Union County Cross Country Narrowly Misses Sweep at Meeks Park
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THE August NORTH 31, GEORGIA 2016 THE NEWS NORTH August GEORGIA 31, 2016 NEWS Page 5BPage 5B Purple Storm... continued from 4B Union County Cross Country a fumble kept Union out of the FENSE): Wright: 12-of-17, 164 endzone. yards, 1 TD. 14 carries, 126 “Defensively, (Gilmer) did yards, 2 TD. Dobbins: 2 carries, narrowly misses sweep at Meeks Park what we expected them to do, 64 yards, 1 TD. 2 receptions, By Todd Forrest was unable to run due to an but their front-six were probably 41 yards. North Georgia News injury but Coach Dyer expects a little better than we expected,” Strayer: 3 receptions, 48 [email protected] her to return for the next race at Coach Allison said. “We had a yards, 1 TD. Lynch: 2 receptions, Chestatee on Tuesday. hard time blocking them. They 37 yards. 10 carries, 17 yards. Union’s guys captured have one kid who is committed Stone: 2 receptions, 24 Union County Cross first place in the team standings to Mercer and another who is yards. Dockrey: 4 carries, 10 Country began a new era on thanks to Underwood and sixth 300 pounds, so they were pretty yards. 1 reception, 8 yards. Thursday as new Head Coach place Timothy Murphy. good.” Rodriguez: 2 carries, 17 Paige Dyer and both Union Freshman Will Harkins The Bobcats took over in yards. Slade Thompson: 2 recep- squads opened the 2016 season clocked in ninth, while senior the shadow of their own endzone tions, 6 yards. Buzzard: 2 carries, by taking three first place fin- Adam Bachman and junior when Beise made them pay 2 yards. ishes and one second. Gehrig Patterson rounded out with a safety. Strayer led Union Individual stats (DE- Union claimed both indi- the Panthers’ top five. County with 48 receiving yards FENSE): Winkler: 12 tackles. vidual titles with junior Lance “Our runners did an on three grabs and Lynch caught Rodriguez: 11 tackles, 2 TFL. Underwood setting a blister- amazing job in their first race two balls for 37 yards. Banton: 10 tackles, 1 TFL. Day: ing pace in the boys competi- and I couldn’t be more proud Early in the second quar- 8 tackles, 1 TFL. Dockrey: 6 tion - completing the Meeks of them,” Coach Dyer said. ter, the Panthers missed another tackles. Beise: 6 tackles, 1 TFL. Park course in 17 minutes, 32 “It was unusually hot but that scoring opportunity when they Gilliam: 5 tackles, 1 TFL. seconds. didn’t stop them from giving it were knocking on the Bobcats’ McConnell: 5 tackles, 1 sack. Earlier in the day, fresh- their best. Our teams are young door once again until a per- Montelongo: 4 tackles, 1 TFL. man Zoe Sanchez was victori- Freshman Zoe Sanchez lead wire-to-wire. Photo/Todd Forrest and that is very optimistic see- sonal foul inside the 10-yard Nelson: 4 tackles. English 3 ous in the first high school var- ing how well they are already line dropped Union back to the tackles. Stone: 3 tackles, 1 TFL. sity race of her career - edging performing.” 25-yard line. Gilbert: 2 tackles. a Rabun County runner by 25 The drive opened with Dobbins: 1 tackle. Wil- seconds with a time of 21:53. a kick return to the Gilmer 41- liams: 1 tackle. Hemphill: 1 However, Rabun’s girls yard line by sophomore Kanon tackle. took first place in the team Hemphill that provided excellent Scoring summary: standings after placing more starting field position. 1ST QUARTER: runners in the top 10. A 19-yard pass to Stone UC – 6 plays, 81 yards Union senior Emmi had Union on the move but a pair in 1:45. Cole Wright 13-yard Schakat placed third with a of penalties, including the per- touchdown run. time of 22:56. Overall, four sonal foul, derailed the drive. UC – Safety. Matthew of the Lady Panthers’ top five Facing a 4th-and-15, the Beise sack for 2-yard loss. runners were freshman. Panthers still had a shot to put 2ND QUARTER: Lexie Ochoa placed three on the board when Brian GC – 10 plays, 32 yards in ninth, Sadie Underwood was Smith attempted a 32-yard field 4:17. 21-yard field goal. 12th, and Allison Vincent took goal, but the kick traveled out- 3RD QUARTER: 25th. side the left upright by a matter UC – 9 plays, 67 yards in Freshman Jessie Hol- of inches. 