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THE TIMES shreveporttimes.com Sports SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2003 3C Haynesville can't hold IS) lead in the 4th quarter that play, we finally got some time." 7Z7 Tors see big lead slip away in quarterfinal loss to Phoenix. From Staff Reports Since Phoenix lacked a reliable kicking game, Hughes opted to go for 2 points. Williams was stuffed scrambling off left tackle, but he tossed the ball backward over his head and right into the hands of Harvey, who dashed into the end zone for a 14-13 lead. "I'm calling it an act of God," Hughes said. "I don't know if (Williams) even saw him." Desperation set in for the Tornadoes (7-5), and quarterback Casey Cooikt lobbed a pass deep down the middle.

Harvey intercepted and ran 55 yards to Haynesville's 4-yard line. Williams scored from 1 yard two plays later. Williams also scored the first Spartans touchdown, on a 9-yard scramble. The interception was the third of the game for the Spartans. They allowed just one completion and also forced three fumbles.

Hughes gave the defense the credit for keeping his team in the game. "All year long, our defense had held up," he said. "And we know we're going to win the fourth quarter. This team never ever gives up." BRAITHWAITE Phoenix scored 20 points in the fourth quarter and overcame seven turnovers to win a Class 1A quarterfinal game Friday against visiting Haynesville 20-13. The game ended with 6.6 seconds left when Haynesville would not take the field for the 2-point conversion that followed the game's final score.

Tempers flared, but no one was ejected. The Spartans (9-3) trailed 13-6 after Shern Hudson returned an interception 26 yards for a touchdown. But Brian Harvey ran back the ensuing kickoff 59 yards for the Spartans. Two plays later, quarterback Dwight Williams found Maurice Sandifer over the middle for a 32-yard touchdown pass with 1:14 left. "They had moved the safety over.

We told (Williams) to just throw it out there." Phoenix coach Tyrone Hughes said. "(Haynesville) pressured us really well all game. But on By Jim Dawson Special to The Times BENTON It was too much everything Amite and not enough anything Benton Friday night as the visiting Warriors defeated the host Tigers 35-6 in their Class 3A quarterfinal match at Tiger Stadium. Amite (11-1) rolled up 462 yards in total offense and held Benton to a first-quarter touchdown, proving to have too much speed, too much power, and too much big-play capability. "Benton's a well-disciplined, well-coached team, which definitely explained why they were 11-1 coming into the game," Amite coach Donald Currier said.

"But we had more team speed and we played well." After leading only 14-6 at the half the Warriors scored on each of their first three second-half possessions, once on a one-play drive and another on a two-play possession to end the Tigers hopes for the third time in the last three playoff meetings between the two teams. Benton (11-2) ended its season with 97 yards rushing from De-mond Wheatley on 16 carries while his brother Demond added 52 on 1 1 rushes. Quarterback Matt Jackson completed 3 of his 7 passes for 40 yards. Amite took the opening possession of the third quarter and marched 59 yards on seven plays, getting a 22-yard scoring pass from Mason to Anwar Shanks. On their next possession of the half, Mason hit James Burns on an 84-yard touchdown pass on the Warriors' second play from scrimmage, and on their following possession got a 75-yard scoring run from Kendrick Perry on the first play.

On its last possession of the game. Amite kept the ball for 14 plays and most of the final quarter before sur- Stunt Bvel Ine Times Benton fullback Donovan McMillian plows through a hole opened by the Tigers' offensive line to score his team's only touchdown in the third round of the playoffs at Benton High School. Since 1937 rendering the ball to Benton for the final four plays of the game. Perry had 165 yards rushing on 20 carries for two scores, while Mason hit 11 of his 14 passing attempts for 241 yards and two touchdowns. Mason would have been credited with a third touchdown pass but it went into the books as a 31-yard run after a lateral from Ellis Taylor to Burns after Taylor's 10-yard recep tion of a Mason pass that had put Amite up 11-6 with 5:14 left in the second quarter.

Benton got on the board first, taking its game-opening possession on a 10-play, 73-yard drive, capped by a 3-yard run up the middle by Donavon McMillan. The Tigers stopped the Warriors on their first two possessions, benefiting from punts by Chase Lyles and a Lyles interception, and appeared to be the best team on a cold night. However, a snap over Lyles head led to Amite getting the ball at mid-field early in the second quarter. Perry ended that drive with his first score of the night, an 8-yard run up the middle. Mason's pass to Taylor and the ensuing lateral to Burns was the other second quarter score for the Warriors and gave them the 14-6 halftime advantage.

