Millsaps at Sewanee / 1 p.m. Southern at Miss. Valley St. / 2 p.m. Ouachita Baptist at Delta St. / 6 p.m.
Ole Miss at Fresno State
Rice at Southern Miss
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Belhaven at Bethel / 6:30 p.m. Alcorn St. at Alabama St. / 7 p.m.
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SPORTS Sat ur day, oc tober 1, 2011 • SE C TI O N C PUZZLES C5 | CLASSIFIEDS C6
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Green Wave washes away Flashes
MLB on TV 1 p.m. TBS - Arizona at Milwaukee, NLDS Game 1 4 p.m. TBS - St. Louis at Philadelphia, NLDS Game 1 6 p.m. TNT - Tampa Bay at Texas, ALDS Game 2 7:30 p.m. TBS - Detroit at N.Y. Yankees, ALDS Game 2 MLB roundup/C2
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On TV 2:30 p.m. ESPN2 - The Nationwide Series hits the Monster Mile of Dover for the OneMain Financial 200.
Who’s hot KOUREY DAVIS
Warren Central wide receiver caught five passes for 216 yards and four touchdowns in a 35-34 win over Greenville-Weston on Friday.
Sidelines Red Sox part ways with Francona
BOSTON (AP) — The Terry Francona era is over in Boston. In a joint statement released on Friday, the Red Sox announced they will not pick up the option on Francona’s contract in the wake of the team’s September collapse. Owners John Henry, Tom Werner, and Larry Lucchino acknowledged a change was needed, and thanked Francona, who led the franchise to two world titles. “Tito said that after eight years here he was frustrated by his difficulty making an impact with the players, that a different voice was needed, and that it was time for him to move on,” the statement said. “After taking time to reflect on Tito’s sentiments, we agreed that it was best for the Red Sox not to exercise the option years.” The press release ended a whirlwind day at Fenway Park that saw all of the principle parties shuttle in and out of the facility several times. Francona was in the building three different times. Boston missed the playoffs despite leading the AL wildcard race by nine gameson Sept. 4.
LOTTERY La. Pick 3: 8-7-8 La. Pick 4: 6-0-7-5 Weekly results: C2
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Warren Central’s Conner Hughey (43) and Kourey Davis (6) tackle Greenville-Weston’s Diguan Davis (13) during
Friday’s game at Viking Stadium. Davis had 216 receiving yards and a game-clinching interception in a 35-34 win.
Vikings win a thriller
Kourey Davis-Chase Ladd connection goes for four TDs in victory By Steve Wilson swilson@vicksburgpost.com Kourey Davis and Chase Ladd made homecoming a Friday night to remember for Warren Central. Davis caught five passes for 216 yards and four touchdowns and Ladd added another TD toss, a 28-yard screen pass to Given Breckenridge, to give the Vikings their first victory of the season, 35-34, over Greenville-Weston. None of them were bigger in the fourth quarter with the Vikings down 34-28. Andrew King recovered a Greenville-Weston fumbled snap on the WC 41-yard line. Behind the arm of Ladd and the legs of Breckenridge, the Vikings methodically drove down the field. The biggest play was
Warren Central 35, Greenville-Weston 34 The records: WC (1-5, 1-1 Region 2-6A); GreenvilleWeston (1-5, 0-2) The skinny: WC’s Kourey Davis catches five passes for 216 and four TDs Up next: WC at Murrah to Patrick Varnado, who dropped four passes last week in a loss to Northwest Rankin. Ladd hit him for a 20-yard connection, setting up first and goal at the Greenville 10-yard line. On the next play, Ladd hit Davis on a 10-yard fade route in the back corner of the end zone for the tying score and Devon Bell’s perfect PAT gave WC the lead. On the final Hornet series, Davis finished off the victory
with a leaping interception of Leonard Stevenson. Early in the game, it looked like the Vikings (1-5, 1-1) were headed to an easy victory. On the first play from scrimmage, Ladd found Davis isolated in man coverage for a 72-yard TD connection. “We wanted to come out in attack mode,” WC coach Josh Morgan said. “I think we set the tone there with that play.” After the Hornets cut the lead to one on Donald Jackson’s 8-yard run, the Vikings were able to mix up the pass and the run effectively, capping a tidy 75-yard march with a 28-yard Ladd toss on a middle screen to Breckenridge to put WC out front, 14-6. WC took advantage of
man coverage down the field again. Ladd hit Davis in stride for a 64-yard hookup to give WC a commanding 21-6 advantage. But Stevenson hit a pair of big connections and the pounding running game of the Hornets churned up the yardage. Greg Foster capped the drive with an 18-yard run, cutting the lead to 21-14 after he ran in the two-point conversion. Right before the half, the Hornets got a big pass connection of their own, as Stevenson hit Jimmy Goodman for a 60-yard pass play. Terrell Williams completed the drive with a 2-yard plunge, cutting the lead to 21-20. Greenville-Weston got its first lead of the game as Foster rumbled in from 8 See WC, Page C3.
