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www.TrussvilleTribune.com Page B-1 • October 3, 2013

Some is good, but Moore is better.

Clay-Chalkville se-nior quarterback Hayden Moore completed 11-of-16 passes for 229 yards and four touchdowns, and rushed 11 times for 218 yards and three scores, to lead the Class 6A No. 2 Cougars past Class 5A Pinson Valley 48-31 in a non-region matchup at Willie Ad-ams Stadium on Friday night.

“Yeah, I guess so,” Moore said in response to the question about it being the best game he’s ever played. “We had a lot of motivation to do as good as we did last week and get better from last week. Last week was a pretty big win (at Pell City), and we wanted to come out here and just keep on rolling and keep on getting better.”

Moore, a Cincinnati verbal commitment, was watched from the stands by his future coach, Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville, the former Auburn head man. Did Tuberville’s presence have anything to do with Moore’s stel-lar performance?

“I guess it adds a little pressure, but they told me not to worry about him and just play my game,” Moore said.

Moore’s first three completions all went for touchdowns. On the second play of the game, he found junior running back Terrelle West on a swing pass for a 60-yard touchdown. On Clay-Chalkville’s next drive, he hit senior wideout Brian Clark for a 26-yard score.

A Saul Rios 29-yard

field goal then made it 14-3 in the Cou-gars’ favor. On Clay-Chalkville’s next drive, Moore faked a punt on fourth-and-four and ran 51 yards for a score, giv-ing Clay-Chalkville (5-0, 3-0 Class 6A, Region 7) a 21-3 advantage. Moore then found junior receiver Eric Blockum for a 34-yard touchdown with 39 seconds remain-ing in the first quarter. Moore rushed for his second touchdown early in the second quarter, a

15-yard scamper that put Clay-Chalkville up 34-3.

Pinson Valley senior quarterback Brooks Garrett midway through the second quarter found sophomore receiver Desmond Williams for a 20-yard strike to cut the deficit to 34-9. Garrett on Pinson Valley’s next drive hit junior running back Nick Gibson for a 61-yard scoring play to make it a 34-16 game at halftime.

“Their kids played their guts out,” Clay-Chalkville head coach Jerry Hood said of Pin-son Valley. “If they play like that, they’ll win a bunch of games.”

Garrett capped a 13-play, 50-yard drive to open the second half when he found Williams again, this time a 6-yard scoring throw and catch,

It was the last homecoming game at Jack Wood Stadium on Friday, but that wasn’t enough to help Hewitt-Trussville pull off a win against Minor.

Things started well enough, as senior quarterback Blake Bailey found fellow senior Riley Stokes in the end zone for a touchdown pass to put the Hus-kies up 7-0 in the first quarter. Later in the first, a T.J. McGettigan field goal extended the lead to 10-0.

“We played a pretty good first half,” said Hewitt-Trussville head coach Hal Riddle. “Not quite as ef-ficient, offensively, as we’d like to be. We had some penalties that hurt us, some big plays that got called back because of penalties.”

Those penalties and other miscues started to catch up with the Huskies in the second quarter. After re-covering a fumbled punt return, and with help of 30 yards worth of penalties against the Hewitt-Truss-ville defense, Minor (3-2, 2-1 Class 6A, Region 5)

marched down the field on its last drive of the half to score a touchdown. The Tigers scored on a two-point conversion to make the score 10-8 at halftime.

The third quarter was a defensive battle until the closing seconds, when the Tigers scored another touchdown to go up 14-10. That’s when things spun out of control for the Huskies (2-3, 2-1 Class 6A, Region 6).

On the first possession of the fourth quarter, Hewitt-Trussville went three and out, setting up another Tiger touchdown. A costly interception by Bailey led to Minor’s fourth touchdown of the night, capping off a six-minute span that saw the Huskies go from a two-point lead to an 18-point deficit.

“They got a couple of deep balls on us there,” Riddle said. “And we put ourselves in a bind when they got a pick on us, and that put them deep in our territory.”

Pinson Valley’s varsity home volleyball match tonight against Spring-ville is senior night and breast cancer awareness night.

Junior varsity matches begin at 5 p.m.

“We are playing this game to honor breast cancer survivors and help spread awareness

of breast cancer,” said Pinson Valley varsity volleyball coach Kristan Cromer. “The girls and I would love to see you there and have your par-ticipation with this awe-some cause.”

The teams will be wear-ing pink jerseys, socks and ribbons. Fans are also encouraged to wear pink to the match at Pinson Valley High School.