Open Monday Tuesday 11am-10pm Wednesday thru Friday 11am-2am Saturday 12pm-2am Closed Thanksgiving Day 614 Milam St. (318) 221-4933 Orders to go. Vermilion Catholic rolls over Logansport Winter Session 2 60 Pitching Hitting Camp December 6 11 am -2 pm Pitching Hitting Camp December 7 1pm -4 pm Winter Session 3 5 120 Baseball Skills Camp December 29-31 10 am pm Both Sessions '150 on runs of 11, 3, 8, and 25 yards in the first 24 minutes as the Eagles began to dominate the contest. "It's not hard to pick up those yards and score touchdowns with the line I have in front of me," Simon said. "I was pumped for this game, and wanted to get some big plays.

They beat us back in '97, and we've been thinking about that for a while." The biggest play of the first half came with 3:43 left in the second White Castle, punished the 12th-ranked Tigers for 199 yards and seven scores in only three quarters as Vermilion Catholic advanced to the semifinals with a convincing 69-32 victory. The fourth-ranked Eagles, 11-2. will travel to St. Edmund's next week. The winner advances to the Class 1A state championship game in the Louisiana Superdome.

Simon, who plans to play at McNeese State next season, scored By Mark Barnard Special to the Times LOGANSPORT Vermilion Catholic running back John Simon rushed for 115 yards and four touchdowns in the first half against Logansport in a Class 1A quarterfinal matchup at Tiger Stadium here Friday. And he was only warming up. Simon, who ran for 290 yards and six touchdowns last week against quarter when Vermilion Catholic's Taylor Sellers blocked Charles Kugley's punt inside the Tigers 10-yard-line. Simon scored his fourth touchdown from 8 yards on the next play as the Screaming Eagles took a 21-14 lead. "Logansport is a better team than what the score indicated," Vermilion Catholic head coach Charlie Cryer said.

They hit us hard the whole game, but we overcame that with big plays." Centenaiy College of Louisiana Evangel: Eagles down Raiders, reach semifinals lw 7jii4 P205 75A11 P2057SF15 P2167SP15 P335 75P'S -'bs Own 14 P185-65R14 S19J 6bM B205 65R'5 320bfrW15 W9 9S $44 95 S4I95 S59 9S SUM $37 95 S389S 139 95 S39 95 P205 70P15 P215'0i5 6016 P225P'6 S4950 I IJ, $52 95 CD SPECIAL PURCHASE Complete Car Care Shocks Struts Alignment Brakes CV Axles SLE 70,000 AST II got shorter and shorter, going from 28 to 25. 19 and finally 14. That kind of field position contributed to Huntington's halftime deficit, but there were three important decisions in the half that also helped Evangel. The first was made by an official after an incomplete backward pass by Duron. It was picked up by Desmond Andrus, who took off down the Evangel sideline and appeared headed for the end zone before the play was blown dead and rules an incomplete pass.

"I just saw it and reacted." Andrus said. "I really don't know if it was a backwards pass or not, but it doesn't matter now because we're out of the playoffs." ly into the hands of Huntington's James McNeeley, who returned it to the Raiders 38. Bogan moved the Raiders quickly downfield with passes of 29 yards to Williams and 22 to LaDarrius Bowman. He then hit a wide-open Dotson in the end zone for a 3-yard score and a 6-0 lead. On Evangel's next possession, a 43-yard run by James got the ball to the Huntington 10.

Hester did it all from there, eventually scoring from 7 yards out. The Eagles went up 21-6 on a 37-yard pass from Duron to Renaldo Graves. Except for the kickoff return alter Huntington scored, Evangel's worst starting field position in the first half was its own 45. The Raiders' punts ready to slam the door, Huntington got back into the game with two long passes. Dustin Bogan found Williams for a 35-yard completion and then hit Sirderrick Dotson for the second scoring connection between the two, this time for 27 yards.

That made the Eagles lead 28-12 after Huntington again failed on a 2-point attempt. But then the Raiders failed to put up much of a defense, letting the Eagles drive quickly downfield to score on a 1-yard Jacob Hester run with 7:35 to play in the final period. Evangel made the first mistake of the game. Starting from its own 45, Evangel moved into scoring position before turning the ball over on a Denny Duron pass direct Continued from 1C "We had overcoverage over the top of him, and that might have kept him down," Evangel coach Dennis Dunn said. As for the semifinal game against West Monroe, Dunn said a game location has not been determined.

