ADMIT THE SOFTEST LAMB.
TO DO A REALLY GOOD JOB TONIGHT.
MITCH HYATT AND ANDREW SHAW HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD JOB.
CONTAINING THIS AGGRESSIVE DEFENSE OF THE KITCHEN.
THE AMOUNT OF THE BACKFIELD HAVE BEEN REALLY MANY SACKS TONIGHT, BECAUSE THESE GUYS ARE VERY SAD GUY, HAPPY AND THERE'S HARVEY THE RUGBY STYLE PUNTER.
IT'S A NICE KICK TAKES A NORTH GWINNETT.
BOUNCING CONTINUES TO BOUNCE DOWN INSIDE THE 30 YARD LINE.
THAT'S A 54-YARD PUNT FOR HARVEY AND HERE'S THE LAST FIVE PLAYOFF, APPEARANCES, FOR MCEACHERN.
THEY'VE ALSO HAD A HARD TIME GETTING PAST THE QUARTERFINALS, AND A COUPLE OF THESE SEASONS.
THEY'VE GONE IN AS NUMBER ONE SEEDS, ESPECIALLY LAST YEAR WHEN THEY GOT AN UNFAVORABLE DRAW.
WE HAD THAT GAME AGAINST PULPIT RIGHT HERE ON GPB AND IT WAS A NAIL-BITER AND THEY FELL TO CAULK WITH MATT GAME.
SO THEY'RE HAPPY TO BE HERE IN THE SEMIS, BUT THEY WANT MORE.
WE TALK TO COACH HOCKMAN BEFORE THE SEASON STARTED THIS YEAR AND HE SAID, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE THE TALENT TO WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP.
THIS SEASONING TOO LATE, LOSSES TO NORTH COBB AND HILLGROVE, HAD EVERYBODY THINKING, ESPECIALLY HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS THAT IT MAY NOT BE MEANT TO BE THIS SEASON, BUT HERE THEY ARE ONE GAME AWAY.
I'M GOING TO TELL YOU.
I LOST A LOST MY REGULAR SEASON LAST GAME, TO SHARPEN OUR HIGH SCHOOL IN MIAMI FLORIDA.
AND THEY WAS THE BEST TEAM IN THE STATE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN MY OPINION.
BUT WE WENT AHEAD ON AND THAT WOKE US UP FOR THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, WE WANT OUT BUT WE WOULD HAD A MENTALITY THAT YOU KNOW WHAT, WE HAVE TO WIN EVERY GAME FROM HERE ON OUT.
WE HAVE TO BE FOCUSED.
WE CAN'T TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED.
AND THAT'S WHAT THIS COACH IS INTO.
THIS COACH HOCKMAN TEAM IS IN THE SAME SAME SITUATION.
THEY WANTED LOST A REGULAR SEASON LAST GAME, BUT IT WAS AN EYE-OPENER FOR THESE GUYS.
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE IN THIS POSITION.
ON A GREAT BLOCK BY RIGHT, TACKLE, CHUMA IBOGA LEADING THE WAY FOR TAJ GRIFFIN.
HERE IS AVERY OFFERED MAKING A TACKLE WITHOUT HIS HELMET.
AND THE YOUNG MAN IS PUMPED UP HERE AND I'LL HAVE TO CHECK OUT FOR A PLAY.
BUT ANOTHER TOUGH PLAY BY NUMBER 24, THE DOG LINEBACKER.
AND SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT ALFRED IS THAT IN 5TH THROUGH THE EIGHTH GRADE, HE ACTUALLY PLAYED WITH THESE SENIORS BUT HE WAS A YEAR YOUNGER.
SO HE ACTUALLY HAD TO STEP BACK AND JUST A JUNIOR NOW BUT HE FEELS LIKE PART OF THIS SENIOR CLASS HERE FOR NORTH GWINNETT TAKES A LOT OF PRIDE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE TO MAKE A PLACE LIKE THAT YOU EARN THE RESPECT OF YOUR TEAMMATES, YOU EARN RESPECT YOUR COACHES AND EVERYBODY THEIR EYES ON YOU.
ONE THING THAT MCEACHIN REALLY HAS TO DO HAVE TO SPREAD HIS DEFENSE.
I'D LIKE TO BE DOING ALL GAME.
THEY REALLY HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT IT OPENED THOSE ALLEYS UP AND MAKE SURE TO THROW THE BALL DOWNFIELD RIGHT NOW, THE SECONDARY STRUGGLING WITH THIS MCEACHIN RECEIVERS, OUT HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS, THAT'S THE INDIANS ATE PENALTY FOR 50 YARDS LEFT TACKLE LUCE AND KATHI WAS POINTING AT DANTE.
SAWYER DANTE SAW HE WAS POINTING BACK IN NUMBER 71 AND THIS ONE'S ON BLUE AND YOU SEE IN COD A COMING OUT OF HIS STANCE AND SAW YOUR APPS UP IMMEDIATELY AND POINTS HIS FINGER.
HOW DIDN'T DO IT?
YOU DID IT 30:14.
NOW AFTER THE PENALTY BALL AT THE 23 HOCKMAN REMAINS IT.
BECAUSE OF HARD TIME WITH THE SNAP NOW ROLLS OUT IN FLAMES.
IT LOOKING DOWN THE SIDELINE AND INCOMPLETE.
FOR ARTISTE, CLARK AND JAY STACKHOUSE ON THE COVERAGE, STACKHOUSE IS HAVING A BIG TIME GAME TONIGHT.
JUST MAKING SURE HE STAYS IN COVERAGE.
HE'S ON THE RECEIVERS LIKE WHITE ON RICE.
AND THAT'S ONE THING THAT YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE FROM YOUR SECONDARY AND I TELL YOU HE'S THE MISMATCH HE'S A MISHMASH GUY THERE, LOOK HOW TALL THAT RECEIVER AND THE DEFENSIVE BACK STACKHOUSE IS JUMPING UP THERE.
MAKING SURE HE STAYS IN THE REALLY GOOD FOOTBALL POSITION ORTIZ PARK.
KIND OF A SPECIALTY PLAYER ON OFFENSE FOR MCEACHERN.
HE COMES IN AND JUMP BALL SITUATION, 65 175.
THAT ONE WAS WAY OVER HIS HEAD AND NOW MCEACHERN.
HIS FIRST APARTMENT, SHANK OFF THE SIDE OF THE FOOT.
OF DENNIS DOMINGUEZ, YOU HAD A 25 YARD PUNT EARLIER IN THE GAME.
THIS ONE, JUST 12 YARDS AND NOW NORTH GWINNETT HAS PHENOMENAL FIELD POSITION.
YEAH, YOU CANNOT GIVE THIS NOTE TO MET OFFICE SHORT SHORT SHORT FIELD POSITION ESPECIALLY IN THE GAME LIKE THIS THEY CAN SCORE ANY GIVEN MOMENT.
WE KNOW COACH GAME PLAN COACH BY OUR GAME PLAN IS TO JUST GRIND THE BALL.
THIS IS WE'RE GOING TO TAKE WHAT THE DEFENSE GIVES US.
WE'RE GONNA THROW THE BALL TO THE CORNERS.
WE'RE GONNA THROW THE BALL TO THE THREE YARDS HERE, FIVE YARDS HERE.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA GIVE IT TO OUR BACK TO SEE WHAT HE CAN CLEAN UP FOR US AND SPIRE BEEN GIVEN A GIFT HERE WITH THE FIELD POSITION FIRST AND TEN AT THE 35-YARD LINE IN A TIE BALLGAME.
EVERY POSSESSION IS CRUCIAL FROM HERE ON OUT AND NOW THEY'LL WHISTLE THIS ONE DEAD BEFORE IT STARTS.
WELL, START ON THE OFFENSE FIVE YARD PENALTY.
STILL FIRST DOWN AND LET'S CHECK IN DOWNSTAIRS WITH JOHN NELSON NELLY.
COUPLE OF SHOCKERS HERE.
LET'S GO TO SINGLE A PRIVATE IN OVERTIME EAGLE'S.
LANDING CHRISTIAN WENT FOR TWO AND FAILED CALVARY DAY MAKES IT TO THE FINALS.
WINNING 3534 AT EAGLE'S.
LANDING CHRISTIAN ALSO ON THE BOARD YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE OTHER GAMES THAT ARE GOING ON MARION COUNTY.
WINNERS WILL HAVE PROOF IN JUST A BIT.
ALL RIGHT.
NOW WE THANKS SO MUCH.
AND HERE'S CJ, LEGGETT, TESTING THE MIDDLE AND NICK DE MASSIMO AND JULIAN ROCHESTER SWARM HIM UNDER CAMERON MCGEE.
ALSO THERE, IT'S VERY NICE.
PENETRATION UP FRONT BY JULIAN, ROCHESTER AND LUCKY DANIELS.
GAS IS GETTING UP THERE IN THE MIDDLE CONTROLLING THOSE OFFICE ALIGNMENT WITH THEIR HANDS AND DRIVING THEIR FEET.
TO CREATE A TACKLE FOR LOSS AND NORTH GWINNETT.
HAS ONE OF THE BEST OFFENSIVE LINES IN THE STATE IF THEY'RE GOING UP.
IT'S ONE OF THE BEST DEFENSIVE LINES IN THE STATE AS WELL.
THAT CAT AND MOUSE GAME HAS GONE ON ALL NIGHT.
THIS TIME, IT'S A TACKLE FOR LOSS AND SECOND DOWN IN A LONG 15 SPIRE.
NOW, ROLLING OUT TO BUY SOME TIME FINES.
ALMANZO GROUND, BUT I'M ON.
JOE BROWN IS TACKLED IMMEDIATELY.
MY NUMBER 23, TYLER WOULD LIE?
IT'S A VERY NICE DEFENSIVE PLAY TOLLYWOOD LEE COMING COMING UP THE CORNERBACK POSITION.
IT WAS A COVER TWO ZONE COVERAGE AND HE'S HE PLAYING HALO AND SPIRE JUST TAKING TAKING UP THE TIGHT END OUT THE BACKFIELD VERY NICE TACO.
HIT HIM LOW.
SO NOW THIRD DOWN AND LONG MCEACHERN TRYING TO STOP THEM OFF THAT DESPITE THE FIELD POSITION DISADVANTAGE AND IT'S INTERCEPTED BY MCEACHERN.
IT'S THE THIRD OF THE NIGHT BY MCEACHERN FORTH.
OVER OVERALL AND DOWN.
THE SIDELINE IS CHRISTIAN FORD SO HE'S INTERCEPTED TWO PASSES TONIGHT.
A MOUNTAIN COMES AT A BIG TIME.
WITH 337 TO GO IN THE THIRD.
THIS YOUNG MAN'S BEEN ALL OVER THE FOOTBALL.
FIELD KIRSTEN FORT.
THAT'S WHAT A SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES IT FOR.
WHEN THE BALL IS IN THE AIR, YOU HAVE TO BE A BALL HALL AND HE'S BEEN A BALLS OFF ALL NIGHT TONIGHT.
BEING IN THE RIGHT POSITION AT THE RIGHT TIME.
GOOD THINGS HAPPEN, THOSE TO RUN TO THE FOOTBALL.
HE'S BEEN AROUND A FOOTBALL NIGHT CAME INTO THE GAME.
OF TO INTERCEPTION.
AND NOW HAS TWO IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
AND JUST LIKE YOU SAID, KILLING THE BALL, WAS UP FOR GRABS 13, SNIFFED IT OUT AND JUST TURN THE TABLES ON NORTH GWINNETT.
THIS CJ LEG, JUST KIND OF, YOU CAN TELL HOW HIS ATTITUDE NICE TACKLE.
I WANT TO PLAY STARTING RUNNING BACK TO NORTH GWINNETT AND THE DEFENSE EXPECTEDLY.
SO VERY PUMPED UP ON THE SIDELINES FOR MCEACHERN.
THEREFORE BIG PLAY DEEP BALL DOWN THE FIELD.
THERE'S HAWKMAN PENALTY, FLAG COMES IN AND HE THROWS AN INTERCEPTION, AND THAT ONE MAYBE.
FOR NOT DEPENDING ON WHAT THE PENALTY IS.
IT'S MIDDLE LINEBACKER.
TONY BRADFORD PICKING IT OFF AT THE 48 YARD LINE AND ILLEGAL FORMATION ON THE OFFENSE, PHILLIES CONFUSE FIRST TIME AND IT'S AN OFFENSIVE INFRACTION.
SO THE INTERSECTION STANDS TONY BRADFORD RETURNS THE FAVOR.
AND NOW NORTH GWINNETT HAS THE BALL BACK IN HERE IS HOCKMAN THROWING IT, RIGHT?
TO NUMBER 35, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THOSE TYPE OF PLAYS FROM A YOUNG QUARTERBACK IN THE PLAYOFF GAME HERE.