Before the matches be-gin, there will be a mo-

ment of silence for those who succumbed to breast cancer and as a recogni-tion for all survivors.

All donations at the volleyball matches will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

The month of October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Clay-Chalkville senior quarterback Hayden Moore accounted for seven touchdowns at Pinson Valley on Friday.

Moore leads No. 2 Cougars past Pinson Valley

Hewitt-Trussville falls to Minor on homecoming

Pinson volleyball match supports breast cancer research

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Hewitt-Trussville senior linebacker Hunter Reid (47) brings down a Minor runner for one of his 16 tackles Friday.

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Hewitt-Trussville hosted Minor on Friday in what was likely to be the last homecoming game at Jack Wood Sta-dium, in the center of Trussville’s Ca-haba Project.

Ground was broken last week at the site of the new Hewitt-Trussville Stadi-um, where future high school football games in Trussville will be hosted. It is likely to be completed by the early part of the 2014 high school football season.

Seniors on the Hewitt-Trussville football team aren’t looking at the situ-ation as not being able to play in a new, state-of-the-art facility, but rather, the final team to play at Jack Wood Sta-dium.

“I really love Jack Wood Stadium and the memories my past and current teammates have had in the stadium,” said Hewitt-Trussville senior defen-sive lineman Chris Dixon, who has 23 tackles and leads the Huskies with 10 tackles for loss through five games this season. “I will miss playing there and coming out of the tunnel. There’s noth-ing like coming out of that tunnel.”

Senior defensive end Austin Wysor said it “truly is an honor” to be the last

Hewitt-Trussville senior class to play at Jack Wood Stadium.

“It’s an honor to close out Jack Wood (Stadium),” said Wysor, who has six tackles for loss and two fumble recov-eries this season. “The tradition of this place is something special and it is sad to see it go, but I think everyone un-derstands that progress must be made.”

Senior running back Peyton Palmer, who leads Hewitt-Trussville this sea-son with 49 rushes for 290 yards and five touchdowns, agreed.

“It’s something that people won’t forget,” Palmer said. “That’s the gen-eral consensus in the locker room.”

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Last team to play at Jack Wood Stadium ‘an honor’ for Hewitt-Trussville seniors

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Hewitt-Trussville players take the field at Jack Wood Stadium prior to the jamboree game against Pinson Valley in August.

This isn’t your typical Shades Valley team.

The Mounties are a top-10 team in Class 6A, have a record of 5-0, are averaging 40 points per game and are allowing just 16 points per game.

The last time Shades Valley was 5-0 was 1994, when current team mem-bers were not yet born. The Mounties that sea-son reeled off 14 straight wins before losing 16-14 to Anniston in the state championship game.

Shades Valley last sea-son was a 5-6 team, a vast improvement over its 1-9 team in 2010 and 2-8 team in 2011 (one win was due to a Clay-Chalkville forfeit).

Hewitt-Trussville (2-3,

2-1 Class 6A, Region 6) travels to Irondale to take on the surprising Mount-ies (5-0, 3-0) on Friday. Kickoff at Shades Valley is set for 7 p.m.

Shades Valley is led by offensive standout Keith Mixon, who gets it done rushing and receiving. In the season opener against Oak Mountain, Mixon

had 159 receiving yards and 89 rushing yards. He had 241 total yards against Mountain Brook and 201 total yards -- 165 rushing -- at four scores

last week at Thompson. Quarterback Rashad Louie is one of the more efficient signal callers in the Birmingham area.

This game last sea-son was a nail-biter that helped Shades Valley into the Class 6A play-offs and kept Hewitt-Trussville out. Hewitt-Trussville missed a field goal with two seconds remaining to fall 29-28 at Jack Wood Stadium. The Huskies had scored two fourth-quarter touch-downs to take a 28-20 lead before a Shades Val-ley safety and 20-yard touchdown pass from Louie to Grant Simmons with 3:35 to play.

If slowing down this Shades Valley offense isn’t difficult enough for Hewitt-Trussville, gain-ing yards and points will

be. Four-star junior Da-ron Payne, a 6-foot-3, 315-pound behemoth of a defensive tackle, mans the middle for Shades Valley. He will make it difficult for Hewitt-Trussville to run between the tackles. Payne al-ready has scholarship offers from Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina and oth-ers.

Hewitt-Trussville will need to contain Mixon and sustain long scor-ing drives offensively with quick passes and runs to the edges to have a chance in the fourth quarter.


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BECUE STOPPINSON continued from page B-1pulling the Indians (3-2, 2-1 Class 5A, Region 6) to within 11 points.

