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DEL.ICIO.USEagle’s Landing Christian Academy looking good
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the television industry, there’s this theory called the line of thirds. At least, that’s what it was called when I was in the television classes in college. If you see someone’s face on the screen, their eyes will most of the time fall about one third of the way from the top of the screen.
This, I suppose, has little to do with high school sports, except we’re a third of the way through the football regular season, give or take, and we can see some things now that perhaps we couldn’t see before the season. Like Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy being pretty good.
With a new coach and a new offense, the Chargers took their off week looking to fine-tune an offense that has already scored 106 points, though they do have a loss to Brookstone.
We can also see that a summer of going through 7-on-7 passing league competition has had great effect on Henry County quarterback Drew Miller, who has thrown 10 touchdowns and attempted more than 80 passes without an interception. The Warhawks’ bugaboo, though, has been special teams. Last week, Central Macon returned three kicks for touchdowns in a game that otherwise wouldn’t have been close.
FOOTBALL GAME OF THE WEEK
Dutchtown at Stockbridge
7:30 p.m. Friday
Records: Dutchtown 1-1, Stockbridge 3-0.
COACHES: Dutchtown, Jason Galt (1-1); Stockbridge, Steve Collins (10-13).
PLAYERS TO WATCH: Dutchtown: RB Onari Douglas (Sr., 5-10, 195), SS Sam Cooper (Sr., 5-9, 195), TE/DE Jeremy Brown (Sr., 6-7, 245). Stockbridge - QB Tyler Bass (Sr., 6-3, 205), OL Randy Salmon (Sr., 6-3, 290), WR/LB Vance King (Sr., 6-1, 195).
LAST YEAR: Stockbridge won, 42-21.
LAST WEEK: Dutchtown was open; Stockbridge beat Luella 26-0.
THE SKINNY: The Bulldogs and Tigers get the county spotlight all to themselves, with every other county team taking its open week. Dutchtown gets its first taste of region play and comes in having scored 69 points in its first two games. By comparison, the Bulldogs didn’t surpass that point total until the 10th game in 2006. In Stockbridge, they face a serious challenge, though. The Tigers have two shutouts on their resume’ and have outscored their opponents 101-28. Stockbridge looks to be a solid favorite, but history has not been kind to the Tigers, who last started 4-0 in 1968 and are sitting at 3-0 for just the third time since. Their bid for 4-0 in 1982 crashed in a 14-0 loss to Feldwood, and they started 3-0 in 1991 only to fall to Westlake 13-7 in game 4. Ultimately, the Tigers’ defense would appear the difference in this one; they shut out Luella, which scored 48 against Dutchtown.
PREDICTION: Stockbridge 27-17.
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By DawgFan
September 21, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this
Let’s go Dawgs! Pull off the shocking upset tonight!