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Tommy Camp Columnist
Published Monday, September 22, 2008
EC, Newnan put perfect region marks on line
By TOMMY CAMP
East Coweta, Newnan and Heritage become road warriors this week as the local high school football season approaches its halfway mark.
East Coweta travels to Westlake, Newnan plays at Creekside and Heritage visits Fullington Academy this Friday.
Northgate is off and opens its sub-region play the following Friday at Starr’s Mill.
Newnan and East Coweta are tied for first place in Region 4-AAAAA after their first three games of the region slate.
East Coweta is coming off an impressive come-from-behind win over Creekside at home last Friday.
The Indians trailed 14-0 in the second quarter, but rallied to take a 20-14 lead at halftime and eventually came away with a 28-21 victory.
Tay Willis continued his outstanding season, rushing for three touchdowns including scoring sprints of 62 yards in the second quarter and 72 in the fourth period to ice away the win.
Jeric Woodall had a 98-yard kickoff return to put the Indians on the board after they had fallen behind by two TDs.
EC has now won 12 of its last 14 regular season games stretching back to the beginning of last year.
Westlake, one of the six newcomers to the region this fall, comes into Friday’s game after beating Mundy’s Mill 21-12 at home last Friday.
Westlake’s only loss of the year to date was its 33-30 setback to Riverdale in Twelve Oaks Stadium two weeks ago.
Newnan takes its high-powered offense to Creekside to face the Seminoles who had allowed only six points all year before running into East Coweta last week.
Creekside beat Tri-Cities, Pebblebrook and Mundy’s Mill prior to losing in Sharpsburg.
The Cougars, who have scored a remarkable 173 points in their first four games, are on track to be one of Newnan’s highest scoring teams ever.
Quarterback Russell Powell threw for three touchdowns and ran for one in the Cougars 52-0 win over Morrow last week.
Newnan scored 38 points in the first half against Morrow after setting a school record with 55 in the first two quarters the week before against Lovejoy.
And speaking of high-scoring.
The Heritage Hawks beat Young American Christian, 56-15, in Covington last Friday.
The victory evened the Hawks record at 2-2.
Heritage got 100-yard plus performances out of three running backs in the win.
Stuart Bready led the way with 135 yards gained and two touchdowns while Christopher Rich picked up 125 yards and Brent Veal 116.
Quarterback Veal threw two touchdown passes in the game, both to Evan Graybill.
Also, Jack Duffey ran a kickoff back 95 yards for a touchdown.
Northgate evened its record at 2-2 with its 27-10 win over Hiram last week.
The 27 points were the most Northgate has scored since it lost to Whitewater in the final game of the 2006 season, 41-27.
After this week off, the Vikings resume the season with a visit to Starr’s Mill, a team it has never beaten but one that is off to an 0-4 start.