Moore then rushed for a 60-yard touch-down early in the fourth quarter, putting Clay-Chalkville up 41-23. Garrett answered on Pin-son Valley’s next drive with a 14-yard touch-down pass to Gibson. Gibson then completed a 2-point conversion pass to junior Nathan Cunningham, making it a 41-31 contest with six minutes to play.

On fourth-and-19 from the Indians’ 22-yard line, Moore hit Clark in the corner of the end zone for a 22-

yard touchdown with 3:17 to play, making it a 48-31 game. On the first play of Pinson Valley’s next possession, Gar-rett was intercepted by Clay-Chalkville junior linebacker LaDarius Harris.

“I’m pleased with the way we fought back and didn’t quit,” said Pinson Valley head coach Matt Glover. “I told the kids that there are no moral victories. We got beat and we’ve got to get bet-ter.”

For Clay-Chalkville, Clark caught five pass-es for 100 yards and two touchdowns. West rushed 17 times for 60

yards and caught three passes for 79 yards and a touchdown. Blockum had three receptions for 60 yards and a touch-down. Senior Christo-pher Marshall rushed 11 times for 63 yards. Defensively, junior de-fensive back Kam Pre-witt had 6.5 tackles to lead the Cougars. Har-ris totaled 5.5 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss and an interception. Junior defensive back Torrence Willis had a fumble re-covery.

For Pinson Valley, Garrett completed 18-of-27 passes for 255 yards and four touch-downs and one intercep-

tion. Gibson was held mostly in check, rushing 18 times for 76 yards. He caught seven passes for 99 yards and two touchdowns. Williams had five receptions for 47 yards and two touch-

downs, while junior re-ceiver Trey Underwood caught five passes for 97 yards. Defensively, senior linebacker Elijah Bibbs led Pinson Val-ley with 12 tackles and three tackles for loss.

Senior defensive line-man Calvin Burns had 8.5 tackles, three tack-les for loss and a sack. Junior cornerback Juray Smith had three pass breakups and a sack.

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First-year Center Point head coach Bennie Hall thought it was funny.

At media day in July, Hall was asked his thoughts on other Class 5A, Region 6 coaches fa-voring his Eagles to win the region this season. He said those coaches have a good sense of humor and futures in comedy if they leave the coaching profession.

Pinson Valley head coach Matt Glover had no sense of humor when he said, based on Center Point’s returning experi-ence, that it should be the favorite.

Midway through the 2013 season, Glover is right. And no one is laughing.

Center Point is 5-0 for

the first time since 1988, when the school was still known as Erwin, and is 3-0 in the region, tied with Walker, which is in-eligible for the Class 5A playoffs due to a coach-es’ brawl with Cullman

earlier this season.Pinson Valley (3-2,

2-1) travels to Bowman Field in Center Point on Friday to take on the undefeated Eagles in a game that will go a long way in determining the

winner of the region. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

Center Point last week beat Class 5A No. 1 McAdory 22-14 in over-time at home, a state-ment win for the Eagles.

Pinson Valley got behind 27-3 after one quarter against Class 6A No. 2 Clay-Chalkville last week, but managed to stay tough in the final three quarters. The Indi-ans lost 48-31.

“Y’all are good,” Clay-Chalkville head coach Jerry Hood told Glover after the game.

Pinson Valley used big plays to drill Center Point 31-6 last season. These teams look little like their 2012 squads. For the Indians, junior running back Nick Gib-son is the workhorse, and senior quarterback Brooks Garrett is com-ing off a four-touchdown performance.

For Center Point, ju-nior quarterback Keilan Knight is much sharper than a season ago. A lot of that has to do with

multiple receivers who are 6-foot-3 or taller. Ju-nior Sherman Starks had a big game against McA-dory last week. Senior Xavier Perkins is also a weapon on the outside. When the Eagles aren’t throwing the ball, senior running back Virgil Stud-dard is gaining yards be-tween the tackles and on the edge.

The Pinson Valley de-fense, opportunistic at times this season, will need to be Friday for a chance to upend the sur-prising Eagles. A turn-over late in this game could be costly, as both teams are capable of put-ting points on the board in a hurry.


Friday Feature: Pinson travels to undefeated Center Pointby Gary Lloyd

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Pinson Valley junior receiver Trey Underwood leaps for a reception last week against Clay-Chalkville.

Hewitt-Trussville se-nior standout runner Ve-ronica Lyle on Friday committed to run cross country and track at the University of Alabama, per Huskies head coach David Dobbs.

