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          <title>AU FOOTBALL: Yes, there&#8217;s still work to do ... even against Furman</title>
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One game at a time.
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          <title>AU FOOTBALL: Handful of Furman players return to state</title>
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Furman coach Bobby Lamb has 375,000 reasons to look past today&#8217;s game and gear up for the rest of the Paladins&#8217; schedule.
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          <title>SZVETITZ COLUMN: Gimmicks ... slogans ... Whatever works for AU</title>
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If you saw Auburn players checking their wrists during last week&#8217;s win over Ole Miss, it wasn&#8217;t because they were late for dinner.
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Auburn High coasts past Lee in Class 6A first round</title>
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If you want to nitpick, Auburn High&#8217;s 30-6 Class 6A first-round playoff win over Robert E. Lee could have been bigger.
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: No struggles for Central in 15&#45;point win over Stanhope Elmore</title>
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PHENIX CITY &#8212; No last-second heroics this time around.
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Loachapoka breezes to victory</title>
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LOACHAPOKA &#8212; Holy Spirit&#8217;s charter bus didn&#8217;t roll into the Loachapoka High parking lot until 7:05 p.m. Friday, setting the Class 1A first-round playoff game&#8217;s kickoff back 45 minutes.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:35:04 CST</pubDate>
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Beauregard bows out in first round</title>
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MOBILE &#8212; Beauregard coach Smitty Grider devised a defensive plan that hinged on the ability to pressure LeFlore quarterbacks Carl Davis and Joseph Pugh.
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Lee&#45;Scott  knocked out by Bessemer</title>
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BESSEMER &#8212; Bessemer Academy&#8217;s usually strong running game was held in check, but it got big plays from wide receiver Calvin Perry to defeat Lee-Scott Academy, 17-13, in the first round of the AISA AAA playoffs.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:29:55 CST</pubDate>
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In only its second season of football, Ballard was one game away &#8212; one quarter away, really &#8212; from the ICSGA championship game. 
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; The loudest Javier Arenas has ever heard Bryant-Denny Stadium was when Terrence Cody blocked a field goal on the final play of the game against Tennessee two weeks ago.
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          <title>ALABAMA GAMEDAY NOTEBOOK: LSU&#45;Alabama series: No place like the road</title>
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LSU and Alabama enjoy two of the strongest home-field advantages in college football &#8212; until it comes to playing each other.
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          <title>AU HOOPS: Tigers roll to win over Miles in exhibition opener</title>
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Auburn made 14-of-32 shots from 3-point range and Tay Waller scored a game-high 15 points to lead the Tigers to an 87-40, exhibition win over Division II Miles College on Friday at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:15:22 CST</pubDate>
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REELTOWN &#8212; The No. 1 Reeltown Rebels overcame a sluggish first quarter, found their running game and dismantled the Vincent offense to win their first-round playoff game 33-0 at Nix-Webster Stadium.
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Dadeville cruises to first&#45;round win</title>
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DADEVILLE &#8212; The No. 8 Dadeville Tigers used the combination of a balanced running game and passing attack en route to a 28-12 win over the West Blocton Tigers in the first round of the Class 3A playoffs Friday night.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:11:54 CST</pubDate>
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Valley&#8217;s season ends at Vigor</title>
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PRICHARD &#8212; Mario Richardson broke open a 4-point game with a 4-yard touchdown run with 1:10 left in the game to help Vigor secure a 13-3 win over Valley in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs at Prichard Stadium on Friday night.
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Gulf Shores slips past Tallassee</title>
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TALLASSEE &#8212; Mike Smith&#8217;s tears rolled down his face. 
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Springwood upset by Escambia</title>
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LANETT &#8212; Springwood went up early on Escambia in its first home playoff game since 2001, but suffered two key injuries and couldn&#8217;t recover in a 46-38 loss that ended the Wildcats&#8217; season Friday night.
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          <title>AU SOCCER: Tigers bounced from SEC Tourney</title>
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ORANGE BEACH &#8212; Auburn&#8217;s Southeastern Conference Tournament run came to an end Friday night when the Tigers dropped a 1-0 match to No. 13 LSU at the Orange Beach Soccer Complex. 
