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Football SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2004 5C THE TIMES shreveporttimes.com Raiders: Huntington shows defensive promise Continued from 1C Fw 11 "aM Tr Junior runnincr Wt Junior runtime back Renanldo Evangel mm shuts ma mjm. 4. astrop, 6-0 UUl r- -V v. -M- m- "i i 1 McClinton was a bright spot for Byrd with several solid carries, including one for a gain of 16 yards late in the second period of play. "He ran the ball well, but we were missing a few guys," Suggs said.

"Huntington did a great job they have a bunch of great athletes flying around." Byrd's final chance to score ended in McClinton's hands on fourth down at the Huntington 4-yard line with seven seconds to go. Yellow Jackets quarterback Jordan Davis failed to complete a pass on the evening, but that had much to do with the fact Raiders linemen like Larry Tyler were in his face all evening. The guys are doing a wonderful job. We are making plays. The speed is there the aggression is there," said Green, the former Woodlawn coach who is in his first year at Huntington.

"On defense, we are going to run and we are going to hit. We caused some fumbles which gave us the opportunity to score. "We want to bring a little more thump with Raider football this year." Byrd kicks off the season against Ruston while Woodlawn will play Marshall. f'-, Jim Hudelsun, I he limes Northwood, Green Oaks open with wins Jk I I it. Byrd's Albert Fullwood cools off after But early on, the Falcons had nothing to show for their impressive offensive numbers.

After a Rebels fumble on their second offensive series, Northwood's Brantley lofted a beautiful spiral down the left sideline hitting 6-foot-4 sophomore receiver Jay Dudley who carried it to the 4. However the Rebels stiffened and forced the Falcons into a failed field goal attempt. North Caddo promptly responded marching into Northwood territory, but the Falcons bowed up and paid back the Rebels by stopping their gamble on fourth down. On the Falcons ensuing possession Brantley's strike to Jamario Casey moved the ball to the Rebel 25. Another Brantley bullet to Casey put the ball on the 5, but again the Rebels stonewalled the Falcons forcing a fumble.

Late in the final quarter, sophomore defensive end Caleb Garba-rino's sack of Rebels quarterbacks Ricky White forced the Rebels to punt giving the Falcons the ball at their 48 and another golden oppor From Staff Reports BASTROP The Evangel defense did the work in the Eagles' jamboree in Bastrop. Evangel shut out the Rams, in two quarters of action at Bastrop's new athletic facility. The defense played extremely well," Eagles coach Dennis Dunn said. "Bastrop has unbelievable speed. They can run.

We're so young up front defensively, but I just thought we controlled the line of scrimmage up front. We were very pleased there." But Evangel is known for its offense, and Dunn said the team played it "close to the vest" as it did in a scrimmage last week. The score came on a 35-yard pass from Billy Barefield to Renaklo Graves. "We will open the playbook next week, for sure," Dunn said. "We didn't play to our strength any tonight.

We just kept (Barefield) in the pocket to see what he could do." A scoring run by Ramon Broadway was called back due to a penalty. HAYNESVILLE 20, MINDEN 6: At Haynesville, Hayncsville's Terenzio Tell made a case for himself and the Golden Tornado as they outscored Minden in jamboree action on Friday. Tell scored a pair of touchdowns against the Minden defense. He returned a fumble 23 yards for a touchdown and also scored on a 70-yard run. Haynesville also got another score By Brian Vernellis bvernellisgannett.com Loyola's Joel Hall kicked a pair of field goals to give the Loyola Flyers a 6-0 win over St.

Mary in the first game of the Loyola jamboree at Messmer Stadium on Friday. The Myers had three offensive series and Hall ended two of them with his field goals. He kicked a 32-yarder to end the Flyers' first series to put them up, 3-0. The series began with linebacker Michael Camden intercepting St. Mary's Bryan Star-ney to get the Fly ers' drive started LeBlanc at the St.

Mary 30-yard line. Ixiyola's second offensive series also ended in a Hall field goal. This time, the Flyers drove to the St. Mary 23 before a pair of fumbles stalled the drive. Hall tacked on a 44-yard field goal to complete the scoring.

St. Mary's offense struggled in the scrimmage. The Tigers didn't get past their own 31-vard line. CALVARY BAPTIST 14, ST. MARY 7: Alan Rogers' 19-yard touchdown pass to Justin Poole with 25.5 seconds remaining lifted the Cavaliers to the win.

