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COLONIAL HEIGHTSCOLONIALS

2010 Colonial Heights High School football team

T2 Sunday, September 5, 2010 The Progress-Index, Petersburg, VA



BY NEIL FULLER

SPORTS WRITER

COLONIAL HEIGHTS

Tyler Drewes is no longer aColonial.

And depth — a famil-iar foe — continues to be

the team’s obvious weakness.Yet Colonial Heights has sev-

eral reasons to believe it canbuild off the improvements itexperienced on the field last sea-son.

The Colonials open their 2010season with four consecutivehome dates, highlighted with anOct. 2 matchup against CentralDistrict rival Dinwiddie. In fact,the team plays six of its firstseven games at ColonialHeights.

Perhaps the best news: DerekMears enters the season as anexperienced quarterback. Andcoach Bert Krupp is ready toask Mears to step up as hisoffensive leader.

“We didn’t ask Derek to do awhole lot last year,” Krupp saidof his steady, Joe Flacco-likejunior. “We’re going to ask himto do a lot more as a playmakerthis time around. ... Right now,we’re a better team with Derekas our quarterback. That play

time he received last year isinvaluable. He saw a lot ofunder-fire action. We’re hopingthat plays off this year.

“Derek did a lot of thingsright as a young quarterback.Now, with his experience,he’s ready to lead. Hopeful-ly, that plays out duringour games.”

Mears is one of fouroffensive starters return-ing for Colonial Heights.

A beefed-up offensiveline is expected to helpMears as he steps up hisrole for the Colonials.

“We have a veteran linecoming back. Most ofthese kids have been play-ing for three years,” Kruppsaid. “Right now, the offen-sive line is fairly solid —if they can stay healthyand get into the shape thatallows the guys to play allfour quarters.”

The line will feature Jes-se Vaughan, Kyle Floydand Matt Mumford.

With both Drewes andthe explosive BrandonBrown no longer available,Colonial Heights will needto find an offensive play-maker. Krupp, however, is

fine with slow, steady drives.Nothing wrong with picking

up three-to-four yards per carry.“Everybody likes to remember

long touchdown runs, but someof the most impressive runs are

those tough 3-yard gains,”Krupp said. “It saves us fromhaving to punt. Tyler was thekind of player who we couldhand the ball off to 25 times a

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game. Those kind of players are becominghard to find.”

Wide receiver Robert Johnson is expectedto help provide a spark on offense and pro-vide a Mears with a go-to target.

The Colonials won two of their firstthree games in 2009 and finished at 4-6overall. They also knocked off two CentralDistrict rivals: Prince George andHopewell. Colonial Heights concluded theseason by claiming a 13-7 victory atHopewell.

With Jefferson, Park View and Arm-strong-Kennedy slated as the first threeopponents this season, a four-game win-ning streak does not seem unreasonable.

The Colonials will need to improve upontheir 13.1 points-per-game average fromlast year — another goal that appears to bewithin reach with an experienced offensiveline to protect a now-experienced Mears.

Colonial Heights has seven defensivestarters returning. Linebackers DanielGiardini and Mack Krupp are expected tobe key contributors.

As far as the district race, Krupp sees atalented group.

“All you have to do is look at the (NCAA)Division I commitments out of this dis-

trict,” he said. “Dinwiddie has two; Peters-burg has one; Meadowbrook has the kidgoing to Richmond; and Thomas Dale iscoming off a (VHSL Group AAA Division6) championship. Until someone beatsThomas Dale, they’re still the champs.

“Thomas Dale will be young, but they’llstill be good. I see Dinwiddie as the favor-ite. They were good last year and arguablyhave one of the best teams in the state thistime. I also think Matoaca will be verygood. People shouldn’t forget about Mato-aca.”

Now in his third season as the Colonials’head coach, Krupp has his program creep-ing closer and closer to joining such dis-cussions.


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The Schedule

2009 record: 2-5 Central District, 4-6 Overall

2010 schedule

(all games at 7:00 p.m., unless noted)

Friday, Sept. 3 THOMAS JEFFERSON 7:30

Friday, Sept. 17 PARK VIEW (SOUTH HILL) 7:30

Friday, Sept. 22 ARMSTRONG 7:30

Friday, Oct. 1 DINWIDDIE 7:30

Friday, Oct. 8 at Prince George 7:30

Friday, Oct.15 MATOACA 7:30

Friday, Oct.22 MEADOWBROOK 7:30

Friday, Oct.29 at Thomas Dale 7:00

Friday, Nov. 5 PETERSBURG 7:30

Friday, Nov. 12 at Hopewell 7:30

Big games: Before entering Central District play, the Colo-

nials have three winable games to help develop confidence and

allow the young players to grow before entering Central District

play. After that, the final seven games, Colonial Heights will look

to improve upon the 2-5 district record of last season.

KEY RETURNERS

KEY RETURNERS:

Seniors Matt Mumford OL/DL, Mark Negron Boyle

RB/DB. Junior Derek Mears, QB.

