Things are

getting interesting in high school football.

Region 4-AAAAA

has a three-way tie for first place between East Coweta, Starr's Mill

and Newnan with 3-1 records, with Lovejoy and Riverdale right behind them

at 2-1. To make matters even more interesting, East Coweta plays at Lovejoy,

Starr's Mill hosts Newnan and Riverdale plays at McIntosh. By Saturday

morning some teams will be in the driver's seat, while others will have

a tough road to making the playoffs.

One game from

Region 4-AAAAA was played last night after the paper went to press. Fayette

County (2-5) traveled to Columbus Memorial Stadium to take on Carver,

Columbus (3-3). The Tigers got their second win last week by defeating

McIntosh 23-14, while Carver lost a close game to Lovejoy 14-13.

Fayette should

have confidence going into this game, especially with Steven West back

and scoring touchdowns for the Tigers. West had two touchdowns last week

against the Chiefs. To see results for this game, visit www.thecitizennews.com

this morning.

East Coweta

(3-4) started the season with three straight losses, since then the Indians

have gone 3-1. Last week they gave the Starr's Mill Panthers their first

region loss by scoring two late touchdowns. Tonight they travel to Twelve

Oaks Stadium in Hampton to meet a Lovejoy (4-2) team that got beat in

the closing minutes against Starr's Mill two weeks ago and squeaked out

a victory last week against Carver. This may be a case of two teams going

in two different directions.

Starr's Mill

(5-2) will try to get