HE'S TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, REALLY TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN FOR SOMETHING REALLY GREAT COVERAGE BODY BY THE NORTH GWINNETT DEFENSE.
AND HE TRIED TO THROW IT IN AND THERE AT THE LAST HIS DEFENSE, REALLY MADE HIM PLAY GREAT FLAVOR BY TONY BRADFORD WITHOUT AN INTERCEPTION.
THAT IS OUR SIXTH TURNOVER OF THE NIGHT.
FOUR TURNOVERS BY NORTH GWINNETT TO DIE, MCEACHERN.
AND THEY JUST SWAPPED TURNOVERS AND NOW NORTH GWINNETT HAD GREAT FIELD POSITION BEFORE NOW HAS FEEL GOOD FIELD POSITION, THANKS TO MEMBER 7.
HE COULD GO ALL THE WAY CJ, MADE IT WITH THE TOUCHDOWN 53 YARDS.
AT NORTH GWINNETT RECAPTURE THE LEAD.
THIS YEAR COULD HAVE THIS PLAY DEVELOPS.
LOOK AT SI JE REVIENS.
YOU CAN SEE NUMBER 70, COME ACROSS TRAFFIC, RIGHT THERE.
IT'S A VERY NICE ZONE.
WE TRAP RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE, CJ, LANGUAGES USING HIS VISION, MAKING SURE HE HIT THE PYLON FOR THE TOUCHDOWN.
AND NOW, MICHAEL D, ANGOLA CHECKS IN THE GAME TO TRY TO EXTEND THE LEAD TO 21 TO 14.
THAT PLAY IS REALLY WORK FOR THEM ALL EVENING LONG.
AND IT'S TRUE 21 TO 14 NOW, AND JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE TURNOVERS WERE GOING TO REALLY COME BACK TO BITE, NORTH GWINNETT, TONY BRADFORD, PICKS IT OFF AND THEN CJ LEGGED GOES THE DISTANCE, 53 YARDS IN THE BULLDOGS, HAVEN'T PLAYED THEIR BEST GAME TONIGHT BUT THEY'VE GOT THE LEAD HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS AND CJ LEGGETT'S, HAVING HIMSELF ONE, HECK OF A FOOTBALL GAME 197 YARDS AND A PAIR OF TOUCHDOWNS DON'T KNOW.
IF YOU GUYS SAW THAT TRAP BY THE OFFICE OF GOD JOSHUA CHANG JUST COMING ON IN THERE TAKING ON A DEFENSIVE END STREAMING ON NEVER SAW HIM COMING.
THOUGHT HE HAD A CLEAN HIT ON THE LEG, IT TONIGHT.
LAY IT, THE OPEN UP THE WHOLE FOUR-LEGGED TO TAKE IT TO THE HOUSE, YOU CAN SEE IS RUSHING NUMBERS, 20 CARRIES FOR 197 YARDS AND TWO TDS TONIGHT.
THAT IS A REALLY GOOD SOLID FOOTBALL GAME SO FAR.
AND WE'RE JUST IN THE THIRD QUARTER.
THAT'S RIGHT.
LOOK AT THE OFFERS THAT THE YOUNG MAN HAS I IMAGINE THOSE ARE GONNA PILE UP MORE AND MORE.
AS RECRUITMENT CONTINUES, 59, 215 POUNDS.
AND AS WE TOLD YOU BEFORE YOUNG MAN TRANSFERRED OVER TO SWANEE TO PLAY.
AT NORTH GWINNETT.
HE WAS AT CHATTAHOOCHEE LAST YEAR AND HE WASN'T NEAR THE WEAPON IN THE COUGAR OFFENSE THAT HE HAS BEEN HERE IN THE BULLDOG OFFENSE.
AND REMEMBER HE LED THE WAY LAST WEEK AS WELL WITH 159 YARDS AND FOUR TOUCHDOWNS IN THEIR WIN OVER HILLGROVE HE'S CONTINUING HIS GOOD WORK TONIGHT.
THERE'S BRAD HARDNESS.
HE'S GOOD WITH THE LAST TIME.
THIS IS A HIGH-END OVER IN COOK.
NO FAIR CATCH AT THE 21 YARD LINE, AND IT'S BROUGHT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE 35, YARD LINE, A 13-YARD RETURN.
AND WE'LL CHECK IN AGAIN WITH NELLY ON THE SIDELINES.
ALL RIGHT, LIFE AND QUAD-A HAS GONE TO OVERTIME.
LAST YEAR MARIST, IN CARROLLTON, WENT ON FOREVER AND LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE DOING IT RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE TIED AT 29 HEADING TO THE SECOND OVERTIME WINNER GETS GRIFFIN, WHO CAME BACK FROM BEHIND TO BEAT WAYNE COUNTY MORE AS WE GO.
THANKS SUCH AN EXCITING TIME OF YEAR AS THESE SCHOOLS ARE ALL PLAYING FOR A CHANCE TO PLAY UNDER THE BIG DOME NEXT WEEK.
I'M TELLING YOU MAN.
IT'S JUST SPECIAL.
THIS IS A SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY.
YOU GOT TO GET THERE AND SPEAKING ABOUT A SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY.
YOU SEE THE LEADER OF THIS FOOTBALL CLUB COMING OUT THERE, TY CLEMENS.
HE WENT OUT THE PAST COUPLE SERIES, GOT A LITTLE REST, GOT TO TAKE THAT AND SEE WHAT HE HAS FOR US.
THERE'S DRIVE ON FIRST DOWN THERE, AROUND THE STRAIGHT OPTION, HE PITCHES OUTSIDE AND BOBBLED.
LITERALLY CAUGHT BY TAJ GRIFFIN THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DANGEROUS.
TOOK A HIT ON THAT TOO, AS WELL, PITCHING THAT BALL.
TELL YOU ONE THING ABOUT PLAYING QUARTERBACK, WHERE YOU GOING TO TAKE SOME SHOTS, BUT HE'S PRETTY TOUGH.
AND YOU SEE, SHE THE DEFENDER COMING ON IN THERE AT THE LAST SECOND.
AND GOOD BLOCKING DOWNFIELD BY TRACE.
GOT YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT KILLING THE YOUNG MAN'S GETTING IT.
DONE CATCHING THE FOOTBALL AND BLOCKING AND NUMBER TWO REMAINS IN THE GAME, HOBBLED BY A HIGH ANKLE SPRAIN, BUT GOT ME THAT TONIGHT, SECOND DOWN AND EIGHT FROM THE 37.
I'M JUST LOOKING AT THE CORNER, BACKUP COPIES TO YOUR EYES OFF, THIS RECEIVER.
AND I'M TELLING YOU, IT'S JUST WIDE OPEN, THE MIX MATCH, GOOD CALL, KILLING IS EASY PITCH, AND CATCH TO ARTIE'S, CLARK AND PICKS UP A FAIRLY EASY FIRST DOWN.
I'M TELLING YOU WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU WATCH THE FOOTBALL AND THESE COACHES ARE CONNECT THAT TO USING THESE IPADS.
THAT'S THE MISHMASH RIGHT THERE.
YOUR CORNERBACKS GOING TO PLAY OFF 10 YARDS.
HEY, JUST CALL AUTOMATICALLY HITCH THAT'S AN AUTOMATIC IS SET UP 527 YARDS EVERY TIME.
ALI EDWARDS EVENTUALLY HAS HELPED BRINGING CLARK DOWN PART CAME INTO THE GAME WITH JUST NINE CATCHES ON THE SEASON.
THERE'S A TACKLE FOR LOSS UNTIL THIS DEFENSE A LINE THEY'VE RUN THIS 34 WITH FOIL BACK TO SET 3.11.
THEY'RE DOING A GREAT JOB OF FRONT BY CONTROLLING THIS DEEP, THIS OFFENSIVE LINE OF MCEACHERN.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE NOSE TACKLE, ISAIAH LINEMAN DANTE'S SOIL AND ALSO RE US AND MORE COMING UP THIS.
MAKING SURE THEY BEAT THOSE GUYS UP FRONT.
RIGHT NOW, IT'S NOT A SKILL, IT'S JUST WANT TO, THEY OBVIOUSLY THIS OFFICE LEARNING A LOT MORE PHYSICAL THAN THEM, BUT THEY'RE THERE.
WANT TO ON THE DEFENSE SIDE OF BALL FOR MILKING IT, IT'S JUST LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN THEIRS RIGHT NOW.
WOMEN'S PRESENT DOWN TRYING TO IMPROVISE, HE'S GREAT AT THIS AND HE THROWS IT WELL OVER THE HEAD OF INCLUDED RECEIVER.
TJ RAHMING, AND YOU CAN SEEK HEALING WHEN CLEMENS IS IN THE GAME AND FORCE THE PASS, HE'S LOOKING FOR 21.
WHEREAS HOCKMAN, IS LOOKING FOR NUMBER NINE, HE HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, HOT MEMBRANES, A DIFFERENT TYPE OF STYLE, LITTLE BIT MORE PORES AND WHAT WHAT HE DOES FOR YOU.
HE BRINGS THAT BALANCE TO THE OFFICE.
WE'RE TRYING TO REALLY MAKE A PLAY.
YOU BRING IN THAI CLEMENS.
HE'S GOING TO TRY TO KEEP THAT PLAY GOING FOR YOU BUT THIS NOR CORNICE DEFENSE IS DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB.
IT'S TICKING ON HIS RECEIVERS WHEN TY IS IN THE POCKET, SCRAMBLING AROUND AND MCEACHERN, THIRD DOWN AND 14.
THEY'VE ONLY CONVERTED THREE TIMES ON 10 ATTEMPTS.
AND HERE'S TJ ROBINSON, HE'S TRYING TO IMPROVISE AND HE'S A GREAT PUNT, RETURNER AND HE GOES DOWN A LATE, WHISTLE.
HE DID DROP THE BALL.
EVENTUALLY BUT THIS SHOULD BRING UP FOURTH DOWN FOURTH AND LONG FOR MCEACHERN AND THEY'RE GOING TO BRING THE PUNT TEAM AND THEY'RE GOING TO ALSO BRING IN PUNTER, CHRIS HERNANDEZ.
THE ONLY TIME HE'S LINED UP AT PUNTER TONIGHT WAS WHEN THEY RAN THE FAKE BUT AFTER DENNIS DOMINGUEZ, 25 YARD PUNT AND THEN 12 YARD PUNT, A FEW MOMENTS AGO, THEY NEED TO FLIP THE FIELD SO THEY BRING IN NUMBER 88 AND HE HANDLES A LOW SNAP AND HE SHANKS IT OUT THE SIDE OF HIS RIGHT FOOT AS WELL.
AND THEN IT CHECKS OUT AND TAKE SOME MORE.
BOUNCING TO BE TOUCHED DEAD AT THE 43-YARD LINE.
AND THAT'S JUST A 10 YARD PUNT, SO SPECIAL TEAMS HURTING MCEACHERN, RIGHT NOW.
COMING UP IN DECEMBER, THE ROAD OF THE DOME TAKES US TO OUR FINAL DESTINATION AS WE BRING YOU THE 2013.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES LIVE HERE ON GPB.
WE'LL BE LIVE ALL WEEKEND WITH THREE GAMES ON FRIDAY 4:00 ON SATURDAY AND WE'LL CROWN SEVEN STATE CHAMPIONS.
BY THE TIME IT'S ALL OVER NEXT WEEK'S CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUPS WILL BE POSTED ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, MONDAY MORNING.
SO CHECK US OUT ON GPB SPORTS, ON FACEBOOK AND POST SOME SUPPORT ABOUT YOUR TEAM, TWO SOLID DAYS OF FOOTBALL SEVEN CHAMPIONS, AND IT'S ALL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NEXT WEEKEND LIVE ON GPB, FIRST DOWN AND TEN, GOOD FIELD POSITION AGAIN TO START.
AND HERE IS CJ LEGGETT IS UP OVER 200.
YOU GETS A LOT MORE, MARY GOES DOWN THE SIDEWALK AND EVENTUALLY FALLING DOWN AT THE 25 YARD LINE TACKLE MADE.
WELL, DOWNFIELD BY JULIAN ROCHESTER.
THE DEFENSIVE TACKLE OF 33 YARD, RUN IN THE FIRST, A HAVE TO MUST, I MUST ADMIT.
THIS DEFENSE IS JUST NOT DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB, SCRAPING OVER AND CLIMB BACK UP, MISSED TACKLE THERE.
ANOTHER MISSED TACKLE THERE AND I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING.
WHEN YOU PULL YOU'RE PLAYING AGAINST CJ LADY YOU DEAF.
HAVE TO WRAP UP AND DEFENSE THE ENDS OF THIS GETTING SEALED OFF.
REALLY GOOD JOB BY THE OFFENSIVE.
LINEMAN MITCH HYATT BY SEALING THE HEIRS FOR HIS RUNNING BACK.