OTHER RETRUNING PLAYERS:

Jesse Vaughan (OL), Kyle Floyd (OL), Robert Johnson

(WR), Daniel Giardini (LB), Brendan Hood (OL), Mack

Krupp (LB).

Key losses: Brandon Brown, Tyler Drewes.

Top newcomers:

Austin Emerson, Mario Smith, Trevor Schoot, Zach Sink,

Hayden Zinn, D’Ante Hicks, Jason Robertson, James Wil-

liams.

Team strengths:

Senior dominated offensive line with a returning quarter-

back. Front seven on defense should be solid.

Team weaknesses:

Need to find an explosive playmaker. Depth, and eight

players may be two-way starters.

Name: Bert Krupp, third year

Age: 51

Family: Wife Allison; Sons Kyle, Dylan both

playing at Christopher Newport University;

Mackenzie plays at Colonial Heights

College: University of Virginia

Greatest moment in coaching last season:

“Last second victories over Prince George and

Hopewell. It was goo to see the excitement

and joy on our kids faces.” — Bert Krupp

COACH

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DINWIDDIEGENERALS

BY THOMAS C. DOZIER

SPORTS EDITOR

DINWIDDIE

The Dinwiddie HighSchool football team hastwo of the best playersin the area returning in

Chris Hall and Corey Marshall —for their senior season.

In fact, the pair is so good theyhave both secured NCAA Divi-sion 1 scholarships to play at Vir-ginia Tech.

So naturally, they will be thecatalyst to the Generals attemptto capture another dream season,as in 2008. The talented pair areeerily similar to the senior duo ofAdam Morgan (VMI) and Brad-ley Johnson (Maryland) of 2008that captured a Central Districtand Central Region title andearned a berth in the Group AAADivision 5 championship game.

But if you think that it takestwo to tango, well, think again.The key to this year’s edition,

according to Dinwiddie sixth-year coach Billy Mills, will beteamwork.

“In evaluating the whole sea-son [last year] we decided weneeded to make a major changein the program,” Mills said. “Itwas to play as a team. That 2008team was a cohesive unit becausethey had played together sincethey were kids. They werealready a tight bunch when wegot them. So [this year] all theplayers are going to learn bothsides of the ball and all the coach-es are going to be involved.

“Also, there will be no offensivegoals, no defensive goals and nospecial team goals like we havedone in the past. It will only beteam goals.”

Thus, the consensus theme forDinwiddie this season is “we aregoing to be a team.”

And what better way to developa team than through the UnityCouncil. Each year, the Generals,

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DINWIDDIEGENERALSthrough an extensive merit program namedthe Unity Council, and this year’s group haveput team as their No. 1 priority.

The Unity Council is made up of eightseniors that include Hall, Marshall, DarecBrooks, Brandon Taylor, Joseph Taylor, DennyVaughan, Tavares Johnson and Andre Thwe-att.

“The Unity Council main job will be to giveencouragement and focus on being a team,”Brandon Taylor said. “It is kind of our duty tobring the team together and make it one bighappy family to get through the season. And ifwe do our jobs and get behind the players, itwill only help the other players excel.”

The other changes for this year squad arethree-fold — eliminating mistakes, makingevery player versatile to rotate in on the otherside of the ball and a running game that is notafraid to resort to, or highlight, the run game.

Hall, a 6-5, 225-pound quarterback, is respon-sible for making numerous decision, thus, heis in a position to make the most mistakes, hesaid cutting back on them will come fromexperience.

“Last year was my first year as the full-timequarterback,” the two-sport athlete said.“Everything we do is more with the reads, andevery practice we have makes me better. We gothrough every type of play imaginable. I havelearned where you should go, what you shoulddo and where a player is supposed to be, to the

point where you can count on it.“I feel certain from experience and the help

of the sideline, the right call will be made.”Hall finished with a bang in the Group AAA

Central Region playoffs. He was 22 for 35 for357 yards and two TDs in the Central Regionfirst-round game. In the final tally, Hall endedthe season with 2,679 yards and 24 TDs. He alsoadded two rushing TDs in the final game.

Even better numbers appear on the horizon.A perfect example of the player versatility

angle will be on the offensive line where threedefensive line stalwarts – Marshall, Vaughanand Diante Monroe – will see their fair shareof minutes on the offensive line. Some willplay for long periods of times, other will berotated in-and-out in spurts.

Marshall, a three-year starter, had 112 tack-les last season (72 solo), six sacks, two forcedfumbles, interception, two blocked kicks, fivepass deflections and six quarterback hurries.Vaughan, a two-year starter, is the top return-ing offensive lineman and Monroe, anothertwo-year starter, had 63 tackles (36 solo) lastyear and six sacks.

The running game, which has usually con-sisted of one back and a lot of quarterbackruns will be spread over four primary playersthis season. Thweatt, a three-year starter,emerged at the top of heap after a successfulfirst scrimmage against Ocean Lakes andBethel. He will be followed by sophomore Dari-us Johnson and freshman Sadarius Williams,who also had above an average performance inthe first scrimmage of the season.

