Game Notes and Quotes
Week Ten
White
House 52, Greenbrier 14
October 31, 2008
Series Record: White House leads the overall series, 42-23.
Series Streak: White House has won five straight games including two playoff games since 2005.
Series Notes: Greenbrier last beat White House in the regular season in 2005.
Region Notes: White House is the Region 4-3A champion at 9-1 (6-0) and Greenbrier ends
its season in fifth place at 5-5 (2-4).
Schedule notes: White House
hosts Chattanooga East Ridge in the first round of the Class 3-A state playoffs. Greenbrier’s season is complete.
Game Notes:
- White House was perfect (28-for-28) in the red zone for the entire regular season.
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Coach Jeff Porter won his 199th career
game and will go for #200 Friday night against Chattanooga East Ridge.
- White House will be making its 17th straight playoff appearance and
24th in 25 years.
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White House scored a rivalry-high mark of 52
points, breaking the previous mark of 48 points against Greenbrier.
- Cody Allen went over 700 yards career rushing (704).
- Bryan Dixon scored his 25th career rushing touchdown and went over
1,400 yards rushing for his career.
- Matthew Gossett scored his 50th career point.
- Trox Greenwade threw his 25th career touchdown pass.
-
Aussie Light made his 50th career
tackle.
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Chad Neal made his 200th career tackle
(203).
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Brandon Nichols scored his first career touchdown
rushing.
Quotes from Greenbrier head coach Kirk Williams:
“We’ve got a lot of kids that have played a lot of football games that were hurt. We would
never play a kid that was injured, but they have played with a lot of banged up kids and a lot of kids not able to play. Our
young kids stepped up and did a great job the last few ball games and tonight was just one of those nights.”
“We faced a good football team. They
had a great game tonight and we didn’t. That’s the bottom line. The first half, we couldn’t pick up a first
down and they were. We couldn’t seem to stop them. All the credit goes to White House. They have a good football team
and I think they have a great shot to go deep into the playoffs.”
“We knew we were going to have to throw the football tonight, and the credit goes to White
House for being at the right place at the right time to make the pick, especially in the first quarter. That’s the way
it goes; when you play a good football team, that will get you in trouble really quick and that’s what happened tonight.”
Quotes from White House head coach Jeff Porter:
“We were very efficient and a lot of emotion being Senior Night. With this
senior class, they were very emotional and I thought they were ready to play. They played well early and took control of the
game. To finish 9-1 is a great year but now our record is 0-0 and we are one of 32 teams and everybody has the same goal next
week and that is to make it to the round of 16. That’s what we have to focus on now. We’re thankful for the first
10 games this year but now begin the stretch run that everybody dreams about.”
“Greenbrier made a commitment to pass and you can’t fault them for
that. They thought that was their best chance to win the football game. They got some passes down the field, but we were fortunate
to get the first one to go our way and it was like getting an extra possession. The thing it did was kicked the momentum to
our side and that was huge.”
“For the most part we were efficient, but I don’t think our kicking game was as efficient tonight as it
has been. We were 7-of-7 making extra points, but we missed a field goal, we didn’t get all our kickoffs in the end
zone. They all don’t have to be in the end zone and we had too many kicks on the ground. Our punting game was not what
it has been. I think the biggest concern coming out of tonight was that our biggest strength this year which has been our
kicking game, tonight it was not as efficient as it has been.”
“East Ridge is a team we don’t know a lot about and we will learn more about them in a hurry, but this
is the first time our two schools have played. The most important thing is that we are home and they have to make the drive
and we have the opportunity to get the home crowd in front of us. We have to take them one game at a time. The game this week
is East Ridge and that’s all we are concerned about is giving us the best chance to win and coming up with a game plan
for our kids to practice well and get in the mindset of preparing well. Our goal is to play our best game of the year next
Friday night.”
“The
crowd has really been a big factor this year especially the last three weeks and the previous two weeks on the road. Our crowd
is a very knowledgeable crowd and they appreciate it when our kids play hard. No matter what has happened this year, some
games we might not have played as well, but there is one common denominator this year and that is our kids have played hard
and not let up and we have to do that again next Friday night.”
“We haven’t played four quarters yet and we’ll see how we can improve if we play
four quarters. Defensively we were better tonight even though the box score may not show it, but a lot of those yards came
late against some kids who got in and got some valuable experience.”
“I was excited for Brandon to get the run and for Brandon to get back on the field. I was excited for Tyler to get the extra point and Oscar to get
to kick off. Tyler hasn’t missed one this year and Oscar kicked one into the end zone. Jacob Knight came in and made a big tackle
and some freshmen got to see the field. I looked out there tonight and we had 80 kids dressed tonight and that’s definitely
the best we have been all year. Maybe that’s a sign we are getting healthy, and I guarantee our kids will come out and
play hard again next Friday night.”
