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News:
Clay-Chalkville 31, Buckhorn
14 Birmingham News, October 29, 2009
Clay-Chalkville held off a late charge from visiting Buckhorn to
improve to 8-2 on the season. The Cougars opened the
scoring on a 48-yard touchdown pass from Y’Latio Jones to
Jonathan Goodman. On its next possession, D. J. Vinson
broke free on a 47-yard touchdown run, and then converted the 2-
point conversion attempt. Clay closed out the first half with a
2-yard touchdown pass from Jones to Vinson to make the score
21-0 at the half.
Buckhorn opened the second half with a 50-yard interception
return of a Jones pass by Jacob Thompson. After a
Clay-Chalkville punt, Buckhorn closed to within seven points on
a touchdown pass from Matthew Broady to Justin Anderson.
Clay-Chalkville added a 30-yard field goal by Patrick Sides and
then closed out the scoring on a 10-yard run by Kevin Bennett
with :25 left. Vinson led Clay-Chalkville with 137 yards
before leaving the game with an ankle injury late in the fourth
quarter.
Clay-Chalkville travels to play Florence next week in the first
round of the state playoffs.
Braxton Nail
Nominee
for The Birmingham News Metro Player of the Week:
Dimitri "Pooh" Reese,
Clay-Chalkville: Reese returned a blocked field goal 84 yards
for a touchdown and added another score on a 45-yard
interception return in a loss to Gadsden City.
Clay-Chalkville
moves up to #7 on the ASWA Football Poll this week!
Clay-Chalkville 37, Huffman 7
Birmingham News, October 17, 2009 12:21 a.m.
Darrin Reaves rushed for
201 yards and three touchdowns Friday night, as Clay-Chalkville
rolled past Huffman in class Region 7 action.
Cougars head coach Jerry Hood had only one word to describe the
junior running back's career night.
"Wow."
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Jeff
Sentell's Game of the Week: Oxford 37, Clay-Chalkville 36 (3OT)
The Birmingham News -- Jeff Sentell
Clay-Chalkville's Darrin Reaves is stopped
short of the end zone on the deciding two-point conversion attempt
in the Cougars' loss at Oxford. (The Birmingham News / Frank Couch)
Oxford 37, Clay-Chalkville 36 (3 OT)
At Oxford's Lamar Field.
Clay-Chalkville's perfect season ended Friday night on the road
Calhoun County. But it took three overtimes for their Region 7 rival
to subdue a resilient club. The Cougars and Jackets might have
played well into today if not for a gutsy call from Clay-Chalkville's
sideline.
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Clay-Chalkville 41,
Pinson Valley 13 Birmingham News,
October 02, 2009 11:49 p.m.
Ninth-ranked in 6A,
Clay Chalkville (6-0, 4-0 Class 6A Area14) returned home after two
weeks on the road to down Pinson (0-6, 0-4) behind a stellar
offensive performance. The Cougars offense rolled off 119 yards on
the ground and 265 through the air. The rolling started early when
D. J. Vinson took the ball 69-yards on the their first play from
scrimmage. "Our line made good blocks," said Vinson concerning
his opening score. "Then my receivers made blocks down field. Then I
just thought about the summer when we ran sprints. I thought I got
to just keep running."
Vinson didn't slow down as he kept the ball on the
ground and scored the next two Cougar touchdowns on runs of 8- and
4-yards. He finished the night with six rushes for 36 yards and
seven catches for 120yards. "Our defense played well," said
Clay Chalkville coach Jerry Hood."We didn't really expect the first
play to go all the way. It was just a little screen and we got nice
blocking on the perimeter."
The Cougar defense played lights out in the first three
quarters holding Pinson Valley to under 100 yards of offense.
The Indians got on the board just before the end of the first half
as quarterback Stephon Conner called his own number for a 17-yard
score. Their other score came off a fourth quarter pass from Conner
to Bradley Armstrong for the 45-yard score. "Right now our
kids are fighting," said Indians coach Matt Glover. "We are doing
all we can do. We are getting there. Our kids are learning how to
practice and do the little things. We keep stressing the little
things to them each week. But, that was just a good Clay-Chalkville
team tonight."
The second half saw some big plays from the Cougars.
The first was when defensive lineman John Wright recovered a blocked
punt in the end zone for a touchdown. A few minutes later and it was
Charles Hart finding Ronald Reid for a 53-yard touchdown. Next
week, Clay will take on Oxford as Pinson tries to recover with
Huffman coming to town.
Chad Key
Clay-Chalkville
rallies for win over rival Hewitt-Trussville The
Birmingham News -- Jeff Sentell
Clay-Chalkville
rallied for two touchdowns in the final nine minutes to peel out of
Jack Wood Stadium Friday night with a 28-24 win in the region opener
against Hewitt-Trussville. Junior quarterback Y'Latio Jones guided
his offense 63 yards on seven plays to cut a 10-point lead to 24-21
with 8:46 left to play in the fourth quarter.
The Cougars (1-0, 1-0 in Region 7-6A) then somehow stalled out a
Hewitt-Trussville rushing attack that had been averaging more than
10 yards per carry at midfield. After senior runner Noah Wilson
ripped off 11 and 12-yard carries to start the next Huskies' drive,
the home team stalled out with 6:21 left to play.
Jones would complete nine of 12 passes for 153 yards in the contest,
but none mattered more than his three completions on the final
drive. He found Vinson for gains of 23 and 10 yards. He also fired a
spiral into the waiting arms of senior Boshe Watkins for another 14.
Jones scored his second touchdown of the night on a 4-yard plunge
with 4:44 left to play.
Both quarterbacks came up big in the contest. Steady Hewitt-Trussville
senior Brett Miller completed 13 of his 21 attempts for 158 yards
and two scores. He found Wilson for a 54-yard pass to put the
Huskies up 10-7 in the second quarter. Then his 24-yard dart to
senior Blake Bearden allowed him to take off into the Clay secondary
for another touchdown that put the Huskies up 24-14 with 10:31 left
to play.
Wilson would run for 213 yards on his 25 carries and score two
touchdowns. Watkins caught eight passes for 81 yards. Clay-Chalkville's
offense relied heavily on the big-play ability of senior D.J. Vinson
all evening. His role increased when starting running back Darrin
Reaves left the game in the second quarter with an ankle injury.
Reaves left the game with 55 yards on seven carries.
Clay-Chalkville somehow found a way to keep the offense surging despite
eight dead ball penalties on offense in the second half. There was
one span where the Cougars were flagged seven times in a span of 11
potential snaps for procedure penalties.
WHY CLAY-CHALKVILLE WON
Resiliency is the word. The Cougars halted a two-game losing streak to
Hewitt-Trussville thanks to another 400-plus yards of total offense.
Quarterback Y'Latio Jones and receiver D.J. Vinson mostly sparked
that total in the second. Their line gave them the creases to march
the Cougars to two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to steal the
road win.
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