The Cavaliers threw it on every down, giving Rogers 162 yards passing on 8-for-17 with the touchdown and an interception. St. Mary scored when Rod Washington stepped in front of a Rogers pass and raced 24 yards for the touchdown. a turnover against Huntington. tunity to take the lead.

This time they took advantage as Black raced 35 yards to he North Caddo 25. Brantley then hit Michael Tipton on a crossing rout to the Rebel 8 yard line leading to Brantley's qurterback sneak to score. In next week's season opener Northwood travels to tangle with the Benton Tigers. In the first game, Green Oaks out-scored Fair Park 12-0. Green Oaks head coach Steve Dennis said, "Our guys did an excellent job.

I'm happy we hustled and were able to win. I was happy with our quarterback Le-land (Kelly) and the offensive line. Jeremy Walker was exciting, aggressive and emotional on defense." Green Oaks struck first late in the first quarter when Lacortney Washington burst through the Fair Park front from the three yard line to take a 6-0 lead. The Giants defense set the table for this score when Leonard Yelder picked off an Indian aerial at midfiekl. Green Oaks returned the second quarter kick off 90 yards to the Fair Captain Shreve scored on its first possession, with Calantone driving his team methodically down the field and capping off the drive with a 23-yard touchdown pass for a 7-0 lead.

Early in the second quarter, Southwood tied the score when a counter play to Abron Joluisbn caught the Gators' defense by surprise with a 67-yard scoring run up the middle. Slirevc came right back, aided by two pass interference calls that moved the Gators to deep inside Cowboys territory. Calantone showing good touch, helps Southwood salvage tie when Jeremiah Burns ran 8 yards for a touchdown. Minden's only score came on a 2-yard touchdown run from Brandon Walker. HOMER 14, SPRINGHILL 6: At Haynesville, Homer's Greg Nelson ran for one touchdown and threw for another against Springhill.

Nelson threw a 23-yard scoring pass to Jordan Newell for the first score of the scrimmage. Nelson later followed with a 90-yard touchdown run. Springhill got its only score on a 1-yard run from Jamarcus Robinson. MANSFIELD 6, LOGANSPORT 0: At Mansfield. Jermaine Christopher scored on a 6-yard run with 31 seconds remaining to give Mansfield the scrimmage's only score.

LOGANSPORT 13, NORTH DESOTO 0: At Mansfield, the Tigers outscored the Griffins with a pair of touchdowns. Steven Wilson scored on a 6-yard run for the Tigers and Tyrone Marshall added an 8-yard touchdown run. MANSFIELD 13, NORTH DESOTO 0: At Mansfield, Christopher and Jermaine Johnson scored touchdowns to help the Wolverines outscore the Griffins. Christopher scored on an 8-yard run and Johnson added a 1-yard touchdown run. Compiled by Brian McCallum, Darren Jackson, Jason Pugh, Pedro Pizarro and Scott Ferrell.

Calvary answered with Rogers connecting with Wade Gore on its next possession a 57-yard touchdown strike to tie the score at 7. "We've got to get ready for this heat," Calvary head coach John Booty said. "I told the kids that if they played hard we were going to throw everything schematically at the other teams." LOYOLA 10, CALVARY 7: Iojyola's Joel Hall kicked his third field goal of the night a 22-yard attempt with 1:23 remaining to help the Flyers edge Calvary in the jamboree's last matchup. Rogers and the Cavaliers tried to piece together another last-minute drive like they did against St. Mary, but this time it fell apart.

Turnover and penalties plagued both teams Calvary fumbled once and Loyola fumbled twice. Jonathan Wiggins had a pair of punishing runs early in the scrimmage. First, a 34-yard run where he ran over a couple of Cavaliers to get to the 3-yard line. He followed that with a 3-yard plunge for the touchdown. Rogers hit John Parker with a 6(V yard touchdown pass to tie the score at 7 with 5:53 remaining.

Loyola took its next possession and drove 72 yards to the Calvary 5-yard line to set up the winning field goal. "We got a little tired at the end and we made some mental mistakes," Loyola head coach John LeBlanc said. "Those are some things we'll work on. The guys played hard. Il was traumatic for them with the loss of (former Loyola player) Michael Bovenzi." ingfor 81 yards in quarterbacking duties he split with Quinnon Thomas.

Netter completed a 22-yard pass to Ellis and a 26-yardcr to Dennis Morris in the first. His 32-yard hook-up with Nicholas Gobert from his own 28-yard line in the second put the Knights across midfiekl and led to Edwards' 5-yard scoring run. Quentin Douglas opened the scoring in the game on a 5-yard touchdown run for the Lions with just more than seven minutes left in the first quarter. His 37 yards on eight carries and a touchdown paced the Lions rushing attack. Teammate Jeremy Jefferson had 43 yards on six carries, including a 17-yard first quarter run.