Of course, don’t be surprised to see Hall pull

the ball down often and head up field.Despite the loss of three-year starter Quin-

taze Jackson (Louisburg), Mills said the receiv-ing corps is as deep as it has ever been. TreyGardner, who has offers from Miami of Ohioand Delaware, heads the group. The 6-6, 210-pounder, caught 41 passes for 697 yards andfive touchdowns in 2009.

Also, on the receiving corps ladder is DrakarHarvell, who has been excelling every sincehis two interceptions his freshman year in thestate championship game against Phoebus.The “pure playmaker” had 37 receptions lastyear for 644 yards and 10 touchdowns.

About the only question marks remainingare lack of depth and an unproven kickinggame, but according to Mills, both those areasare showing signs of improvement in the pres-season.

“I think one of our strengths will be experi-ence,” Mills said. “We return many reserveand starters from last year’s team, so thereshouldn’t be too many wide eyes at the begin-ning.

“We have a strong receiving corps and threeto four good running backs. Our offensive linecould resemble the 2008 crew by season’s endand the defense from top to bottom is the bestthat we have put on the field since I have beenhere.”

The Generals, which had six home gameslast season, get some roadwork early on withthe first two games at Poquoson (Sept. 3) and atVarina (Sept. 10). By the first day of fall, itshould be obvious if Dinwiddie will be makingits fourth straight post-season appearance.

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DINWIDDIEGENERALSKEY RETURNERS:

Seniors Chris Hall QB/SS, Corey Marshall

DE/OL, Trey Gardner WR, Darec Brooks SS/

RBm Andre Thweatt RB/LB, Tavares Johnson

DB/WR, Brandon Taylor DB, Junior Diante

Monroe DL/OL, Senior Robert Tanner DL,

Sophomore Darius Johnson, RB/LB, Senior

Denny Vaughan OL/DL, Junior Taquan Kates

OL/DL, Senior Cordell Gibbs WR/DB.

OTHER RETURNING PLAYERS:

Seniors Bruce Tucker LB.WR, Joseph Taylor

SS.

KEY LOSSES: Quintaze Jackson, Ryan Tav-

enar, Jason Ampy, Brian Belangia.

PROMISSING NEWCOMERS:

Promising Newcomers: Freshman Rashaad

Goodwin WR/LB, Junior Brian Finney WB/DB,

Sophomore Darius Hawkins WR, Sophomore

Ronald Cunningham OL, Freshman Sadarius

Williams RB/LB.

TEAM STRENGTHS:

Experience, strong receiving corps and

three good running backs.

TEAM WEAKNESSES:

Kicking game and depth.

Name: Billy Mills, sixth

year

Age: 42

Years: Entering 20th sea-

son coaching, five years

at Dinwiddie; four years

at Rockbridge County and

one year at North Laurel

(Kentucky).

Family: wife Debbie, Ca-

naan (12), Cody (10)

College: Emory and Hen-

ry

COACH The Schedule

2009 record: 4-3 Central District, 6-5 Overall (lost in the

first round of Group AAA Central Region playoffs to

Hanover)

2010 schedule

Sept. 3 at Poquoson 7:00 p.m.

Sept. 10 at Varina 7:00 p.m.

Sept. 17 Greensville Co. 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 1 Colonial Heights 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 8 at Meadowbrook 7:00 p.m

Oct. 15 at Thomas Dale 7:00 p.m

Oct. 22 Petersburg 7:30 p.m

Oct. 29 at Hopewell 7:00 p.m

Nov. 5 Matoaca 7:00 p.m

Nov. 12 Prince George 7:30 p.m

Big games: A three game stretch in early October against

Meadowbrook, Thomas Dale and Petersburg will determine

whether the Generals can earn its fourth straight Group AAA

Central Region playoff berth.

TEAM CAPSULE

COREY MARSHALL

PLAYER TO WATCH

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PLAYER TO WATCH

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HOPEWELLBLUE DEVILS

BY COURT WILLS

SPORTS WRITER

HOPEWELL

Over the summer, the team chemistry

built team confidence for the

Hopewell football program.

Because of three things: the

heart, the focus and desire to win more games

and come together.

“We are very excited for the chance to be a

good football team. These players are very

hungry, excited and focused,” said new

Hopewell football coach Ricky Irby. “We are

tired of losing. I think the guys have really

bought into our summer conditioning pro-

gram.”

While addressing the panel last spring, Irby

addressed three goals he had for the upcom-

ing seasons.

“I want to get more players into college, I

want to win games and I want to build char-

acter, doesn’t matter in which order,” Irby

said. “Our motto and what we wear on the

back of our shirts, “hard work beats talent

only if talent doesn’t work hard.”

Having been an assistant under Marshall

Parker for the past 10 years, who won a state

championship for Hopewell and is one of the

most highly regarded coaches in the Central

Region, Irby has learned quite a few things.

“I look up to Marshall always have and will.

He’s been a mentor for me and one of the big

things he taught me is to let your assistants

coach, let them do their jobs,” Irby said.

“Offensively, he is the greatest offensive coach

I’ve ever seen especially when we went 10

years in a row to the playoffs.”

Another key that has worked well is that

both the JV and varsity teams practice

together and over the past two years, the

experience has paid it forward.

