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Indians' Mitey Mite and Tiny Mite earn wins
BY SANDRA GREEN
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The Winston-Salem Tiny Indians competed against
several teams in Piedmont Youth Football and Cheer
League/American Youth Football (PYFCL/AFL) on
Saturday, Sept. 3.
The Gold Mitey Mites displayed great competition
against the Kernersville Raiders. Offensive players of the
day were: Jaylin Murry, Antonio Samuels, Daviel
Eldridge, Quinton Stone, Tejuan Miller, Jhamari Hall,
Daviare Eldridge, and DeMarius Barr. All combined for
over 500 rushing yards, thanks to the big guys up front.
The entire defense showed with dynamic hits from
Jatravis Hall and D-Rock Eldridge. So far this season, the
Indians Gold Mitey Mites have outscored opponents for a
total erf 90-0 in three weeks.
"We are proud of our players! They work extra hard in
practice, which showed on Saturday.
Thanks to my coaching staff and parents' support. We
wouldn't be able to do this without them," said Head
Coach Lenard Green.
Indians have two new head coaches for this year's
Gold and Burgundy Tiny Mite squads, which are ages 5,
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Last Saturday the
Winston-Salem Tiny
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ber of games at their
home field located on
Waterworks Road. In
the Mitey Mite division,
the Indians hosted the
Kernersville Raiders.
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Vorth Forsyth running back Darius Williams gets run to the ground by Reagan defenders Stephen Chesney, 90, and Dwayne Sawyers, 1, during the gameThursday.
BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
THE CHRONHSLB
The Reagan Raiders looked to contin
ue their winning trend against North
Forsyth last Thursday and they did just
that. The Raiders defeated North Forsyth
by the score of 19-6, with a great first
quarter in which they scored 13 points and
never looked back.
After suffering a Week 1 loss to Mt.
Tabor, Reagan bounced back to defeat
Glenn in Week 2. North Forsyth, on the
other hand, was looking for its first victory
of the season after the Week 1 loss to
Glenn.
Reagan took the opening kickoff and
methodically drove the ball down the field
with quick passes from quarterback
Gabriel Hollingsworth and a strong run
ning game. The Raiders had the Viking
defense off balance the entire drive as they
could not stop the Raider offense. The
Raiders scored on a run from freshman
19-6
running back DJ. Moyer to take a 7-0
lead.
As for North Forsyth, the team contin
ued to have trouble moving the football
against the Raider defense the same way
they had against Glenn in Week 1. Viking
running back Darius Williams ran hard but
found little daylight early to try and gain
any momentum.
Having to punt following a 3 and out
Raider punt returner Brendon Mills
returned the punt all the way to the 12 yard
line, setting up another touchdown from
Hollingsworth to Zavion Hamilton, mak
ing the score 13-0 after a failed point after
try.
"The game plan was to start off the
game with the defense setting the tone and
the offensive guys came out hungry and
focused," said Chris McCoy, Reagan JV
Head Coach. "We executed very well and
we stuck to the game plan, and we put
points on the board."
The start of the second quarter seemed
to wake the Viking defense up as they did
not surrender another point during the first
half. Unfortunately, the Raider defense
played equally well during at the same
time, stifling the North Forsyth offense
with great run defense and pressure on
quarterback Marquez Hurst every time he
dropped back to pass.
The North Forsyth offense continued
to be plagued by offensive penalties that
put the team's offense in long yardage sit
uations. The Viking offense is run-domi
nated but having to start a drive with 1st
and 15 or 2nd and 10 allowed the Raider
defense to pin their ears back and rush the
passer on obvious passing downs.
"We are still working on execution
both offensively and defensively; it just
didn't go our way tonight," says Corey
Stewart, North Forsyth JV Head Coach.
"Overall I'm happy with the performance
the guys gave, but we have to clean up
some of the execution mistakes and false
start penalties."
North Forsyth came out of the half and
received the ball first in the third quarter.
The offense second to have made adjust
ments from the first half as it started to run
the ball off tackle and started gaining
yardage against the Raider defense. The
offense held the ball for more than six
minutes of the third but once again was bit
by the penalty bug which caused their
drive to end.
Reagan was able to drive the ball into
Viking territory late in the third quarter but
could not convert the drive into points as
Reagan turned the ball over on downs.
The Vikings took over but the Raider
defense was unrelenting with their pres
sure causing North Forsyth to punt. The
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Glenn, Mt. Tabor seek
to get back into rhythm
BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
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For today's Junior Varsity football
matchup between Glenn and Mt. Tabor
each team will look to get back into
rhythm. Last week s game for Glenn was
canceled due to weather concerns and Mt.
Tabor is coming off back-toback game
cancellations against Winston-Salem prep
and Carver due to lack of players.
Glenn is looking to improve upon its 1
1 record while Mt. Tabor seeks to go 2-0
and stay undefeated. With the long layoff
for both teams rust may be an issue early
on.
Mt. Tabor opened up the season with a
&
decisive victory over Reagan by the score
of 21-7. Glenn started their 2016 cam
paign with a victory against North Forsyth
before getting blitzed by Reagan the next
week falling 24-8 to the Raiders.
Glenn TV head coach Stephen Herring
says he is happy with the performance of
his team thus far in the season. He says
they are a young team and since they only
have around 33 players his guys are going
through ups and downs.
"Defensively I think we have
improved on our alignments and assign
ments," said Herring. "We are definitely
reading our keys and aligning better than
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Stephen Herring, Glenn JV head coach, is excited to get his team back onto the
field against Mt. Tabor.
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