AAAAA roundup: Camden rallies past Northside-Warner Robins

Kingsland — Greg Baker and Daniel Valdez scored fourth-quarter touchdowns as second-ranked Camden County came from behind in the fourth quarter to beat fifth-ranked Northside-Warner Robins 28-20.

Northside had taken a 20-14 lead on a 15-yard run by Xavier Bacon with 3:03 left in the third. Bacon rushed for 161 yards and scored two touchdowns.

But Camden scored twice in the fourth, once on Baker’s 5-yard run with 8:32 left, the other on Valdez’s 2-yard run at 4:10, both on drives without passes.

After the Valdez’s touchdown, Camden’s Josh Johnson forced Bacon to fumble, and Camden ran out the clock. Camden had the ball at the Northside 13 when the game ended.

Camden scored on its first possession of the game on Baker’s 4-yard run with 7:17 left in the first quarter. Aundre Johnson’s 38-yard run to the 10 on third-and-9 was the key play.

Camden coverted another third-and-long for its next touchdown, a 71-yard pass from Christian Milstead to Deangelo Smith, to make the score 14-0 with 6:00 left in the half.

Northside cut it to 14-7 with 27 seconds left in half on Joe Scott’s 6-yard pass to Evan Arthur. Bacon scored twice in the second quarter, once on a 35-yard run, for a Northside lead that would not hold.

Camden is 12-0. Northside finished 10-2 with losses to No. 1 Lowndes and No. 2 Camden on the road.

This was the first game in state history in which two top-five teams in the highest classification had met in the round of 16.

— Todd Holcomb

More Class AAAAA

• Coffee 35, Chapel Hill 14: Melvin Loving ran for two touchdowns, and L’Shaun Smith ran for one and passed for another for Coffee (9-3), which lost three of its final four regular-season games but has recovered for a pair of playoff victories. Chapel Hill finished 9-3.

• Lowndes 62, Bradwell Institute 21: Robert Anderson scored four touchdowns for No. 1 Lowndes (12-0), which won its 26th straight game and earned a spot in the quarterfinals opposite Grayson.

Anderson scored three times in the first quarter as the Vikings sprinted to a big early lead. The Vikings compiled 422 total yards, 354 on the ground.

• Newnan 42, Tift County 0: Russell Powell passed for 208 yards and rushed for 114 more as Newnan (12-0) pulled away in the second half after leading 7-0 at halftime. Jamal Ramsey’s two interceptions keyed the Cougars’ sixth straight shutout and eighth in nine games.

Newnan earned another shot at North Gwinnett in the third round. The Cougars lost to North Gwinnett in the third round last year.

— Compiled by Jay Stone