Dobbs said Lyle also had offers from Samford and Ole Miss.

Lyle earlier this month won the individual 5,000-meter cross coun-try race at the Scotts-boro Invitational, which Hewitt-Trussville’s girls won.

Lyle placed seventh at the Chickasaw Trails

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HEWITT continued from page B-1The Huskies did make

a game of it late in the fourth quarter. Senior running back Peyton Palmer scored a touch-down on the ground and caught another from Bailey to bring the Hus-kies to within five with three minutes to play. It was too little too late, though, and another Ti-ger touchdown at the 1:48 mark put the game out of reach.

For Hewitt-Trussville, Bailey completed 13-of-27 passes for 170 yards and two touchdowns to one interception. Palm-

er rushed 14 times for 67 yards and a score, and also caught three passes for 31 yards and a touchdown. Stokes led Hewitt-Trussville in re-ceiving, catching three passes for 78 yards an a touchdown. Junior receiver Cyle Moore caught five passes for 53 yards.

Defensively, senior linebacker Hunter Reid notched 16 tackles, three tackles for loss and blocked a kick. Se-nior linebacker Jordan Howell totaled 12 tack-les, one tackle for loss

and an interception. Se-nior Carson Foster con-tributed 10 tackles and a forced fumble. Senior defensive end Austin Wysor had two tackles for loss, a pass breakup and fumble recovery.

Minor sophomore quarterback Dre’Quan Pritchett threw for 203 yards and scored on a 5-yard run. Freshman Jaylond Adams rushed 24 times for 106 yards and a touchdown. Se-nior Roderick Arrington rushed for two touch-downs.

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The Pinson Valley basketball team celebrates winning the Class 5A, Area 11 championship last season, its first area title since 2002.

You could call it a tuneup game.

No. 2 Clay-Chalkville is 5-0 overall, 3-0 in Class 6A, Region 7. Grissom is 0-5, 0-3 in the same region.

Friday is senior night at Cougar Stadium, where the Cougars and Tigers will kick off at 7 p.m.

Clay-Chalkville is averaging 45.6 points per game, while Gris-som is allowing 42.8 points per contest. Clay-Chalkville’s defense, de-spite allowing 31 points last week to Pinson Val-ley, has been coming up big lately when it’s mat-tered. Grissom has been shut out in three of its five games and scored just one touchdown in one of its contests. The Tigers scored 25 points in a 27-25 loss at Lee-Huntsville on Sept. 20.

Those statistics sug-gest a Clay-Chalkville blowout win, but the game still has to be played. A game like this sandwiched between a bit of a rivalry game at Pinson Valley and a tough road test looming next week at Gadsden City can make for some-thing of a trap game.

Senior quarterback Hayden Moore is com-ing off his best game as a Clay-Chalkville player, accounting for a school-

record seven touch-downs in the Cougars’ 48-31 win at Pinson Val-ley last week.

Expect the rest of the Clay-Chalkville offense to be on its game Friday and put up huge numbers on a struggling Grissom defense. For most of the second half, some of the more inexperienced players should see signif-

icant playing time. Don’t be surprised if the im-proving Clay-Chalkville defense pitches its first shutout of the 2013 sea-son over an overmatched Grissom team.



Clay-Chalkville receivers T.J. Simmons (13), Brian Clark (7) and Cordell Scott (18) celebrate at Pinson Valley last week.

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Pinson Valley released its basketball schedule this week.

The junior varsity and varsity teams will open the 2013-2014 season Nov. 12 at home against Clay-Chalkville. The var-sity girls play at 6 p.m., followed by the varsity boys at 7:30 p.m.

Pinson Valley travels to Hewitt-Trussville on Nov. 19. Game times are the same as the season opener. The Indians will then play in the Bryant Bank Classic at Hewitt-Trussville Nov. 23-26. Game times are to be de-

termined.Other notable games

include Dec. 10 at Center Point, Dec. 26-28 in Al-bertville for the WQSB Christmas Tournament

for the varsity boys, Jan. 10 at home against Cen-ter Point, Jan. 28 at home versus Hewitt-Trussville and Jan. 31 at Clay-Chalkville.

The girls’ area tourna-ment will be Feb. 6-8 at a location to be deter-mined. The boys’ area tournament will be Feb. 7-10 at a location to be determined. Sub-regional games will be Feb. 13-14, regionals Feb. 18-22 and state finals will be Feb.25 through March 1 at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex.


Pinson Valley releases hoops scheduleby Gary Lloyd

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