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Haywood represents Photo By: Xavier Cole

Pictured are some War Eagles from Haywood County along with Head Coach Trent Boykin (left). Pictured right is Running Back Coach Rodney Clark, Stanton’s Chris Covington, Brownsville’s Larry Fouse, and former Tomcat standout Jocoby Bond.

Busting Out Photo By: Xavier Cole Quarterback Antwoine Beard scrambles out of the pocket to advance the ball for a fi rst down.

By: XAVIER COLE Staff Writer

The West Tennessee War Eagles of the GDFL (Gridiron Development Football League) opened their season here in Brownsville April 3. The War Eagles came out soaring with a 28-12 routing of the Memphis Blast. Head Coach Trent Boykin was pleased with the team’s performance and preseason win over a division rival. There was a nice crowd on hand to witness this extraordinary event at John B. Hooper Memorial Stadium. Former Tomcats play-ing for the War Eagles included: Jocoby Bond, Larry Fouse, and Chris Covington to name a few. Bond and Fouse put on an exceptional show in front of their home crowd.

“A win is a win, and it felt good to get a win,” Head Coach Trent Boykin stated postgame. “A lot of credit goes to the play-ers, and it’s good to get this thing up and running on the positive side.”The guys had great enthu-siasm, and they played hard.” Boykin said his

team responded well in its first action against an established franchise.

“(Our players) were thinking too much at first, but then they just started playing,” Boykin said. “We got to most of our offensive plays, and our defense gave us a lot of red-zone chances.”We got really good play out of quarterbacks Antwoine Beard and Lydale Wells, and our running backs, wide receivers, defen-sive line and secondary played well.” Boykin said the defense inter-cepted three passes and gave the offense sever-al short fields that led to scores.”We weren’t out-manned out there,” Boykin said. “All of our mistakes are correct-able, and the biggest things we need to fix in practice this week are three fumbles and a few things on the offensive line.” Players Boykin said excelled Saturday included running backs Latrell Billingsley, Kenny Coleman and Jocoby Bond; receivers Josh Person and Justin Mood; defensive lineman Tray Vardiman, Larry Fouse, Devin Jones and Terry

Franklin along with defensive backs Keith Wardlow, Marshall Hych and Jermiah Bullock.

Those who missed this event missed a fun-filled evening of entertainment for the entire family. The Easter egg hunt prior to the game provided

an added bonus to the youngsters in attendance, while other enjoyed the Haywood Junior High step team and Haywood High Marching Tomcat band as halftime enter-tainment to accompany an exciting hard-hitting football game. In talks

with General Manager Ken Williams, this may not be the only visit the War Eagle make to Brownsville. He men-tioned the possibility of offering Brownsville the War Eagles’ first play-off game if they were to make the postseason.

The War Eagles will be back in action this Friday at Milan. All War Eagles regular season home games will be played in Jackson at Lambuth University.

Haywood Boys Soccer Schedule 2010 Schedule Tuesday April 13 Fayette Academy Away 5:00 Thursday April 15 Jackson North Side Away 5:00 Tuesday April 20 Milan Home 6:00 Best of the West at USJ Monday April 26 Liberty 5:00 (purple) Friday April 30 USJ 5:00 (white) Saturday May 1 Brighton 11 am (purple) Tuesday May 4 Trenton Peabody Away 5:00 Friday May 7 Westview Away 6:00 May 10-14 District Tournament May 18-20 Region Tournament May 22 Sub state May 26-29 State Tournament Head Coach: Steve Svebakken

Haywood High School Tennis 2010 Schedule April 13 Bolivar Central High School 4 p.m. Away April 14 Ripley High School 3:30 p.m. Home April 15 Crockett County High School 3:30 p.m. Home April 20 Halls High School 4:15 p.m. Home April 21 Gibson County High School 4:30 p.m. Home April 22 Covington High School 3:30 p.m. Away April 26 Lexington High School 4 p.m. Away April 27 Jackson Central-Merry 4 p.m. Away Coaching the HHS tennis team is Julian Stanz.

Down hill running Photo By: Xavier Cole

Jay Perkins barrels down the fi eld letting nothing stand in his way.

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2010 Haywood Lady Cats Softball Schedule April 13 Ripley Brownsville 5 p.m. April 15 Covington Covington 5 p.m. April 16 Ripley Ripley 5 p.m. April 19 Bolivar (DH) Bolivar 4 p.m. April 20 Crockett County Brownsville 4:30 p.m. April 22 Dyer County Brownsville 5 p.m. April 28 West Carroll (DH) Atwood 4 p.m. April 29 Humboldt (DH) Humboldt 5 p.m. May 3 Halls (DH) Brownsville 4:30 p.m. May 6 District Tournament Brownsville TBA Head Coach is Chanda Franks and Assistant Coach is Amanda Britt.