Central High School - Pegasus Miller Lanier Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Douglass Harper Washington Hephzibah Wamer Robins Northeast Northside Evans Baldwin County Southwest The Central Chargers tearing towards a win. Earl Sanders gives a concerned look as he takes a rest from the action, Joe High breezes past the Southwest defense.

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City Champs ’86-’87 Chargers defeat Northeast, 51-0, and Southwest, 8-7 he Central Chargers claimed the 1986 - 87 football City Cham- pions title as they routed Northeast, 51 to 0, and slipped by Southwest in a season-ending thriller, 8 to 7. Getting off to a slow 0-3 start, the Chargers came back with a win over Hephzibah in the Homecoming game, thanks to an awe- some job by the defense, which had five sacks for a minus 45 yards. Staring a drive with an excellent punt return by Earl Sanders the Chargers took the lead, 7 to 0, and never looked back. The team went in at the half with a comfortable 21 to 0 lead, and added seven more in the fourth to finish with a 28 to O win. After Hephzibah, the Chargers only managed to win one of their next four games, losing to Warner Robins, Northside, and Baldwin County. The one win, though, 51 to 0 over Northeast, put the squad in contention for the city title. The team only had one more obstacle: Southwest. Southwest, having also beaten Northeast earlier in the season, took a 7 to O lead in the first quarter. They held this lead until the fourth quarter when Charger quarterback Victor Griffin threw a fourth down, 22-yard pass to Bobby Ketchup who pulled down a spectacular, one- handed catch and fell in the end zone which, plus the extra point tied the game 7 to 7 with about eight minutes to go. The game ended at 7 to 7 deadlock thus sending the Chargers and Patriots into overtime. The rule of overtime is if a team doesn’t score in two overtimes, the one with the deepest penetration in the two overtimes wins. Thanks to a Lewis Huff interception and a Mark Davis 30-yard run to Southwest's 20-yard line in the second overtime the Chargers claimed the win, 8 to 7, along with the city championship. Despite a 5-7 record, the varsity football squad had ap’‘peel. Front Row (left to right): Victor Griffin, Scott Lenderman, Daniel High, Joe High, Tim Jackson, Anthony Jones, Rader Sellers, Eric Glover, Brian Reese, Earl Sanders; Second row: Mark Davis, Eric Watkins, Lewis Huff, Chris Watson, Benard Evans, Carlos Dorm, Bobby Ketchup, Michael Hughes, Deundray Bentley, Jerome Stanley; Third row: Phillip Mixon, Julian Hylton, Henry Marshall, Greg Hill, Jimmy Hollingshed, Seth Wilson, Bill Pollard, Issac Davis, Mark Dent; Fourth row: Rodney Jackson, Zontion Cotton, Eric Cotton, Dawn Hodges, Reginald Dantely, Mike Leverett, Dexter Patterson, Precell Brooks, R.L. Brown, Chevene Hill; Fifth row: Sean Hill, Chad Leavitt, Orin Wilder, Willie Williams, Bobbie Lewis, John Avera, Chris Maxwell, Thorance Bonner.

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Zontion Cotton Reginald Daniely Mark Davis Joe High Julian Hylton Tim Jackson Bobby Ketchup Scott Lenderman Mike Leverett Dexter Patterson Bill Pollard Earl Sanders Eric Scott Jerone Stanley Orin Wilder Players