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by
Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
THE
GAME: Haysi (5-5) at J.I. Burton (8-2); Region D,
Division 1 semifinals.
DATE,
TIME and PLACE: Saturday, Nov. 21, 1:30 p.m., Lawson-Fitchko
Stadium, Norton.
THE
TEAMS:
HAYSI
-- After a season that opened with four straight
losses, all to playoff teams, and which included five
consecutive road games, Haysi is a different football team
than it was the first half of the year.
The
Tigers are a much better football team, offensively and
defensively. Three seniors, quarterback/safety Chris
Fleming, offensive lineman/linebacker Chris Whitt and
running back/linebacker Jeremy Yates, have shown the way
and a number of new starters have fit nicely into various
roles around them.
Fleming
doesn't have the numbers he had last year, but he has been
very effective running and throwing the ball, especially
in the second half of the season. Dakota Stanley and
Hobart Newberry have developed into one of the better wide
out tandems in the region.
Haysi
coach James Colley says his club has to maintain the
progress it's made in recent weeks.
"We
have to play the way we've played the last four or five
games to have a chance to win this week," Colley
said.
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