There was at least one penalty on every drive except the opining drive. Woodlawn was penalized eight times for 90 yards, while BTW had five penalties for 55 yards. Douglas dismissed the penalties to early season rustiness and the team's youth. "We're just young and were not as mentally ready," he said. "But we're getting there." By Chip Layton Special to The Times It's not how you start, but how you finish that matters.

Northwood and Green Oaks both finished strong as the Falcons out-scored North Caddo 6-0, and the Green Oaks Giants scored twice to lead the Fair Park Indians 12-0 at the Northwood jamboree on a muggy Friday night at Falcon Field. After twice failing to score from inside the Rebels 5 in the first quarter of their game, Falcons quarterback Hunter Brantley sneaked in from the 1-yard line with two minutes left to give the Falcons their only score. An excited Northwood head coach Daniel Turnbow said, "We came out with the intensity we've been hoping for. Michael Black really played well. He played every play on both sides of the ball and is our team leader." The Falcons balanced offense moved the ball easily with Black running for 83 yards on 10 carries, while Brantley was 5 of 9 passing for 109 yards.

Late run By Des McGinn Special to The Times The Southwood High School Cowboys came from behind late against Captain Shreve, when Ken Patton broke free up the middle of the Slirevc defensive line and raced 57 yards for the jamboree-tying touchdown at Independence Stadium. The two schools played to a 14-14 tie. The jamboree featured two completely different kinds of quarterbacks. Slireve's Andrew Calantone is a big, Friday's Jamboree Results At Alexandria Alexandria 28. Bolton 0 Menard 21, Northwood-Lena 6 Bossier Lions Club Airline 31, Haughton 6 Benton 20.

Bossier 14 Parkway 21, Plain Dealing 14 At Baton Rouge McKinley 26. Christian Lite 7 Parkview Baptist 40. University 14 Dunham 33. Episcopal 0 Istrourra 18, Southern Lab 0 Capitol 19 Scotiandville 0 B-jlair 26. Lee 9 CamoiiC-BR 21.

Sullivan 7 St. Thomas Aquinas 7. Ascension Catholic 0 At Bunkie BunkieO Avoyelles 0 MarKsvuie 25. Avoyelles 0 MarksviHe 14, Bunkie 7 At BTW-Shreveport Woodlawn 12, BTW-Shreveport 6 At Caddo-arca Huntington 6, Byrd 0 Captain Shreve 14, Southwood 14 At Caiencro B'eaux Bridge 24, Acadiana 13 At DeRidder East Beau'egard 20. South Beauiegard 0 DeQumcy2'.

Merryville 6 Peaoody 18. DeRidder 6 At Destrehan Lutche' 20. Riverside 0 St Charles 28. Destfenan 9 At Gonzales SI Amant 23. Dutchtown 0 East Ascension 31, Donaldson 8 At Haynesville Haynesville 20, Minden 6 Homer 14, Springhill 6 At Kinder OberlinO.

Kinder 0 Black Kelly Park 5-yard line. On the following play Washington walked in from the 5 to notch his second rushing TD, stretching the Giants lead to 12-0. Lite in the second quarter Kelly's 40-yard bullet to Cory James down the right sideline set up what a peared to be the Giants third TD but two plays later a Giants fumble at the Fair Park 10 ended their drive. Kelly cooly orchestrated a balanced offense for Green Oaks finding open receivers on the two TD drives. The strong-armed Kelly was 4 of 6 for 73 yards on the night.

Oiiand James was his favorite target snagging three balls for 70 yards. The Giants were knocking on the door at the Fair Park 3, but Dennis had his troops take a knee ending the half on an honorable note. hitting a well-covered wide receiver at the 10-yard line, who ran it in when the defender fell down and couldn't make the tackle. With the shortened game running down, Gatson took his team from its 20-yard line to his team's 43-yard line. Then, on a simple counter play up the middle, influenced a receiver in motion to the right and the speedy Gatson moving that way, Patton broke free, being 10 yards past the line of scrimmage before the defense knew he had the ball.

