December Calendar of Events available online

2009 Trojan Track

Coach Gary George

Men's Team	Class	Girls Team	Class
Jelan Abrams	Sr	Peta-Gaye Allen	So
Aston Anglin-Stone	Sr	Michelle Bailey	Jr
Abraham Aslami	So	Alexanderia Covington	Sr
Mike Brantley	Sr	Jakiya Davis	Fr
Daniel Brennan	Sr	Denisha Dolby	Jr
Mike Brown-Roberts	Jr	Diamond Grissett	Fr
Alan Careaga	Fr	Colette Harrington	Fr
Dashawn Crudup	Fr	Jessica Harvey	So
Jaquan Davis	So	Janicia Hightower	Fr
Ja'Saun Davis	Sr	Jaya Johnson	Jr
Jeremiah Davis	Jr	Fracheska KeKe	So
Kenneth Demby	Jr	Brittanie Kelly	Fr
Ricky Denning	Sr	Beverly Mclaughlin	So
Anthony Epps	Fr	Cecilly Rhone	Jr
Haitham Ewaice	So	Farrah Roberts	Fr
Demetrius Fairley	Fr	Tia Taylor	So
Gary Frederick	So	Toniqua Taylor	Fr
Dwight Garity	Fr	Necole Watson	Fr
Jordan Hammond	Sr	Jamela Williams	Fr
Ian Hunter	Sr	Kilanta Wynn	Fr
Edwin Jackson	Fr
Joseph Jenkins	Jr
Jake Jones	Sr
Brennan Kroll	Sr
Jamaquez Langley	Jr
Lance Littmann	Fr
Tyler Littmann	Fr
Matthew Marcom	So
Dominique Mathis	Sr
Isaiah Moore	Jr
Juwan Moye	Fr
Maurice Nicholson	Jr
Shaquille Nurriddin	Fr
Taylor Pebeashy	Fr
Devin Perry	Fr
Donald Powell	Fr
Kenneth Roberson	So
Branden Rogers	Fr
Terrell Sanders	Sr
Daryl Saunders	Jr
Samuel Shelton	So
Brandon Smith	Jr
Eric Stevens	Fr
Christopher Taylor	So
Chris Townsend	Sr
Nicholas Venable	Fr
Jimmy Vreeland	Jr
Vincent Woods	Sr

2009 Track Schedule

Date	Day	Opponent	Site	Time / Results
Mar. 11	Wed.	W.Johnston (rescheduled from 3/12)	Away	results
Mar. 19	Thu.	GNRC (quad meet)	GMHS	results: Boys 1st
Apr. 2	Thu.	Knightdale (quad)	Away	4:00 PM
Apr. 18	Sat.	Apex Relays	Apex	9:30 AM
Apr. 23	Thu.	GNRC (quad) @ W.Johnston	Away	4:00PM
Apr. 25	Sat.	Wake County Championships	Panther Creek	9:00 AM
Apr. 29	Sat.	GNRC Championships	Clayton	2:00 PM
May. 8	Fri.	NCHSAA Regional meet	TBA
May. 9	Sat.	NCHSAA State 4A Championships	TBA

INDOOR SCHEDULE

Date	Day	Opponent	Site	Time
Dec. 3	Wed.	GNRC @ SSS	SSS	results needed
Dec. 17	Wed	GNRC @ W.Johnston	WJ	results needed
Jan. 16	Fri	Eastern High School Challenge, sponsored by the Durham Striders	UNC-Chapel Hill	results
Jan. 22	Wed	GNRC @ Clayton	Clayton	results needed
Jan. 28	Wed.	GNRC Championships	WJ	2:00PM
Feb. 14	Sat.	NCHSAA State Championships	11AM	results

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Trojans fall in NCHSAA 2nd round

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A brutally cold night in Fayetteville brings an end to the Trojans season with a 39-3 loss at Jack Britt. The Trojans cannot survive the six turnovers and muster only 138 yards rushing while the Buccaneers pile up a massive 432 in the rematch of the 2006 play-off game. The Trojans manage only a BG Howell 27 yard field goal while the Bucs get 4 rushing TD's and three scores over 50 yards. The Trojan season ends at 8-5.

Britt's Eric Johnson runs untouched 82 yards with the opening kickoff and 13 seconds into the game, they lead 7-0. The Trojans gain only 3 yards on their first series but Britt is held without a first down on their first series as well. Garner fumbles ends a good drive at the Buc 46 after the Trojans had moved it 59 yards. Britt moves the ball to the Garner 19 before Aston Anglin-Stone picks off Everrett Proctor and returns it 62 yards to the Buccaneer 29. The stout Buc defense prevents the first down and the Trojans punt it back, pinning Britt on the 2 as the first quarter ends.

The Bucs go up 14-0 when Russell Collins hits Proctor from 52-yard out on the ninth play of the 98 yard drive, consuming 4:20 of the clock. Garner picks just 19 yards on the ensuing series but Britt fumbles the Howell punt and Stone is there again for his second takeaway of the night. But perhaps the critical series of the game, the Trojans cannot punch it in starting from the Britt 12 and settle for the field goal to cut the margin to 14-3. Britt answers with another plus four minute, 73 yard drive, with Johnson diving in from 3 yards out but Nussbaum's kick is missed to make it 20-7 at the half.

