Tie-Breaker Determines Winner Again
It’s that tiebreaker again. So far this season there hasn’t been an outright winner of The Monticello News football contest; it has been the tiebreaker that determined the winner. And guessing the tie-breaker score is tricky business.
Last week Tonya Newton guessed that 41 points would be scored in the Monticello-Putnam County game that the Hurricanes won, 31-21, for a total of 52 points. She was one of four players who picked winners of 12 games, and her tiebreaker guess won her the $25 prize presented by Chris Castellana at Frank’s Restaurant, sponsor of the week.
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Ms. Newton is a Feldspar employee who won a contest when she was in high school but hadn’t played much since then until this year. Predicting lower tiebreaker scores were Jan Gaston, Tracy Reece and Dana Worthen.
None of the four missed on the same two games. Ms. Newton missed on the two Tennessees, as in University of—the Volunteers who lost to Auburn, 28-21—and the Tennessee Titans, losers to the New England Patriots, 39-30.
Many of the top finishers who got one or both of those right missed on either Georgia Tech’s 29-21 upset of N.C. State or Iowa’s 30-27 victory over Michigan.
Ten other contest players picked winners in 11 games to qualify for the grand prize, tickets for four for this year’s Peach Bowl. Names of players who score 11 or more each week are added to the grand prize honor roll.
Results of other games last week included: Piedmont 41, Gatewood 8; Washington-Wilkes 37, Wilkin-son County 13; Georgia 31, Alabama 23; Maryland 21, Clemson 7; Albany State 56, Savannah State 0; Minnesota 39, Atlanta 26; Miami 23, N.Y. Giants 10; Philadelphia 27, Washington 25, and Green Bay 35, Seattle 13.
This week Piedmont Academy as sponsor will award a $25 prize to the contest entrant who picks winners of most games, subject to that tiebreaker again, that are listed on page 16 with sponsors’ ads. The entry form, contest rules and honor roll also are on page 16.
The deadline to deliver entries to The News office or fax them to 706-468-6576 is 5 p.m. tomorrow, Oct. 10.
