Jacksonville Journal-Courier Football Playoffs November 2019

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Pascal Guilavogui Beardstown

Brady Brown North Greene

Seth Fisher Brown County

Jacob Lansaw

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Hunter Flowers Carrollton

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The Greenfield-Northwestern football team will play a very familiar foe in the first round of the IHSA Class 1A football playoffs this Saturday at 1 p.m. Not only is the opposition from the Western Illinois Valley Conference, but also the Tigers’ opponent in their week nine win to close out the season.

Brown County will travel the hour and a half south to Greenfield for a rematch of the regular-season finale, which finished with a 14-7 win for the Tigers. This will be Greenfield-NW’s first playoff home game in its past three playoff appearances, and Tigers head coach Joe Pembrook said everyone is excited to play this game at home.

“We are very excited. We love to play at home,” Pem-

brook said. “It is an atmosphere that is certainly like no other in the area. It is a unique setting in Greenfield with the way the lay of the land is for the field. Everyone is excited.”

It isn’t often that a team plays a rematch of a regular-season game in the playoffs, let alone a rematch from the final week of the season. In that 14-7 victory over the Hornets, Greenfield-NW came out flat in the first half. It was the first time the Tigers had played a game on the road in more than a month — since the team traveled to Carrollton on Sept. 27.

Brown County scored first on Seth Fisher’s 27-yard touchdown run midway through the first quarter. Denver Davenport answered with a four-yard run for a touchdown in the second quarter before Jacob Lansaw completed a pass to Doug McWhorter for the 2-point

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conversion to give Greenfield-Northwestern an 8-7 lead.

Lansaw then found Brady Pembrook for the 20-yard touchdown completion early in the fourth quarter to cap the scoring and help secure the victory for the Tigers.

“We had to deal with some adversity early in the ballgame,” Pembrook said. “It was an hour and a half on the bus, and I thought our kids maybe weren’t ready at the start of the game. We came out a little flat and made some crucial mistakes early in the game, and Brown County took advantage of them. We recovered and were able to escape with a hard-fought win.”

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year, so Pembrook knew the Hornets would be tough to score on and would come out physical.

“It’s going to be a challenge.

We know that,” the coach said.

“When you get into the postseason, I think everyone would like to see someone outside the conference. The fact is that we do have to play Brown County, and there is going to be some familiarity.

“They are extremely physical. They are well coached and very disciplined. They are going to pin their ears back and be aggressive on the defensive side of the ball.”

On offense, Lansaw has been leading the Tigers under center. The junior has completed nearly 65 percent of his pass attempts, with eight touchdowns. He has completed passes to eight different receivers. Pembrook is one of his favorite targets, with 26 catches for 336 yards and three touchdowns, while Blake Woelfel has 23 catches for 344 yards and three touchdowns.

On the ground, Greenfield-NW has been led this season by the three-headed rushing attack of Davenport, Colin Grummel and Drake Stuart. The trio combined to rush for more than 1,000 yards and 24 touchdowns. Pembrook likes having so many options on offense.

“They have grown well together,” Pembrook said of his rushing options. “They enjoy playing out there with one another. They share the ball extremely well, and all of them are extremely unselfish.

They have become more comfortable with our system as the season has gone on. We don’t want to be one-dimensional, and we want to attack them from a lot of different angles, and those three provide three great weapons for us.”

This will be the sixth playoff appearance for the Tigers in the past seven seasons under Pembrook. In the last five

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Greenfield-Northwestern’s Jacob Lansaw closes in on a North Greene player during a game earlier this season.

appearances, Greenfield-NW has a record of 0-5. To break that streak, the Tigers will have to use the experience they gained during last sea-

son’s first-round exit to Camp Point Central and take that into Saturday’s matchup with Brown County.

“We got some valuable expe-

rience last year,” Pembrook said. “Overall, these guys are very seasoned. We have a lot of weapons we can attack people with. I think defensively,

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we’ve grown together and have become more comfortable with one another. Our communication is working out well, and we are playing physical.”

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Success breeds success Carrollton back in playoffs for 8th straight year

By Dennis Mathes

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Winning big games is easier if you’ve won big games in the past. Experience is invaluable. That goes for the playoffs, too.

And few teams have had as much success in the playoffs in the past seven years as Carrollton. The Hawks have made the playoffs every year since 2012, and have won at least one playoff game every season — with multiple wins in four of the seven years.

