TAEqUAN KATES

DIANTE "YOSHI" MONROE

SHAWN GHOLSON

RONALD CUNNINGHAM

DOZIER
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GENS WIN AND THEY ARE IN

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GAME: Dinwiddie at Petersburg, 7:00 p.m.

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So the post-season possibilities remain in the

Generals hands.

As it stands now:

1. Atlee (plays Lee Davis).

2. Hanover (plays Glen Allen).

3. Dinwiddie (plays Petersburg).
4 tie: John Marshall (plays TJ Saturday).
4 tie: Lee Davis (plays Atlee).
The Generals cannot move up.
1. lf Dinwiddie wins and Atlee loses and Hanover wins
Dinwiddie will play Atlee (would
probably fall to second seed).

2.

lf Dinwiddie wins and both Atlee and Ha-

nover win
the Generals play Hanover.
3. lf Dinwiddie loses and Lee Davis wins
Generals are out.

NORA DAVIS/CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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4.

lf Dinwiddie loses and Lee Davis losses

it's gone to be close (but more than likely

Dinwiddie fieshman linebacker John Branch returns an

interception against Hopewell last Friday. Branch has

been one of the many newcomers who have played well

of late for the Generals defense.

-Dinwiddie would probably be out).

mid-season that we needed them to step up and they have,

they have put us in position to be were we are right now
and I told them I was proud of them for that."
Four, the Generals have found a downhill rururing
game, which is needed as the weather gets briske4,
enough so that it would make last year's breakout per-

former Andre Thweatt proud.

"It's big [to have Wi]liams, Rashard Hicks and Darius
Hawkins mnning the balll you've got to be able to run the
ball and play defense to have success in November and
Decembeq" Mills said. "We are getting closer to that goa1,
we've got to take it one game at a time and stay focused
starling with a very tough Petersburg team [today]."
Now it will be important to see if those four keys are
enough to give the Genera.l.s four staight wins to end the
season and give them a berth in the post-season.

(OLLEGE FOOTBALL NOTES

McQueary won't coach due to threats
STIL|E COLLEGE, Pa.
State says assistant coach
- Penn
Mike McQueary won't coach
the Nittany Lions on Saturday because "multiple threats" have been made against him.
The university released a statement Thursday night saying
it would be "in the best rrterest of all" if the receivers coach
didn't attend the game against Nebraska at Beaver Stadium.
The football program is in turmoil following the firing of
longtime coach Joe Paterno, brought down in a scandal
involving child sex-abuse al.legations against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
McQueary testified to a grand jury that he encountered
Sandusky in the Penn State showers with a 10-year-old boy
n2002. He later told Paterno of the incident.
Sandusky was arrested and charged last Saturday His
Iawyer maintains his client is innocent.

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