Lake Orion advances to Michigan State Championship Game

Lake Orion Dragons shutout Fordson 38-0 last Friday for the opportunity to face Rockford at Ford Field in the Michigan Division 1 Championship Game. Lake Orion will look to avenge their only loss this season, which was the opening game to Rockford.

Lake Orion’s second possession started after a Fordson fumble, recovered by Jared Lee at the Lake Orion 44. Nine plays later, Branden Oakes dove into the end zone from two yards away. Oakes added a 44-yard touchdown run late in the second quarter for a 21-0 Dragon lead at halftime.

The Dragons (12-1) scored in the second half on a three-yard run by Daniel Ney, a 26-yard field goal by Jeffrey Heath, and a 21-yard touchdown run by Marques Stevenson. Heath made all four extra-point kicks.

“We attacked, played aggressive,” said Lake Orion coach Chris Bell about the early lead. “For us to come out, shut them down and keep Fordson (12-1) off the board — I think that says a lot about our kids.

“Someone asked me Week 1 if I’d like to see Rockford again,” Bell added. “And I said I’d love to because that would mean we’re doing something good.”

Lake Orion High School has played their home games on GameDay Grass XPe from AstroTurf since 2005. The 90,325 sf GameDay Grass surface at Dragon Stadium is right next to another 92,000 sf GameDay Grass XPe soccer field.

Lake Orion High School is playing for its 1st State Championship in football and GSV/AstroTurf wishes the Dragons the best of luck!

Greeneville to host TSSAA Final Four on GameDay Grass 3D from AstroTurf

Greeneville High School advances to the Final Four of the TSSAA Playoffs after an exciting 35-28 double overtime win over the Sullivan South Rebels at Burley Stadium on Friday, November 21. Greeneville (11-2) will host the Maryville Rebels (13-0) on Friday, November 28, 2008, at 7:00 PM at Burley Stadium in Greeneville. It will be the second Final Four appearance for GHS, with the other coming in 2000, when Greeneville travelled to Maryville before losing 12-28.

Earlier this year, GameDay Grass 3D was installed at Burley Stadium. An advanced hybrid system which according to third party testing most closely replicates natural grass, GameDay Grass 3D utilizes a proprietary technology called Root Zone™, a simulated thatch layer at the base of the turf system that replicates the underlayer of root fibers and thatch found in natural grass. The density of the RootZone, providing stability, cushion and consistent performance over time, means that less granulated rubber infill is required, reducing the problems related to infill migration and “fly-out.”

Best of luck to the Greene Devils!

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Booker T. Washington High School routs Gulf Coast in FHSAA Class 4A Playoff game on GameDay Grass 3D

Torrence Moise completed 13 of 15 passes for 245 yards and two touchdowns for Booker T. Washington as they beat Gulf Coast 55-32 in front of a crowd of 500 at Milander Stadium.

''When he's clicking, the offense's clicking,'' Booker T. Washington coach Earl Tillman Jr. said.
Booker T. totaled 429 yards on offense and advanced to play district runner-up Hallandale, which defeated Naples Barron Collier.

Naples Gulf Coast finished its season 7-4. Gulf Coast quarterback Jeff Schmidt passed for 211 yards, and rushed for 75 and two touchdowns. Shawn Normil led Gulf Coast with 100 rushing yards on nine carries and two touchdowns.

Gulf Coast totaled 406 yards on offense, but that didn't bother Tillman. His team was hampered by injuries, and freshmen and sophomores filled in.

''We tried to give all the kids and opportunity to play and played a lot of young guys so they can get some experience, especially during post season play,'' Tillman said.

Dwight Hopkins lead Booker T. Washington rushing with four carries for 74 yards and a touchdown.

Last season, Gulf Coast lost 49-0 to Booker T. But on Friday, it played tough enough to take an early lead. With Gulf Coast leading 7-0, Moise led Booker T. to touchdowns on the first five drives of the first half.

Booker T. tied the score with 7:32 left in the first half on Moise's 1-yard run. 6. Freshman kicker Angel McBoyle hit the first of seven extra points to make the score 7-7.

Booker T. took the lead to stay when Moise capped a 10-play, 80-yard drive with a 13-yard touchdown pass to Quinton Dunbar to make the score 14-10 with 1:08 left in the quarter.
Booker T. scored 21 points in the second quarter to take a 35-10 lead at the half.

Just seven seconds after the start of the second quarter, Booker T. defensive end Lynden Trail batted a pass by Schmidt, intercepted it and returned the ball to Gulf Coast's 4. Eduardo Clements scored on the next play to make the score 21-10 with 11:48 in the second.

Booker T.'s Willie Williams made the score 28-10 when he capped a 12-play, 80-yard drive with a 2-yard touchdown run, and Moise threw his second touchdown pass, a 3-yarder, to give Booker T. a 35-10 lead.

Gulf Coast put up 22 points in the second half to make it interesting, but Booker T quarterback Jeremiah Hay completed 6 of 7 passes for 72 yards, including a touchdown pass Ricky Delancy that made the score 42-10.

Tony Gallon made it 48-24 with an 18-yard touchdown run with 5:24 left in the fourth. Hopkins' 61-yard touchdown run made the score 55-32.

Dawson's 56-yard FG the difference for Browns after Lindell's miss on MNF

Phil Dawson wasn't about to quit during Cleveland's latest fourth-quarter meltdown. Turned out, neither did the rest of the Browns.

With a confident nod to coach Romeo Crennel, Dawson went out and calmly hit a career-long 56-yard field goal with 1:39 left that sent Cleveland to a 29-27 win over the Buffalo Bills on Monday night

Dawson's fifth field goal of the game capped a wild finish. The teams traded leads during a 46-second span in the final 2 1/2 minutes -- after the Browns appeared ready to squander a 13-point lead for the third straight week. And the game wasn't decided until Buffalo's Rian Lindell missed a 47-yard field-goal attempt wide right with 38 seconds remaining, allowing Cleveland to run out the clock.