Carrollton has won 13 playoff games during that stretch. Camp Point Central has the same number of playoff victories since 2012, but the Panthers were ousted in the first round twice.

The Hawks will try to add another first-round win to the list as they host Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond on Saturday. Kickoff is at 2 p.m.

“We’re happy to be back in the playoffs, and we like our draw,” Carrollton coach Nick Flowers said. “It’s a tough one, but we feel like, we’re here at home, we have a great football atmosphere, and we’re excited.”

Arthur is a shotgun wing-T style team — 60-40 run-pass. “They’re going to run the ball six out of 10 times, but throw,” Flowers said. “They throw a little bit more than what we’ve seen out of a lot of our opponents that run the wing-T. Lot of misdirection.

“They’re a hard-nosed football team,” the coach said. “They have size, they have speed — they played Argenta really, really tough — it could have gone either way.

Their three losses are to three playoff teams. And so we’re going to have our hands full.”

Arthur gave up fewer points this year

Carrollton’s Harley Angel takes the ball upfield during a game at Beardstown last week.

than any other team in its conference, with four shutouts. Flowers said he expects a hard-hitting game, similar to contests against Greenfield-Northwestern, Beardstown and West Central. The coach is confident his team can match Arthur’s physicality.

“When you play a physical team, it takes four quarters to beat ‘em,” Flowers said.

“We’re not going to win this ballgame in a half. It’s going to take four quarters.”

2019 was a rebuilding year for the Hawks, with some new linemen and a new receiving corps.

“We said going into this year we had a lot of big shoes to fill, and you know, I think we’ve got the job done,” Flowers said.

The one constant was senior Hunter

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Flowers, who picked up right where he left off last season as the best quarterback in the Western Illinois Valley Conference.

Flowers has taken on an even bigger leadership role this season to guide those new receivers. Coach Flowers said he became a real coach on the field this year.

“You could tell against Beardstown Friday night that Hunter was a leader for us

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Extremely effective as a ball carrier, especially earlier this year, Flowers will be more of a running threat in the postseason.

The younger players have come through for the Hawks, too. Sophomore Hayden Flowers, the coach’s son, helped bolster the defense, first at linebacker, and now at defensive end.

“Kyle Leonard at receiver has been a huge player for us this year,” Flowers said. “Grant Pohlman has been a huge receiver and linebacker for us. Harley Angel — you know, he’s averaging five yards a carry out of the backfield. You don’t hear his name a whole lot, but he’s been very effective. And then our young guys up front.”

Carrollton’s defense is extremely young. Against Beardstown, seven sophomores, one freshman, one junior and three seniors got the bulk of the playing time. “It was amazing to me that we were competing like we were with that much youth out there,” Flowers said.

Carrollton is healthy heading into tomorrow’s game. Flowers wants his team to get off to a good start and seize the initiative.

“Playoff games are about momentum,” the coach said.

“We need to get out on top and have that early momentum.

“We’re improving each and every week,” Flowers said.

“Going into the playoffs here, we have to be playing our best football, and I really think we are at this point in the season.”

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on the offensive side of things,” the coach said. “He led for us out there.”

In some ways, the Hawks reached their peak in last week’s 42-28 loss to undefeated Beardstown, one of two No. 1 seeds in the Class 3A playoffs.

“To expect us to be perfect week in and week out is not realistic,” Flowers said. “But if we chase perfection, I think we’re going to be pretty darn good. I feel like we’re going to find greatness. We’re still — we’re getting close to what I would call being as good as I think we can be this year. We showed signs of that against Beardstown. First half, we were marching the ball up and down the field. We made them earn things in the first half. I think they wore us out a little bit, second half, but even second half, going into the final minutes of the fourth quarter, it was only 35-28.”

Carrollton’s linemen made some nice blocks Friday night and gave Flowers time to throw.

It was an outstanding performance by the Hawks’ QB. “Hunter is capable of playing great football, and I think he was very composed and really, really stayed in the pocket and found open receivers and ran the football well,” Flowers said.

“So I would say that he probably — I don’t know if it was his best performance as an individual this year, but boy, he played pretty darn good.”

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Beardstown is No. 1 Top seeding gives Tigers a chance at a long run

By Dennis Mathes

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Top dog. Numero uno. King of the hill.

The Beardstown football team beat Carrollton last week to finish the regular season undefeated, and the Tigers were rewarded by receiving one of two top seeds in the Class 3A playoffs.

