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DEL.ICIO.USWrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
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I was wrong.
Wrong about North Gwinnett losing its appeal before the Georgia High School Association. The Class AAAAA championship will be settled on the field. Kudos to all parties for getting that right.
Wrong about Lassiter beating Sprayberry. I could’ve cheated on that one because I also was wrong about the day it was played. Wrong, squared.
Wrong about Stephenson being less than the best team in Region 2-AAAAA. Still.
Wrong about only graybeards recalling St. Pius’ games against Southwest DeKalb, who play for the first time in 35 years. Don White’s e-mail sets me straight: “As someone who played both teams in 1967, a split, I can tell you that I don’t have gray hair and I can out 100-yard sprint 85 percent of the male seniors in H/S today.” Ouch.
Wrong about thinking last week’s column got posted to our Web site too quickly. I’d picked Flowery Branch to beat Gainesville, started thinking about how good Gainesville really is and thought maybe I’d miscalculated. But it had already been posted, so I swallowed hard and left it alone. Good thing I was wrong about goofing.
Wrong about East Coweta beating Tri-Cities. If you left that game when it was 35-6 in East Coweta’s favor, you were wrong, too. Tri-Cities came back to win 49-42.
Wrong about Houston County three weeks in a row. Had the Bears losing to Parkview, beating Warner Robins, losing to Lowndes. Wrong, cubed. I was sure last week’s pick that they would beat Colquitt County would extend the pattern to a fourth week. But I was wrong.
Wrong about Mays losing to Tucker. Hey, it made Mays lineman Sheldon Mabry laugh. He wrote, “I thought to myself, ‘Isn’t this the same guy that said we would lose to Washington?’ ” He not only points out a current wrong, but juxtaposes it with a historical wrong. If Mabry gets less than an “A” in history, coach Jesse Solomon should have him run the Lakewood Stadium stands. But it might be wrong to plant that idea in a coach’s head, so I won’t.
Wrong about Northside-Warner Robins beating Baldwin last year to earn a trip to the Dome. The Eagles earned a trip beyond the Dome, because they beat Baldwin in the Dome. I stand corrected by an e-mailer who proclaims himself, “not one of these Valdosta loonies that is going to write [too] much about it.” If he knew the difference between to, too and two, I wouldn’t have to edit it into the brackets.
I also was wrong about Etowah, Rome, Carver-Atlanta, 254 other picks, a rule interpretation, small schools’ sense of humor … and whether I could squeeze as much wrongness as I have into this little bit of space. Wish I could promise that this will be the end of it.
But I’d be wrong.
THE WEEKEND PREDICTIONS
• Last week: 137-28 (.830) • Season: 842-261 (.763)
Friday’s games
Winner/Loser
Albany/Mitchell-Baker
Alexander/Osborne
Athens Academy/ Athens Christian
Atkinson County/Pelham
Avondale/Decatur
Bainbridge/Lee County
Baldwin/Jones County
Banks County/Union County
Blessed Trinity/Westminster
Bradwell Institute/Johnson-Savannah
Brooks County /Cook
Brookstone/Central-Talbotton
Brookwood/South Gwinnett
Brunswick/Evans
Buford/Walker
Burke County /Hephzibah
Cairo/ Worth County
Calhoun/Adairsville
Calvary Day/Jenkins County
Camden County/ Beach
Campbell/McEachern
Carrollton/Sandy Creek
Cartersville/Cedartown
Carver-Columbus/Harris County
Cass/ Central-Carroll
Cedar Shoals/ Alcovy
Central Gwinnett/Grayson
Chamblee/Grady
Charlton County/Brantley County
Chattahoochee Co./Stewart-Quitman
Chattooga/LaFayette
Cherokee/Douglas County
Chestatee/White County
Clarkston/Southside
Clinch County/ Seminole County
Collins Hill/Forsyth Central
Commerce/Prince Av. Christ.
Coosa/ Temple
Creekview/South Paulding
Crisp County/ Monroe
Cross Creek/ Butler
Dacula/Winder-Barrow
Dade County/ Sonoraville
Dalton/N.W. Whitfield
Dawson County /Fannin County
Dodge County/ Bleckley County
Douglass/Luella
Dublin/Vidalia
Duluth/North Forsyth
Dunwoody/Riverwood
East Coweta/ Mundy’s Mill
East Hall/ Lumpkin County
East Paulding/ Chapel Hill
Eastside/Heritage
Effingham County/Wayne County
ECI/ Bryan County
ELCA/ Whitefield Acad.
Etowah/Marietta
Fitzgerald/Early County
Franklin County/Elbert County
GAC/Wesleyan
Gainesville/Pickens
Glascock County/Mt. Zion-Carroll
Glynn Academy /Lakeside-Evans
Gordon Central/Lakeview-Fort O.
Greene County /Oglethorpe County
Greenville/Schley County
Griffin/Riverdale
Groves/Savannah
Habersham Cent./Clarke Central
Hancock Central/Ga. Military Coll.
Harrison/Kennesaw Mtn.
