The undefeated Coffee Trojans dominated the Bainbridge Bearcats in just about every statistical category in Friday night’s 23-14 win at Jardine Stadium. The Trojans totaled more yards, more first downs, more plays, and, maybe most importantly, fewer penalty yards than the Bearcats. Coffee racked up 424 total yards — most of which were on the ground — compared to Bainbridge’s 390 total yards. Leading the way offensively for the second week in a row was senior running back Fred Brown, who rushed for 171 yards on 28 carries. He also scored one touchdown, bringing his total for the…
Author: Robert Preston, Jr.
Friday night’s game between the visiting Bainbridge Bearcats and the Coffee Trojans couldn’t have started out worse. The Bearcats took the opening kick 70 yards to the Coffee 14 then scored on the second play of the game when quarterback Cam Sanders found Antavious Murphy standing right by himself in the front of the end zone. With less than a minute off the clock, Bainbridge had a 7-0 lead. The Trojans righted the ship from that point on, settled down, and fought to a 23-14 win to improve to 2-0 on the season. After the Bearcats…
The slate of candidates for the Douglas and Broxton elections is set. And there’s a little intrigue on both ballots. In the Douglas election, Mayor Tony Paulk is running unopposed. Current Ward 3 commissioner Olivia Pearson opted not to run again. Voters in that ward will have a choice to make. Two candidates, Gregory Batts and Tony Paulk II, signed up to run. Paulk II is Mayor Tony Paulk’s nephew. The other two commissioners on the ballot will return to office. Commissioners Kentaiwon Durham (Ward 2) and Steve Bailey (6) have no opposition. In…
The Coffee Trojans junior varsity squad handed the Colquitt County Packers football program its second loss in as many days to a Coffee team. The Coffee JV defeated the Colquitt JV 14-13 at Jardine Stadium a day after the sixth grade Trojans throttled the sixth grade Packers 44-14 over at Coffee Middle School. While the sixth graders handled things easily, it was a different story for the high schoolers. The Trojans didn’t have a lead for very long during the game and the outcome was never a given until literally the final play. Coffee scored first…
The Coffee Trojans racked up some impressive stats in last Friday night’s 38-13 win over the visiting Tift County Blue Devils. Coffee scored first to take a 7-0 lead. Tift promptly tied the score at seven apiece. From there, it was all Coffee; the Trojans scored 31 unanswered points and didn’t surrender another Tift touchdown until there was less than 4:00 on the clock. Senior running back Fred Brown led the offensive attack for Coffee. Brown had 234 yards on 27 carries and two touchdowns. He averaged nearly nine yards per carry. The Trojans’ second leading…
Friday night, the Coffee Trojans defeated the Tift County Blue Devils for the second straight year in week one of the high school football season. Coffee handled Tift easily 38-13 at Jardine Stadium, the Trojans’ 17th win in their rivalry with the Blue Devils. Coffee leads the series 17-14. The Trojans struck quickly, scoring their first touchdown a little over a minute and a half into the game. Quarterback Maurice Hansley found H-back Range Robinson for a 50-yard touchdown. Jonah Saylor’s extra point was good to give Coffee an early 7-0 lead. Tift answered on its next drive,…
The Coffee Trojans’ 2023 football campaign opened with a 20-16 win over the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricanes in Fitzgerald in a pre-season scrimmage. The game was actually tale of two contests: The first quarter then quarters two through four. The junior varsity players took the field in the first quarter. Coffee took care of Fitzgerald 17-0 in that frame. Sophomore running back KJ DeBruce scored from 15 yards out. Tyrese Hansley found the end zone on a one-yard run to make it 14-0. Right at the end of the quarter, kicker Aidan Gonzalez split the uprights from 35 yards…
Every so often, counterfeit/fake money shows up at businesses in Douglas and Coffee County. And most of the time, there’s not much that authorities can do once it hits circulation. It’s apparently Douglas’s turn in the counterfeit rotation. In the last few weeks, several fake bills have been passed around town. The fake money comes in two different forms. One is actual counterfeit currency — bills that are specifically designed to look exactly like actual money and manufactured for the purpose of posing as the real thing. Then there is fake money, which are bills that look like…
According to multiple media outlets, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill has reached a settlement with an employee of Kelley Fleet, Inc., after he allegedly struck the man with an open palm on June 18, 2023, at a Miami marina. Despite the settlement, the Miami Herald is reporting that the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office is still investigating the incident. Other media outlets have also reported that the NFL has not released a statement regarding its inquiry into the incident, either. Hill could face disciplinary action from the NFL under the league’s Personal Conduct Policy. Hill and…
At Monday morning’s county commission meeting, retired attorney Jim Hudson addressed the commission about the ongoing controversy surrounding security breaches in the Coffee County elections office in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Over the last several months, Hudson has addressed the Coffee County Board of Elections and Registration during its meetings. In the June meeting, he presented a resolution to the board asking that the elections board bring in an independent counsel to investigate the breaches. During a special called meeting on June 20, the board voted on but did not approve the resolution. …