{"id":7987,"date":"2013-11-30T02:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T08:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=7987"},"modified":"2013-11-30T02:23:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T08:23:28","slug":"henry-county-patriots-prevail-over-northeast-eagles-43-14-advance-to-state-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2013\/11\/30\/henry-county-patriots-prevail-over-northeast-eagles-43-14-advance-to-state-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry County Patriots Prevail Over Northeast Eagles 43-14, Advance to State Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HenryParis, TN<\/strong> – The Henry County Patriots pounded out 270 total yards and five touchdowns on the ground to eliminate the Northeast Eagles in state semifinal football play, 43-14.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels good. Didn\u2019t make it last year, back this year, It feels good. The kids deserve it.They played hard,\u201d Henry County\u2019s head coach James Counce said. \u201cNortheast is a very good football team, well coached. They have a lot of talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Henry County Patriots beat Northeast Eagles. (Michael Rios-Clarksville Sports Network)<\/p><\/div>\n

After the Eagles struck first, the Patriots scored 21 unanswered points in the second and third quarters.<\/p>\n

The explosive Eagles quarterback, Montrell Pardue, was held to negative rushing yards and completed only 4 of 11 passes, including one touchdown in the game.<\/p>\n

The Patriots defense also contained Eagles running back Dontavious Fort-Merriweather. After rushing for 88 yards and a touchdown in the first half, he was held to negative rushing yards in the second.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought we were better prepared than we were the first time we played,\u201d Counce said. \u201cThey jumped out on us with their speed in the first game. We did a little better job, of course they got the first score tonight with their speed, but we did a better job containing their speed this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Eagles ground game was slowed to a crawl, the Patriots lined up in the I-formation and powered their way up and down the field all night.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid what we do offensively, hit people in the mouth, play physical,\u201d Counce said.<\/p>\n

Patriot Chase Henderson ignited the run game in the first half. He had 9 carries for 52 yards and a touchdown before leaving the game with an injury.<\/p>\n

After Henderson left the game, Jeremiah Godbott came in and rushed for 122 yards and 3 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Turnovers by the Eagles made the Patriots game more effective, by giving them a short field.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurnovers were huge,\u201d Eagles head coach Isaac Shelby said. \u201cWe committed too many of them and gave our defense a short field a bunch of times. It changed the way we wanted to play. Henry County is just a real good team.\u201d<\/p>\n

[320left]The Eagles were behind 14-7 with 2 minutes remaining in the first half after Godbott rushed two yards for his first touchdown of the game at the end of a 5-play, 53 yard Patriot\u2019s offensive drive.<\/p>\n

On the second play of the Eagles ensuing offensive drive, Pardue fumbled a bad snap and the Patriots recovered the ball on the Eagles 25-yard line.<\/p>\n

It took five plays for the Patriots to score again and go into halftime ahead 21-7.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gave them a short field and they ended up scoring on it because they are a good team and that is what good teams do,\u201d Shelby said. \u201cWe just dug ourselves a hole we couldn\u2019t get out of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two penalties at the beginning of the second half placed the Patriots right back in scoring position.<\/p>\n

Godbott\u2019s second touchdown, a four yard dash, extended the Patriots lead to 28-7 at 10:42 in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

After a touchdown in the first quarter the Eagles did not score again until 8 minutes left in the game. Pardue threw an 7-yard strike to Fort-Merriweather for his only touchdown pass.<\/p>\n

Fort-Merriweather was also responsible for the Eagles first touchdown. He scrambled 78 yards to the end zone on the Eagles second offensive drive. It was the Eagles biggest offensive play of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are really fast, really strong and really well coached. They had a great game plan on us,\u201d Shelby said.<\/p>\n

R\u2019tario Perkins rushed 8 yards for a Patriots last touchdown. The Patriots last score was a safety with less than a minute remaining in the game.<\/p>\n

The Patriots will play Knoxville’s West High Rebels in the State Championship Friday, December 6th.<\/p>\n

Box Score<\/h3>\n
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<\/td>\n1<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n2<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n3<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n4<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nFinal<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northeast High School Eagles<\/strong><\/td>\n7<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n14<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Henry County High School Patriots<\/strong><\/td>\n7<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n43<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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[320center]<\/p>\n

Photo Gallery<\/h3>\n

For more photos, visit the Discover Paris Photo Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paris, TN – The Henry County Patriots pounded out 270 total yards and five touchdowns on the ground to eliminate the Northeast Eagles in state semifinal football play, 43-14. \u201cIt feels good. Didn\u2019t make it last year, back this year, It feels good. The kids deserve it.They played hard,\u201d Henry County\u2019s head coach James Counce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1898,5282,107,198,258,5724,8783,5743,5723,8784,8785,8786,84,8787,8788],"class_list":["post-7987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-eagles","tag-featured","tag-henry-county","tag-henry-county-high-school","tag-henry-county-patriots","tag-henry-county-patriots-football","tag-isaac-shelby","tag-james-counce","tag-northeast-high-eagles","tag-northeast-high-eagles-football","tag-northeast-high-school","tag-paris-tn","tag-patriots","tag-state-semifinals-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7993,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}