“That’s a huge accolade for the kids, and definitely well-deserved,” Beardstown coach Robbi Howard said. “Obviously, a 9-0 year. It’s worked out this year — our crossover games in the South happened to be against the teams that won the most games, so we had the most playoff points.”

Beardstown has beaten six playoff teams this year. “Again, credit to the kids, and great season,” Howard said. “Hopefully, they’ll keep it rolling.”

Last year the Tigers finished the regular season 8-1 and got a home game in the first round of the playoffs, but they ran into a tough Pleasant Plains team, from the Sangamo Conference. The Tigers were

denied that elusive playoff win, falling 54-35.

Finishing 9-0 has its benefits.

“Well, I think, obviously, it just comes down to points,” Howard said. “I don’t know that it really is an advantage. Clearly, you’re going to play the 5-4 team with the least playoff points — which I think, it worked out this year that we’re playing a team from a conference that maybe isn’t as strong as the Sangamo or the Monticello-St. Joe conference. I think it gives us a little advantage there in that first-round matchup, but none of that matters — rankings or records — come Saturday at 1 o’clock.”

The Tigers are led by senior Pascal Guilavogui, arguably the best football player in the Western Illinois Valley Conference.

Guilavogui, a first-team All-Stater last season, has had his best year by far, already topping 2,000 yards rushing. He ran for more than 300 yards in each of Beardstown’s final two regular-season games against Greenfield-Northwestern and Car-

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rollton, which both finished 7-2.

“He’s been really good,” Howard said.

Avery Quigley, who moved to fullback this season, has been the perfect complement to Guilavogui in the backfield. Quig-

ley has rushed for 1,000 yards this season.

Small and quick, Quigley gives the Tigers some advantages over the typical fullback.

“He’s had several 50-, 60-yard touchdown runs this year that in the past —

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Chad (Grimm) and Drake Wrobleski and some of those guys who were great running backs, they didn’t finish those runs,” Howard said. “Avery’s got that burst. He runs hard, he hits the hole and then he also finishes. If he gets in the secondary, there’s not many DBs who can run him down.”

Having Guilavogui, Quigley and veteran quarterback Clint Cooper in the backfield has given the Tigers a ton of options on offense.

“My big philosophy, offensively, is we don’t run a ton of schemes,” Howard said.

“We’re running the same schemes, but we’re window-dressing it in a thousand different ways. Obviously, we have our wildcat set with Pascal, we have our three running back set where we have Braden Oest and Denzel McWilliams as our blocking back, along with Avery and Pascal, and we have our double-wing, where we can get some perimeter stuff, get Pascal and Avery running jet-sweep. So, yeah — those guys, their intellect, their football intelligence and their ability are definitely advantageous as far as putting together an offense that’s tough to defend. We like to think that we can threaten a defense vertically and horizontally. That’s a tough thing to plan for as a defensive coordinator.”

None of it would have worked if the Tigers’ brand-new offensive line hadn’t come through this season.

“Our offensive line has been … it’s no secret — that was our big question mark going into the year,” Howard said. “We knew we had some talented backs. But Dylan Lyles and Juan Juarez, Owen O’Hara, Oscar Espinoza and Armando Martinez have just been phenomenal opening up holes and all that. Obviously, our backs are very talented, but — those guys don’t get a lot of credit that they really deserve because they’ve been really good all year.”

The one thing that makes this Beardstown team different from others in the

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Beardstown’s Pascal Guilavogui breaks into the open during a game against Brown County earlier this season.

past few years is the Tigers’ ability to finish games.

“This year it seems like we’ve done a better job of finishing games,” Howard said. “I think there were a couple of times last year that we didn’t finish. It’s been evident from our better second halves. I think it’s a group that’s learned how to win.

Sometimes that’s one of those things that just takes time, and I think that this group

has learned how to win, and hopefully, that rolls over to the postseason.”

Kickoff for Saturday’s game against Newton is at 1 p.m. Newton, a perennial playoff qualifier, is a good team, a young team. It features a pro-I system with two good running backs. It’s a team that can beat Beardstown if the Tigers don’t play well.

But Beardstown expects to play well.

One of the team’s goals all year long has

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been to win a playoff game. After finishing 9-0, the Tigers have given themselves a chance to make a little run.

“We’ve tried to really stress that in football, you only get nine games,” Howard said. “They’re all so special, so every one needs to be special. It started with the conference, and then it finished with 9-0, and now the next goal in line is to win that first playoff game.”