330 YARDS ON THE NIGHT SO FAR FOR CJ LEGGETT AND HE CHECKS OUT OF THE GAME CHECKING IN AS GRAYSON FOWLER.
AND HE'LL GET THE CARRY.
SO NOW IT'S SECOND DOWN AND LONG IN THE MIST, BEGINS TO FALL AGAIN HERE AND POWDER SPRINGS THAT MATCHUP WE WEREN'T LOOKING AT ALL NIGHT.
MY NUMBER 15, HARVEY FOR HARVEY FOR A DOLLAR.
AND ALSO MITCH HYATT, THIS IS DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB.
I JUST CONTROLLING NUMBER 15 ALL NIGHT AND SETTING THE EDGE.
HE'S ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WHY CJ LEGACY IS OVER 200 YARDS.
RUSHING TODAY, IT'S ALSO ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL, COACHES AND BOB, SPIDERS OFFICE THIS WEEK.
YEAH.
NUMBER 75.
YES, HE HAS QUICK HANDS.
USE HIS FEET AND HE HAS A VERY GOOD BASE AND ONE THING OFFICE A LOT, ONE THING, AND ALL THIS, AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN COACH LOOKS AT IS THE BASE.
YOU CAN SEE, I'M JUST SETTING HIS FEET, USING HIS HANDS BEING VERY VIOLENT.
THAT'S WHAT GETS YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
IF YOU USE YOUR HANDS, VERY VIOLENT, AND THAT'S THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER ADVANCED TO THE FOURTH QUARTER WITH A 21-14 LEAD BY THE NORTH GWINNETT.
BULLDOGS 12 MINUTES TO GO.
SOMEONE WILL PUNCH THEIR TICKET TO THE GEORGIA DOME NEXT WEEKEND.
AND WE'LL SORT THAT ALL OUT OVER THE NEXT 12 MINUTES.
IT'S FOOTBALL FRIDAYS, DON'T GO ANYWHERE.
AND THE HEAVENS HAVE OPENED AGAIN HERE AT WALTER.
CANTRELL STADIUM.
IT IS YET AGAIN, RAINING.
THE BULLDOGS LEAD 21 TO 14 HEADING INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER.
I ASKED YOU EARLIER IN THE GAME, NORTH GWINNETT HAS WON 10 GAMES IN A SEASON 8 TIMES.
WE WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY COME UNDER HEAD, COACH BOB'S FIRE, THE ANSWER ALL EIGHT.
THEY WANT AT LEAST TEN GAMES EACH YEAR.
HE'S COACHED THE BULLDOGS.
THE SCHOOL HAD NO 10-WIN SEASONS BETWEEN 1961 AND 2005.
SO, GREAT CUP.
GREAT JOB, COACH FIRE.
OUR TRIVIA WINNER FOR TONIGHT IS BRAIXEN WILLIS.
THANK YOU.
WE HAD A LOT OF PARTICIPANTS ON TWITTER AND ON FACEBOOK.
THANK YOU, EVERYONE BRAXTON.
I'LL BE SENDING YOU YOUR GPB FOOTBALL, FRIDAYS AND GEORGIA T-SHIRT BACK TO YOU GUYS UP IN THE BOOTH.
THANK YOU SO MUCH GRACE AS WE START THE FOURTH QUARTER, NORTH GWINNETT, NOT GOING TO KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEMSELVES.
THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A LEAD TO START.
THE FOURTH QUARTER.
IS THIS NOT NORMALLY THE POSITION THAT THEY FIND THEMSELVES AND THEY ALWAYS END UP GETTING THE W. BUT FOR A RARE OPPORTUNITY HERE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER THEY LEAD 20 12 14.
AND RIGHT NOW IT'S THIRD DOWN AND EIGHT FROM THE 23-YARD LINE FOR THE BULLDOGS AND LEG.
IT MOVES FROM RECEIVER INTO THE BACKFIELD AND HE GETS THE BALL.
AND WHY NOT?
NUMBER SEVEN'S HAD A HECK OF A NIGHT BUT NOT ON THAT ONE.
LOOKS LIKE THE BALL.
MIGHT BE ON THE GROUND.
THEY PUT THE BACK DOWN WHICH MEANS IT'S A FUMBLE.
IT'S A VERY AGGRESSIVE PLAYING BY BY THIS DEFENSE.
B TACKLE HIM IN THE BACKFIELD AND THEY RETAIN POSSESSION.
YOU SEE THE FOURTH DOWN SIGNAL BY THE LINE, JUDGE SHOW ITS FOURTH DOWN, AND LET'S SEE IF D ANGOLA COMES IN TO KICK A FIELD GOAL AND HE DOES, HERE'S THE REPLAY OF LEGGETT SCARY AND YOU PUT THE BALL ON THE GROUND.
IF SEE DEFENSE THE END THE KIDS ARE COMING ON.
IT'LL LAST SECOND GETTING THAT BALL.
YOU SEE THE BALL IS DOWN AND BOIL EGG.
GOT THAT BALL BACK.
HEY, THE WEIGHT ROOM HELPS MAN 41-YARD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT.
4DN GOAL IS LONG ON THE SEASON IS 40.
HE'S GOT A STRONG LEFT LEG, THAT LEFT LEG, ONE OF THE ARCHER GAME AND ALSO HELP THEM BEAT COLQUITT AND SEASON OPENER LAST YEAR.
BUT A PENALTY FLAG GOES DOWN BEFORE THE SNAP FALSE, START ON THE OFFENSE FIVE YARD PENALTY STILL FOURTH DOWN AND THAT IS HUGE.
AS IT TURNS A 41-YARD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT INTO A 46-YARD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT.
SURE DOES.
THE END GOAL IS CERTAINLY HAS THE LEG BUT SOME UNFAVORABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS HERE AND HE IS A LEFT FOOTED.
KICKER KICKING OFF THE LEFT.
HASH THIS IS NOT ADVANTAGEOUS FOR A KICKER, IT'S NOT A LOCATION ON THAT BALL AND BARELY GETS IT THROUGH.
SO THE EXTRA FIVE YEARS, ALMOST AWESOME AS ITS SCRAPES THE BACK SIDE OF THE CROSSBAR ON SURE.
24 TO 40, NORTH GWINNETT NOW HAS THE LEAD, IT'S A BIG-TIME KICK RIGHT THERE, FULL QUARTER 10 MINUTES AND 49 SECONDS LEFT ON THE CLOCK.
IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, TALKING ABOUT A BIG-TIME PLAYERS STEPPING UP AFTER A PENALTY AND GOING UP VOTING, THIS ONE THAT'S A BIG-TIME PLAY RIGHT THERE AND THAT MAKES IT A TWO POSSESSION GAME WITH A LITTLE LESS THAN 11 MINUTES TO GO ON THE CLOCK AND NO MATTER WHO TAKES THE FIELD FOR THE INDIANS, WHETHER IT'S NUMBER 10, OR TO.
THEY'VE GOT THEIR WORK CUT OUT FOR THEM AND THERE YOU SEE MICHAEL D ANGOLA.
KAILYN.
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, SINCE YOU WERE THE COLLEGE ATHLETE OF THE BUNCH HERE, SIR, WHAT'S IT LIKE TO PLAY WITH A FOOTBALL?
THAT IS THIS WET IN THESE CONDITIONS?
I KNOW THAT THEY ROTATE FOOTBALLS IN AND OUT, BUT HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO PLAY WITH A FOOTBALL?
THAT'S IN THESE CONDITIONS.
IT'S VERY, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT JOHN.
YOU DON'T KNOW WITH A LOT OF SUBSTITUTION, THE BALL IS GOING TO DIFFERENT MULTIPLE PLAYERS, HANDS AND SNAPPER, THE QUARTERBACK, THEN THE RUNNING BACK OR RECEIVER IS VERY HARD TO KEEP THAT BALL DRY.
ESPECIALLY ON THE FIELD TURF HERE.
THE ALL YOU CAN DO IS TRY TO KEEP ROTATING BALLS, SO YOU CAN HAVE REALLY GOOD GRIP WITH IT.
RV BOOTS, IT DEEP.
BUT IT'S IT'LL BE A TOUCHBACK TAJ GRIFFIN CAN'T COME UP WITH IT.
AND COACH HOCKMAN TOLD US THAT THIS WEEK WHEN WE TALKED TO HIM, THAT IT'S KIND OF AN ADVENTURE WITH TAJ GRIFFIN BACK.
THERE, RETURNING KICKS.
HE HAS A HARD TIME JUDGING THE FOOTBALL LAST WEEK.
HE TOOK ONE ON THE BOUNCE, TO THE HOUSE WITH A MINUTE LEFT AGAINST COLLINS HILL.
AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME BECAUSE OF NUMBER SEVEN.
WELL, THE GOOD THING ABOUT THAT IS, YOU KNOW, IT THAT COMES AND COACHING YOU GOT TO COACH YOUR ATHLETE UP.
YOU KNOW WHAT HE CAN DO WITH A FOOTBALL IN HIS HAND, YOU GOT TO COACH HIM UP, YOU REPETITION REPETITION, YOU GOTTA GET HIM.
IN A COMFORTABLE POSITION WHERE HE'S COMFORTABLE BACK THERE.
CATCHING THOSE KIDS KIDS, BUT WHEN HE HAS THE BALL IN HIS HAND, YOU SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO.
LIKE, YOU SAID, BUT HE'S THE REASON WHY THEY CAME BACK TO THIS GAME FIRST AND 10 FROM THE 20, THEY FAKE TO GRIFFIN.
HE IS LEFT-HANDED.
SO COMFORTABLE.
CONTINUE TO FUR TIGHT END, DEVON BOYCE INCOMPLETE SECOND IN COMING UP.
I KNOW HOT ONES A SYSTEM QUARTERBACK AND I THINK KNOWS WHO THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE DECISION.
HE HAS TO GET RID OF THIS FOOTBALL.
HE HAS A GUY WIDE OPEN IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN RIGHT THERE.
YOU HAVE TO THROW IT TO HIM.
I KNOW YOU'RE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LEGS BUT HEY, YOU CAN'T THROW IT.
IF YOU CAN'T THROW THE FOOTBALL CROSS, YOUR BODY ACROSS THE FIELD.
AS GOOD AS HE'S PLAYED TONIGHT, IT'S JUST AWFULLY HARD TO KEEP IN MIND THAT IT IS JUST A FRESHMAN.
AND SO ALL THESE THINGS HERE WORK OUT IN TIME BUT HE'S PLAYED WELL TONIGHT AND NOT A BAD STRATEGY.
WE CAN GIVE IT A NUMBER 7 IN THE BACKFIELD HE THUNDERS THE BALL BALL ON THE GROUND.
RUSS EDWARDS, KNOCKED IT OUT.
THIS IS WHY NELSON WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE WET FOOTBALL.
AND SOMEHOW ORDERED BY MCEACHERN MAINTAINS POSSESSION.
BUT I WAS A CLEAR, THIRD WERE KNOCKED OUT BY WES EDWARDS.
YOU HAVE A THIRD DOWN COMING UP, RIGHT HERE.
DID YOU SEE?
JUST I JUST COULDN'T REALLY JUST HOLD ONTO THAT FOOTBALL, TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN.
GOOD JOB BY NUMBER THREE COMING ON, THEY'RE STRIPPING THAT FOOTBALL, ROBERT CAPELLO, THE OUTSIDE LINEBACKER.
THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE.
THERE'S A GOOD SHOT OF THE FOOTBALL AND A FEW DROPS OF RAIN ON IT AND DIRECTS NAPOLI'S ICHEB.
AND THEY'VE TRIED THIS TWICE TONIGHT IN TO NO AVAIL BOTH TIMES.
AS THE DEFENSIVE LINE FOR NORTH GWINNETT STOPS AND WITHIN A LATE FLAG COMES IN FROM THE BACK JUDGE.
WELL AFTER THE PLAY WAS OVER, ARTIE'S CLARK THINKS IT'S AGAINST SELLING THE BULLDOGS ON THE DEFENSE 15 YARD PENALTY.
FIRST TIME WANTS TO WILSON'S BLOW.
YOU CANNOT HAVE ANOTHER PLAYER COME UP TO THE PILE AND PUSH ON TO THE PAL.
IT'S DEFINITELY NOT PART OF THE GAME AND IT'S A BIG PENALTY.
THEY SAID 15 YARDS ON THE PENALTY, THEY ONLY NEEDED ANOTHER YARD AND A HALF FOR A FIRST DOWN.
SO IT'S AN EASY FIRST DOWN AND MCEACHERN SIDESTEPS, A LAND, MINE WITHOUT THE PENALTY.
THEY WERE GOING TO BE FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION.
NOT A FOURTH DOWN AND A TWO-YARD PLAYBACK UP DEEP IN THEIR OWN TERRITORY INSTEAD ITS FIRST DOWN AND 10 FROM THE 43 YARD LINE.