"You'd want to have it here for the potential of the crowd, but our seniors really want to play the game at Rodney Duron Field (on the Evangel campus)," he said. "We'll have a lot of thinking and praying to do." Those thoughts could have started in the third quarter on Friday before the Raiders tried to mount a comeback. Just when Evangel appeared to be Touring Radial Cooper Radial P23575R15 S67 95 P26575R15 P25570R16 P24575R16 P26575R16 P23570R16 $73 95 $79 95 S76 95 S76 95 $76 95 P20570R15 S64 95 P215 70R15 S6695 P215 60R15 S63 95 P215 60R16 S68 95 P22560R16 $7495 LT235 85R16 S89 95 Cobra Radial GT American Made Alloy Wheels P21570TR14 P255 70TR15 P185 60TR14 P275 60TR15 P265 50TR15 S6195 S69 95 $53 95 $7295 $7695 $81.95 3 P295.50TR15 SIA5 15x8 $9795 15x10 $99.95 Minn 241 49 11-14-1 4-9-3 1-32 5-298 0-0 1-0 4-37 1-5 Passiig Yards Ccm-Att-int Punts-Avg. Fumbies-Lost Penaities-aros Now Serving 24 Hour Road Service fi ftf 1 Medium Trucks, OTR, Farm Service For Commercial Accounts i jaw 9 i vf 15x10 $116.95 16x8 $116.95 Phoenix 20, Haynesville 13 Haynesville 0 7 0 613 Phoenix 0 0 0 20-20 hay Brownnlier 6 run iCanleUury wck) Phoe Wiinars 9 -un ikick Havne Hujson 26 interception return ikic lajedi Phc Sardr 32 oass trom Win jms thaivery run) Pho Williams 1 run. Hay Phoe F'rstaowns 9 10 Yaras rusnirig 156 45 Ya'ds passing 13 125 Totjlottense 171 Pass-ng A-C-l 7-1-3 2i-if3 Punts-Avg 6-27 5-36 Penalne5-vds 8-90 6-50 Individual Statistics RUSHING AHS Perry 20-165 Mason 2-3.

Ma-kel Ricnaroson 1-2. Snans 2-5. Jevin Dillon 7-44, Sneiman Collins 1-2 BhS Demond Wheatley 16-97. Lemond Wheatey 1 1-52. Eddie Conway 10-26.

McMillan 1-3. Matt Jacusoo Smh 1-7. Shawn Holard 1-1 PASSING AHS Mason 14-11-1 241 2TDs BHS-Jason 7-3-2-40 DWheatey2-1-t RECEIVING AHS Ret Bel 2-22 Bs Tavior 2-41 3ums 2-120. Perry 1-15 Collins 1-11. Snanks 3-32 BHS-L Wneatiey 2-31.

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Frankie DeGraauw 1 1-7-167; LHS. Kendrick Hill 18-9-199 RECEIVING VC. Chns Bradley 4-96. LHS. Derrick Gray 3-82 Amite 35, Benton 6 Amite 0 14 14 7-35 Benton 6 0 0 0 6 BHS Donavon McMillan 3 run.

(Kick tailed) AHS Kenonck Perry 8 run. (Cooy Curner kick) AHS Bums 31 run witn lateral from Ellis Taylor. (Currier kick). AHS Anwar Shanks 22 pass trom Wallei Mason (Oner kick). AHS James Burns 84 pass trom Mason.

(Currier kick). AHS Perry 75 run. (Currier kick). AHS BHS First Downs 16 11 Rushes-lards 33-221 41-185 Friday's Scores Quarterfinals CLASS 5A Carencro 56. Jesuit 41 Hairwilie20.

H'gginsM "West Monroe 35. Cathohc-BR 6 Evangel 38. Huntington 18 CLASS 4A John Curtis 41. St. Matinville 7 Nellie 36.

istroumaO Reaemptonst 15. East Ascension 0 Sam Houston 31. Bastrop 7 CLASS 3A Partwie Baptist 28. Carroll 14 Notre Dame 40. Teurlmgs 20 Amite 35.

Benton 6 Lutchsr 44. West St. Mary 23 CLASS 2A Northeast 20. St. Helena 14.

OT Sterlmgton 34. Rayville 26 V'dalia 46, Mamoul2 West St. John 47, Sumner 14 CLASS 1 A St Edm jrds 28. Block 24 Vermilion Catholic 69. Logansport 32 Phoenix 20.

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