The JV players from the past two years are

now experienced and ready to prove it out on

the field.

“There is competition on the field in every

position. There is so much depth and compe-

tition that it will make my job a little bit hard-

er,” Irby said about the 45 players he will have

come the first game of the season. “I think

that we can really make a run but we are tak-

ing one game at a time. We want to go 1-0 10

times. We know what it takes to get to the

playoffs in Division 5, we’ve done it before.”

But by far the two biggest improvements

have been the summer conditioning program

that has been revamped by Irby’s staff and

the participation between coach and player.

“I think the players have bought into our

summer program. We took a good look at

what we could do to make it easier for us and

the players and it really was just something

simple as changing the time from 8 in the

morning to 9:30,” Irby said. “But I also went to

our juniors and seniors and asked what we

can do to have more participation amongst

the players and they liked the new time plus

Blue Devils planfor stellar season

The Schedule


2010 schedule

Sept. 10 at Cosby 7:30 PM

Sept. 17 LEE-DAVIS 7:30 PM

Sept. 24 at Brunswick 7:30 PM

Oct. 1 MEADOWBROOK 7:30 PM

Oct. 8 at Thomas Dale 7:30 PM

Oct. 15 PETERSBURG 7:30 PM

Oct. 22 at Matoaca 7:30 PM

Oct. 29 at Dinwiddie 7:30 PM

Nov. 5 at Prince George 7:30 PM

Nov. 12 COLONIAL HEIGHTS 7:30 PM

TEAM CAPSULE

KEY RETURNERS: Lamar

Perry, OLB, FB, Jr.; Jalen

Reeves, QB, Sr., First Team

All-District Utility Player;

Mike Smith, WR/CB, Sr.;

Chris Holloway, DT, Sr.,

Second Team All-District

DT; Greg Jackson, LB, Sr.;

Jervon McKiver, WR, Sr.;

Howard Warren, OL, So.; De-

Quante Taylor, WR, Jr.

OTHER RETURNING

PLAYERS: Chase Dovel,

TE/DE; Gary Vaughan, C;

Delmar Johnson, G; Salim

Wortham, CB; Markus Ad-

ams, LB; Jules Wise, WR;

Cory Driggins, WR; Fuequon

Claiborne, LB

PROMISSING NEWCOM-

ERS: Dashon Bowen, RB;

Darius Priest, CB; Odane

McFarland, SS

the 7 on 7 tournaments that we went to which

I think really built team chemistry and confi-

dence.”

Irby is looking for this hard work to pay off

as well as good leadership by Jalen Reeves

and Michael Smith who have been with the

program from the beginning.

“Jalen I have been so impressed with his

work ethic, he comes ready everyday. He’s not

just a quarterback but someone who you can

put in the backfield and at wide receiver. Plus

we have his back-up Quantae Gholson who in

the last two years led the JV program to a 15-3

record so we want to get him the proper time

too,” Irby said.

“Plus we have Michael Smith and Lamar

Perry who are getting some good looks from

colleges and are playmakers for us.”

On the defensive side, the Blue Devils will

be led by solid and longtime coach Herman

Henderson.

“Things will not change much on defense,

we plan on being aggressive. Coach Herman

has said since Day 1 these guys have been

doing a great job, flying all around on

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MATOACAWARRIORS

BY COURT WILLS

SPORTS WRITER

CHESTERFIELD

For Pat Manuel, now the longeststanding coach in the CentralDistrict at Matoaca, there isgreat tradition.

Over the past 17 years, the Warriorscoach has implemented a strong senseof pride and responsibility.

That pride and responsibility nowfalls on the upper classmen as Matoacahopes to carry on its tradition of win-ning.

Having made a strong run toward theend of last season, the Warriors want toget ahead of the curve early.

However, it will be tough at firstbecause of the loss of starting quarter-back Michael Birdsong who injured hisknee at basketball camp.

“The biggest thing is overcoming theinjury to our quarterback Michael Bird-song. But we’ve got some young kidsright out the gate that look promisingthat haven’t started yet,” Manuel said.

With fierce competition chomping at

the bit with L.C. Bird, Manchester andC.D. Hylton, Matoaca wants to takethese non-district games serious so theycan be ready come district season.

Even if the Warriors may take theirlumps early, like Manuel ays it is allabout being prepared come the firstweek of the regular season.

“In Division 6, you must win the rightseven in order to go to the playoffs. Thefirst three don’t have as much bearingbut you still want to face the best com-petition possible,” Manuel said.

Despite the loss of Birdsong, two ofthe biggest weapons Matoaca has isexperience and depth on the offensiveand defensive line.

The Warriors return four starters onoffense in junior HB DeQuan Turner,junior WR Tevin Johnson, senior C JonPond and senior OT Ronnie Ranson.

On defense, Matoaca brings back sev-en starters in senior DE Blake Roulo,senior DT Bruce Baskerville, senior LBCole Williams, junior CB A.J. Moore,junior S Jaquante King, senior P GaigeParolisi and junior CB Tevin Johnson.