AND THERE'S THE PENALTY SITUATION.
YOU JUST SAW ON YOUR SCREEN.
THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL OF THEM ON MCEACHERN AND THEY'VE ALL BEEN COSTLY HERE STOCKTON WITH TIME.
THROWS IT DOWN THE SIDELINES OF THE DOUBLE COVERAGE, AND WESLEY, EDWARDS BREAKS IT UP INTO THE FOR TJ.
RAHMING AT THE 10.
THERE'S KNUCKLEHEAD TEAM IS NOT LETTING ANY OF THE BALLS GET BY THEM.
THAT WAS A DOUBLE MOVE BY TJ.
RAHMING AGAIN HANDS AT THE SAME PLACE THEY WERE IN FIRST PLACE.
A OF THE GAME WITH A DOUBLE MOVEMENT WITH TJ, RAHMING, HE ALMOST HAD HIM IN DEEPER.
YOU CAN SEE STACKHOUSE DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB, SITTING THERE, CHILLING, TJ, RAHMING, AND GIVE SOME HELP FROM HIS FREE SAFETY.
NOT A BAD, THROW BY NUMBER 10, BUT INTO DOUBLE COVERAGE, AND NOW, TIE CLINTON'S CHECKS IN AND ELIJAH VAN DOOR.
NUMBER ONE, ALSO CHECKS IN NOW HAS TO COME OFF THE FIELD AS HE'S THE 12TH, MAN.
SO, SUCKING 10 FROM THE 43.
BUT THANKS THAT GUY'S GOT SOME ATHLETIC BUILDING FROM THE FATHER.
HE DEFINITELY DID.
WELL, HERE IS CLEMENS AND THE ADDED DIMENSION OF HIM AS A RUNNING BACK HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED HERE IN THE SECOND HALF BUT NOT BY NORTH GWINNETT, BUT BY THAT ANKLE WELL.
GOOD THING ABOUT WHAT NORTH GWINNETT DOING IT.
IT'S STEAMING HIMSELF ASKING THEMSELVES.
A REALLY GOOD FOOTBALL GAME JUST FOR THE SIMPLE FACT THAT TO EVERYBODY STAYING HOME, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ANY BIG RUNS, BOBBY KITCHEN ALL NIGHT, YOU NORMALLY SEE THEM BUST OF BUSTER BIG PLAY FROM THE QUARTERBACK POSITION OR THE RUNNING BACK POSITION.
BUT THIS DEFENSE DONE, A REALLY GOOD JOB OF STAYING AT HOME STANDING THERE LANES.
I CAN SHOOT IT PLAYING GAPS OUT FOOTBALL, LITTLE READ, OPTION, AND TIE CLEMENS, WHO HAVE BEEN SO DANGEROUS GOES DOWN AFTER A MINIMAL GAIN, AND IS VERY, VERY SLOW TO GET UP.
AND NOW HE'S BEING HELPED OFF THE FIELD BY THE TRAINING STAFF FOR MCEACHERN.
HE IS HAVING A HARD HARD TIME.
HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
YEAH, A LOT OF SMACK TALKING GOING ON DOWN THERE DOWNSTAIRS DOWN HERE BETWEEN THOSE POUNDS.
YOU KNOW THIS IS JUST A GAME THAT NOBODY WANTS TO GET HURT, NOBODY WANTS TO LOSE BUT YOU KNOW YOU LEAVE EVERYTHING ON THE FIELD AND THAT'S ONE THING NUMBER TWO, TEAMS HAVE DONE ALL SEASON.
ONE THING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT WHO'S FAKE, YOU KNOW, HE'S RELIEVING ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
THE KITCHEN'S DEFENSE HAS HAD A HARD TIME STOPPING THE BULLDOGS, THEY NEED TO CONVERT HERE ON THIRD DOWN, HE'S GOT TIME TO THROW BACK SIDE TO TRACE GOD.
WHO'S BEEN HIS FAVORITE RECEIVER TONIGHT AND HE'S TACKLED AFTER NO GAIN AND HE TOOK A HARD SHOT ON THE BY WESLEY EDWARDS AND NOW TRACE GOT THE TIGHT END IS SLOW TO GET UP.
YOU'RE TALKING WHILE TALKED ABOUT STAYING HOME, LOOK, HOW HE'S ALWAYS ROLLING TOWARDS, RIGHT THROWING IT BACK, CROSSFIELD.
THIS IS A TOUCHDOWN.
IF HE DOESN'T STAY HOME, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
THIS NORTH GWINNETT DEFENSE.
MAKING SURE THEY STAY IN THEIR LANES.
STAYING AT HOME.
MAKING SURE THAT SOMEONE'S THERE TO MAKE THE BIG TIME PLAY.
17-YARD AVERAGE ON THE PUNT SO FAR TONIGHT AND HERNANDEZ.
COMING IN TO PUNT FOR THE SECOND TIME TONIGHT, AS LAST PART WAS 10 YARDS.
HE TAKES HIS TIME KICKING IT.
NOT THE PRETTIEST THING IN THE WORLD, BUT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE 25.
BUT NO, FAIR.
CATCH HERE FOR CALEB'S, GOT A NICE RETURN TO THE 31-YARD LINE AND WE GO DOWNSTAIRS TO JOHN NELSON ELLIE.
ALL RIGHT.
GO BACK TO MARIST AND CAROLTON, THEY'RE STILL GOING.
THEY'RE PROBABLY GOING TO GO FOR A WHILE IN THE THIRD OVERTIME JARVIS.
TERRELL RUNS IT TO THE ONE MEREST RIGHT NOW.
LEADING 3832 IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SECOND, THE BOTTOM OF THE THIRD OVERTIME.
AND WE ALSO ANOTHER ONE OR CHARLTON COUNTY THE NINE SEED, OUT OF SINGLE A PUBLIC SURVIVES 3433.
THEY SEND IRWIN HOME, CHARLTON MAKES IT TO THE DOME TO PLAY MARION COUNTY BACK UPSTAIRS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH JOHN 8:12 TO GO HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS.
NORTH GWINNETT WITH A 24 2014 LEAD AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET A HEAVY DOSE OF THAT MAN.
RIGHT THERE.
NUMBER 7 AND WHY NOT 10 YARDS ON THE CARRY, TACKLED BY MCKINSEY BILLINGSLEY AT THE 40, THE TOP ABOUT, WHY NOT?
YEAH, SHE'S DEFINITELY HAVE TO GIVE HIM THE BALL.
IT'S NOT BRO.
BROKE.
WHY FIX IT IN THE END IS TO POUR CHOCOLATE FROM THE LINEBACKER CORE OF MCEACHIN.
THE GUYS JUST LOOK AT THAT RIGHT THERE THAT YOU CAN'T HOLD ON, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE WHO DEFINITELY COMES IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME LEANING HIS TEAM.
IT WAS A BIG-TIME PLAYER BY GLENN.
FRAZIER, YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THERE.
GLENN FREY'S 100 TO 120, TACKLES COMPANIES FOOTBALL GAME.
CAN'T MAKE THAT TACKLE IN THE MIDDLE OF WHOLE JUST SKIM, THE MR. LEGGETT, THAT'S SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO.
THAT'S A PLAY.
YOU HAVE TO MAKE 23 RUSHES ON THE NIGHT FOR 241 YARDS FOR THEM.
BIG NUMBER SEVEN, EIGHT BARRELS FORWARD FOR THE FIRST DOWN AND MORE.
THE CHAIN.
WE'VE GOT SOME EXTRACURRICULARS AS HENRY FAMER ENDED UP ON HIS BACKSIDE AT THE 47-YARD LINE OF THE FLAG GOES DOWN THERE.
I'M JUST LOOKING AT THE EFFORT, I'M LOOKING AT THE BODY LANGUAGE.
I'M LOOKING AT THE EFFORT IS DEFENSE, IS CAN SEE THE BODY LANGUAGE?
SAYS IT CAUSING THESE GUYS TO PLAY HIGH, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO GET IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
YOU HAVE SEVEN MINUTES AND 30 SECONDS LEFT IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
AND LOOK AT THE PAD LEVEL IS VERY HIGH, YOU GOT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THOSE TYPE OF PLAYS.
ENERGY IS EVERYTHING YOUR TEAMMATES FEED OFF YOU AND THE BACKUP, RIGHT?
TACKLE NUMBER 70.
JAEHO CHANG MADE A FANTASTIC BLOCK ON THE LAST PLAY.
AND THEY CALLED HENRY FEMEN RUA ON THE PENALTY OF 15-YARDER AND MCEACHIN COULD ILL AFFORD TO GIVE UP ANY FREE YARDS TO NORTH GWINNETT AND Q.
AND THIS IS WHY I SAID CJ LEGGETT HAS BEEN SUCH A BLESSING FOR THIS.
NORTH GWINNETT TEAM IS.
THEY HAVE THE ABILITY NOW TO GO BLUE COLLAR IN THE FOURTH QUARTER AND GRIND IT OUT, DESPITE BEING KNOWN FOR SPREAD ATTACK SO, THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.
WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE MULTIPLE BACKS BUT THEY CJ, LEX HAS BEEN THE WORKHORSE FOR THEM, YOU KNOW, HE CATCHES OUT THE BACKFIELD.
WELL, HE BLOCKS WELL, DOES REALLY GOOD JOB IS BLEEP PIC PICK UP, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOUNG MAN IS A NORTH-SOUTH RUNNING WHEN HE GETS GOING, NORTH SOUTH IS VERY HARD TO STOP RIGHT THERE.
HE GOES AS HE LOWERS HIS SHOULDER AND RUNS OVER REMOTELY PARSONS OF THE 20-YARD LINE.
ANOTHER BIG RUN FOR CJ LEGGETT AND ANOTHER NORTH GWINNETT FIRST DOWN A 17-YARD CARRY.
WHEN YOU START TO LOOK, YOU START TO FILL IS NOTHING.
YOU CAN DO TO STOP HIM.
HE'S RUNNING WITH INTENSITY.
HE'S RUNNING WITH A MISSION, HE'S RUNNING WITH THE PASSION AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WHAT THAT SIGNS OF A GREAT RUNNING BACK.
SOMEBODY'S GOING TO HAVE THEMSELVES A REALLY GOOD, BIG TIME RUNNING BACK.
COME NEXT YEAR, OR WHATEVER SCHOOL.
HE'S OUT.
DECIDE TO GO TO, HE'S GONNA MAKE SOME COACH, VERY HAPPY, 263 YARDS ON THE NIGHT.
HATE INSPIRE HASN'T HAD THE AIR IT OUT VERY MUCH WHEN IT HAS IT'S BEEN A LITTLE DICEY AS HE'S THROWN THREE INTERCEPTIONS TONIGHT BUT HE'S GOT NUMBER 7 AND NUMBER 7 AND SAVE THE GIRL.
GO AND THE SUPERMAN FOR NORTH GWINNETT PICKS UP ANOTHER EIGHT YARDS AND STAYS IN BOUNDS WISELY TO KEEP THE CLOCK MOVING.
GOING GOING AGAIN TO THE BREAD AND BROTHER, THE ZONE, READ TO THE BOUNDARY SIDE OF THE FIELD.
YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE WHY TEAMS GO TO THAT STRETCH ZONE.
READ IT ELIMINATES THE WEAKNESS OUT AS WEAKNESS OF THEIR DEFENSE, WHEN YOU WORK THE LITTLE WEAKNESS OF THE DEFENSE, OBVIOUSLY, NO CONNECTS COACH DONE, SOME REALLY GOOD TEAMWORK WHEN IT COMES TO FILM.
YOU LOOK AT THAT.
YOU LOOK RIGHT NOW, YOU LOOK AT NORTH CORNET RUSHING, TO HER 270 YARDS TO MCEACHIN, 91 YARDS.
AND, AND THAT JUST POINT OUT, TO MY POINT, WATCHING FILM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING.
YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THEM RUN THE FOOTBALL TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FIELD OR EXCUSE, ME TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FIELD OF MCEACHERN DEFENSE, YOU SEEN THEM ALL RUNNING TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DEFENSE.
THEY MUST SAW WEAKNESS OVER THERE IN THE DEFENSIVE END OR THE LINEBACKER PLAY.
THAT'S WHAT THAT'S THE KEY IN THIS GAME.
IT'S BEEN AWFULLY HARD TO EXPLOIT, THIS MCEACHERN DEFENSE, THIS SEASON.
THEY'VE BEEN PHENOMENAL, GIVING UP JUST 20 POINTS A GAME AND COACH HOCKMAN SAYS THEY'RE THE GLUE.
THAT'S HELD THIS TEAM TOGETHER.
AND SO FAR TONIGHT, THEY'VE DONE A GREAT JOB OF STOPPING THE PASS GAME, BUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO STOP CJ LEGGETT AND IT'S ANOTHER FIRST DOWN FIRST AND TEN FROM THE ELEVEN.
