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NORTH VERSUS SOUTH IN A WACCAMAW CONFERENCE SHOWDOWN TONIGHT... SOUTH BRUNSWICK COUGARS OFF TO A SIX-AND-OH START... NORTH BRUNSWICK SCORPIONS LOOKING TO BRING THAT TO AN END. THIS ONE WOULD BE A SEE-SAW RIDE EXTRAORDINAIRE... NORTH IN THE HOMECOMING BLUE AND GOLD TONIGHT. LET'S GET INTO IT, SOUTH BRUNSWICK QB RYAN MORGAN HITS MATT MILLER ON THE SIDELINE, BUT THIS DRIVE WOULDN'T PROGRESS AS THEY WANTED. SOUTH BRUNS WOULD HAVE TO PUNT IT AWAY, TO STEPHAN JACKSON-RECEIVES IT ON THE 25 YARD LINE---AND OUT RUNS THE SPECIAL TEAMS, AND EVEN THE CAMERAMAN FOR A SECOND, AND TAKES IT 75 YARDS FOR A TOUCHDOWN! N BRUNS-JOSH BALLOON RUNS IN THE 2 POINT CONVERSION. S. BRUNSWICKS JOEY HINES WAS THE WORK HORSE ON THE GROUND. HERE'S JOEY HINES AGAIN TRYING FOR THE FIRST DOWN, BUT UNSUCCESSFUL. NEXT DRIVE FOR N BRUNS-QB CODY HARPER HITS WILLIAM JACOBS WHO IS APPARENTLY A HARD GUY TO TAKE DOWN. VERY NEXT PLAY, A DROPPED HANDOFF LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE--UNTIL ANTHONY GAINES PICKS IT UP--AND GETS TO THE OUTSIDE AND TO THE 1 YARD LINE ... WHICH SETS IT UP FOR JOSH BALLOON TO RUN THE BALL IN FOR THE ONE YARD TOUCHDOWN. THE PAT WAS BLOCKED

LANEY WAS AIMING TO BREAK A TWO GAME LOSING STREAK AGAINST WINLESS WEST BRUNSWICK.. WEST BRUNSWICK IN THE GREEN TRYING TO GET THINGS GOING EARLY...JAY GAUSE AND RYAN HILL WITH THE GREAT THROW AND CATCH... SUCCESS WOULD BE SHORT LIVED, THOUGH....A FEW PLAYS LATER, LANEY'S WILLIAM DUDLEY STRIPS THE BALL... SETS UP SHAKEEM BRYAN ON OFFENSE WITH THE LONG RUN....LANEY WOULD FIND THE ENDZONE AND GET A 2 POINT CONVERSION...UP 8 TO NOTHING EARLY... WEST BRUNSWICK TRYING TO GET ON THE BOARD...RYAN HILL CUTS AND RUNS LONG TO PAY DIRT....HE EVEN OUT RUNS THE REF AS HE HEADS FOR THE END ZONE... THEY'D MISS THE 2 POINT CONVERSION TO TIE...DOWN 8 TO 6.... MORE BUCANEERS ON OFFENSE....SHAQUAN BRYANT RUNS IN FOR THE TD...2 POINT CONVERSION NO GOOD...LANEY UP 14 TO 6... WEST BRUNSWICK TRYING TO STAY IN IT...BUT JAY GAUSE PICKED OFF BY RICARDO HILL...LANEY GOES ON TO WIN BY THE FINAL OF 29 TO 6.

NEW HANOVER HIT THE ROAD TONIGHT. THE WILDCATS WENT TO JACKSONVILLE TONIGHT MINUS WIDEOUT TRAVIS MIDDAUGH AND LINEMAN GREG CAISON. THEY BOTH SUFFERED CONCUSSIONS LAST WEEK IN THE LANEY GAME. NOBODY COULD PULL AWAY IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THIS ONE... 1. HOME OF THE CARDINALS, LETS GET INTO IT. 2.NEW HANOVERS QB COLTON BENFOR HITS JERMAINE JONES FOR A NICE PICKUP HERE-DRIVE WOULD ELAD TO A PUNT THOUGH. 3. RASHAD SHIVERS DROPS THIS PASS, BUT HE MAKES UP FOR IT 4. QB FLIPS IT TO JUSTIN JOHNSON, BUT WATCH THIS HUGE BLOCK FROM RASHAD SHIVERS--HE BREAKS IT OPEN FOR JOHNSON TO TAKE IT INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 5. NEW HANOVER BALL NOW--JAMAARR BARNETT LOOKS RIGHT, COMES BACK TO THE LEFT AND MUSCLES HIS WAY TO A BIG PICKUP. 6. NEW HANOVER AB DARRYLL PULLIAM IS GONNA KEEP IT, BUT HE IS GOING NOWHERE AGAINST-GUESS WHO-RASHAD SHIVERS PLAYIN LINEBACKER. 7.NEW HANOVER BALL NOW AS THE 4TH QUARTER IS WINDING DOWN...COLTON BENFORD THROWS IT UP WHERE ONLY JERMAINE JONES CAN REACH IT....THIS CONNECTION WAS THE GAME WINNER FOR NEW HANOVER. FINAL NEW HANOVER 28 - JACKSONVILLE 14.