“We have a veteran line in DeQuan

Turner who put on a real big strongshow toward the end of last season.We’ve got some veteran ball control thatwill give some defenses trouble,” Manu-el said. “Most of our seniors are ourdefensive and offensive lineman so it isvery much a blue collar approach.”

Two of the biggest weapons that Man-uel is looking forward is JaQuanteKing, a 5-9 HB/LB who can play bothsides of the ball and incoming fresh-man Khalil Coleman, a 5-10 HB/LB, whois fast and fierce.

“Those three backs can go the dis-tance for us. I think we will be in prettygood shape,” Manuel said.

As the upcoming season approaches,Manuel likes the team chemistrybetween players and coaches.

“This is the most excited I’ve beenabout our team chemistry. They worktogether and are focused on the task athand,” Manuel said. “The Central Dis-trict is one of the if not toughest dis-tricts in the state. It’s a playoff gameevery Friday night, there are no cakewalks.”

Warriors prepare forseason of hard knocks

TEAM CAPSULE

Key Returner’s: DeQuan Turn-

er, RB, Jr.; Tevin Johnson, WR,

Jr.; Jon Pond, C, Sr.; Ronnie Ran-

son, OT, Sr.; Blake Roulo, DE, Sr.;

Bruce Baskerville, DT, Sr.; Cole

Williams, LB, Sr.; A.J. Moore, CB,

Jr.; Jaquante King, S, Jr.; Gaige

Parolisi, P, Sr.

Other returning members: A.J.

Moore, QB, Jr.; Jaquante King,

HB, Jr.; Khalil Coleman, HB, Fr.;

Kevin Gambea, TE, Jr.; Bruce

Baskerville, OG, Sr.; Keshawn

Gilliam, OG, Jr.; Matthew Fultz,

OT, Sr.; Dell Ramsey, K, Sr.; Mi-

chael Harris, DE, Sr.; Ronnie

Robinson, DT, Sr.; Ervin Ramos,

LB, Sr.; Jehrad Gholson, LB, Jr.;

Deon Turner, S, Jr.

Key Losses: Seven offensive

starters, Five defensive starters

Team Strengths: Young skill

with an experienced line of play-

ers on offensive line and defense

should be improved.

PLAYERS TO WATCH

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2010 Petersburgh High School football team

BY COURT WILLS

SPORTS WRITER

PETERSBURG

For third-year head coach MikeScott, he wants his Petersburgfootball team to produce.

Now is the time.Over the past three years, Scott and

his staff has groomed and coachedthese young men for this year.

The experience, the size, the dedica-tion and the maturity is theirs for thetaking.

With the team leader being the Uni-versity of Virginia quarterback com-mittee Kevin Green, Scott knows thatis where the biggest advantage lies.

All this Crimson Wave football team

has to do is go out and produce.“Coming into the season, these

returning players understand thatthey have to work extra hard to fightthrough adversity. I am very fortunateto have a Kevin Green on my team,”Scott said. “The things that he doesare not something you can teach. Heunderstands that when we or him getinto tough situations that he will findthat way to get out of it and make aplay.”

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to give experience to players that will now bekey players this year a chance to shine espe-cially in the likes of wide receivers.

Not only will the Crimson Wave haveGreen’s leadership, knowledge for the gameand the ability to scramble at quarterback, thesenior will have five weapons to utilize.

“When I look at Kevin on the field, you cansee his will to win. I know that if I call a playand it doesn’t work he will make a play,” Scottsaid. “If they spread him right, he’ll go leftand know exactly who the ball will go to, thatis just God given talent.”

With Keith Johnson, a senior, who caught 45passes for 903 yards for 12 touchdowns; withDamond McGlaughlin, a senior, who caughtfor 635 yards; with Demonte Gregory, a seniorwho had 830 total yards in offense as runningback and wide receiver, with Carlos Turner

and Dekari Walker.The consensus is Petersburg will be loaded

and dangerous.“Keith Johnson is a big playmaker, his abili-

ty to understand both the offensive and defen-sive side of the ball is key. With DamonMcGlaughlin, he has size to play multiple posi-tions and is a huge blessing,” Scott said.“Demonte Gregory is just so explosive andwith Dekari Walker when we are in tight situ-ations he will always execute.”

But Scott doesn’t plan on these players justto perform well on offense, he hopes they willuse these talents on defense.

When playing Petersburg this season, teamsshould expect toughness, versatility, tenacityand determination from start to finish.

“Both on offense and defense we will bemissing Quinton Spain (West Virginia), hewill be hard to replace. I know that we will beextremely young on the line, but we will bebigger and will take what Spain taught them,”Scott said.

Despite a younger line, Scott expects his big

men, Carlos Turner, Ray Procise, Kevin Green,Elvin Briggs and Devondre Pollard to domi-nate.

“Ray Procise, DE/LB, is a Division I juniorprospect, this is his third year and has a 4.0GPA. Expect him to control the line of scrim-mage and to make plays, he has a ton of expe-rience having gone to a lot of camps where hewon MVP at,” Scott said. “Elvin Briggs, DE/LB, is ready to be our center, he is a third yearstarter and played beside Quinton so he bringsexperience, knowledge and strength. CarlosTurner and Kevin Green they just want to beon the field; Keith Johnson leads us in inter-ceptions and Devondre Pollard has been themost productive this off-season.