THEY CAN PICK UP A FIRST DOWN AT THE ONE AND A HALF YARD LINE.
AND HERE IS LEGGETT, AGAIN, LEFT SIDE AND FRAZIER HAS TO HAVE HELP AND BRINGS LEG IT DOWN AFTER A ONE YARD GAME.
AND AGAIN, THERE'S SOME JAWING BACK AND FORTH.
AFTER THE PLAY TALKING ABOUT, ANOTHER MISSED TACKLE RIGHT THERE, MISSED TACKLE FOR TFL TACKLE FOR LOSS.
HE'S JUST GOT IT.
IT'S VERY HARD TO TACKLE.
THESE YOUNG MAN, IT'S WET OUT THERE.
I UNDERSTAND THE IN THESE CONDITIONS BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE THOSE TYPE OF PLAYS BACK.
THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A SURE, TACKLE RIGHT THERE, STRAIGHT.
AND NOW SECOND DOWN AND EIGHT FROM THE 10.
AND THERE IS CJ LEGGED IS NOW LINED UP WIDE RECEIVER ON THE RIGHT SIDE, AN EMPTY BACKFIELD.
AND THEY GET IT TO HIM ON THE JET SWEEP.
THERE'S A PAID FROM DEEP IN THE BULLDOG PLAYBOOK BUT FLAGS COME IN AFTER THE PLAY HORSE THAT ABOUT EVERYONE ON THE SOUTH COAST EAT ALL THEIR TEAL AND AS THE JET SWEEP AND THE MOMENTUM OF CJ LEGGETT.
TAKE HIM OUT OF BOUNDS ON THE SECOND DOWNPLAY WHICH STOPS THE CLOCK WITH 502 TO GO ILLEGAL FORMATION ON THE OFFENSE, THE PENALTY IS REFUSED.
THIRD DOWN PENALTY DECLINED HERE FOR MCEACHERN, THEY'D RATHER IT BE THIRD DOWN INSTEAD OF SECOND AND LONG.
THEY'RE TRYING TO FORCE NORTH GWINNETT TO KICK A FIELD GOAL TO REMAIN WITHIN TWO POSSESSIONS IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
BUT RIGHT NOW, THEY'VE GOT TO BE GASPS.
THEY'VE BEEN OUT THERE ON THE FIELD FOR A LONG TIME.
TRYING TO STOP CJ.
LEGGED, YES, THESE ARE LEGGINGS.
THIS IS FINDING SO MUCH SUCCESS IN THE BOUNDARY OF THIS DEFENSE.
IT OBVIOUSLY COACH CONSPIRE SEES A WEAKNESS IN HIS DEFENSE.
HE'S ATTACKING ME.
WHAT?
THERE'S NO NEED TO RUN TO THE WIDE SIDE OF THE FIELD.
I'M LOOKING AT THE DEFENSIVE END IN THE LINEBACKERS FOR FOR MCEACHERN HANDS.
ON THE HIPS.
THEY HAVE NO FIRE TO HANDLE SNOW HANCOCK.
NO HAND BY.
SO I'M GONNA KEEP GOING THERE BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF SUCCESS IN THE RUNNING GAME NOW.
BROWN MOVES FROM RIGHT TO LEFT HAYDEN.
PASSING INCOMPLETE INTENDED FOR OUR MANTRA BROWN DEFENSIVE BACKFIELD BY DARIUS THOMPSON.
THE FREE SAFETY, AND THAT'S THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE PUT THE BALL IN THE AIR ON THIS POSSESSION.
AND NOW IT'S FOURTH DOWN, MCEACHERN WILL CHANGE PERSONNEL.
AND SO WE'LL NORTH GWINNETT IS, THEY WILL ATTEMPT ANOTHER FIELD GOAL.
BE THE SECOND FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT OF THE NIGHT FOR MICHAEL D. ANGOLA, HE BOOTED THROUGH A 45 YARDER ON THEIR LAST POSSESSION.
AND NOW IT'S A 26-YARD TRIED FOR THE LEFTY KICK IS NO GOOD.
OH, SO THE OPTION TO NOT TAKE THE PENALTY, YARDAGE WORKS OUT FOR MCEACHERN AND WE'RE GONNA TAKE A BREAK.
IT'S 24 214 HERE IN POWDER SPRINGS, WITH 433 TO GO, THE MCEACHERN, INDIANS HAVE SOME WORK TO DO ON OFFENSE, WHEN WE COME BACK.
WELCOME BACK, CANTRELL STADIUM.
433 REGULATION, NORTH GWINNETT LEADING QUICK SCORING UPDATE BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH OVERTIME RIGHT NOW AND CAROLTON IS LEADING MARIST, BUT MARIST HAS JUST SCORED.
THEY HAVE TO GO FOR TO NOW, SINCE WE'RE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH OVERTIME, AND HANGING IN THE BALANCE RIGHT NOW CAN CARROLLTON, HANG ON, CAN MARIS SEND IT TO A FIFTH OT.
WINNER GETS GRIFFIN ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE BRACKET ONE OTHER FINAL IN.
IN DOUBLE-A LOVE IT, A WINNER OVER BROOKS COUNTY 3512 MORE AS WE GO, GO, ACTIVE.
GUYS THANKS NELLIE.
433 TO GO HERE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, THE MCEACHERN, INDIANS OFFENSE, HAS SOME WORK TO DO THERE DOWN BY 10, AND THEY'VE GOT IT FIRST DOWN AND 10 FROM THE 20, YARD LINE, AND BAILEY HOCKMAN WILL BE THE QUARTERBACK ALIGNS UP INITIALLY IN AN EMPTY BACKFIELD AND NOW TAJ GRIFFIN MOVES OVER BESIDE HIM HOCKMAN, SURVEYING THE FIELD.
NOW, COMING BACK AND OVERTHROWING MALIK WILLIAMS AT THE 37 YARD LINE.
YOU CAN SEE HOW IT WITH IS REALLY TRYING TO GO FOR THE MARBLES RIGHT NOW.
GOING THROUGH HIS PROGRESSIONS, TALKING TO HIS RECEIVER.
IT IS TRYING TO GET THAT TO GET THAT ROUTE DOWN PAT.
HEY EVERYTHING IS ON THE LINE RIGHT NOW.
SO EVERY DAY EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE PERFECT.
YOU CAN SEE GOING THROUGH A PROGRESSIVE, JUST THROWING INTO DOUBLE COVERAGE THAT THE BALL, GET AWAY FROM THEM 8 FOR 16 ON THE NIGHT FOR 111 YARDS.
A TOUCHDOWN IN THE PIT FOR HOCKMAN AND HE HAD QUITE A LONG CONVERSATION WITH MALIK WILLIAMS AFTER THAT MISCOMMUNICATION ON FIRST DOWN, IT S 10.
THEY GIVE IT TO NUMBER SEVEN AND HE GOES ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE ON RACE 8MM OR COMES IN WITH HIS BUDDY.
DANTE SAWYER FOR THE TACKLE FOR LOSS.
LET'S HEAD DOWNSTAIRS TO JOHN NELSON.
HERE'S YOUR QUAD A UPDATE MARIST.
DID NOT CONVERT THE TWO-POINT CONVERSION IN THE BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH CARROLLTON, 46 MARIS 44, IT'S CARROLLTON, AND GRIFFIN IN THE QUAD, EIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP NEXT WEEKEND, THIRD DOWN AND 15.
NOW, AFTER THE TACKLE FOR LOSS AND HOCKMAN, VERY COMFORTABLE IN THE POCKET.
AND AGAIN, SALES IT OVER THE HEAD OF THE LAKE WILLIAMS AT THE 30.
FIVE-YARD LINE, PRETTY MUCH A MIRROR IMAGE OF WHAT WE SAW ON FIRST DOWN.
WELL, NOW IT'S FOURTH DOWN AND LONG, FOURTH, AND 15 KILOS.
IS IT TOO SOON TO GO FOR IT ON FOURTH DOWN TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION FIELD POSITION.
NOW, I COACH IS GOING TO GO FOR HERE, YOU KNOW, ARE TRYING TO GET THIS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP BACK, COBB COUNTY.
YOU KNOW IT.
THEY HAVE SET PLAYS FOR THIS FOR THIS MOMENT.
MIGHT SEE A FLEA-FLICKER HEAR YOU, BUT YOU MAY SEE A CURL WITH THE TOSS OR THE GUY COMING UNDERNEATH JUST TO KEEP THIS KEEP THIS CHAIN.
MOVING.
WELL, YOU TAKE YOUR MOST DYNAMIC OFFENSIVE, PLAYER OFF THE FIELD AND TAJ GRIFFIN.
HE JUST CHECKS OUT, RYAN SHERMAN, AND THE BLOCK POP AND TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THE RUSH.
HE GETS AWAY FROM THE RUSH, BUT THROWS INCOMPLETE AGAIN, INTENDED FOR MALIK WILLIAMS AND THAT IS A COSTLY FOURTH DOWN IN COMPLETION FOR MCEACHERN AS THE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN AND COMPANY COME OFF THE FIELD WITH THEIR HEADS HANGING.
IT REALLY NEEDED THAT ONE TO KEEP LIFE IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
INSTEAD, IT'S A TURN.
ON DOWN TO NORTH GWINNETT WILL TAKE OVER PHENOMENAL FIELD POSITION FIRST AND TEN FROM THE 15-YARD LINE IN THE 10 POINT LEAD WITH 341 TO GO IN THE GAME.
AS YOU CAN SEE, CAUGHT ACROSS THIS COMING IN THERE AND MAKE IT A VERY NICE.
NICE.
TACKLE, ON A QB, MAKING A NICE RUSH RUSH.
SOMEONE WHO HAVE FIVE SACKS ON THE YEAR.
FOR THE THREE TACKLES ONE IN INCEPTION CARD HAS BEEN ONE OF THE HEART.
SO PLAYERS, HE'S A SELLOUT TYPE PLAYER.
HE'S VERY SMART, IT'S VERY GOOD JOB.
COMING UP FROM HIS LINEBACKER POSITION AND NORTH GWINNETT CALLS A TIMEOUT.
AND WE WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ONE TO THE LAST THREE MINUTES AND 41 SECONDS COMING UP.
ONE OF THESE TEAMS IS GOING TO PUNCH THEIR TICKET TO THE DOME.
DON'T GO ANYWHERE.
ITS FOOTBALL FRIDAYS ON GPB 24, TO 14, WITH 341 TO GO IN THE GAME.
NORTH GWINNETT, TRYING TO PUNCH THEIR TICKET TO THE GEORGIA, DOME AND HAVE AT LEAST AN OPPORTUNITY TO WIN THEIR FIRST EVER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN KIEL, AND IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THIS FOOTBALL SEASON IS GONE BY FASTER THAN ANY THAT I CAN REMEMBER.
AND THIS IS OUR LAST GAME WORKING TOGETHER, AS WILL BE SPLIT UP A LITTLE THE GEORGIA DOME.
AND SO I JUST WANT TO SAY IT'S BEEN AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU.
YOU'RE A BULLDOG.
SO THAT CERTAINLY HELPED YOU'RE A FLORIDA GATOR.
MAYBE WOULD HAVE TAKEN US A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO GO, MAN, GET OUR BEARINGS.
SO IT WORKED OUT.
WELL, DON'T BEAT ME UP MAN.
I'M A BULLDOG.
THROWING THROW, YOU CUT ME OPEN RIGHT NOW, I BELIEVE RED AND BLACK SO IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU TWO AS WELL MAN.
HEY WE HAVE A FEW MORE GAMES AND MAKE SURE YOU GUYS COME ON BACK AND AND REPRESENT GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND IT IS MAKE SURE WHAT YOU SEE SOME REALLY GOOD STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL GAMES THIS NEXT WEEKEND.
ABSOLUTELY.
WHAT HAVE YOU COVERED FOR ALL SEVEN OF THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES THROUGHOUT THE DAY?
FRIDAY, AND ALSO THROUGHOUT THE DAY SATURDAY AND YOU CAN GET ALL THE FINALS AND FIND OUT WHO MADE IT THERE ON OUR GPB SPORTS APP.
AND HERE IS SU J LEGGETT.
TRYING TO GRIND OUT SOMETIME.
HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T MIND GETTING INTO THE END ZONE AGAIN.
IT'S BEEN THE CJ LEGGETT SHOW.
HE'S REALLY SAVED THE DAY TONIGHT FOR NORTH GWINNETT HAS, THEIR PASSING ATTACK, HAS BEEN A LITTLE OFF-KILTER BY NORTH GWINNETT STANDARDS BUT THE BULLDOGS HAVE WRITTEN NUMBER 7 AND THEY COULD BE RIDING THEM ALL THE WAY TO THE A DOME AND WE'RE JUST GETTING WORD THAT NORCROSS HAS JUST TAKEN A LEAD OVER COLQUITT AND THAT SEMI FINAL GAME.