THE JACKSONVILLE CARDINALS CAME OUT TO PLAY BIG TIME ON HOMECOMING NIGHT, ESPECIALLY THE DEFENSE. THEY GAVE WEST BRUNSWICK'S JUNIOR QUARTERBACK RYAN HILL FITS ALL NIGHT LONG. HERE, ON A SCRAMBLE, HE'S HIT SIMULTANEOUSLY BY SOPHOMORE LINEBACKER WILL COLEMAN AND JUNIOR LINEBACKER RASHAD SHIVERS. JUNIOR DEFENSIVE END MICHAEL BUGGS SCOOPS UP THE FUMBLE AND TAKES IT ALL THE WAY FOR ANOTHER SCORE. THE CARDINAL DEFENSE DIDN'T LET UP FROM THERE, STUFFING WEST BRUNSWICK'S RUNS THE WHOLE GAME. SENIOR FULLBACK MICHAEL FULWOOD IS HIT FOR NO GAIN ON THIS PLAY. West Brunswick 12 Jacksonville 47

THE CLOSEST GAME OF THE NIGHT... ASHLEY AT WHITE OAK. [TAKE VO] {***VO***} 1. NICE WARM WEATHER OUT IN WHITE OAK HOME OF THE VIKINGS 2. ON A BIG 3RD DOWN QB NATE BROWN PITCHES IT TO ADRIAN WILLIAMS-HE GETS OUT SIDE AND ALL THOSE WIND SPRINTS PAY OFF--HE LEAVES ASHLEY IN THE DUST FOR THE FIRST TD OF THE GAME 3. PAT GOOD 4. IT GIVES THE BAND SOMETHING TO PLAY FOR 5. ASHLEY QUARTERBACK ZACH FINNEGAN HITS JOHNATHUN SMITH FOR A SMALL PICKUP HERE 6. HERE ASHLEY TAKES TO THE AIR AND FINNEGAN PASSES IT OVER THE MIDDLE TO CARLIN JORDAN FOR A 30 YARD TOUCHDOWN 7. ASHLEY GETS NICE KICKOFF COVERAGE-HERE COMES ADRIAN WILILAMS OUT OF HIS OWN ENDZONE. 8. WHITE OAK QUARTERBACK GOES TO WORK AND HITS TEDDY GOODSON IN THE FLAT FOR A GAIN BUT THEY WOULD HAVE TO PUNT 9. ASHLEY OFFENSE GETS BACK ON THE FIELD, BUT NOT FOR LONG ZACH FINNEGAN THROWS IT UP AND WHITE OAK'S PHILLIP JOHNSON COMES DOWN WITH IT 10. EXTRA TIME--KJ WARD GETS A STRONG SIDE HANDOFF HERE FOR A NICE PICKUP. FINAL-WHITE OAK 42 ASHLEY 35

WITH A WIN TONIGHT PENDER COULD CLINCH THE WACCAMAW'S TOP 1-A PLAYOFF BERTH... GET THINGS STARTED RIGHT AWAY... PENDER'S DEFENSE ON ITS GAME TONIGHT...NEIL BAIN...SACKS ALEX WILLIAMSON... THE PATRIOTS GO TO WORK ON OFFENSE...QUARTERBACK ANTHONY BLANKS GETTING ON HIS HORSE... AND KEEPS ON GOING FOR A BIG PICKUP BLANKS GOING THE OTHER WAY THIS TIME... AROUND THE RIGHT END OF HIS LINE... THIS GUY IS TOUGH TO BRING DOWN. IS BLANKS GOING AGAIN?... NO THIS TIME THIS TIME HE PITCHES TO TRAVIS CARTER. CARTER CARRIES AGAIN ...KEEPING HIS FEET AND BREAKING THROUGH INTO THE END ZONE FOR SIX. MORE PENDER...JAMES HENRY BARRELS THROUGH THE DEFENSE... PENDER ROLLS EASILY TO THE 34 TO NOTHING WIN. PENDER 34... EAST COLUMBUS 0

THIS WAS ALL SOUTH COLUMBUS... OPENING PLAY, A 94 YARD KICK-OFF RETURN BY RASHAWN GRATE. GRATE SETS THE TONE OUT OF THE GATE.... FOLLOWED BY A 2-POINT CONVERSION...SOUTH COLUMBUS UP 8-ZIP SOUTH BRUNSWICK GIVES IT A TRY...RYAN MORGAN HANDS OFF TO QUAN RAY WHO FUMBLES...SOUTH COLUMBUS RECOVERED. THAT SETS UP A JUSTIN DUNCAN PASS TO GRATE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN...SOUTH COLUMBUS UP BY 2 SCORES. SOUTH BRUNSWICK TRYING TO GET ON THE BOARD...MATT MILLER, TO MORGAN FOR A SHORT COMPLETION. THAT'D STALL OUT, OPENING THE DOOR FOR MORE RASHAWN GRATE...THIS TIME FOR 15 YARDS... THEN COMES A DUNCAN PASS FOR 18 YARDS TO JUSTIN SMITH FOR THE SCORE...SOUTH COLUMBUS 21 TO NOTHING SOUTH BRUNSWICK SWITCHING QB'S...STEVEN JACKSON IN THIS TIME...TO CALEB WILLIAMS, FOR A SHORT GAIN. NOTHING DOING THOUGH... BALL GOES BACK TO SOUTH COLUMBUS....JUSTIN SMITH WITH THE 40 YARD TOUCHDOWN RUN...28 TO NOTHING SOUTH BRUNSWICK FALLING APART OFFENSIVELY...WITH THE FUMBLE... NOT SO FOR SOUTH COLUMBUS, DUNCAN THIS TIME TO DAKOTA PIVER FOR THE 45 YARD COMPLETION. SOUTH COLUMBUS ALL OVER SOUTH BRUNSWICK 62 TO NOTHING.