Author: Robert Preston

Friday the 13th proved to be the Coffee Trojans’ lucky day. Friday night, the Trojans throttled the Warner Robins Demons 37-10 at Jardine Stadium in the first round of the state playoffs. The win was Coffee’s 10th of the season; it’s the first time since 1981 and 1982 that the Trojans have had back-to-back 10-win seasons. The Demons looked like they would play the Trojans tough. On their first possession, the Demons kicked a 28-yard field after a long but quick drive. Early in the game, the Demons had a 3-0 lead. Coffee answered with a 28-yard field goal attempt…

For the first time since 2002, the Coffee Trojans are region champions. All the Trojans had to do in order to secure their first share of the region title in 13 years – and the first championship they have won outright since 1982 – was defeat the embattled Bradwell Institute Tigers Friday night in Hinesville. Smart money said the Trojans would win the game going away. After all, the Tigers were 0-9 going into the game and hadn’t mustered much offense during the entire season. But this is the kind of game in which a team can easily slip up,…

Another Friday night, another Coffee Trojans victory. The Trojans improved to 8-1 overall and 6-1 in region play after a dominating 41-14 win over the Richmond Hill Wildcats at Jardine Stadium. The Trojans scored on their first two possessions of the game and never looked back. Sophomore running back Tywone Brewton scored twice while Demetrius Davis, Jeremiah Ashley, Thomas Spencer, and Tray Bryant each found the end zone once apiece. Three of those scores came on plays close to 50 yards or greater. Ashley ran 48 yards for his touchdown. Spencer covered 62 yards, and Bryant’s score came on a…

The Coffee Trojans won big Friday night over the Brunswick Pirates 27-3. But that’s not how the game started. In fact, for most of the first half, it didn’t look like either team was going to score. The Trojans finally broke the scoreless tie late in the second quarter when Demetrius Davis scampered 22 yards into the end zone on a Statue of Liberty play. The extra point was good and Coffee had a 7-0 lead with just over a minute left in the quarter. Seconds later, Tray Bryant recovered the ensuing kick on the Pirates’ 17-yard line to set…

There were certainly some tense moments during the Coffee Trojans’ 34-22 win over the South Effingham Mustangs Friday night. At halftime, the Trojans held on to a slim 14-7 lead. With about five minutes left in the game, Coffee was ahead by five points with South Effingham across midfield and driving. The Mustangs were moving the ball seemingly at will, with Coffee offering little resistance to a surprisingly effective South Effingham passing attack. However, an incompletion on a big 4th and 6 with the Mustangs in Trojan territory gave Coffee the ball and, for all practical purposes, the win. “We…

It’s not often that a team can lose the turnover battle yet still win a game. Yet that’s exactly what happened Friday night in Statesboro as the Coffee Trojans defeated the Statesboro High Blue Devils 39-20 in what started out as a very close contest. Once again, special teams plagued the Trojans. Coffee missed three extra points, was on the wrong end of a blocked punt that led to a Statesboro touchdown, dropped two punts, and made a mental mistake on blocked field goal that nearly led to another Blue Devil score. Almost amazingly, however, Coffee managed to pull it…

“If you’re going to win, sometimes you’ve got to win ugly.” Those were the words of Coffee Trojans head football coach Robby Pruitt after Friday night’s 20-14 Homecoming win over the Effingham County Rebels. Coffee had indeed won. And was indeed ugly. The Trojan offense sputtered all night and never seemed to hit its stride. And the lightning bolt that ignited the Trojans came from an unlikely place. Coffee fans haven’t heard much from junior wide receiver/quarterback/running back/defensive back Jeremiah Ashley this year. Originally penciled in to be the Trojans’ signal caller after Tyree Paulk graduated, the Coffee staff decided…

A Friday night shooting at Eastwood Apartments in Douglas has left two dead and one injured. According to Brannen Pruette of the Douglas Police Department, Curtis Wallace, 51, shot and killed his wife, Kathy Wallace, then, after a fairly lengthy standoff, killed himself before he could be apprehended. A second victim, Christy Rhoden, 23, was also shot but sustained minor injuries. Rhoden was treated and released from Coffee Regional Medical Center. The shooting took place around 7:35 p.m. Friday at the apartments on North McDonald Avenue. After shooting both Rhoden and Kathy Wallace in an upstairs apartment, Curtis Wallace fled…

Officers from the Douglas Police Department, Georgia State Patrol, the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, and an area SWAT team swarmed the neighborhood surrounding Amelia Apartments on North McDonald Avenue Friday night after a gunman shot two individuals, one fatally, and barricaded himself inside an apartment. As of Friday around 11 p.m., the gunman, who family on the scene identified as Curtis Wallace, was still barricaded inside the apartment. According to a police spokesman, the body of the deceased female was inside the apartment as well. A second female who had been shot had gotten out of the building and was…

Focused. Determined. Stifling. Relentless. Those are but a few words you could use to describe the Coffee Trojans’ defense Friday night. The defensive unit pounded the Glynn Academy Red Terrors into submission as the Trojans picked up a much needed region win in Brunswick, defeating the Terrors 22-0. The offense was adequate, special teams improved. But it was the defense that kept the Trojans in the game all night long. Glynn Academy is one of the region’s sleeper teams, seldom mentioned in the region championship discussion but one of the more dangerous teams on the schedule. Last year, the Red…