AND HERE'S A LITTLE MONTAGE OF NUMBER SEVEN DOING WORK TONIGHT.
SEVEN TAKING IN 46, MAN.
THIS ONE THING I REALLY LIKE ABOUT HIM, WHAT HE BRINGS TO THE TABLE.
HE'S PASSIONATE, HE LOVES, HE LOVES RUNNING THE FOOTBALL AND HIS NUMBER IS CALLED COACH, ALWAYS MAKE SURE HE PUTS ME IN A REALLY GOOD POSITION.
AND YOU CAN TELL HE HAS REALLY GOOD COACHING BEHIND HIM BECAUSE THEY SCHEME FOR HIM TO BE SUCCESSFUL TONIGHT.
I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES HE RAN TO FOOTBALL, TOO.
THE RIGHT.
BUT I CAN TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES HE RAN THE FOOTBALL TO THE LEFT AND HE SCORE SOME TOUCHDOWNS OFF OF IT TOO.
AND LET'S GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.
THE BIG OFFENSIVE LINEMAN MITCH HYATT DRE SMITH, PAUL HIRSCHMAN, J HERNAN, ANDREW SCRUGGS HAVE PLAYED PHENOMENAL TONIGHT AND THERE IS BIG, MITCH HYATT RIGHT THERE.
PROJECTED TO BE THE NUMBER ONE, OFFENSIVE TACKLE IN THE COUNTRY NEXT SEASON.
AS RIGHT NOW, HE'S JUST A JUNIOR AND HE'S GOT A LOT OF GUYS KNOCK ON HIS DOOR.
RIGHT NOW IS RECRUITING OPENED UP AFTER LAST SATURDAY.
SEVERAL THOSE COACHES WERE SITTING IN COACH BOB SPIRES OFFICE.
WHEN WE WERE TALKING ON THE CONFERENCE CALL AND MOST OF THEM WERE TRYING TO RECRUIT THE SERVICES OF ONE NUMBER 75.
YEAH.
ONE THING WE KNOW ABOUT HIM, HE'S A HARD WORKER, YOU KNOW, HE CAN REALLY PLAY SOME REALLY GOOD FOOTBALL AND I TALKED ABOUT WHAT OFFENSIVE COACHES LOOKED AT.
I WAS TALKING TO OFFICERS THE COAST WILL FRIEND.
IT WAS DOWN ON THE SIDELINE EARLY EARLIER TODAY.
HE STILL OVER THERE WATCHING FOR MORE DISTANT WATCHING NUMBER 75 BECAUSE JORDAN KNOWS THAT NEED SOME GOOD OFFENSIVE LINEMAN FOR THE YEARS TO COME, HE'S DEFINITELY ONE GUY.
THEY HAVE ON THEIR RADAR.
FIVE-YARD GAIN FOR CJ LEGGETT.
THOMPSON, THE FREE SAFETY COMES UP TO MAKE THE TACKLE.
AND WE'VE GOT A TIMEOUT FOR MCEACHERN AS THEY START BURNING THEIR TIMEOUTS.
TO TRY TO CONSERVE SOME OF THAT TIME JUST COMING UP IN DECEMBER OR THE ROAD TO THE DOME.
TAKES US TO OUR FINAL DESTINATION AS WE BRING YOU THE 2013 GHS A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES LIVE HERE ON GPB.
WE'LL BE LIVE ALL WEEKEND WITH THREE GAMES ON FRIDAY NIGHT FOR MORE GAMES ON SATURDAY AND WE'LL CROWN SEVEN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP BY THE TIME IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE.
WEEKS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUP WILL BE POSTED ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE ON MONDAYS.
SO CHECK US OUT ON GPB SPORTS OR ON FACEBOOK TWO, SOLID DAYS OF FOOTBALL, SEVEN CHAMPIONSHIPS.
IT'S ALL NEXT FRIDAY AND NEXT SATURDAY, LIVE ON GPB, AND MAKE SURE YOU GUYS STAY TUNED.
ALSO TO MAKE SURE YOU GO DOWN AND YOU DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION ON GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING.
YOU CAN CHECK UP SOME OF THE LATE GAMES.
THAT'S, THAT'S THIS PERSON BEFORE WE EVEN GET IT UP HERE IN THE BOOTH TO, AS WELL.
THERE'S A NICE GRAPHIC AND WE'VE HAD A GREAT RESPONSE FROM THE GPB FOOTBALL APP.
IT IS OBVIOUSLY THE PLACE TO BE TO CATCH UP ON SCORES AND SO EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT THIS YEAR, YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO WATCH OUR FOOTBALL GAME AND KEEP UP WITH WHAT'S GOING ON ACROSS THE STATE.
GPB IS HAD YOU COVERED ALL THE WAY FROM THE KELL CLASSIC AND SO IT'LL BE THE DOME AND THEN BACK TO THE DOME AS WILL BE THERE NEXT WEEKEND WITH THE SEVEN CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.
AND NOW, FLAG COMES IN, BEFORE THE CJ, LEGGED CARRY.
HE NEED THE YARD TO GAIN WAS THE SIX YARD LINE AND THEY'LL MARK HIM DOWN AT THE 7.
LET'S CHECK THE PENALTY.
ILLEGAL SHIFT ON NORTH GWINNETT.
METAL BACKUP NUMBER FOUR AND COMPANY ON THE OFFENSE PIN.
L REFUSED TIMEOUT, MCEACHERN, MCEACHERN BURNS.
ANOTHER TIMEOUT IS FOURTH DOWN AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE EXACT SAME SCENARIO THAT NORTH GWINNETT HAD ON THEIR PREVIOUS POSSESSION AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME SCENARIO FOR THE MCEACHERN DEFENSE AS WELL, TRYING TO FORCE A FIELD GOAL AND I KEEP THIS GAME WITH INTO POSITION POSSESSIONS SO THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO COME BACK IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME THERE.
YOU SEE NORTH GWINNETT SCHEDULE, ONE MORE TIME, THEIR LOAN LAUGHS HAS BEEN TO COLLINS HILL 53-28, THAT'S THE GAME THAT HAYDEN SPIRE HURT HIS ANKLE AND THEN BACK-TO-BACK TOUGH WINS AGAINST ARCHER AND HILLGROVE.
IN THE PLAYOFFS, ARE THOSE CLOSE GAMES, MAN.
I THINK THOSE CLOSE GAMES THEY TO SHAPE, AND THEY KNOW YOU AND THEY BILL YOU FOR WINDS LIKE THIS TO THAT TONIGHT FOR THEM.
AND YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT THROUGH ADVERSITY, AND THOSE TWO GAMES REPRESENT VIRTUALLY FOR THIS COACHING, YOU USE THOSE FOR TALKING POINTS.
I REMEMBER, WE WANT STATE AND DAYTONA BEACH IN 2004, YOU KNOW, I SLOGAN WAS COMMITTED TO BROTHER BROTHERHOOD AND ONE THING THAT I COACH REALLY DID THEY TOOK US TO A CREMATION DAY WE WENT AWAY AND WE WENT AWAY FROM THE WHOLE CITY.
WE WENT ON THE BEACH AND WE STAYED IN A HOTEL ROOMS AND WE HAD TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES THE WHOLE WEEKEND AND I BASICALLY WHAT THOSE THOSE ACTIVITIES WERE WITH WERE ADVERSITY MOMENTS.
SO WHEN WE MENTION WISE, WE HAD TO TRUST EACH OTHER WILL HAVE TO STAND ON TABLES AND FALL BACK.
YOU HAVE TO TRUST THAT YOUR TEAMMATE.
YOUR TEAMMATE WAS GOING TO CATCH YOU.
IT WAS VERY VERY VERY FOR IT FOR 17 16 YEAR OLD KID IN HIGH SCHOOL TO PUT YOUR TRUST IN ANOTHER AMAZING.
YOUR TEAMMATE IS SCARED.
SO THE TRANSITIONS TO THE FOOTBALL FIELD, YOU HAVE TO TRUST EACH OTHER EVEN THOUGH YOU GET DOWN SOMETIME AND THERE'S A BIG 25-YARD, SEE A GOAL FOR MICHAEL D ANGOLA EXTENDS THE LEAD TO 27 TO 14.
SO, MCEACHERN.
STILL WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE?
REMEMBER, BOTH OF THESE TEAMS TONIGHT HAVE MADE A LIVING IN THE PLAYOFFS AND COMING BACK IN THE FOURTH QUARTER.
BUT IT'S GOING TO BE AN AWFULLY UPHILL.
BATTLE FOR THE INDIANS WITH 3:15 TO GO IN THEIR OFFENSE HAS NOT EXACTLY BEEN CLICKING HERE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, RIGHT OFFICE.
BIG CLICKING IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, THEY JUST COULDN'T FIND A RHYTHM, THEY COULDN'T GET THEMSELVES IN THE GROOVE, THEY HAVE A GROOVE IN THE BEGINNING.
THE GAME THEY HAD A GROUP THAT THEY CAN JUST SIT THERE, RUN THE BALL EFFICIENTLY AND THEY CAN ALSO PASS THE BALL OFFICIALLY.
THEY JUST GOT AWAY FROM THAT THEIR TRAY.
LET'S CHECK IN DOWNSTAIRS, WITH NELLY NELLY.
WHAT YOU GOT?
NO RIGHT WINNER, THIS ONE GETS THE WINNER OF THE ONE THAT HAD THE SAME WEATHER DELAY THAT WE DID RIGHT NOW.
NORCROSS IS LEADING COLQUITT 8:46.
SO YOU FIGURE THE ONE DIFFERENCE, THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE, ALL THE SITUATIONS BEING THE SAME.
AS THE FACT THAT NORCROSS GAME IS BEING PLAYED.
ON GRASS WHEN THIS ONE'S BEING PLAYED ON TURF.
SO THAT ONE'S GOING TO BE A BIT OF A MUCKER FOR THE REST OF THE WAY GUYS.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WELL, IT'D BE AN INTERESTING MATCHUP.
IF WE'RE FORECASTING, THE COURSE, WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.
WE KNOW THESE PLAYOFF GAMES CAN TURN ON A DIME, BUT IT'D BE AN INTERESTING MATCHUP REGION, 7 AGAINST REGION 7.
IT HAS NORCROSS AND NORTH GWINNETT.
WE COVERED THAT GAME EARLY IN THE SEASON BEFORE NORCROSS REALLY FOUND THEMSELVES NORTH GWINNETT.
HAD THEIR WAY 36 TO 17 IN THAT MATCH UP.
SO WE COULD GET A REMATCH BUT REALLY WHOEVER WINS WE WALKED INTO THE STADIUM TONIGHT AND SAID YOU KNOW, WHOEVER WINS THESE TWO GAMES TONIGHT IT'S GOING TO BE A PHENOMENAL MATCHUP NO MATTER WHAT AND HERE IS TRE SCOTT TRYING TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE FOOTBALL ON THE RETURN.
HE BRINGS IT OUT TO THE 38 YARD LINE, AND THAT'S WHERE THE INDIANS WILL START OFF.
AND LET'S SEE IF WE SEE HOW, HOCKEY, WIN OR TIE CLEMENS, SO, GOOD THING THEY HAVE REALLY GOOD FIELD POSITION IN THAT'S JUST AT WORK.
ALWAYS WORKS ON THE HAND, BUT YOU WENT THING WE DO ABOUT HOPPING HOPPING DESOLATE.
DEFINITELY HAVE A REALLY GOOD GOOD THROWING ARM.
WE ALSO KNOW IF TY CLEMENS IS IN THE IN THE GAME, HE'S GOING TO GO DEEP TO AS WELL.
TJ, RIMMING, TJ RIMMING HAS YET TO CATCH ANOTHER TEST.
AND AFTER AFTER THE FIRST PLAY OF THE GAME SO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO?
THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK FOR THOSE SIDELINES IN THE SIDELINES.
AS YOUR FRIEND, YOU HAVE ZERO ZERO TIME OUTS RIGHT NOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR A LOT OF COMEBACKS.
A LOT OF OUTS AND A LOT OF A LOT OF DEEP COMBAT, 14 YARDS OUT.
YOU GOT TO GET TO THE POWER PYLONS FOR BAILEY, HOCKMAN KNOWS THE SYSTEM.
HERE'S SOME TRICKERATION, IT'S A REVERSE PASS.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS T.J. RONNIE.
REMEMBER YOUR TURN SPOTS HERE IS THE OPEN FIELD DOWN THE SIDELINE 25-YARD LINE.
AND HE GOT OUT IN THE OPEN BEFORE I COULD EVEN FINISH.
MY THOUGHT, BAILEY HOCKMAN KNOWS THIS OFFENSE, AS WELL AS ANYBODY.
