Bob Jones High School Football Booster Website: Bob Jones High School: 20 - Decatur High School: 7
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Game Played 9/25/2009 7:00PM
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Senior Punter Cody Ross comes up big in ball control, field position game!
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Bob Jones holds off Decatur 20-7 in battle of unbeatens
MADISON, AL -- Eighth-ranked Bob Jones scored a touchdown with less than a minute to go to seal a 20-7 victory over Class 6A, Region 8 foe Decatur on Friday night. The Patriots improved to 5-0 and the Red Raiders dropped to 4-1. Bob Jones led 12-7 at halftime but needed a goal-line stand midway through the fourth quarter to keep Decatur at bay. The Patriots went for it on a fourth-and-four play from the Decatur 33 with about two minutes to play and got a 30-yard pass and catch from Zach Freeman to Reggie Ragland. Freeman found Collins Moore on a fade pattern from 11 yards out for the go-ahead score late in the second quarter. Decatur had taken a 7-6 lead in the first quarter on a 76-yard run up the middle by quarterback Ben Neill. Bob Jones,got on the scoreboard first with a 30-yard touchdown pass from halfback Trai Ragland to receiver Quintrell Rogers. By Bill Bryant, September 25, 2009, 9:45PM
STILL PERFECT
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Tough Patriot Defense!
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Patriots hold off Red Raiders
No. 8 Bob Jones moves to 5-0 overall and in Region 8
MADISON - This one wasn't easy like the first four, but the result was the same for the Bob Jones High football team. The Patriots, ranked No. 8 among the state's Class 6A teams, survived a scare against Decatur in a battle of unbeaten teams to get its fifth victory in as many weeks in a clash that decided sole possession of first place in Region 8. The Patriots earned it by breaking a 10-game losing streak to the Red Raiders, riding the strength of a defense that pressured Decatur quarterback Ben Neill throughout en route to a 20-7 win at muddy Madison City Schools Stadium. "We knew coming into the game their quarterback was a great player," said Bob Jones junior receiver/defensive back Collins Moore, who caught a touchdown pass and had one of the team's three interceptions as the Patriots improved to 5-0 both overall and in the region. "He's a play-maker. We knew we had to stop him." The Red Raiders (4-1,3-1) had trouble passing with the Patriots applying heavy pressure, but Neill had a 76-yard TD run in the first half and put his team on the verge of the lead early in the fourth quarter. Trailing 12-7, Decatur moved from Bob Jones' 49-yard line to a first down at the Patriots 4-yard line in six plays. Neill carried the ball five times for 41 yards in that span. Bob Jones' defense then stiffened. Neill ran for 1 yard and Larry Good was stuffed for no gain on second down. Neill fumbled after being hit on third down, but the Red Raiders recovered just inside the 1. On fourth down, Neill fumbled the snap, and the threat was stopped. "We made too many mistakes that hurt us tonight," Decatur coach Jere Adcock said. "You can't be at the one-foot line and fumble the snap." Both teams were heavily penalized. Bob Jones had nine for 90 yards and Decatur eight for 70. None of the Red Raiders' was bigger than a roughing-the-kicker flag in the fourth quarter. Still trailing 12-7 halfway through the period, Decatur forced a punt at the Patriots' 36. Bob Jones kicked, Decatur was whistled for the penalty, and Bob Jones went on to get a 3-yard TD run by Xavier Gaddy with 57.5 seconds left to play. A 2-point pass from Zach Freeman to Reggie Ragland - who made a 30-yard catch over the middle on fourth-and-4 at the Red Raiders' 33 two plays before Gaddy scored - made it 20-7. "We had to have a goal-line stand and made it," Bob Jones coach Kevin Rose said. "We had to drive the length of the field and score or run out the clock and did it. We did what we had to do on both sides to win it." Decatur completed only 4-of-16 passes for 21 yards with three interceptions. It netted 129 yards on 27 carries. Neill had 134 yards on 7 rushes, but he or a teammate were sacked or thrown for a loss 10 times. Senior defensive lineman Jeremy Brackett said Bob Jones, which had won its previous games by a combined score of 205-56, felt uneasy throughout. "We started playing a little tight," he said. "But we believed in ourselves." Bob Jones completed 12-of-25 passes for 168 yards and two TDs, the first on a 30-yard halfback pass from Trai Ragland to Quintrell Rogers that made it 6-0 with 3:14 left in the first quarter. The extra point was blocked. Neill had the 76-yarder before the quarter ended, and Bob Jones went up 12-7 when Freeman threw a 12-yard TD pass to Moore with 47.3 seconds left in the second. (Taken in full from the leader in local sports news, the Huntsville Times)
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Ragland's rumble ends decade of frustration
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Reggie Ragland makes huge catch on 4th and 4 late in game!!
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MADISON - The clock was moving slower than 8 a.m. traffic heading north on South Memorial Parkway for the Bob Jones football team late Friday Night. The undefeated Patriots, losers of 10 straight games to undefeated Decatur - most of them not close at all - were hanging on by their toenails at Madison City Schools Stadium. Leading by five, they had already lived a lifetime in a span of six minutes midway in the fourth quarter. A goal-line stand. A punt out of their own end zone. A deflected pass - again, at the goal line. "When you're trying to beat a well-coached football team, it's not supposed to be easy," said first-year Bob Jones coach Kevin Rose. With a little more than two minutes on the clock, and facing a fourth-and-four from the Red Raiders 33-yard line, a decision that shouldn't have been easy became one in a matter of seconds. "I heard (Alabama coach) Nick Saban say in big situations he thinks about players, not plays," Rose said. In this case, the player was bruising tight end Reggie Ragland. Whoever came up with the idea of putting "running" with "roughshod" must have had the junior in mind. On the pivotal fourth-down play, Ragland gathered in a Zach Freeman pass over the middle and started looking for people to run over. Decatur finally put him on the turf 30 yards down the field. "It didn't surprise me," Red Raiders coach Jere Adcock said of the Patriots' decision to pass. Two plays later, Xavier Gaddy scored the insurance touchdown in a 20-7 victory. "This was such a big game for us," Ragland said. "Everybody thought we couldn't be physical, that we couldn't win a close game." Well, maybe not everybody. But historically, Bob Jones hasn't always flourished in tight situations. And the eighth-ranked Patriots - who came into the game averaging 50 points per outing - hadn't exactly been shoved up against a wall this season, either. Until Friday night. The week's heavy rains made for a slow field. The sidelines were mush, and the playing field wasn't much better. It was like playing your favorite golf course with half of it being ground under repair. Then there were the Red Raiders themselves, who struggled offensively for much of the night but had history on their side and gave no quarter until the final horn. The Patriots, though, played just bold enough to make some big plays stand. Their first score came on a 30-yard halfback pass from Trai Ragland to Quintell Rogers, who was more open than Waffle House in the north end zone. Their second one came on an 12-yard fade to emerging star Collins Moore (eight TDs in five games). Finally, with the clock about to head under two minutes, the backbreaker to Reggie Ragland. "Huge," Rose said afterward. For Bob Jones, it was about time. (Taken in full from the Huntsville Times' Bill Bryant)
