The fifth

week of the high school football season gave good results

to the local AAA teams and not so good results for the

AAAA teams. Starr's Mill and Sandy Creek both celebrated

their homecoming on Friday night with wins to keep both

teams undefeated, while McIntosh took on the top team in

4-AAAA, Lovejoy, and Fayette County felt the wrath of a

Stockbridge team searching for their first win.

Sandy Creek

set a record on Friday night as they won their fourth

game in a row for the first time in the schools history.

The Patriots took on the Forest Park Panthers and jumped

out to a quick 17-0 lead. The first touchdown came on a

11 yard pass from quarterback Andree Green to Kedric

Goalston. Gavin Bourgeois kicked a field goal for the

Patriots shortly thereafter and Green ran 20 yards for a

touchdown to put Sandy Creek up 17-0 at the half.

Things

started to look bad in the second half though, as Forest

Park scored 15 unanswered points. The Panthers scored a

touchdown and then ran back a Sandy Creek punt for a

touchdown before converting the two point conversion.

Sandy Creek answered the gut check by relying on their

ground attack. Mark Lawson ran three yards for a

touchdown to push the lead back to nine and then J.R.

Lemon ran nine yards for a touchdown to secure the win

for the Patriots, 30-15.

Sandy Creek

improved to 4-0 on the season. They face an enormous

battle this Friday as they travel to Tara Stadium in

Jonesboro to take on Mt. Zion, Jonesboro. Mt. Zion is 5-0

this season and are definitely considered to be one of

the heavyweights in 4-AAA.

Starr's

Mill hosted homecoming, ironically, not at home. They

took on the Jonesboro Cardinals at Tiger Stadium in

Fayetteville, shooting for their fifth straight victory.

Jonesboro got great field position, off of several

miscues by the Panthers offense and special teams. After

a Starr's Mill fumble, Jonesboro jumped on the board with

a field goal. It took awhile for the Panthers to get

going, but with a little over a minute left in the first

half, quarterback Brad McClaren found #2 for an 17 yard

touchdown pass.

The second

half was better for Starr's Mill as McClaren ran two

yards for a touchdown at the start of the third quarter,

but Jonesboro refused to go away. Starr's mill defense

would come up big several times, Tony Tofanelli recorded

four sacks on the night, but Jonesboro still squeaked out

a drive, a touchdown and a two point conversion.

It was then

that Starr's Mill woke up. A dirve started deep in their

territory and ended with an incredible touchdown pass to

Reuben Houston. The Panthers went up 21-11. The Panthers

then got a big interception from Orlando Hinton, named

prince at homecoming earlier in the evening. It was his

second of the evening and it resulted in one more

touchdown for Starr's Mill. The Panthers won by a score

of 28-11.

Starr's

Mill is now 5-0. They have the week off ands then will

host Mt. Zion, Jonesboro at Tiger Stadium on Oct. 15. You

can bet that the Panthers will have some scouts at the

Sandy Creek-Mt. Zion game this Friday, trying to figure

out how to keep the winning streak alive.

McIntosh

had a very tough task ahead of them on Friday when they

traveled to Twelve Oaks Stadium in Hampton to take on

undefeated Lovejoy. Lovejoy scored in the first three

minutes of the game, converting a two point conversion to

make it 8-0. They scored again approximately a minute

later after a fumble by the Chiefs. McIntosh established

a small drive on their next posession, but got driven

back due to penalties. Their punt was subsequently

blocked, giving Lovejoy the ball on the Chiefs 16 yard

line. With a minute left in the first quarter it was

22-0.

The second

quarter stayed scoreless for a little over five minutes,

until another McIntosh punt was blocked. Lovejoy scored

again to make it 28-0 and then scored with 29 seconds

left in the half to take a 35-0 lead. The third quarter

was scoreless, and McIntosh showed some positive things

both offensively and defensively. Jim O'Shea, the

quarterback for the Chiefs, had some success running, but

could not lead the team to the endzone. Lovejoy scored

once more in the fourth quarter, winning the game by a

score of 42-0. Lovejoy has outscored their opponents

162-50 this season.

The Chiefs

will play host to the East Coweta Indians, winners of

three in a row, on Friday. East Coweta got over their

injury problems early in the season and have begun to

look like the team of old. The Chiefs need to get fired

up and stick with what worked against Stockbridge. If the

line can hold off the pressure from the Indian defense,

McIntosh might make things interesting.

Fayette

County faced the Stockbridge Tigers in Stockbridge on

Friday night and it did not look good from the get go.

Stockbridge scored on the first play of the game with a

67 yard touchdown run. Fayette County established a good

drive on their next posession and tied the game three

minutes later on a two yard run by Marcus Hamilton. The

Tigers, ours, got a field goal from John Deraney to take

a 10-7 lead with about six minutes left in the half.

The second

half started nearly as auspiciously as the frst. Fayette

County turned the ball over three times on downs and

twice with fumbles and found themselves down 21-10.

Fayette County scored once more when quarterback

Nathaniel Enloe found Grant Herron with a 25 yard

touchdown pass. The Tigers, ours, could not convert the

two point conversion and lost by a score of 21-16.

Fayette

County hosts Lovejoy on Friday night in a game that could

have critical ramifications. Right now, Lovejoy is in

first all by their lonesome, but fayette County, East

Coweta, Newnan and Carver are all tied for second with

3-2 records. Newnan plays Carver on Friday night and East

Coweta is the favorite in their match with McIntosh. The

Tigers will need a big defensive performance on Friday

and a win may give them a proper boost over the next

several games.

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