AND AFTER THE 37 YARD GAME, THAT SHOWS YOU THAT THIS OFFENSE CAN STRIKE AT ANY MOMENT.
EXACTLY, WE TALKED ABOUT THE EARLY IN THIS GAME, I WANT YOU TO POINT OUT EVEN THOUGH WE LOOKING AT ROMNEY, WHO MAKING A VERY NICE TACKLE, BUT SEE NUMBER ONE COMING IN AT THE END OF YOUR SCREEN, BUSTLING TOUCHDOWN SAVING PURSUIT.
THAT'S WHY YOU WENT TO THE FOOTBALL ALWAYS TALK ABOUT IF YOU WANT TO THE FOOTBALL.
GOOD THINGS HAPPEN, HE JUST SAVED HIS TEAM.
A TOUCHDOWN.
NICE JOB, STACKHOUSE.
THREE MINUTES IS A TON OF AND HERE IS HOT MEN AND JUST OVER THE HEAD OF TJ, RAHMING AND YOU CAN SEE THE ARM STRENGTH OF NUMBER 10, STILL.
AGAIN, I KNOW WE'RE BEATING A DEAD HORSE HERE, BUT THE YOUNG MAN IS THE COACH'S SON IN JUST A FRESHMAN AT THAT.
AND HE'S PLAYED VERY WELL TONIGHT IN PLACE OF THAI, CLEMENS, AND IF IT WEREN'T FOR NUMBER 10, MCEACHERN WOULDN'T EVEN BE IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME RIGHT NOW, AS HE STEPPED IN FOR THE INJURED TIE CLEMENS EARLIER IN THE SEASON, WHEN CLEMENS HAD THAT HIGH ANKLE SPRAIN LATE IN THE SEASON.
AND NOW TOTAL NUMBER 10, TRYING TO PULL OFF A MIRACULOUS COMEBACK HERE.
AND REMEMBER HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BOX TOPS ON FIRST DOWN.
SO WE CAN WE HAVE NO TIME.
I'M OUTS.
THEY CAN STILL STOP THE CLOCK EVERY TIME.
THEY GAINED 10 YARDS AND THERE'S RT SCRUB TO THE BEAUTIFUL, CATCH AT THE 11-YARD LINE AND THAT'S A FIRST DOWN AND THAT'LL STOP THE CLOCK.
IT'S AN 18-YARD GAIN.
VERY NICE DECISION IS THROW THE BALL.
DOWNFIELD TO 12 TONNES, RECEIVER ON THE FOOTBALL, TEAM, 64.
65 WAS NICE.
NICE TO POISON.
YOU CAN SEE, I'M JUST MAKING SOMETHING HAPPEN, IS THROWING IT DOWN, THROWING A BULLET, NICE JOB, AND NOW THEY COME BACK IN THE PISTOL WITH TAJ GRIFFIN IN THE BACKFIELD.
BACHMAN LOOKING ARTIS CLARK AGAIN AND HE CATCHES A TOUCHDOWN.
AND WE GOT OURSELVES A BALL GAME.
FOLKS, SIX YARDS ON THE PITCH AND CATCH FROM HOCHMAN TO CLARK.
THAT'S WHY I SAY YOU NEVER GIVE UP.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN IT'S YOUR TIME.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN SHE OPPORTUNITY.
YOU JUST LOOK AT HOCKMAN.
GOES TO HIS.
GO TO ONE OF HIS FAVORITE TARGETS.
BE IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME FOR SECOND TIME IN A ROW.
FIND A VERY NICE EASY TARGET TO.
HEY, THERE YOU GO.
AGAIN, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE, IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FIVE, SIX, SEVEN YARDS OFF THE RECEIVER.
IF YOUR CORNERBACK YOU GOTTA GO TO IT EVERY TIME THE EXTRA POINT IS UP AND ALL THE SUDDEN, THE MCEACHERN INDIANS ARE WITHIN SIX.
LET'S HEAD DOWNSTAIRS TO CHECK IN WITH JON NELSON NELLY, YOU SAW THE CHEERLEADER, THE CHIEF CHEERLEADER.
THERE HE IS, THE ANKLES ARE OFFICIALLY UNTAPED, NOTHING GOING ON DOWN THERE.
I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE BAILEY HOCKMAN FOR THE REST OF THE WAY, BUT REMEMBER, GUYS HOCKMAN DID THE SAME THING IN THE EARLIER MATCHUP AGAINST HUGHES IN THE PLAYOFFS.
THEY WERE DOWN.
TWO SCORES LATE CAME BACK TO WIN 20 TO 21.
SO THIS KIND OF SITUATION ISN'T STRANGE FOR HAWKMOON TO RUN THIS OFFENSE IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
NOW, THE QUESTION IS WITH ZERO TIMEOUTS AND THE FACT THAT THEY'VE NOT BEEN ABLE TO STOP CJ.
LEGGETT ON DEFENSE, WE MIGHT BE LOOKING AT AN ONSIDE KICK HERE WITH 233 TO GO.
WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO COACH ALL HOCKMAN YESTERDAY ON THE TELECONFERENCE.
ONE THING HE SAID KEY WINS FOR THEM IS THEIR SENIOR LEADERSHIP.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY.
HEY, I KNOW, I UNDERSTAND I CAN'T BE BIASED HERE, BUT MY SON'S LEADERSHIP HAS REALLY HELPED US IN THE PAST TWO GAMES.
REALLY HELPED US COME BACK AND WIN.
AND THERE HE IS AGAIN FOR THE FOR THE THIRD TIME, BRINGING HIS TEAM DOWN ON A NICE SCORING DRIVE TO GET.
THEM BACK IN THE BALLGAME AND NOT, LET'S NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT ARTISTE CLARK WAS A SECOND AND THIRD STRING, RECEIVER, STARTING THE SEASON AND HE'S PLAYED HIMSELF INTO THE STARTING ROLE AND HE CAME INTO THIS FOOTBALL GAME WITH JUST NINE RECEPTIONS ON THE SEASON BUT COACH SAID HE'S GOING TO PLAY AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN TONIGHT'S GAME AND HE JUST CAUGHT A HUGE TOUCHDOWN AND THERE'S THE ONSIDE KICK BOUNCES OFF THE CHEST OF THE NORTH GWINNETT PLAYER.
AND THERE'S A SCRUM AT THE 45.
OH BOY.
THIS INTENSE DOWN THERE COURSE, MCEACHERN THE BLUE SHIRTS ARE SIGNALING THAT THEY HAVE IT ON A COUPLE MORE PLAYERS.
COME UP AND SAY THAT THEY DO.
WE'RE WAITING FOR A PARCEL WITH THE COACHES AND THEY GIVE IT TO NORTH GWINNETT.
MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF THE GOLD.
HATS WILL BE FIRST DOWN AND 10 FOR THE BULLDOGS AT THE 45 YARD LINE.
MCEACHERN, HAS NO TIMEOUTS AND THEY NEED THE FOOTBALL BACK WITH 231 TO GO RECOVERED BY BRANDT CAMERA AND YOU SEE IT BOUNCE OFF THE CHEST OF ONE OF THE UP MEN.
AND IT'S FREE GAME AT THAT POINT BECAUSE TALKED ABOUT HOW IT GOES.
KYLE HOCKMAN TALKED ABOUT HOW WE GOT SOME LUCK THIS YEAR AND IN QUOTE, HEY JUST, YOU KNOW, HIS DEFENSE HAS TO COME OUT HERE AND HOPEFULLY THEY CAN GET LUCKY AND HAVE A TURNOVER.
TRY TO STRIP THE BALL HERE AND GET THE BALL BACK FOR THE OFFENSE.
FENCE AND OBVIOUSLY KING ON CJ LEGGETT AND WHY WOULDN'T THEY BE STILL A THREE-YARD GAIN FOR NUMBER 7 AT THIS POINT.
NO TIMEOUTS.
MIGHT I ADD SECOND DOWN AND SEVEN.
NOW FOR NORTH GWINNETT AND THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO MILK EVERY SECOND OFF THE CLOCK.
IF THEY'RE UNABLE TO CONVERT AND SOMEHOW MCEACHERN DEFENSE FORCES A THREE AND OUT THE OFFENSE COULD GET THE BALL BACK BUT THERE WOULD NOT BE MUCH TIME LEFT ON THE CLOCK.
HERE'S LEGGETT AGAIN ANOTHER TOUGH RON ANOTHER TOUGH COUPLE OF YARDS BUT STILL WELL SHOW.
THE FIRST DOWN.
YOU SEE A THIRD AND FOR COMING UP HERE, A BIG, BIG DOWN FOR THIS DEFENSE THAT CAN GET A STOP HERE AND GIVE A STOP ON FOURTH DOWN.
MAY HAVE SOME TIME LEFT ON THE CLOCK.
WELL, THE BALL ON OFFENSE, DESPITE ALL THE BIG PLAYS, THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST THIRD DOWN AND FOUR FOR NORTH GWINNETT.
AT THE 48 AND A HALF, YARD LINE OF MCEACHERN.
IF THEY'RE ABLE TO CONVERT, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO RUN THE CLOCK OUT, AND THEY WILL STAMP THEIR TICKET TO THE GEORGIA DOME NEXT WEEK.
NORTH GWINNETT JUST CALLED THE TIMEOUT.
THEY KNOW HOW BIG THIS PLAY IS, ESPECIALLY AFTER JUST WATCHING BAILEY HOCKMAN AND COMPANY DRIVE DOWN THE FIELD FOR THE QUICK TD, WHAT'S COACH SPIRE SAYING IN THE HUDDLE OVER THERE KEELAN?
HE'S LETTING THESE GUYS KNOW HEY WE CANNOT HAVE ANY OFF SIGHS, WE NEED TO BE EXECUTE THIS PLAY.
HEY, YOU GONNA GIVE EVERYBODY SOME WATER?
EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION.
THIS COULD BE OUR SEASON RIGHT HERE.
GUYS.
THIS PLAY RIGHT HERE.
COULD BE I SEASON THE WE HAVE TO CONVERT SO YOU GIVE YOUR TEAM A COUPLE EXTRA SECONDS TO GET SOME WATER AND IT'S A REAL EIGHTH PLACE.
TECH MIT HAND TECHNIQUE AND YOU REALLY NEED TO GET YOUR TEAMMATES THINKING ABOUT WHAT ARE THEY DOING ON THIS CERTAIN PLAY?
THEY GOT A CERTAIN PLAY THEY'RE GOING TO GO TO IT MAY TRY TO JUST DRAW THEM OFF SIDES RIGHT HERE WITH THE HEART COUNT.
IF I'M IF IF IF I'M IF I'M A KITCHEN, IF I'M COACH HOCKMAN, I'M TELLING MY GUYS STAY ON SIZE BECAUSE IT'S THIRD AND FOURTH.
RIGHT HERE ARE ALL SIDES WILL GET THEM A FIRST DOWN AND ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THINGS.
THINGS.
I HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT ALL 11 GUYS IN THE BLUE JERSEYS ARE GOING TO BE TEEING UP ON NUMBER 7.
YEAH.
YOU GOT TO AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW IN THESE TYPE OF SITUATIONS YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE KEY TO NUMBER SEVEN AND YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU PAY ATTENTION TO BEIBEI THE TIGHT END TO BECAUSE YOU COULD BE A TIGHT TIGHT IN POP PASS WHO NOBODY'S PAYING ATTENTION TO HUGE PLAY.
NOW NORTH GWINNETT OUT OF THE PISTOL, AND THEY DIRECT STAFF AT THE CJ.
LEGGETT ON THE TRICKERATION, IT IS NOT FULL MCEACHERN.
AND THEY WILL GET THE FOOTBALL BACK.
GREAT DISCIPLINE BY HENRY HENRY FAN RUA AS HAYDEN SPIRE WALKS TOWARD THE SIDELINE.
IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S NOT SURE WHAT'S GOING ON, THEY DIRECT SNAP AT THE LEGGETT AND HE IS NOT ABLE TO PICK UP THE FIRST.
IT IS FOURTH DOWN AND THREE AND NOW, ANOTHER INTERESTING COACHING DECISION, WHAT DOES NORTH GWINNETT DO?
IS THERE ANY WAY AT ALL?
THAT, THEY TRY TO GO FOR IT HERE ON FOURTH DOWN AFTER WHAT MCEACHERN OFFENSE.
JUST DID TO THEIR DEFENSE WHEN I TELL YOU, HEADS UP PLAY BY TYLER SMITH AT THE DOUBT THAT THE MIDDLE LAB, EXCUSE ME, THE WILL LINEBACKER COMING IN.
SNEAKING OFF THAT PLAY.
MAKING SURE HIS EYES LOCKED IN LIKE YOU SAID EYES ON NUMBER 7, HEY EVERYBODY KNEW WHOSE GET GOING TO GET THE BALL AND MR. TYLER SMITH WAS THERE FOR THE TACKLE.