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          <title>AU ROUNDUP: Groover to be given Walter Gilbert Award</title>
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Former Auburn basketball player Dr. Ray Groover will be presented the 2009 Walter Gilbert Award at halftime of the Tigers&#8217; game against Furman at Jordan-Hare Stadium today.
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TROY &#8212; Two teams heading in different directions will square off today at Houchens-Smith Field in Bowling Green, Ky.
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          <title>TROY FOOTBALL: Columbus native Willis shining at cornerback for Trojans</title>
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TROY &#8212; Troy offensive coordinator Neal Brown watched Bryan Willis carry the ball during a game at Shaw High School in Columbus, Ga., and immediately got worried.           ]]></description>
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          <title>SEC PICKS: LSU keeps it close, but that&#8217;s it</title>
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Enjoy today, because it features the last truly big game you&#8217;ll see before the SEC Championship game on Dec. 5, barring upsets, of course.
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          <title>Dyer, one of the nation&#8217;s top RBs, commits to Auburn</title>
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Little Rock five-star running back Michael Dyer, considered the nation&#8217;s No. 1 running back by ESPN/Scouts Inc., pledged his commitment to Auburn for the 2010 season today, according to a bevy of recruiting sites.           ]]></description>
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          <title>AU FOOTBALL: Depth issues lead to few redshirts</title>
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Jamar Travis&#8217; biggest play of the season came against Ball State, when he juggled a short Cardinals&#8217; kickoff before grasping it for the successful fair catch.
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          <title>AU NOTEBOOK: Zachery gives Tigers big&#45;play threat at wide receiver</title>
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Wide receiver Terrell Zachery came into the 2009 season with two career catches for 24 yards.
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          <title>PREP FOOTBALL: Running back duo leads Central into 6A playoffs</title>
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Ucambre Williams saw it coming.
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While the circumstances surrounding Auburn High&#8217;s entrance to the playoffs this season might seem familiar, things sure are different this time around.
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; Jordan Jefferson isn&#8217;t the flashiest quarterback Alabama&#8217;s defense has faced this season. But LSU&#8217;s sophomore leads a balanced attack that is coming off its best two games of the year.
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Jeff Lebo called his 2009 group of signees one of his best since arriving at Auburn and, after a few practices, expressed some pleasant surprise about their physical style of play.
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The goal for both Auburn High cross counttry teams going into Thursday&#8217;s Class 6A-Section 2 meet at Kiesel Park was to run fast and qualify for state.
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          <title>PREP BLITZ PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: Chambers Academy&#8217;s Chris and Brandon Ashford</title>
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The brothers were both immovable objects and unstoppable forces for the Rebels since transferring from LaFayette before the season.            ]]></description>
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Golfer Glenn Northcutt and gymnast A.J. Mills have been selected to receive the highest awards an Auburn student-athlete can receive, the Cliff Hare Award and the Leah Rawls Atkins Award.
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HOOVER &#8212; Beauregard&#8217;s boys cross country team claimed third place at the AHSAA Class 5A-Section 3 meet at Spain Park on Thursday.
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These perceived &#8220;free wins,&#8221; like the one that&#8217;s coming Saturday against Furman, don&#8217;t come cheap.
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Gene Chizik calls the first few months for his freshmen players a &#8220;whirlwind.&#8221;
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In the weeks before the AHSAA&#8217;s realignment proposal for the 2010-12 seasons, Beulah coach Steve White expressed concern about his team spending the next two years in Class 4A.
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On a fourth-and-goal from the 3, Patrick Lockhart crashed through the line, sacked the quarterback &#8212; jarring the ball loose &#8212; then picked up the fumble and ran it 90 yards the other way.
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Rodney Dollar has been pulling every string he can, asking around, using every connection in the coaching world he can think of to find out what kind of Gulf Shores team will be heading into J.E. &#8220;Hot&#8221; O&#8217;Brien Stadium to take on his Tallassee Tigers on Friday.
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; T-Bob comes to the Mount.
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A look at Friday night&#8217;s AHSAA Class 3A-5A area playoff games.           ]]></description>
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It couldn&#8217;t have gone much better the last time Auburn High&#8217;s cross country teams ran at Kiesel Park, their home course.