Robert Run The Tunes were only 22.9 seconds remaining on the clock, and it was because of Airline's one major special teams mistake, a muff of a punt that gave Haughton possession one yard from the end zone. After a penalty and a near turnover, quarterback Nick Wilson scored from 10 yards out on a keeper. Airline had just taken its 31-0 lead minutes before, this time on a Bucs muff of a kickoff. Chad Hart recovered that for the Vikings, and he got the call to carry the ball in on the next play, scoring from 24 yards out. ww 1.

i i I at pocket passer with Peyton Manninglike mannerisms setting up the offense before the snap and Southwood's Frank-ie Gatson, a lightning quick Michael Vick-typc quarterback. Gatson Both quarterbacks have the makings of big-play field generals and they did not disappoint with two of the four scoring plays covering 50 yards or more. Oakdale 7. Kinder 6 Oakdaie 14. Oberiin 0 At Lake Charles Sam Houston 35.

Lake Charles-Boston 0 St Louis 13. Bame 13 At Leesville Leesvilte 23. Many 14 At Loyola Loyola 6, St. Mary 0 Loyola 10, Calvary 7 Calvary 14, St. Mary 7 At Mansfield Manslield 6.

Logansport 0 Logansport 13, North DeSoto 0 Manstieid 13, North DeSoto 0 New Orleans area Cox 12. Buras6 Boothviile-Venice 7. Port Sulphur 0 Belle Chasse 7. Phoenix 0 Clark 6. Cohen 0 Lawless 6.

Clark 0 Lawless 16. Cohen 0 C-escenl City 14. St Martin's 3 South Lalourche 40. Douglass 6 Pearl Rivei 42, Redeemer-Seton 12 Auramson 21, St. Bernard 12 Northshore 6.

KmgO Slidell22. King 0 Lutcher 20. Riverside 0 Ehret 8. Shaw 0 Holy Cross 16. Higgins 12 Country Day 14, Fisher 0 At Natchitoches Central Winntield 18, Natchitoches Central 15 At Northwood Green Oaks 12.

Fair Park 0 Northwood 6. North Caddo 0 At Opelousas Beau Chene 24, North Central 6 At Plaquemlne Brusly 47, North Iberville 0 Piaquemine 43. White Castle 0 At Welsh Jennings 16. Welsh 6 Lake Arthur 8, Elton 7 AlZachary Northeast 6. Baker 2 Zachary 14, Central-BR 12 but ran down to the 5 for a Grst-and-goal.

He scored two plays later from 4 yards out, shaking off tliree Parkway tacklers. Aldavious Jolmson added a 2-point pass to cut the Panthers lead to 14-8. Airline's Andre Allen wasted no time in exciting the Vikings crowd in the second matchup, returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown, and the Vikings came back late in the first period to drive the ball the length of the field before Cordaro Green bulled in from the 3 to make it 14-0. "I saw the hole develop quick, and I just hit it hard," Allen said of his Big plays help carry Woodlawn over BTW Plain Dealing's Cedarious Blankenship is stopped by a group of Parkway defenders during Friday's jamboree at Airline High School. jrline: Greene happy with Vikings' offense By Mike Pizzolato Special to the Times The Woodlawn High School Knights outscored the Booker T.

Washington Lions 12-6 in the BTW Jamboree on Friday night during two quarters filled with penalties and occasional big plays. Jonathon Ellis rushed for 83 yards and a 40-yard first-quarter touchdown for the Knights, while Charles Edwards added a 5-yard TD in the second quarter that gave Woodlawn the lead. Ellis broke open his 40-yard scoring jaunt off left tackle after a 15-yard personal foul penalty against the Lions on the second drive of the night. "I just exploded through it and gave it all I've got," he said. "The linemen made good blocks so I could do my job." Edwards scored in the second from 5 yards out, giving the Knights a 12-6 lead.

A 28-yard Ellis run and a roughing the passer penalty against BTW set up Woodlawn with good field position on the drive. Kendeoun Netter was 3-for-3 pass- opening run. "I had the blocks, so all I had to do was run. The whole special teams did a great job." Vikings coach Mike Greene was particularly impressed with his offense, something that wasn't necessarily tine case after a scrimmage a week ago. "I really thought the offense clicked well tonight," he said.

"I thought our timing looked a lot better than last week. Defensively, I don't know how many yards Haughton got, but with them spreading it out, I thought our guys played well." The Bucs did not score until there Continued from 1C A Newberg-to-Josh Wolf pass had moved the Panthers from their own side of the field down inside the Plain Dealing 10, and Wolf also recovered the fumble to set up the second score. "I went to go cut back across the Geld and slipped," he said of liis big reception. "We had a good start, then we were not so good in the middle and had a good finish." Plain Dealing managed to move the bidl later in the first, driving down to the Panthers to face a fourth-and-two before Oliver bobbled the toss 4.