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Ready for a rematch Brown County set to take on Tigers back-to-back

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Life doesn’t give you too many second chances.

But sometimes, the Illinois High School Association does.

The Brown County football team, which played Greenfield-Northwestern just last week, will play the Tigers again tomorrow in the first round of the IHSA Class 1A state playoffs.

Greenfield-NW beat Brown County 14-7 the first time around, in Mount Sterling. The Hornets are hoping for a better result Saturday as the “series” moves to Greenfield. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.

Brown County returns to the playoffs after a one-year absence.

“We’re glad to be back in,” Brown County coach Tom Little said. “We’re glad to spend another week coaching our kids. We’re just excited to get

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the opportunity to play and see another quality opponent.”

It’s a challenge playing the same team back-to-back.

It’s happened to Brown County before, in 2006, when the Hornets played Calhoun in the final game of the regular season, then played them again in the first round of the playoffs. Brown County won both games, but the second game was much closer.

“I think from a player’s standpoint, it’s not a big deal,” Little said. “But from a coach’s standpoint, you’re going to put a lot of thought process into the game and try to figure out what you did wrong and what you could have done better, and also think about what the opposing coach is thinking, too. What’s he going to do differently?

It doesn’t really give you that time just to kind of reflect.

It makes you really go through a lot of mental sides to try to make sure that you’re game planning on Monday and Tuesday, and that you can execute that stuff by Thursday and Friday.

“You almost try to do too much,” the coach said.

“What we did well, we need to stick with, and what we didn’t, we need to fix. I’m sure they’re thinking the same way. The things they did well, they need to continue doing well, and the things that they struggled with, they need to make sure they get that fixed and execute that stuff better. So it’s a challenging thing, but I think it’s harder, probably, on the coaches than it is on the kids.”

Brown County held the Tigers’ offense to half as many points as they had been averaging up to then.

“Our defense played really well — made a lot of plays,” Little said. “Unfortunately, our offense let them be on the field too much, and we didn’t win the battle of possession. We didn’t get a lot of big plays that we were hoping for. But our defense stayed in it. Our special teams did a good job. We just didn’t hit in all three phases of the game, and to beat a quality team like that, you have to play good football in all three phases of the game.”

Little said the Hornets won’t change much heading into this game.

“I think it’s really one of those games you don’t change a lot,” the coach said. “It was a good game. If a couple things change … turnovers were a part of the game that made a big difference. We had a couple chances where we had our hands on the football and didn’t come away with it, and they got one and were able to take advantage and put a drive together and score off of it. So I think turnovers, just like in any football game, are going to be key, but especially against a team the quality of Greenfield.”

Brown County started the season with a 1-4 record before putting together a four-game win streak to make the playoffs. A 29-21 win at Mendon Unity, in a game that swung back and forth, was a key victory.

“I think that was a big turning point in our guys’ minds, that it’s about playing four full quarters of football,” Little said. “It’s not getting down when things are going the wrong way. You know that you’ve got to fight back and just play good, solid football. I’m really impressed with our kids, how they’ve learned to do that.

Hopefully, that will be something they continue to do in

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Brown County’s Tate Fullerton drops back to pass during a game against Beardstown earlier this season.

the playoffs.”

Brown County was battle-tested when it entered week eight, needing a win at West Central. The Hornets came away with a 24-22 victory in a game that came down to the last play.

“I think that really comes down to the kids being resilient and knowing that we were in a bad spot, being 1-3 — being able to come back and get some big wins when we had to, and playing in a lot of close games,” Little said. “Making plays when we had to was crucial, and hopefully that will be something we can benefit from in the playoffs.”

Little said his team is much more balanced than it was at the beginning of the season. The Hornets are executing much better in the passing game.

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game, and I think our passing game became better,” he said. “We improved on special teams, and we were able to make a lot of stuff happen on defense in those games.”

Returning the entire backfield this season helped.

“Our running backs, our skill kids, we knew we had a good group from last year that ran hard, and they just didn’t have the success in the win-loss column,” Little said.

The Hornets are healthy going into tomorrow’s game, and Little thinks his team is playing its best football of the season.

“We’re really pleased with where we’re at,” the coach said. “We just have to continue to improve and execute, get better at the things we do, and hopefully, we can do that and play well and hopefully get a victory.”

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Welcome back, Spartans Resilient North Greene fights its way into playoffs

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WHITE HALL — You’ve got to believe.

No, really. You have to have faith.

The North Greene football team does. And it’s led the Spartans to their first playoff appearance since 2014.