Similar to last season, Petersburg has set anearly goal to make another trip to the playoffsafter their great win at Clover Hill in the Divi-sion 5 Central Region playoffs.

“These guys are survivors and resilient.They went to the championship game last yearso now they expect that from now on, we justhave to stick together,” Scott said.

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Friday, Aug. 27 at Halifax County 7 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 2 MAURY 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 1 THOMAS DALE 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 8 at Matoaca 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 15 at Hopewell 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 22 DINWIDDIE 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 29 PRINCE GEORGE 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 5 at Colonial Heights 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 12 MEADOWBROOK 7 p.m.

Big games: The Crimson Wave open the season a week to

two weeks before the rest of the Central District teams. The

tough stretch will come on the road in the month of October

against Thomas Dale (Oct. 1) and Matoaca (Oct 8). These two

road games might decided the teams playoff chances.

KEY RETURNERS

KEY RETURNING PLAYERS:

Kevin Green, QB, Sr., 2,199 passing yards; Keith Johnson,

WR, Sr., 45 receptions, 903 yards, 12 TDS, Damond Mc-

Glaughlin, WR/LB, Sr., 635 yards; Demonte Gregory, RB/

WR, Sr., 830 yards of total offense

Other returning members: Carlos Turner, Dekari Walker, El-

vin Briggs, Devondre Pollard, Shawn Mason, Ray Procise

KEY LOSSES:

Quinton Spain, Eric Magruder. Woodrow Young, Joshua Allen,

Anthony Johnson.

TOP NEWCOMERS:

Marion Harris, Ahmod Pair, Kwaneef Robinson, Jordan

Benjamin, Derek Jackson, Quadrick Barnes and Quadree

Walker

Name: Mike Scott, third yearAge: 35Family: Wife Jamilah Scott; children Creona

Scott, Meziah Scott and Xavier Scott.College: Hargrave Military Academy and

East Tennessee State University (1994-99).

COACH

Greatest moment in coaching last season:

At Clover Hill watching Kevin Green score th

game-winning PAT to put Petersburg in the

Central Region Championship for the first

time in 30 years

LAST SEASON HIGHLIGHT

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Royals have thekeys to makeimprovements

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SPORTS EDITOR

PRINCE GEORGE

There is no where to go butup for the Prince GeorgeHigh School football team.

The Royals, withmany changes in place and alot of young players in fold,struggled to a 1-9 overallrecord and recorded no wins inthe Central District.

The team will start the sea-son with its second-year coach— Bruce Carroll — a 15-yearcoaching veteran who cameover Windsor and many play-ers who gained valuable play-ing time last season.

On offense, the Royals willrely heavily on the experienceof senior running back Law-rence Taylor and junior widereceiver Keith Jefferson. Tay-lor, a 5-10, 195-pounder, willreturn to the running back

position, after a stint as quar-terback last year, where hefound great success toting theball after being inserted in therunning back role early in hissophomore season.

He will be joined in the back-field by quarterback JohnFord. The 5-10, 175-pound soph-omore will have four options tothrow in wide receivers Jeffer-son, Cameron Shegog, AlbertWilliams and Andre Foster.

Tackle Jon Williams (6-7, 305)will anchor a line that includesTravis Borglof at the othertackle, Thomas Miller andJosh Slaugenhoupt at guardsand Dominique Walker at cen-ter.

“Each player will play a vitalrole in this young team’s suc-cess,” Carroll explained.

Jefferson (CB), Taylor (S),Jon Williams (DE) and AlbertWilliams (CB) will play on

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KEY RETURNING PLAYERS:

Lawrence Taylor, Keith Jefferson, Travis Taylor, Domi-

nique Washington, Joseph Purnell, Conner Stevenson,

Caleb Johnson, Anthony Grant, Darius Dawsey.

KEY STARTERS:

Offense: Sophomore John Ford, QB; Senior Lawrence

Taylor, RB; Junior Keith Jefferson, WR; Senior Albert Wil-

liams, WR; Senior Andre Foster, WR; Sophomore Domi-

nique Walker, C; Senior Thomas Miller, G; Junior Josh

Slavenhoupt, G; Senior Jon Williams, T; Junior Travis Bar-

glof, T; Junior Travis Taylor, K.

Defense: Seniors Dominique Washington, D; Jon Wil-

liams, E; Anthony Grant, LB; Albert Williams, DB, Law-

rence Taylor, S. Juniors Joseph Purnell, Conner Steven-

son, Dequon Chapman, Keith Jefferson, Darius Dawsey.

Sophomore Caleb Johnson.

TEAM CAPSULES

defense as well. And will bejoined by Dominique Washing-ton (DE), Joseph Purnell (DT),Conner Stevenson (LB), CalebJohnson (LB), Anthony Grant(LB), Dequan Chapman (LB) andDarius Dawsey (S).

“On defense, we have improvedsize up front,” Carroll said abouthis defense. “And a year of expe-

rience for many of the lineback-ers and secondary.”