Hart County/Monroe Area
Hawkinsville/Turner County
Heard County/Callaway
Irwin County/Dooly County
Jackson/Ola
Johnson-Gaines./West Hall
Jordan/Spencer
Lamar County/Marion County
Landmark Christ./Fellowship Christ.
Laney/ S.E. Bulloch
Lanier County/ Calhoun County
Lassiter/Pope
Liberty County/Richmond Hill
Lincoln County/Wilkinson County
Loganville/Jackson County
Lovett/Holy Innocents’
Lowndes/Valdosta
Manchester/Macon County
Marist/Lakeside-DeKalb
Mary Persons/Eagle’s Landing
Mays/Miller Grove
McIntosh Co. Acad./Appling County
Milton/Centennial
M.L. King/Newton
Model/ Armuchee
Morgan County/ Rabun County
Mt. Pisgah Christ./Our Lady of Mercy
Norcross/Mill Creek
North Clayton /Jonesboro
North Cobb/Murray County
Northeast-Macon/Central-Macon
Northgate/Banneker
North Gwinnett/South Forsyth
North Hall/Gilmer
Northside-W.R./Upson-Lee
Northview/Chattahoochee
Parkview/Berkmar
Paulding County/Morrow
Peach County/Perry
Pebblebrook/Woodland
Pepperell/Rockmart
Pierce County /Jeff Davis
Portal/Claxton
Randolph-Clay /Berrien
Ridgeland/S.E. Whitfield
Rockdale County/Salem
Rome/Ringgold
Roswell/Alpharetta
Rutland/Crawford County
Screven County/Josey
Sequoyah/Lithia Springs
Shaw /LaGrange
Shiloh/Meadowcreek
Social Circle/ Jefferson
South Cobb/Woodstock
South Effingham/Benedictine
Spalding/Henry County
Starr’s Mill/ Whitewater
St. Pius/Southwest DeKalb
Statesboro/Richmond Acad.
Stephens County/Oconee County
Stephenson/Redan
Stone Mountain/Columbia
Swainsboro/Jefferson County
Tattnall County/East Laurens
Taylor County/ Pacelli Catholic
Telfair County/Montgomery Co.
Terrell County/Miller County
Thomas Co. Cent./Americus-Sumter
Thomson/Glenn Hills
Towers/South Atlanta
Treutlen/Wheeler County
Tri-Cities/Newnan
Troup/ Columbus
Tucker/Washington
Twiggs County/ Aquinas
Union Grove/Lithonia
Villa Rica/Haralson County
Walton/Kell
Ware County/Greenbrier
Warren County /Monticello
Washington County/Harlem
Wash.-Wilkes/ Putnam County
Westlake/Fayette County
West Laurens/Southwest-Macon
Westover/Dougherty
Westside-Augusta/Metter
Westside-Macon/Dutchtown
Wheeler/Sprayberry
Windsor Forest/Jenkins
Woodward Acad./McIntosh
Saturday’s games
Winner/Loser
Cedar Grove/North Springs
Coffee/Warner Robins
McNair/Carver-Atlanta
Northside-Col./Kendrick
Sav. Christian/Long County
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By DSGB
October 20, 2006 9:08 AM | Link to this
Keep picking Cairo and you have a decent avgerge.
By Miss Wossman 1975
October 20, 2006 9:15 AM | Link to this
Watch out for .R. Spivey and Pebblebrook High School.
By marshall mosley
October 20, 2006 2:33 PM | Link to this
I have read the AJC for years and have often wondered why there is never any coverage of the GISA ( Georgia Independent School Association). There are some great athletic programs and student athletes in these schools. Thank you advance for your reply.
By Eagle_Fan_For_Life
October 20, 2006 10:16 PM | Link to this
Marshall Mosley this is football season. I was raised in Middle Georgia, where it seems that every good GISA school plays. There is no GISA team that deserves print in the AJC or any of the other state’s large newspapers. The players are as small as a middle school team and are littered with players that were back-ups at GHSA schools (this is definitely the case a schools like Central Fellowship and Windsor Academy).
I can’t fault many of the Macon families that decide to place their children in GISA private schools. Education is more important that anything and the public schools in Bibb County are borderline un-Constitutional. On the other hand, the same teams that play in the GISA could play against small public schools in the GHSA (much like most private school programs in metro Atlanta and Savannah). To create a league and ask for print seems somewhat amazing considering that every GISA school could play in the GHSA as a A or AA school.
By Bear Fan
October 21, 2006 9:24 AM | Link to this
DM,
Go to High School Web Page and click on the rushing leaders. Where is Bobby Rainey?
He has at least as many yards as these guys?
He had 347 last night alone?
By DJ
October 21, 2006 2:47 PM | Link to this
hmm wrong about Kennesaw Mountain!!! BEAT THE HOYAS!!! now thats a story… their banner read “FYI We Chose You For A Reason”… damn hoyas haha that showed them to pick KMHS on their homecoming
By raider fan
October 28, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this
I know this is old, but now that we’ve beaten yet another opponent when we were considered the underdog, CAN THE MAYS HIGH RAIDERS GET SOME RESPECT?