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Georgia Tech freshman Brent Thomas grew up in Valdosta drowning in a town full of Georgia fans. So he said when the calls start jamming up his cellphone after Friday's [...]

Seven games into his sophomore year, Brent Thomas nearly gave up his chance to be the best running back Pebblebrook coach Chuck Stines has coached. With fellow sophomore De'Mone Boyd [...]

PEBBLEBROOK (6-2) at ETOWAH (5-2) Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday at Etowah Stadium, Woodstock Coaches: Pebblebrook, Chuck Stines; Etowah, Norb Terza Last year: Pebblebrook RB Brent Thomas rushed 25 times for [...]

Breakout game ties state record Pebblebrook coach Chuck Stines has been saying all year that the Falcons do not win by Brent Thomas alone. Last week, Stines rested his Metro [...]

Pebblebrook's Brent Thomas had 177 yards on 25 carries and two touchdowns as the Falcons rallied for a 17-14 victory over Sequoyah. Thomas' second touchdown came on the first play [...]

Pebblebrook fullback Brent Thomas knew he easily could have cut inside for a touchdown in the second quarter of the Falcons' 42-28 win over Cass last Friday. But when a [...]

Pebblebrook's Metro Super 11 running back Brent Thomas is back at it again. The senior had 327 yards and four touchdowns on 37 carries as Pebblebrook defeated Cass 42-28. Thomas [...]

Brent Thomas School: Pebblebrook Sport: Football Position: Running back Comment: Senior had 212 yards rushing and two touchdowns in 37-20 win against Alexander. Janet Kearns School: Sprayberry Sport: Softball Position: [...]

BRENT THOMAS, Pebblebrook Position: Running back Vital statistics: 5-11, 198; 4.56 40-yard dash; benches 285 pounds; recruited by Georgia, Michigan State, Miami, Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee. Spent summer vacation: [...]

When Pebblebrook High trailed Alexander 7-0 at halftime, coach Chuck Stines remembers taking junior fullback Brent Thomas aside and privately challenging him. Those words must have been golden because Thomas [...]

Go ahead and add Etowah to Brent Thomas' growing list of victims. The Pebblebrook junior fullback gained nearly 200 of his 248 yards and accounted for four of his five [...]

37 Consecutive regular-season games Marist has won after defeating Mays 45-22 on Friday. 878 Yards Pebblebrook's Brent Thomas has rushed for in the past three games against Woodland, Sequoyah and [...]

It's been 39 years since a Cobb team won a state championship in football, but one local coach has suggested that the road to the Class AAAAA title in 2006 [...]

With opening night for most teams 15 days away, here are 15 questions from staff writer Todd Holcomb to test your knowledge of the county's football history and tradition. If [...]

THEY SAID IT 'We went undefeated as freshmen, lost to South Cobb in the playoffs. We went undefeated as JV, lost to South Cobb in the playoffs. So I guess [...]

Strong field to compete in Walton Duals The field for the Walton Duals, the first major wrestling event of the 2004-05 season, includes six reigning Class AAAAA individual champions and [...]

McIntosh County-Lincoln game moved to Brunswick McIntosh County Academy lost its home-field advantage when the Georgia High School Association ruled that the Darien school's stadium didn't meet the requirements for [...]

Ten things that football fans will want to know about the upcoming season: 1. Who will win Region 5-AAAAA? Harrison. A year ago, the Hoyas were simply intimidating, with five [...]

Cherokee QB Jayson Foster's status is uncertain for Friday's game against Sequoyah. Backup QB Anthony Steele, out since the Northview game with broken ribs, will be available if Foster can't [...]

ON THE GRIDIRON Other games to keep an eye on this weekend: North Cobb (0-0) at Walton (0-1): North Cobb junior Adam Pumphrey takes over at quarterback for Kyle Bissinger, [...]

CAMPBELL SPARTANS 2001 record: 4-6 Coach: Philip Ironside (first season) Offense: Multiple I Defense: Multiple Returning starters: LB Matt Braswell (5-11, 205, Sr.), FS Tyrell Williams (5-9, 165, Sr.), DT [...]

When explaining why his team struggled to 9-17 last season, North Gwinnett baseball coach Reggie Black doesn't mince words. 'To be blunt,' he said, 'other teams were better than we [...]

South Cobb running back Mahlon Carey made decisions with matrix-like speed once he got a handoff in a game. He'd zip to the opening his line created. As a defender [...]

Alabama QB chooses Auburn Auburn got its quarterback of the future, and Tennessee moved a little closer to getting one of its own. Quarterback Brandon Cox of Hewitt-Trussville High School [...]

***** CORRECTION: 1/3/02, page A/2: Stories on the all-state high school football teams in Sunday's Sports section contained several errors: --- Incorrect schools were listed for Lee Miles and Jason [...]

James 'Buster' Davis is glad to tell you an obvious difference between having the Georgia-Florida High School All-Star Football Game in December instead of June. 'It's really cold in Atlanta,' [...]