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ORANGE BEACH &#8212; Katy Frierson picked up a pair of assists to help Auburn earn up its first win in a SEC Tournament match since the 2005 postseason as Auburn downed Ole Miss, 2-1, on Wednesday at the Orange Beach Sportsplex. 
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A look at former Auburn players in the NFL.           ]]></description>
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As if back-to-back region championships and a trip to the state semifinals last year wasn&#8217;t enough motivation for Reeltown&#8217;s opponents, here&#8217;s something else to pile on.
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Zac Etheridge arrived at the East Alabama Medical Center early Saturday afternoon with something to prove &#8212; something to relieve the flood of emotions overtaking his parents, who were already stationed next to his hospital bed.           ]]></description>
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With the few bodies coach Gene Chizik has at his disposal in Auburn&#8217;s secondary, there&#8217;s no other choice, he said, but to put the best four players on the field.
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; It started as a gimmick, another wrinkle an opponent had to prepare for.           ]]></description>
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Will Garner doesn&#8217;t want it to end.
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The game&#8217;s finally here.
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ICSGA, AISA, 1A-2A Playoff Capsules           ]]></description>
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Auburn opens the SEC Tournament at 2:30 p.m. today against No. 3 seed Ole Miss.
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Three days ago, Zac Etheridge laid face down on the Jordan-Hare Stadium turf, unable to feel anything below his neck. Today, he mustered up the courage and strength to talk to us reporters about the horrifically scary neck injury he sustained against Ole Miss.

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Chambers Academy running back Chris Ashford came up about a yard short of completing a 2-point conversion in overtime and making sure the Rebels&#8217; season &#8212; and his high school career &#8212; didn&#8217;t end last Friday.
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Before the season, a number of Auburn&#8217;s defensive players talked a lot about getting their &#8220;swagger&#8221; back &#8212; whatever that is.           ]]></description>
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Safety Zac Etheridge was released from a Birmingham-area hospital Monday, an apparent major step forward in his path to a full recovery.           ]]></description>
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Gene Chizik started with his seniors when he doled out praise following Saturday&#8217;s upset victory over Ole Miss.
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; Alabama coach Nick Saban calls it the biggest game of the season &#8212; not because LSU visits Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday, but because it&#8217;s the next one on the schedule.
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Just two weeks in, Oregon&#8217;s season looked deader than dead.           ]]></description>
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Trinity Christian&#8217;s soccer team did not expect to be in the position it is right now.           ]]></description>
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Auburn senior guard DeWayne Reed was named to the Preseason Coaches All-SEC second-team, the Southeastern Conference office announced Monday.
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Gene Chizik had a simple response when he was asked to discuss a questionable call in Saturday&#8217;s game.
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Safety Zac Etheridge&#8217;s season is over, but his future in football wasn&#8217;t what Auburn&#8217;s players and coaches were focused on Sunday.
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TALLADEGA &#8212; In typical Talladega Superspeedway fashion, a series of frightening crashes tainted the end of the AMP Energy 500 on Sunday.
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The regular season is over. Which means that this will be the final Opelika-Auburn News Prep Power Poll of this, its inaugural season.
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As a graduate assistant at Auburn University in the early 1980s, Marcus George got to talking with a master&#8217;s student about working overseas.
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TALLADEGA &#8212; The television cameras captured Krissie Newman giving her husband a kiss before the start of Sunday&#8217;s AMP Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.
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TALLADEGA &#8212; A huge renovation project on the grandstands of Talladega Superspeedway will begin today and is expected to be partly completed in time for the Aaron&#8217;s 499 race on April 25. 
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BATON ROUGE, La. &#8212; The Auburn volleyball squad fell to No. 20 LSU, 3-0 (25-15, 25-12, 25-20), on Sunday afternoon.
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Gene Chizik needed this win more than anybody.
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Mike Slade&#8217;s heart sunk into his cleats.
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Senior cornerback Walt McFadden experienced an acute case of d&#233;j&#224; vu about 4 minutes into the third quarter of Auburn&#8217;s 33-20 win Saturday afternoon.
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He couldn&#8217;t help but smile.
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The numbers are impressive, but they&#8217;re not enough to describe Javier Arenas on a punt return.
