Houston County blasts Headland

COLUMBIA — Houston County gained revenge for a loss last year to Headland, beating the Rams Thursday 34-7.

Desmond Warren completed 15-of-21 passes for 239 yards with touchdown tosses of 28 yards to Kenny Barber and 25 yards to Montez Shipman.

Barber had a 1-yard touchdown run, Jarmerius Henderson a 4-yard touchdown run and offensive lineman Nathan Cobb recovered a Lion fumble in the end zone for the other touchdowns. Storm Lassitier hit 4-of-5 extra points.

Defensively for Houston County, Devin Mizner had eight tackles with a sack.

Headland scored on a 27-yard pass from Aaron Sanders to Dasmond Wells.

The Rams, who finished the season 4-6, were led on the ground by Adrian Galloway with 91 yards and Trevor Windham with 46.

Defensively, Drew Davis had 10 tackles and four assists with a quarterback sack for Headland and B.J. Kingston had seven tackles and an assist.
Houston County (8-2) visits Washington County in the first round of the state playoffs next week.

Geneva County 37, Slocomb 6: Eric Walding threw for two touchdowns and ran for two, leading the Bulldogs over the Red Tops.

Walding threw a 3-yard pass to Richard Williams and a 45 yarder to Rico Lawson and scored on runs of 5 and 12 yards.

Walding finished 6-of-9 passing for 182 yards and rushed for 29 yards on five carries. He also ran in three two-point conversions.
Reggie Jones scored on a 35-yard run to start a string of 37 straight Geneva County points.

Slocomb scored off a 5-yard touchdown pass from Evan Ballard to Devin Lovings.

For Geneva County, Jones rushed for 111 yards and Lawson 78. Williams caught four passes for 91 yards.

Defensively, Bradley Hutcherson had 15 tackles, Josh Smith 11 and Desmond Lett had five tackles and an interception. Jones also had an interception.

Slocomb’s Scottie Burdeshaw rushed for 106 yards on 20 carries and led the Red Top defense with 11 tackles. Seth Martinez and Mason Silavent had eight tackles each and Chad Schmidt broke up three passes.

Geneva County (8-2) plays at McIntosh in the state playoffs next week. Slocomb finished the season at 2-8.

Cottonwood 30, Dale County 13: Brett Moore rushed for 124 yards, including a 99-yard touchdown run, and D.D. Dawsey rushed for 61 yards with a 9-yard score, leading the Bears’ win.

Octavius Snell caught a 13-yard TD pass from Desmond DeBose and Alex Morris had a 40-yard punt return for a score for Cottonwood.

Morris had a big overall night, catching two passes for 48 yards, scoring on the punt return, and being in on nine tackles.

Josh Price led the Cottonwood defense with nine solo stops and three assists, Justin Clark had nine solos and three assists, Austin North had eight solos and two assists and Dawsey eight tackles and an assist.

Cottonwood finished the year 6-4 and Dale County 1-9.

Straughn 34, Red Level 14: Straughn tuned up for the playoffs, downing county rival Red Level.

Eric Samuels scored on a 2-yard and Josh Dewrell on a 21-yard run, putting the Tigers (7-3) up 13-0 in the first quarter.

After a Red Level score cut it 13-6, Dewrell scored on a 13-yard run then threw a 29-yard TD pass to Austin Pickrell, making it 26-6 at halftime.
Caleb Cochran sacked Red Level’s quarterback for safety in the third quarter and Shawn O’Neal scored on a 1-yard run to put Straughn up 34-6 in the third quarter.

Red Level scored its other touchdown early in the fourth quarter.

Straughn finished with 293 yards and rushing and 331 total. Samuels had 59 yards on nine carries and Dewrell and O’Neal both had 51 yards on five carries.
Straughn hosts Geneva in the first round of the playoffs next week.

AISA
Glenwood 20, Lakeside 13: Glenwood won its first football game of the season Thursday evening, but the celebration was bittersweet.

Just minutes after the Gators defeated Lakeside 20-13 in Eufaula, Glenwood coach Chris Holmes told his players that he was stepping down as football coach. Holmes, a math teacher at the school, said it wasn’t fair to his players or his students to continue serving in both capacities, and that the players deserved a full-time football coach.

Glenwood saved its best for last, scoring 20 unanswered points in the second and third quarters before holding off a late Lakeside charge.

Senior Will Prickett’s 1-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter gave the Gators a 20-7 lead. Lakeside cut the lead to 20-13 with 4:27 remaining in the game after Billy Metzler scored on a 4-yard run.

But the Gators were able to run out the clock. The Chiefs blew their best chance to get the ball back after being called for an offside penalty when the Gators faced fourth and 1 from their 45.

Lakeside scored on its first possession after Stone Jackson found senior Jay Weston open down the left sideline for a 37-yard touchdown completion. Mack Goff kicked the extra point, and the Chiefs led 7-0 less than five minutes into the game.

Glenwood scored its first points in the second quarter, when Judson Humphries scored from 14 yards on a sweep to his left. Carson Bowens tied the game with his extra point kick.

The game was tied 7-7 at halftime, but Glenwood scored twice in the second quarter. The first score came on an 81-yard touchdown pass from Brandon Daley to Prickett. The freshman quarterback found the senior back open over the middle for the easy score. The second score was Prickett’s 1-yard touchdown run.
Lakeside finished the season at 1-8.

Jr. High Basketball
Barbour County 48, Girard 27: James Grubbs, Tyran Person and Gerald Birmingham led Barbour County with 10 points each.
Thomas Triston led Girard with six points.