2:05. Erik Strayer 20-yard touch- brooks and sophomores Erika On Friday, Union will host down pass from Wright. Clouse and Destiny Orellana- the 0-2 Hayesville Yellow Jack- UC – 1 play, 14 yards Irvin rounded out the Lady ets, who are coming off a pair in 0:10. Sean Dobbins 14-yard Panthers’ top eight. of one-sided defeats to Towns touchdown run. Senior Kaitlyn Gallagher County and Copper Basin, TN. 4TH QUARTER: Emmi Schakat finished third at Meeks Park. Photo/Todd Forrest Lance Underwood However, the Yellow Jackets are GC – 3 plays, 66 yards in led by a an experienced senior 1:01. 49-yard touchdown pass. continued from 4B quarterback, Kyle Rhinehardt. UC – 7 plays, 53 yards Lady Panthers... Team stats: Union Coun- in 2:40. Cole Wright 6-yard they scored the go-ahead run Chambers doubled with nail down the victory. Union must win to avoid the ty: 400 yards of total offense. touchdown run. in the seventh, then slammed one out in the seventh, Lawn On Tuesday, Union hosts sweep, which would award RUSHING: 34 carries, 236 GC – 1 play, 80 yards in the door on the host team in followed with a single, and GAC to wrap up the first trip Lumpkin the tiebreaker in the yards. PASSING: 12-of-17, 164 0:15. 80-yard touchdown pass. the bottom half of the inning Wischmeyer scored Chambers’ through region play. The sec- event the two teams finish tied yards. UC – Zach Stone 84 yard to prevail 6-5 over Habersham courtesy runner, Bright, with a ond round of region action in the final standings. Gilmer County: 237 yards kickoff return for touchdown. Central. fielder’s choice. begins on Thursday when the In other news, Chambers of total offense. RUSHING: 39 Lawn got the start from Chambers worked Lady Panthers visit Lumpkin is one RBI shy of equaling Cal- carries, 42 yards. PASSING: the circle and worked four in- around a pair of two-out singles County for their first 7-AAA lie Dyer’s school record of 106 9-of-22, 195 yards. nings, surrendering three runs in the bottom of the seventh to rematch of the season – a game RBIs for her career. Individual stats (OF- (one earned) before giving way to Chambers, who yielded two Congratulations to Lady Golfers unearned. Both pitchers over- came four errors in the field to NASCAR 2016 hang on for the win. By Gerald Hodges/the Racing Reporter The 3-4-5 hitters in the Union lineup (Chambers, Larson Gets First Cup Victory Lawn, and Wischmeyer) were BROOKLYN, MI -- Kyle 15. McMurray-616 (0), 16. New- a combined 7-for-12 with 4 Larson, driver of the No 42 Chip man-601 (0). Note: The number RBIs, and 4 doubles. Ganassi Chevrolet got his first ca- of wins supersede the actual points Moose, Garrison, and reer Cup Series win this past Sun- in determining each driver’s Chase Tanner also added one hit each day at Michigan. position. Larson, who led twice for MCDOWELL FINALLY GETS for the Lady Panthers. 41 laps, had a slow pit stop during A WIN Union got two in the a caution on lap 181 of the 200-lap Michael McDowell had first when Lawn drove in race. Chase Elliott was able to get been chasing a NASCAR victory Arrowood and Wischmeyer out of the pits first and led until an- for nine years. He finally succeeded doubled home courtesy runner other caution with 11 to go. this past Saturday at Road America Megan Bright. On the race’s last restart, road course, on his 297th try. And Habersham scored two Larson and Elliott were lined up it was a convincing win. in the first and one in the third \(L-R): Terie McCombs, Lilly Adams, Cynthia Moorehead 1-2 on the front row. Both drivers He led 24 of 48 laps to beat spun their tires. Brad Keselowski, Brendan Gaughan to the check- to take a 3-2 lead into the At our regular play day Club. This game starts over with third where the Lady Panthers who was behind Larson gave him ered flag by just over half a second on Thursday, August 11, 2016 the ladies joining the club again a push, sending him into the lead (0.534). struck for two more. three ladies of the Butternut for the next lucky lady that gets which he never relinquished for the “The team called all the Moose and Garrison Creek Ladies Golf Associa- a hole-in-one. remainder of the race. right shots, and we were in the Kyle Larson gets First Cup Win each delivered a two-out, RBI tion, were in the news at our Cynthia Moorehead “Oh boy, I was feeling right position there at the end” said He has not indicated he single to take a 4-3 advantage. signing up time for our regular came out with a 2 on Hole #15 things build up in my stomach dur- McDowell. “This is huge. I’ve got wants to retire, but conversation They extended their lead to day of play. for her EAGLE. Cynthia was ing those last laps,” said Larson.