NOW ALTHOUGH THEY'VE GOT TJ RAHMING BACK.
DEEP TO RECEIVE WHAT COULD BE A PUNT.
NOW A FLAG COMES IN AS WELL.
THAT'S GOING TO BE A DELAY OF GAME.
BUT EVEN THOUGH TJ RAHMING HAD MOVED BACK TO RECEIVE THE PUNT.
THE STARTING DEFENSIVE UNIT IS GOING TO REMAIN ON THE FIELD FOR COACH KYLE HOCKMAN, WE'VE ALREADY SEEN TWO FAKE PUNTS IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
IT HAS BEEN A WILD ONE.
YES, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IT BY LOOKING AT THE SCORE BUT NORTH GWINNETT HAS TURNED THE BALL OVER FOUR TIMES IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME HATE INSPIRE HAS THROWN THREE INTERCEPTIONS BUT SO FAR IT HAS NOT COST HIM.
WE'VE GOT 15 SECONDS TO GO, LET'S TAKE YOU BACK TO WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK AT COLLINS HILL.
NOW 47 TAJ GRIFFIN TOOK IT 85 YARDS TO THE HOUSE WITH A MINUTE LEFT AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO GIVE THEM A SHOT AS COACH TELLS HIM, OKAY?
YOUR MAMA VERY SMART PLAY AND NOW THE OFFENSE WILL HAVE EIGHT SECONDS.
THEY NEED SIX POINTS.
WELL, YOU DEFINITELY HAVE TIME TO RUN TO LEGITIMATE PLAYS.
YOU WANT TO TRY TO HAVE TO THROW THE BALL TO THE SIDE ONE.
YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO THROW THE BALL TO THE SIDELINE.
IF YOU DON'T THROW THE BALL TO THE SIDELINES THERE, HERE'S YOUR SEASON BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO TIMEOUTS.
SO, IF I'M THE DEFENSIVE BACKS ON PLAYING EVERYTHING INSIDE, AND I'M ROBBING, I WANT TO HAVE MY QUARTERS AND TRAIL TECHNIQUE STANDING STANDING STANDING THE PASSING LANE.
I'M GOING TO HAVE TWO OR THREE SAFETIES IN THE BACK AND I'M GOING TO HAVE MAN UP PRESSING MY CORNERS FOR WHOLE WAY PLAY.
THE TRAIL TECHNIQUE WITH THE RECEIVER GOES OUTSIDE RECEIVERS GOES INSIDE.
I'M STANDING AT PASSINGLY FOR INTERCEPTION, OR MAKE IT A HARD THROW AND THE RAIN BEGINS TO FALL.
MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT MORE DIFFICULT FOR NUMBER 10.
HE GOES TJ.
RAHMING.
THEY TRY TO GO HOOK AND LADDER AND THEY CAN'T DO IT.
HE'S TACKLED, HE DOESN'T PICK UP A FIRST DOWN AND BECAUSE HE DOESN'T, THE CLOCK IS NOT STOP AND NORTH GWINNETT IS HEADED TO THE GEORGIA DOME TO PLAY FOR A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AGAINST REGION FOE NORCROSS, NEXT WEEK.
AND LOOK AT THE WHITE JERSEYS PILE INTO MIDFIELD.
THE DON'T OF THE DOME.
WHAT A GAME TONIGHT, KILL HIM, THE FINAL 27, TO 21, AND WE HEAD DOWNSTAIRS, TO JOHN NELSON.
WITH A COACH, WHO'S HEADING TO A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME NELLY SURVIVE IN ADVANCE AND YOU DID THAT TONIGHT?
WOW.
I MEAN, WHAT CAN I SAY?
ANOTHER NAIL BITER?
YOUR KIDS JUST KEEP PLAYING WELL, WHAT'S RUNNING THROUGH YOUR MIND WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON TO GET THE TEAM READY FOR THAT LAST PLAY SO YOU CAN GO TO ANOTHER CHAMPION.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THOSE DEALS ARE SO MANY CRITICAL SITUATIONS GAME LIKE THAT ALL YOUR PREP, EVERYTHING YOU DO DURING THE COURSE OF PRE-SEASON.
DURING THE SEASON, ALL THE SITUATIONS THAT WERE YOU REHEARSE.
MODERN-DAY FOOTBALL HAS BECOME ALMOST LIKE, INBOUNDS AND BASKETBALL.
YOU GOT ALL THOSE SITUATIONAL THINGS AND SO YOU'RE ALWAYS REHEARSING THOSE CONGRATULATIONS, GO CELEBRATE.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
SEND IT OVER TO MARK AND I'LL BE OVER IN A SEC.
ALL RIGHT JOHN.
THANKS VERY MUCH FOR WHAT AN EVENING OF FOOTBALL.
WE HAVE HAD HERE AT MCEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL.
WE HAD WHEN WE HAD RAIN WE HAD A 30-MINUTE LIGHTNING DELAY AND WE HAD A FANTASTIC SEMIFINAL MATCHUP NORTH GWINNETT WINS IT.
2721 OVER NORTH GWINNETT.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE GAME HIGHLIGHTS FROM TONIGHT'S GAME.
THERE WE GO.
THERE YOU SEE THE LIGHTNING DELAY.
PEOPLE HAD TO LEAVE, THE STANDS WAS ABOUT A 30-MINUTE LEARNING DELAY.
HERE WE GO, TY CLEMENS, THE TJ RAHMING THIS MAKES IT 7, NOTHING RIGHT OFF THE BET AND MCEACHERN TAKING THE LEAD THEN IT CJ LEGGED, CJ LEGGETT WITH THE RUN THAT TIED THE GAME UP AT 77 LATE FIRST HALF.
IT IS HAYDEN SPIRE CALLING SIGNALS, HE GOES BACK TO PASS.
ACTUALLY THIS IS KYLE HOFFMAN HERE SON BAILEY.
HE HITS THE TOUCHDOWN PASS THERE TO NUMBER NINE.
THERE'S CJ LEG AT THE PLAY OF THE GAME.
53 YARDS FOR THE TOUCHDOWN, THIS MADE OF 21 TO 14 AND NORTH WHEN IT ADDED A COUPLE OF FIELD GOALS OR THE LATE TOUCHDOWN BY MCEACHERN, BUT THE FINAL SCORE 2721, YOUR FINAL SCORE.
JOHN NELSON IS JOIN ME.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH SOME OF THE SCORES FROM AROUND THE STATE, THEY'RE ALL FINALS.
WE KNOW ALL 14 TEAMS THAT ARE HEADING TO THE GEORGIA DOME NEXT WEEK TO PLAY FOR THE SEVEN STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
LET'S GO TO THE 6A WHERE VERY EXCITING GAME IS COLQUITT COUNTY.
TOOK ON NORCROSS TONIGHT, BACK AND FORTH BALL GAME.
AND THAT WAS A GAME PLAYED ON GRASS.
SO YOU FIGURED IT WAS GOING TO BE A LITTLE LOW SCORING THAN IT WAS OVER HERE WITH A GAME PLAYED ON TURF WITH THE SAME CONDITIONS AND THERE'S YOUR LOOK COLQUITT COUNTY LOSES, THE NORCROSS NORCROSS WINS AT 8:46 AND THEY'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO PLAY NORTH GWINNETT.
ALL RIGHT AND 5A WE HAVE A BLOWOUT AND THEN A VERY EXCITING GAME TALK ABOUT CREEKSIDE WHAT A GREAT YEAR.
THEY'VE HAD ALTON TOWN'S FIRST YEAR HEAD COACH BLOWING OUT CAL TONIGHT.
THEY TAKE ON TUCKER, WHO SURVIVED GAINESVILLE DESHAUN?
WATSON THROWS FOR FOUR INTERCEPTIONS.
NOT THE NIGHT TO DO THAT IN THE SEMI-FINAL.
SO IT'S CREEKSIDE AND TUCKER PRIMETIME, FRIDAY NIGHT.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S TWO UNDEFEATED TEAMS RIGHT THERE GRIFFIN.
NO TROUBLE WITH WAYNE COUNTY TONIGHT.
A CAME BACK TO WIN THAT ONE.
2520 MARIST IN CARROLLTON WENT FOREVER.
AGAIN, GO TO 4 OVER X AND CARROLLTON COMES OUT ON TOP THIS TIME.
4644 IN 3A, A VERY FAMILIAR, FACE SEVEN TIMES IN A ROW.
THE BUFORD WOLVES ARE HEADING TO THE GEORGIA DOME.
THEY GET A TOUGH CONTEST IN.
WASHINGTON COUNTY WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THIS GAME IS GOING TO BE A DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE OR IF IT'S GOING TO BE ONE OF THOSE GAMES, IT'S GOING TO BE PLAYED IN THE 40S AND 50S BECAUSE BOTH OF THESE TEAMS HAVE ELECTRIC OFFENSES ON THE OTHER GAME, THE CLOCK STRUCK 12 FOR RINGGOLD AND THEY DID TO WITH THE WASHINGTON COUNTY ADVANCING HERE.
IN DOUBLE-A, LAMAR COUNTY WITH A LAST-SECOND.
FIELD GOAL BEATS BENEDICTINE GREAT SEASON FOR DANNY BRITAIN, THE CADETS MAKING IT ALL THE WAY TO THE SEMI FINALS, AND THEY TAKE ON LOVETT WHO HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH BROOKS COUNTY TONIGHT AS THEY PLAYED.
IT LOVE IT.
ALRIGHT, SINGLE A PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE 9C CHARLTON COUNTY ADVANCES BY BEATING IRWIN COUNTY BLOCKING THE P80 AS TIME EXPIRED, IRWIN COUNTY SCORES ON A 4TH AND GOAL TO GET IT TO 3433.
THEY BLOCK THE P80 TO WIN MARION COUNTY, NO PROBLEM, WITH HAWKINSVILLE IN A REVENGE GAME THERE IN BOTH OF THESE REGIONS.
SO IT'S CHARLTON AND MARION EARLY MORNING SATURDAY AND HOW ABOUT SINGLE A PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
THEY'LL PLAY FRIDAY AT 2:30.
OUR FIRST GAME, EAGLES LANDING.
CHRISTIAN WENT FOR TWO IN OVERTIME, DIDN'T CONVERT.
SO CALVARY DAY MAKES THE TRIP FOR THE SECOND WEEK IN A ROW UP TO THE ATLANTA AREA TO TAKE ON AQUINAS RUBEN GARNETT.
THAT'S THE NAME TO CIRCLE FOR THE FIGHTING IRISH.
MARK'S FAVORITE TEAM.
RUBEN GARNETT, THE BIG RUNNING BACK FOR AQUINAS.
ALL RIGHT, ALL THE FINAL SCORES ON OUR APP YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE.
GPB.ORG/SPORTS.
WE HAD ALL THE INFORMATION THERE FOR YOU.
14 TEAMS, REMAIN SEVEN OR GOING TO WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS.
ALL ON GPB NEXT FRIDAY AND DAY CARROLLTON HASN'T BEEN AT A TITLE GAME SINCE 1998 WHEN THEY HAD BLAKE SABO AND REGGIE BROWN AS WIDE RECEIVERS.
SO YOU GOT A LOT OF GREAT STORY LINES SHOWING UP HERE FRIDAY WITH SINGLE A PRIVATE KICKING THINGS OFF AT 2:30.
ALRIGHT?
AND THEN ON SATURDAY, WE'VE GOT FOUR BIG GAMES COMING YOUR WAY, STARTING WITH SINGLE A PUBLIC WITH CHARLTON AND MARION THE FOLKS IN BUENA VISTA.
AND IN CHARLTON COUNTY, THEY'RE GOING TO BE MAKING THE TRIP TO THE BIG TOP.
ALL RIGHT.
I CAN'T WAIT.
CAN YOU IT'S GOING TO BE EXCITING?
I'D LIKE TO DRY OUT.
FIRST THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE A GOOD THING FOR US.
ALRIGHT, GBB WILL HAVE YOU COVERED FOR EVERY PASS EVERY TACKLE.
EVERY TOUCHDOWN ALL WEEKEND.
LONG, THE GHSA FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS, ONLY ON GPB.
SO UNTIL NEXT FRIDAY FROM THE GEORGIA DOME, I'M MARK HARMON AND FOR EVERYONE HERE, INVOLVED WITH GPB SPORTS, THEY WENT BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY TODAY WITH THAT LIGHTNING DELAY, EVERYBODY PITCHED IN EVERYBODY DID A FANTASTIC JOB AND WE'VE GOT ONE MORE FANTASTIC JOB TO DO IT NEXT FRIDAY.
NEXT SATURDAY.
WE WILL SEE YOU AT THE GEORGIA DOME AND SO UNTIL THEN HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND SO LONG EVERYBODY.
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