NATCHEZ — The few plays that separated St. Aloysius and Cathedral, combined, might have added up to a few yards. That was little consolation to the Flashes, who were a mile behind on the scoreboard. Caleb Upton threw two touchdown passes, J.D. Ealey rushed for 155 yards and two scores, and Cathedral shut out St. Al on Friday night, 28-0. Carlton Campbell rushed for 118 yards on 24 carries for St. Al, but it was a long string of mistakes that proved to be its undoing. St. Al (1-6, 1-4 Region 4-1A) failed to score twice after having first and goal, and turned the ball over twice inside the Cathedral 25-yard line. Two costly turnovers in the first half gave Cathedral great field position and led to easy scores. “We got inside the 5 twice and got nothing. We can’t seem to put it together,” St. Al coach B.J. Smithhart said. “We score there on the first one, and then before the half and we’ve got a different ballgame.” St. Al’s long night began on its first possession. See St. Al, Page C3.
Cathedral 28, St. Aloysius 0 Records: St. Aloysius (1-6, 1-4 Region 4-1A); Cathedral (6-0, 4-0) The skinny: Two goal line stands, two big turnovers lead to long night for Flashes Up next: St. Al at Resurrection, Oct. 8
Cooksey, Stamps smash records in loss By Jeff Byrd jbyrd@vicksburgpost.com Northwest Rankin coach Pete Hurt has actually seen a game like what happened Friday night at Memorial Stadium before. Actually, two of them. But it was in college, when he coached at Samford University. And the quarterbacks would both become NFL stars, Alcorn State’s Steve McNair and Central Florida’s Daunte Culpepper. This game, however, was a high school game and never has there been one like it in Warren County. Vicksburg quarterback Cameron Cooksey and wide receiver A.J. Stamps smashed several Warren County single-game records in a heart-breaking
Northwest Rankin 42, Vicksburg 40 Records: Vicksburg (2-4, 0-2 Region 2-6A), Northwest Rankin (6-0, 2-0) The skinny: Cameron Cooksey and A.J. Stamps smash single-game records for passing and receiving in a loss to NW Rankin Next week: Vicksburg at Greenville-Weston 42-40 loss to unbeaten Northwest Rankin (6-0, 2-0 Region 2-6A). Cooksey’s 67th pass of the game found a diving Stamps in the end zone for a 41-yard touchdown with one second left in the game to make it 42-40. The try for two went awry when Cooksey’s pass to
Lamar Anthony was broken up and the Cougars escaped. Hurt could only shake his head, and be thankful his team is still unbeaten. “The last time I saw this, the guys doing it to me were Steve McNair and Daunte Culpepper,” Hurt said. “I knew Vicksburg’s quarterback could throw it and he did.” Did he ever. Cooksey completed a single-game record 48 passes out of 67 attempts for a mind-boggling 581 yards and six touchdowns. The six TD passes ties his record from a loss to Tylertown. Everything else breaks a record. Cooksey said the Gators (2-4, 0-2) were a totally differSee VHS, Page C3.
Paul Barry•The Vicksburg Post
Vicksburg wide receiver A. J. Stamps runs away from Northwest Rankin defender Bobby Fatherree.