Garner fumbles to end their first drive of the second half but the defense shows a flash of last week's stirring performance against Millbrook forcing Britt out with just a 2 yard gain. From their own 12, the Trojans move it 41 yards, with Michael Brantley gaining 27 of his 84 yards of the night. But consecutive incompletions and a 5 yard Howell pass to Brantley on 3rd and ten results in another punt. Britt QB Collins dashes 46 yards on first down, followed by Proctor going 22 to the Trojan 15. Tremale France takes it in from 4 yards out for a 26-3 Buc lead. Another quick Trojans series without a first sets up Britt at midfield but Carl Redd recovers a Buc fumble to give the Trojans new life. Howell hits Ian Hunter for a 33 yard pass to Britt 12. But another Trojan fumble gives the Bucs the ball back with 1:26 to go in the third.

Britt moves the ball methodically 46 yards, chewing up the end of the third and first three minutes of the final period but have to punt it away and the pooch punt gives it back to Garner at their own 33. But the Britt defense forces the third consecutive 3-and-out from Garner in just 24 seconds and Howell's kick is partially blocked, travelling only 18 yards and the Bucs take over at their own 46. Six plays and a 1:34 later, Britt tacks on the dagger with Frances' 2nd score of the night and an insurmontable 32-3 lead with just 7:44 to go in the Trojan season.

Juwan Moye sees his first action of the play-offs and manages 4 yards and a Britt face mask moves the ball on their side of the 50. But Sebastian Hepburn picks off a Howell pass. Johnson dashes 62 yards on first down for the final score of 39-3.

The Trojans send their thanks and appreciation to the 28 seniors of the Class of 2009 for their effort and service to Garner Magnet High School. We wish you the very best!!

(pictures all season long courtesy of http://johnnyjohnson.smugmug.com)

	1	2	3	4	F
GAR	0	3	0	0	- 3
JB	7	13	6	13	- 39

SCORING:
JB-Eric Johnson 82 kickoff return (R.Nusbaum kick)
JB-Everett Proctor 52 pass from Russell Collins (R.Nusbaum kick)
GAR-BG Howell 27 FG JB-Eric Johnson 3 run (kick failed)
JB-Tremale France 4 run (kick failed)
JB-France 1 run (kick failed)
JB-Eric Johnson 62 run (R.Nusbaum kick)

	GAR	JB
Rushes-yards	29-138	49-432
Comp-Att-Yards-Int	15-31-99-2	1-9-52-1
Total Yards	237	484
First downs	9	12
Penalties	4-32	3-25
Turnovers	6	3

Rushing:
GAR--Michael Brantley 12-84 yards, Jeremy Conyers 10-31, BG Howell 3-13, Brandon Parks 2-7, Juwan Moye 2-3;
JB--Eric Johnson 14-147 yards, 3TD; Everett Proctor 12-105; Russell Collins 9-97; Tremale France 10-70; Julius Ingram 4-13 yards

Passing: GAR--B.Howell 15-31-99, 2INT; JB--Collins 1-7-52 yards, TD; Proctor 0-2-0 INT

The Trojan Sports Network thanks Athletic Director Bean and his press box crew for their cooperation for tonight's broadcast.

Many, many thanks for the support of our tremendous Trojan Club supporters this season. Your valuable contributions are essential to the success of our entire athletic program. We encourage our Trojan fans to be sure to visit these companies and thank them for their support!!!!

I-phone? Pah, US-phone!

The I-phone is a beautiful thing. And I don't have one yet, so if you're drawing up a Christmas list remember me. But while the I-phone looks nice, it's causing all sorts of problems for those people who don't conform to a "standard accent". And because the I-phone's new voice recognition programme has been based on an American accent (which variety of US accent, I don't know), some British users are getting their wires crossed.

The Telegraph reports on it here. We covered a similar story on the blog way back in 2005 when Alex Ferguson, manager of a little-known Northern soccer club, had to return his posh car to be "fixed" as it couldn't understand his melodious tones.

But beyond the silly aspects of these stories, there is serious issue about the whole idea of what is "standard" and what's not. Who decides on what is a "normal" accent? Well, usually those who feel they have the right and the power to make their own accent the norm. So if it's north American software developers today using their own accents as the norm, five hundred years ago it was William Caxton and his printer chums who settled on the dialect of south east England as the standard of their era.

Me, I'm waiting for the cockney phone, which responds to any voice with a slap round the face and a shout of "Millwall".

Useful for:
ENA5 - Language Variation
ENGA3 - Language Explorations

Let's sort these parasites out

If you haven't already seen Barnardo's shocking film in defence of children's rights, you really should. It's here on the Barnardo's website and makes excellent material for looking at how language is used to represent young people. Remember, all the dialogue in the film is taken from UK newspaper websites: in other words, these are all things members of the British public have said about young people. Scary stuff.

Useful for:
ENGA2 - Investigating Representation