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By JOHN KUYKENDALL
The tradition continued at Callaway High School last week
when the Cavaliers easily defeated Douglass - Atlanta in the
first round of the Class AA state football playoffs by a score
of 28-8 marking the ninth time in 10 years the Cavaliers have
won the first game in the state tournaments.
The Cavaliers improve to 10-1 on the season and advanced
to the second round with the victory.
It appeared early that Douglass could play with the
Cavaliers when the team scored on a 74-yard touchdown run,
but a penalty flag negated the score and forced Douglass to
punt and it was all Callaway from that moment on.
It didn't take the Cavaliers long to take the lead. On a sec-
ond down play, Cartavious Bigsby racked 60 yards to score
with 3:36 left to play inthe first quarter. Sure footed Noah
Stephens added the point after and the Cavaliers had taken
an early 7-0 lead.
The Cavaliers forced Douglass to punt early in the sec-
ond quarter and the Callaway offense was off and running
again. The Cavaliers took over on the Douglass 31-yard line
and took advantage of the short field position. Kedrick Ramsey
scored on a 1-yard run and Stephens scored his second extra
point of the night to give the Cavaliers a 14-0 lead.
The score stood at 14-0 at the end of the first half.
The Cavaliers began to slowly take Douglass out of the
game in the third quarter. Bigsby,who had a 76-yard touch-
down called back in the game on a hold penalty, gave the
Cavaliers a three touchdown lead on an unbelieveable play.
Jacob Freeman put the Cavaliers in scoring position with a
run to the Douglass ll-yard line. On second down Ramsey
attempted to pitch to Bigsby but the football hit the ground.
Rather than falling on the football, Ramsey picked it up and
raced 14-yards to score. Stephens hit his third extra point of
the night and the Cavaliers had taken a 21-0 lead.
On the ensuing kickoff, Douglass make a mistake and
fumbled the football. A Cavalier recovery set up the final
touchdown of the night for Callaway.
Ramsey hit DQ Wilkerson on a 25-yardpass to the Douglass
ll-yard line. The Cavaliers were hit with a holding penalty
that backed the Cavaliers up to the 21-yard line. The penal-
ty didn't matter.
Atkins came through with a 13-yard run to set up a first
and goal for the Cavaliers at the 9-yard line. On the next play
he raced 9-yards to score with 3:50 left to play in the game.
Stephens was true again on the extra point attempt and the
Cavaliers had nailed the coffin lid shut on Douglass with the
score at 28-0.
Douglass didn't quit however, and eventually scored with
1:22 left to play in the game and converted a two-point con-
version to cut the Callaway lead to 28-8, but it was too little,
too late as the Cavaliers advanced to the second round of the
playoffs and will travel to Rockmart this Friday night to take
on the Yellow Jackets.
By JOHN KUYKENDALL
The Callaway Cavaliers (10-1) will
travel to Rockmart Friday night to take
on the Rockmart Yellow Jackets (9-2) in
the second round of the Class AA state
football playoffs.
Callaway's only blemish on its record
this season came by way of the region
champions Heard County. The Cavaliers
are coming off a 28-8 win over Douglass
Atlanta in the first round of the state tour-
nament.
The Rockmart Yellow Jackets are
coming off a 47-7 win over Monticello in
the first round.
Rockmart lost two close games, the
first to Cedartown on the road by a score
of 34-26 and the second on the road in
Cartersville to Woodland by a score of
31-30.
The Yellow Jackets are primarily a
running team, although they can throw
the football. Rockmart has rushed for an
average of 321.1 yards per game and
passed for an average of 74.6 yards per
game.
Junior Zabrion Whatley leads the
Yellow Jackets in rushing this season
with 1,409 yards on 108 carries for an
average of 13 yards per carry. Jurnior
Markus Smith is the second leading rush-
er for the team with 802 yards on 94 car-
ries. Junior Dylan Barley has rushed for
526 yards on 60 carries and junior Ant
Lester has rushed for 397 yards on 40
carries.
With strong running backs, the Yellow
Jackets like to establish a run game, but
can take to the air offensively as well.
Bailey, also the team's qdarterback,
has passed for 835 yards this season and
completed 44 passes out of 95 attempts.
Bailey's favorite receivers are soph-
• omore Juke Boozer who has 378 receiv-
ing yards on the season, sophomore Reed
Couch who has 170 receiving yards and
senior Michael Gay who has 131 yards
this season.
The Yellow Jackets have averaged
scoring 41.5 points per game this season.
The Yellow Jackets have a good
defense as well The team has only
allowed an average of nine points per
game this season andhave recorded three
shutouts.
The Cavaliers are just as solid. The
Cavaliers are averaging 36.8 points per
game and allowing only an average of
13.6 points per game and have two
shutouts.
This should prove to be a very phys-
ical and exciting football game. The
Cavaliers invite the entire Callaway
nation to make the trip to Rockmart
Friday night and make some noise and
help lift the team to victory.
Kickoff time is scheduled for 7:30
p.m.
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