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Game Played 9/18/2009 7:00PM
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Patrick Alford with a sack in the Shutout Win!
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1st-quarter assault all Patriots need
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Times Sports Staff bill.bryant@htimes.com
Bob Jones holds Grissom to 41 yards in 49-0 regional win
MADISON - Here's what can happen in 76 seconds. A kickoff. An incompletion. A quarterback sack. An 86-yard touchdown run. An extra point. The ensuing kickoff - this one out of bounds - followed by another kickoff - this one bobbled and recovered. A snap over the quarterback's head and into the end zone. A fumble recovery for a touchdown. Anything and everything anyone needs to know about Friday night's football game between Bob Jones and Grissom happened in the first 1:16. The host Patriots scored twice and the Tigers never recovered. Bob Jones dominated the remaining 46:34, too, using an almost perfectly balanced offense (223 yards on the ground, 219 through the air) and an opportunistic defense (five forced turnovers) to roll to a 49-0 win at Madison City Schools Stadium. "We talked all week about starting fast," said Patriots coach Kevin Rose, whose 10th-ranked team improved to 4-0 both overall and in Class 6A, Region 8. "It was just a super start." Xavier Gaddy provided the jump to that start, taking a stretch play 86 yards on third-and-16. He raced 50 yards down the right sideline before cutting back inside for the remaining 30-plus yards. Grissom (2-2, 1-2) barely reached the 10-yard line after bobbling the kickoff, and on the first play from scrimmage the snap sailed over Jared Dowling's head. After half of the Bob Jones defense collapsed on Dowling, sophomore linebacker Darius Tibbs collapsed on the ball for the score. "I saw the ball and said to myself 'I've got to go get it,' " Tibbs said. "That (touchdown) pumped us up early." The Patriots stayed suitably wired the rest of the way. Sixteen of the Tigers' 41 plays resulted in negative yardage as they had just 41 yards of total offense. "We lost our poise at the start, but we still had a lot of football game left," Grissom coach Bobby Rhoades said. "One of the hard parts of trying to build a program that's not used to winning is handling the peaks and valleys. "Every place I've been where you have to build has had a night like this. It's just one loss. It's not like they're going to give you two losses for this. We just have to go back to work." (Taken in full from the Huntsville Times) Saturday, September 19, 2009, By Bill Bryant