Suddenly, the Browns (4-6) have something to feel good about after they were on the verge of unraveling. Running back Jamal Lewis even questioned whether his teammates had quit during a 34-30 loss to Denver on Nov. 6.

"We got tired of what happened the previous two weeks, getting a lead and losing it in the fourth quarter," receiver Braylon Edwards said. "As a team, we rallied. We came together when we were supposed to and made the plays necessary to win."

Brady Quinn earned his first win in the second career start for the 2007 first-round draft pick. And the Browns' once porous defense -- which allowed 993 yards of offense in its previous two games combined -- held the Bills to 334 yards while generating four turnovers.

"You can't say enough," Crennel said. "The guys hung in there. They played as a team, and it was good enough on this night."

Give Crennel credit, too. Without hesitation, he made the decision to send Dawson out after the Browns' seven-play, 28-yard drive stalled at the Bills 39 after Edwards couldn't hold onto Quinn's pass at the right sideline on third-and-10.

"On the spur of the moment, you've got to be confident," Dawson said.

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"So as soon as we threw the incomplete pass on third down, I was ready to go. I gave Romeo a nod, and he had the confidence to send me out there."

It was a better ending for Dawson, too. He missed a potential game-tying 54-yard field goal in the final minute of a 14-11 loss at Washington on Oct. 19.

It's the Bills (5-5) who now face questions about unraveling. They've lost four straight -- their longest skid since 2005 -- and five of six, looking nothing like the upstart team that opened the season 4-0.

Much of the blame for this loss falls on the shoulders of quarterback Trent Edwards, who threw three interceptions on his first four possessions, putting the Bills in a deep hole.

"It's frustrating right now. I don't really have any good answers," he said. "I'm frustrated with myself and the way I performed."

The miscues -- two poor reads and a pass tipped by defensive tackle Shaun Rogers at the line of scrimmage -- were an extension of the troubles Edwards had in his previous three games. Over a 10-quarter span, including the first quarter against Cleveland, he threw eight interceptions, lost two fumbles and gave up a safety.

Lindell took the loss much harder. He was emotionally upset and dejected as he spoke with reporters.

"Yeah, you have to make it. It's ridiculous," said Lindell, who was good from 26 and 31 yards. "I missed my line. You have to make those."

Suddenly, the Bills' chances of ending their eight-year playoff drought are in jeopardy. The team has fallen from first in the AFC East to last in the span of a month. And so much for the poise and confidence the team showed in securing three consecutive fourth-quarter comebacks earlier this season.

"It's not where we want to be, obviously," coach Dick Jauron said. "It doesn't feel like a free-fall, at least not to me. I can tell you, being around them, they hurt."

The loss spoiled a breakout game for running back Marshawn Lynch, who had a season-best 119 yards rushing and added a team-leading 58 yards receiving, including an 18-yard touchdown. Rookie Leodis McKelvin also scored on a 98-yard kickoff return, one play after Cleveland's Jerome Harrison scored on a 72-yard run that put the Browns up 23-13 to open the fourth quarter.

Josh Cribbs also scored on a 2-yard run for the Browns, and Edwards had 104 yards receiving.
"I can't say enough for this being a big win for our team," Quinn said. "We ended up winning in the end. It wasn't the way we wanted to, but a win is a win."

FHSAA Playoff Game to be played on GameDay Grass 3D

The Gulf Coast High School football team's first-round Class 4A playoff game against Miami-Washington on Nov. 21 will be played at Milander Stadium in Hialeah.

The site was released on the Florida High School Athletic Association site on Tuesday. Because not every high school in Miami has its own football stadium, games are usually rotated among multiple sites.

The game has a 7:30 p.m. kickoff. Washington beat Gulf Coast, 49-0, in the first round en route to the state championship last year.

Ted Hendricks Stadium was the first installation of GameDay Grass 3D. Installed in 2007, Ted Hendricks Stadium hosts located in the heart of Hialeah, plays host to over 20 high school Football games, the Copa Latina Soccer Tournament, as well as, numerous special events throughout the year.

AstroTurf pays off for BCS Top 25

Six of the Top 25 teams in this weeks BCS Rankings practice or play on AstroTurf GameDay Grass.

Leading the way is #1 Alabama (10-0), who practice indoor on their GameDay Grass field in the Hank Crisp Indoor Facility.

#3 Texas (9-1) practices on their only synthetic football field at the Indoor Practice facility or "The Bubble" as the players call it.

#11 Ohio State (8-2) practices on a full-size AstroTurf GameDay Grass field in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.

#15 Michigan State (9-2) practices on their GameDay Grass field indoors at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building across from Spartan Stadium.

#19 Florida State (7-2) practices on their only synthetic football field, which is marked identically to Doak Campbell Stadium.

#25 South Carolina (7-3) practices on their only synthetic football field, their GameDay Grass XPe field located in the USC Indoor Facility.

Undefeated Alabama clinches berth in SEC Championship Game

No. 1 Alabama (10-0, 6-0) got three interceptions from Rashad Johnson and a 1-yard quarterback sneak in overtime by John Parker Wilson Saturday to win 27-21 over No. 15 LSU (6-3, 3-3) at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

The win clinches Alabama's first SEC Western Division title since 1999 and secures a berth in the 2008 SEC Championship Game.

Since 2002, the only synthetic turf the Crimson Tide have practiced on is AstroTurf GameDay Grass. The 110 yard field is located in the Hank Crisp Indoor Facility, which is fully heated and air- conditioned, allowing the Tide unlimited access no matter what the conditions are outside.