Stand-alone graphic. CAPTION(S): FIRST-TEAM OFFENSE Pos./Name.............. School.......... Class.. Ht..... Wt. QB Kyle Bissinger...... North Cobb...... Sr..... 6-3.... 215 Comment: Threw for 1,145 yards and 9 TDs and rushed 90 times [...]

There is never a good time for a coaching change in college football, but one can be especially damaging at the height of recruiting season. That is the obstacle Georgia [...]

Cobb County sent six teams to the playoffs, but only Harrison lived to see another week. Class AAAAA's No. 7-ranked Hoyas sent Walton (5-6) home packing with a 63-13 thrashing. [...]

This has been Washington High's stopping point in the football playoffs. The Bulldogs have managed first-round wins the last five seasons, but that is as far as the school has [...]

Once again, Washington pounced on Pebblebrook's postseason party in the first round. But unlike last season, when Washington zipped past the Falcons like race cars in a blowout victory, the [...]

Once again, Washington pounced on Pebblebrook's postseason party in the first round. But unlike last season, when Washington zipped past the Falcons like race cars in a blowout victory, the [...]

There were more than a few embarrassed folks in DeKalb County and the city of Atlanta last year after the first round of the state football playoffs. All four teams [...]

GAME OF THE WEEK: DOUGLASS at PARKVIEW > Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Big Orange Jungle, Lilburn > Record/seeding: Douglass is 3-7 and the No. 4 seed from Region 7-AAAAA; Parkview [...]

SEQUOYAH (7-3) AT TUCKER (10-0) Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday at North DeKalb Stadium, Chamblee Coaches: Sid Maxwell, Sequoyah; Tucker, Phil Lindsey Noteworthy: Sequoyah is making its third playoff appearance in [...]

For South Cobb and Pebblebrook, their first-round playoff games look eerily similar to last year. South Cobb (7-3) heads off to Hughes Spalding Stadium to face a physical and prodding [...]

GAME OF THE WEEK: CLASS AAAA: WASHINGTON AT PEBBLEBROOK > Time/place: 7:30 p.m., Friday/Falcon Stadium, Mableton > Records/seeding: Washingon is 9-1 and the No. 4 seed from Region 5-AAAA; Pebblebrook [...]

GAME OF THE WEEK: CENTENNIAL (7-3) at McEACHERN (7-3) > Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday at Walter Cantrell Stadium > Coaches: Centennial, Mike Cloy; McEachern, Jimmy Dorsey > Noteworthy: Centennial has [...]

Two of the state's premier football programs have reached a tentative agreement for a two-year contract for 2002 and 2003. Marist, one of the state's preeminent Class AAAA teams, and [...]

South Cobb rode 91- and 80-yard touchdown runs by senior Mahlon Carey to a 14-7 win over visiting Etowah on Friday night. Carey's two first-half sprints essentially clinched a state [...]

Class AAAAA Collins Hill (6-2, 5-2 Region 8-AAAAA) at No. 1 Parkview (8-0, 7-0) When; where: Today, 7:30 p.m.; Big Orange Jungle, Lilburn Last year: Parkview won 35-14 Players to [...]

GAME OF THE WEEK: PAULDING COUNTY (7-1) at PEBBLEBROOK (7-2) > Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday at Falcons Stadium, Mableton > Coaches: Paulding County, Lynn Rowe; Pebblebrook, Chuck Stines > Last [...]

GAME OF THE WEEK ETOWAH (5-3) at SOUTH COBB (5-3) Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday at Clay Stadium, Austell Coaches: Etowah, Norb Terza; South Cobb, Shane Queen Last year: Etowah lost [...]

Postponed nonregion games in limbo There is a strong chance that some of the nonregion football games postponed because of Sept. 11's terrorist attacks will not be made up. GHSA [...]

Injuries have slowed some of the Journal-Constitution's Metro Super 11 selections with two weekends remaining in the high school football regular season, but little else has held back the others. [...]

The second quarter started out with such promise for Clay Giles and the Etowah Eagles. Giles stepped back and threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Justin Grier on the first [...]

WEEKEND'S KEY GAMES Class AAAAA South Gwinnett (5-2, 4-2) at Collins Hill (5-2, 4-2) When; where: 7:30 p.m. today, Collins Hill Community Stadium, Suwanee Coaches: South Gwinnett, T. McFerrin; Collins [...]

GAME OF THE WEEK: MARIETTA (4-3) at McEACHERN (5-3) > Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday at Walter Cantrell Stadium, Powder Springs > Coaches: Marietta, James 'Friday' Richards; McEachern, Jimmy Dorsey > [...]

GAME OF THE WEEK: HARRISON (4-2) at NORTH COBB (5-1) > Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday at Sewell Stadium, Kennesaw > Coaches: Harrison, Bruce Cobleigh; North Cobb, Bob Clark Last year: [...]

GAME OF THE WEEK: NORTH COBB (4-1) at MARIETTA (4-2) > Time/place: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Northcutt Stadium > Coaches: North Cobb, Bob Clark; Marietta, James 'Friday' Richards Last year: Marietta [...]