The good news for the youngsquad is the team doesn’t startthe season until Sept. 10 at Clo-ver Hill. Even better news for theRoyals is that season-opener isfollowed up with four straighthome games — Thomas Jeffer-son on Sept. 17, John Marshallon Sept. 24, Matoaca on Oct. 1and Colonial Heights (homecom-ing) on Oct. 8.

If the offseason was any indi-cation, the Royals will be looking

for good things this season.“We had a good offseason,”

Carroll said. “The kids workedhard. And this year we havemore weapons in the skilledareas.”

According to Carroll, the teamsupport has been encouraging.

“Our kids have worked hard inthe offseason,” Carroll contin-ued. “We have 55 kids in ourvaristy program and each andevery one of them will be vital tobuilding this program.”

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2010 Prince George High School Football Team



THOMASDALE

Team: Thomas Dale

Coach (years coaching): Kevin Tucker, first as Head-9th at Thomas Dale

Last year’s record (district, overall): 7-0 12-2 CentralDistrict champions, Central Region Champions, StateChampions.

Key Returners: Four returning starters- Demetric Jack-son Sr RB and LB Over 1400 Yard Rushing last seasonand 8 TD’s, Sam Hartman Sr OL and DL Over 20 PancakeBlocks and 3 sacks, Adam White Sr OL- starting C lastyear and making move to starting Guard, Larenzo FieldsJr RB and DB. Only two way starter returning . KickerAnthony Pervost Jr. accounted for 52 points scored onField Goals and Extra Points. Ralapheal Wheat Sr RBand DB and DL 513 all purpose yards 3TD’s, 33 tackles4 sacks one fumble recover.

Other returning members: Ryan Nolan Sr WR and DBkey reserve on both sides of ball last year starting bothways this year, big play ability. Quinton Taylor- Jr QB-DB.Started 1 game vs Petersburg and played extremely wellin place of starting QB Demitrius Campbell and helpedguide Knights to 1st District win of the season. TylerLeimberger Sr, starting LB, TE. Adam Ross Sr, startingDL, Tres Humpry Jr, starting C DT. Rakeem King Sr, Start-ing LB- 36 tackles. Aaron Green So. OLB and TE, played

big role in filling in for injured old brother Airek Green inState Simi-finals and Finals, will start both ways.Key Losses: Greg Gallop UVA, Airek Green Williamand Marry, Spencer Randolph Bloomsburg, Mike Ed-monds, Demitrius Campbell and Brian Walker representUVa-Wise. Michael Dudley will continue his career at Vir-ginia State. Roderick Doggett will play at Averett. JoshChildress will move on to Liberty. Brian Richardson andBrandon Burton will be prepping at Jireh Prep. DevinEpps Va Union. Drake Evans and Ben Saunders.

Promising Newcomers: DJ Reid So. transfer fromWoodside va beach. Started as a freshmen and playedin Regional championship game vs Oscar Smith Willchallenge for starting time at OLB. Desmond Fry WR-DB- Will start both ways. Big play ability. Byron RobinsonSo. Fastest member of the team and big play ability-key special teams player and back up RB, DB. Threebig young linemen that will be key players for us, DavidParker Jr, starting OG. PJ Best So, starting NG, DaltonLee Jr. will start at OT and DT.

Team strengths: We have one the fastest teams inrecent history and a group of young men that are work-ing extremely hard to keep the tradition alive at TD. Theyare true students of the game that live in the weightroom and love to study game film. They are never satis-fied and always willing to work harder. There is no quitin these boys

Team weaknesses: We are much smaller and veryyoung. Went from an average OL and DL that weighedclose to 300 lbs, to average of 265. We only have 5returning starters, 4 offense and 1 defense

Overall Season Outlook:“I hope that the brutal early season schedule will al-low our young to team to gel and get better with eachweek before we start district,” Tucker said. “The Centralwill be the toughest in the region again with 4 potentialplayoff teams. Dinwiddie, Meadowbrook, TD and Peters-burg. The order of finish is a toss up. We are very youngbut talented. Meadowbrook is well coached and has aheck of game breaker in Mico Phillips. Dinwiddie hassome amazing talent at QB in Chris Hall as well as DECory Marshall.“They always come ready to play. Petersburg is thewildcard, they are very athletic, very big and can win anygame if they don’t make to many mistakes. Matoaca willbe well coached but the loss of D-1 prospect MichaelBirdsong at QB they will have some growing pains but asalways will play everyone extremely close.“Hopewell will be much improved and I would not besurprised if they made the strides necessary to makethe D-5 playoffs. PG is young but will be much improved,CH is also young but well coached and will be muchimproved over last year.”

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FROM STAFF REPORTS

SUSSEX — The Sussex Central Tigersreturn a trio of players that give themreasonable hope of adding a fifth VHSLGroup A Tri-Rivers District champion-ship since 1993.

Coming off a 10-2 record in 2009, Sus-sex Central will lean on the talents ofSharheem Taylor, Jacquell Robertsonand Craishawn Ellis.