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OXFORD, Miss. &#8212; The Auburn men earned a trio of top-five finishes while Holly Knight paced the women with a sixth-place finish at the 2009 SEC Championship meet Saturday morning at Ole Miss.
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TROY &#8212; Jerrel Jernigan could only watch last year&#8217;s loss at UL-Monroe in the training room in Troy, rehabbing the knee he injured just the week before.
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Two old friends &#8212; one from just a month ago and another from yesteryear &#8212; returned to Jordan-Hare Stadium just in time for an Auburn team desperate for a pick-me-up.
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The comparison draws an eerily similar conclusion, but senior Tommy Trott says the difference between Auburn&#8217;s 2008 nosedive and its midseason swoon of 2009 smacks you in the face the instant you walk into the Auburn Athletic Complex.
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A handful of Auburn defenders have compared Ole Miss&#8217; Dexter McCluster to elusive West Virginia tailback Noel Devine.
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If anyone knows what Chris Todd is going through, it&#8217;s Gene Chizik.
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TUSKEGEE &#8212; Calvin Jenkins came out early in Auburn High&#8217;s 49-14 win against Booker T. Washington on Friday.
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Seventy-five seconds in Dothan kept Opelika out of the playoffs for the first time since 1997.
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VALLEY &#8212; After two losses in as many weeks, the Rams needed to remember how to win before heading down to Vigor for the first round of the playoffs next week.
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ROANOKE &#8212; Minutes after Handley finished its 48-7 beatdown of visiting Beauregard, Tigers players jumped up and down at midfield holding up all 10 fingers.
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An unnamed Ballard Christian player tested coach Buddy Hammock&#8217;s patience at the end of a practice this week, prompting him to repeat what he&#8217;d been saying ever since the Eagles clinched their first-ever playoff berth.
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BEULAH &#8212; This game went back and forth all night long, with the Bobcats holding on to win a close one over Wadley, 34-27.
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WETUMPKA &#8212; Central turned to its ground game to pull out a 20-12 win over Wetumpka and build momentum going into the first round of the playoffs.
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LAFAYETTE &#8212; Lanett needed one play to put away LaFayette.
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LAFAYETTE &#8212; The Chambers Academy Rebels&#8217; matchup against the Ashford Academy Falcons presented a simple playoff scenario to the home team.
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LANETT &#8212; There were smiles all around at Springwood&#8217;s homecoming Friday night. 
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Nick Saban talked this week about ignoring &#8220;external factors&#8221; and refocusing on what has Alabama 8-0 and ranked No. 2 in the country.
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BIRMINGHAM &#8212; The Auburn women&#8217;s basketball team was picked to finish eighth in the SEC in the league&#8217;s preseason coaches poll, the league announced Thursday. 
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The Gray team clinched the annual Fall World Series with a 7-2 win over the White team on Friday night at Plainsman Park, riding the solo home runs of Brian Fletcher and Ryan Jenkins and the pitching of Grant Dayton and Justin Bryan to the win.
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; Rebecca Howell scored for the third consecutive game, leading Auburn to a 2-0 win over Alabama in the annual Iron Bowl of Soccer. 
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TROY &#8212; Troy&#8217;s offense has been clicking at a high level over the past five games, but with scores come kickoffs.
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We&#8217;re finally going to get a good grasp on what Tennessee and Lane Kiffin actually have tonight.
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The Alabama Youth Soccer Association will host the Division I State Cup beginning Nov. 6 at Jack Allen Park in Decatur.&nbsp; 
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Eltoro Freeman stood alone on the Tennessee sidelines, more than 20 yards away from the rest of his teammates throughout the entire second half of Auburn&#8217;s biggest win of the season.
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Wide receivers coach Trooper Taylor hasn&#8217;t found many opportunities to put freshman DeAngelo Benton in position to make a catch this season.
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The NCAA Division I Women&#8217;s Basketball Committee has selected Auburn University to serve as a first- and second-round host for the 2011 NCAA Division I Women&#8217;s Basketball Championship, the NCAA announced Thursday. 
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HAYNEVILLE &#8212; Will Garner ran for 144 yards and two touchdowns to lead Lee-Scott in a 30-13 win over Lowndes Academy on Thursday.
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