Magazine travels to Jct City Friday night. Hootens has them ranked #1 and #2 in AA, so this may well be the actual championship match-up. Hootens is picking Magazine by 3. Cal Preps has Magazine by 1.

(11-23-2011 12:38 PM)MICHAELSPAPPY Wrote:  Magazine travels to Jct City Friday night. Hootens has them ranked #1 and #2 in AA, so this may well be the actual championship match-up. Hootens is picking Magazine by 3. Cal Preps has Magazine by 1.

Boy, that's a long bus trip. My current intern is from Junction City and told me she'd be going to the game on Friday before she left for Thanksgiving yesterday. She is also a big LSU fan, so I hope one of her teams win. Has Magazine overcome the loss of there starting quarterback? I guess they must have based on their ranking.

Here is the Hooten's preview:

HOOTENS.COM GAME OF THE WEEK
No. 1 Magazine at No. 2 Junction City
Magazine has not traveled in the postseason since 2007 when it lost at Murfreesboro 49-12. The Rattlers are 9-2 in the playoffs since, capturing the state title in 2010. Magazine's talented seniors lost to eventual state champion Junction City 56-0 as sophomores, and they have not forgotten. "That (Junction City) was probably the best 2A team in 10 years," Magazine coach Josh Jones said. "Since the bracket came out, our guys have been thinking about Junction City." Defending state champion Magazine has won 26 games in a row, dating to that semifinal loss to Junction City in 2009.

Magazine senior receiver Cory Chambers shifted to QB at midseason and leads the Rattlers with 1,100 yards rushing. Jones had praised Chambers' decision-making until last week, when an underhand throw resulted in a grounding penalty and Chambers missed a few open receivers. But Magazine still pulled away from Salem 34-2. Magazine, which averages 34 points per game, punted just five times in the regular season. Senior LB Josh Dority leads the Rattlers with 131 tackles and is on the Farm Bureau Awards watch list for Class 2A's Defensive Player of the Year.


Junction City's defense allows 7 ppg. The Dragons yield just 61 yards passing a game and have intercepted 13 passes. Junior end Hayden Smith and senior Winston Steward pace the Dragons with 74 tackles apiece. As a team, Junction City has recorded 39 tackles for loss. On offense, the Dragons average 8 yards per rushing attempt. Junction City has not lost this season since the opening (27-14) defeat to Class 3A No. 6 Rison. It has won 64 of its past 73 games.

We went to my wife's high school reunion at Junction City in 2008 and went to the football game on Friday night. I don't remember who they played, but they reminded me of Texas and Oklahoma when they used to run the wishbone. They had a devastating ground game, it seemed like the opposition never held them to less than six or eight yard every down, and they just annilated whoever they played that night.

They are good every year, and I don't know where such a small school gets all those athletes. They are also very good in basketball almost every year too. Without a doubt, that should definetly be the Game of the Week, and probably should have been the finals, instead of the quarters.. I'd love to see that game. Are you and Tweaky making that trip Pappy?

(11-23-2011 01:57 PM)LRTrojan Wrote:  Are you and Tweaky making that trip Pappy?

Don't know about Tweaky, but I probably won't. That makes for a very late night, and we have a ton of kinfolks in town this weekend.