• TAYLOR: RB-LB (5-9, 220, SR) Thefirst-team all-region linebacker runslike a bowling ball out of the backfield:low to the ground and straight at, andsometimes through, defenders.

• ROBERTSON LB-OG, (6-1, 270, SR)An all-region selection on both sides ofthe ball, Robertson’s aggressive hittingstyle will lead the Tigers’ defense whilehis play at guard will anchor the offen-sive line.

• ELLIS: C-NT, (6-3, 300, SR) A two-year starter and all-region selection atcenter, Jefferson is looking for Ellis tobe a “dominating force” on the defensive

line this fall.

Coach Curtis Jefferson is beginning

his 10th season at Sussex Central. He

carries an 81-28 record -- including the

2003 state championship -- into 2010.

SUMMARY: Coming off a 10-2 mark

last year and an appearance in the

Region A championship game, it is the

defense which is setting the pace for the

Tigers this fall. The defense boasts mul-

tiple all-region selections and four-year

starters Amar Bailey and Kaysahen

Brown in the secondary.

THE SCHEDULE

Sept. 10 at Greensville County, 7:30

Sept. 17 Brunswick, 7

Sept. 24 at King William, 7

Oct. 1 Essex, 7

Oct. 8 Nandua, 7

Oct. 15 at Arcadia, 7

Oct. 22 at Windsor, 7

Oct. 29 Charles City, 7

Nov. 5 at Franklin, 7

Nov. 12 Surry County, 7

SUSSEX CENTRAL

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Vic Williamsholds up the tro-phy after winningthe VirginiaDivision 6 AAAstate finalsagainst LakeBraddock. TheKnights capturedthe Group AAADivision 6 cham-pionship at ScottStadium inCharlottesville.



BY NEIL FULLER

SPORTS WRITER

CHESTERThomas Dale might just be able

to outrun the pressure of beingthe defending VHSL Group AAADivision 6 champion.

Despite being young.Despite having a new head

coach.Make no mistake: Thomas Dale

will have plenty of speed to fea-ture in 2010. Just look at Demet-rick Jackson, an offensive herofrom the team’s run through theplayoffs, who will now be used ondefense too.

Jackson rushed for 168 yardsand a touchdown as the Knightsdefeated Lake Braddock 35-21 fortheir first state championship, thefirst Division 6 title for any Cen-tral Region team.

“Our guys a really hungry.They’re prepared to be underdogsagain,” said Kevin Tucker, who isinherits a powerhouse programfrom 23-year veteran Vic Wil-liams. “Everybody says we have atarget on our back, but we gradu-ated 33 people. Our players need

to take that target and use that asmotivation to play the highest lev-el of football we can.”

Williams won 219 games andseven regional championshipsduring his tenure, leaving Tuckerwith big shoes to fill.

“The transition has beensmooth,” Tucker said.

Four offensive starters — andonly one defensive starter —return from Thomas Dale’s cham-pionship team.

Gone is quarterback DemetriusCampbell. Also lost to graduation:Airek Green; Greg Gallop; MikeEdmunds; Spencer Randolph;Jacob Steines; Drake Evans;Michael Dudley; Roderick Dogg-itt; and Ben Saunders.

Quinton Taylor will serve asquarterback this season afterserving as Campbell’s understudyas a sophomore.

“Quinton has filled in thatvoid,” Tucker said. “That’s been abonus. Quinton has filled in nice-ly. He’s still got some learning todo, but improves every day. He’sway ahead of where he was as asophomore. ... He really is doingan amazing job. He’s still gettinghis timing down. But he’s done

what he’s needed to do the entirepreseason.”

Thomas Dale enters the newseason riding an 11-game winstreak — and as the top dog in theCentral District, Central Regionand state ranks.

Expectation remain high forthe Knights.

“We have one (starter) ofdefense and four (starters) onoffense coming back. How anyoneis picking us No. 1 is something Idon’t understand,” Tucker said.“It is nice, however. It gives ussomething to work up to. If some-body says your team is No. 1, youhave to live up to those expecta-tions. It makes you work harderin practice and go the extra mile.It makes you push yourself to bethe top team in the district.

“I think the kids are going tohandle (the pressure) just fine.Hopefully, the season will gosmooth.”

Thomas Dale opens on the roadagainst Manchester on Sept. 11.Home dates against Varina andL.C. Bird follow before a road tripto Petersburg (Oct. 2) opens Cen-tral District play.

TD to defend district,region, state crowns

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Sept. 10 Manchester 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 17 VARINA 7:00 p.m.

Sept. 24 L.C. BIRD 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 1 at Petersburg 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 8 HOPEWELL 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 15 at Dinwiddie 7:00 p.m.

Oct. 22 at Prince George 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 29 COLONIAL HEIGHTS 7:00 p.m.

Nov. 5 at Meadowbrook 7:00 p.m.

No. 12 MATOACA 7:00 p.m.

Big games; The first three games — Manchester, Vari-

na and L.C. Bird — much like the previous three seasons

haveprovided tough competition for the Knights before

they enter Central District play. Like last seson, it only

makes the Knights stronger.

DEMETRICK JACKSON


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