“That was the goal going into the season was — I told the boys, gave them the whole Nehemiah story and building the wall, and we had a goal of doing that before week six,” coach Donnie Allen said. “I told them every week, I go, we’re a week late. We’re a week late. Well, they told me Friday night, we finally got the wall built, coach. The proverbial wall was getting that fifth win and becoming playoff eligible.

Kids bought in and fought their butts off in several close games this year and pulled it out. So, all credit to them.”

When a team is rebuilding, conventional wisdom dictates that it gets blown out in the first year, loses close games in the second year and then finally breaks through in the third year.

North Greene skipped a step.

“These guys don’t quit fighting,” Allen said. “They just realize that the game is more than just a few plays. Especially in football, the momentum swings are crazy. If you were there Friday night, you saw a bunch of momentum swings back and forth. Every time that we have a

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bad snap go over our heads, or they’d get the ball back, it seemed like we got a key interception right after that. These guys just don’t quit fighting, and that’s the key to having that skipped second year.”

No matter what happens, forget the last play and go on. It sounds simple, but it’s something most teams struggle with. “These guys do that without me telling them,”

Allen said.

It all goes back to the team’s three senior captains — Taylor Scott, Brady Brown and Ethan Darringer. “They all three are phenomenal defensive players, and that’s a big part of being successful in the WIVC, is having a decent defense,” Allen said.

But their contribution goes way beyond that.

“We’ve got three really good

senior captains who felt like things needed to change around here,” Allen said. “Last year’s seniors were great kids, and they fought hard, but they didn’t have that ‘finish’ to ‘em that these guys do. They just don’t give up. The biggest change from last year to this year is those three guys we’ve got at captain this year.”

Allen is a different kind of coach. The players have respond-

ed.

“What I preach is, being a transformational coach,” Allen said. “I’m not a coach who says, hey, if you get in the weight room, you go to the playoffs. Or if you did this, this would happen. It’s not an ‘if you do this, then this.’

I’m a transformational coach. I like to take a kid and try to make him a better person. And better people make better teammates.

Better teammates make better teams. Better teams win games, just out of consequence of trying to work for others. And these guys really buy into the fact that they’re working hard for the guy next to them, not for their own personal stats.”

How do you get a team to buy into that?

“I try to do it by example,” Allen said. “I’m the guy who goes and gets the water every day. I’m sweeping up the war room — just doing things … . Good leaders lead. Great leaders lead with a servant’s heart. If you lead like Jesus, if you’re somebody who’s not afraid to wash some feet, then people follow suit. And once you teach kids that, that if you lead from a servant’s heart … . All three of the captains will be out there cleaning up, or they’re the last ones to leave. And that’s the way it should be.”

Allen said the Carrollton game showed him that his players had the talent to compete even if they didn’t execute well. But he’s always believed.

“I’m one of those guys who feels like you can make it (to the playoffs) every year,” Allen said.

“I’m always optimistic about that. I never feel like a team that I’m coaching or that is with me doesn’t have a chance to win.

It drives me crazy … I’ve been on staffs before that, we played

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teams and some of my fellow coaches would make comments about — I just hope we can keep them under seven touchdowns. Well, you’ve already lost if you think that way. That’s not in my DNA to have a mentality of we can’t win.”

The Spartans travel to Argenta-Oreana for the first round. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

“They are a spread team, but they love to pound the rock,” Allen said. “They run in between the tackles way more than they do anything else, and they are really, really good at it.

They’ve got a running back that’s got over 1,400 yards that’s a load. He’s going to be tough to tackle. And their quarterback is probably just as good if not a little bit better of a runner, and he runs between the tackles as well.”

North Greene had to beat Routt last week to qualify for the playoffs, and the Spartans did, even though they played what Allen called their sloppiest game all year.

“We had four bad snaps — I think that’s three more than we’ve had all year,” the coach said.

“Our center’s usually really good at getting the ball back there, and we didn’t look like it Friday night. And just making little mistakes that by this time of year, we should have fixed. That’s a sign of bad coaching, so I’ve got to fix that myself.”

Does that mean the Spartans are due for a good game Saturday? You’ve got to believe.

“If we get it all put together,” Allen said, “yeah, we’re going to shock some people, for sure.”

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AFTER REBATE AND TRADE ASSISTANCE

AFTER REBATE AND TRADE ASSISTANCE

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AFTER REBATE AND TRADE ASSISTANCE

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