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Trojan coach Jason Strickland will take his team to Thomaston tonight for a scrimmage with the Upson-Lee Knights.

Final: Lamar County 37 Upson Lee 0

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Friday, August 12. 2011
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The Lamar County Trojans toppled Upson Lee 37-0 in a pre-season scrimmage at Matthews Field in Thomaston.

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#1 lcchs student1.0 on 08/12/11 at 07:05 AM
see no one in barnesville likes to talk about the good things goin on the community
#2 LCCHS Parent on 08/12/11 at 10:49 AM
I can't wait to see our boys play this evening! Way to go TROJANS!!!!!!!!!!
#3 Anonymous on 08/12/11 at 11:03 AM
I love the Trojans and I will be in attendance tonight! Win, lose or draw, Jason Strickland has our support and our thanks for running such a great program. The lean years come and go and we have had our share of thin times so it feels good to be near the top. Roll on Big Blue!
#4 Anonymous on 08/12/11 at 11:24 AM
Hope LC citizens will bring the Trojan thunder to Upson Co so we can show them what Trojan Pride is all about! GO BIG BLUE
#5 TROJAN #1 FAN on 08/12/11 at 11:27 AM
WAY TO GO TROJANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE OUR TROJANS BEAT THE H-E-L-L OUT OF THE KNIGHTS.....I'M BEHIND THEM 1,000,000 %
#6 Debbie on 08/12/11 at 08:26 PM
Way to go boys in blue. We are praying for a safe game. Sorry we couldn't be there to help cheer you all on.
#7 Anonymous on 08/12/11 at 10:24 PM
Congratulations Trojans! Can't wait for you to play in Barnesville.
#8 Anonymous on 08/12/11 at 10:51 PM
I'd like to know who is responsible for the run-through sign the cheerleaders had at tonight's game that said "We Love and Miss you Coach Condon". I am of the opinion that the run through sign is to promote OUR team, NOT to send a message to a coach of the other team. Coach Condon chose to leave Lamar and become a part of the Upson-Lee staff. We are LAMAR!
#9 Anonymous on 08/13/11 at 01:19 AM
I see Condon is running the same dynamic offense still. Can we get them on the schedule every year?
#10 Anonymous on 08/13/11 at 06:40 AM
So glad we went to the wing T Offense. It fits better than the spread. Looks like we will have a solid year. each week getting better! Way to go guys!
#11 Anonymous on 08/13/11 at 07:02 AM
I predict Lamar will we region but will be 8-2 or 9-1 but will do good in state playoffs.
#12 Anonymous on 08/13/11 at 08:40 AM
Congratulation LC!!!!!
#13 Anonymous on 08/13/11 at 01:55 PM
Woops, nice try former coach
#14 Anonymous on 08/13/11 at 03:13 PM
Nice job against Upson men. We can tell you've worked hard and we appreciate your effort. Lets not forget though, we beat up on a pretty good Henry Couunty team in pre-season last year and lost our first game to Bleckley. It's going to be tough down below the gnat line in two weeks but if you continue to work hard and believe you can have the best season ever.
#15 Anonymous on 08/14/11 at 04:04 AM
Congrats to everyone involved! Hey, that coach is kinda cute. Have a great season guys.
#16 Alexandria World on 08/14/11 at 08:33 AM
That was a GREAT Game. (:
I enjoyed it!
#GoTrojans
#17 Anonymous on 08/14/11 at 12:41 PM
Don't know about cute, but he is one heckuva coach. Can you believe there is at least one board member that wants to run him off? The guy comes in here and takes a program that was dead and buried and resucitated it finishing second in the region and making the playoffs the last two years and it looks like this year's team may be his best yet. People here don't appreciate a good thing when they have it. They certainly don't support it the way it should be.
#18 Pom Pom Mom on 08/14/11 at 01:59 PM
Written by Ken Green for Barnesville Memories.
One of the reasons I love being from Barnesville...Friday night, Lamar County High School traveled to Thomaston for a pre-season football scrimmage with Upson-Lee High School. Prior to the game, the stadium announcer had everyone stand for the National Anthem. After a few minutes of silence and garbled noise coming from the loud speakers, the announcer declared that there would be no Anthem. As the fans started to sit down and get ready for football action, a group of Lamar County fans started singing the Anthem. Pretty soon everyone in the stands on Lamar County's side was standing and singing LOUDLY and PROUDLY. The song could be heard clearly throughout the stadium and everyone there took notice. When it was over, the Upson-Lee fans gave the Lamar County fans a standing ovation for their efforts. To put the icing on the cake, the Trojans beat the Knights 37-0. I love this town!!!
#19 Anonymous on 08/14/11 at 08:50 PM
wait, Lamar Co TROJANS used to have a coach whose name is almost CONDOM? That's great, Trojan man!
#20 It's Me on 08/14/11 at 08:59 PM
Actually, my entire family as well as a lot of people here in Lamar love Coach Condon. I personally am saddend at him leaving and thing the board should of counter offered that deal so we could keep him in our spacial needs program. I'm not familiar with his position as a coach other than knew he was a football coach as well as an awesome teacher. The students have every right to show that. I wouldn't of thought it as anything more than a gesture that they miss him.
#21 Anonymous on 08/14/11 at 11:07 PM
I'm sure he's a good guy and teacher and coach and people miss him. But I just dont think the team run through sign is the place for that type of message. Make seperate signs, go hug his neck, etc etc but dont say hello to an opposing coach on your own team's sign.
#22 M.S. on 08/15/11 at 07:57 AM
Wow that is awesome!
#23 Richard Hungwell on 08/15/11 at 08:36 AM
Support our own team and not the coach from another team. If the coach chose to leave he obviously didn't feel the same way about Lamar County. His offense was no good anyway!
#24 Anonymous on 08/15/11 at 03:36 PM
You know it is his girlfriend (that is a cheerleaders' coach for LC and a LCES teacher) that did that crap. Very tacky and immature. Not the time or the place for that. If they (his former special education students) missed him, then they could give him a call or hug. They were definitely not the ones responsible just his girlfriend.
#25 mlb@gmail.com on 08/15/11 at 04:03 PM
I don't know about him being a heckuva coach - I'm with the board members. He needs to hit the road and get someone with more successful experience as a head coach. He has gotten some really good players, not so much his coaching ability.
#26 Anonymous on 08/15/11 at 05:21 PM
Even the same hand signs!! Too sad...
#27 Anonymous on 08/15/11 at 07:52 PM
That's not true...look out how the team was so many years before him. There is always potential in the players, but it is how the coach molds them into being the best players they can be. We did not have that before. You are either the former head coach or Condon making this ridiculous remark. Which board members? Start naming names if you want to throw that in there... That's the problem - some commenter wants to add "at least one board member wants him gone" as some sort of factual comment, but unless you name names then it means nothing.
#28 Khris Burk on 08/17/11 at 02:11 AM
when "scan the man" was around the team only won maybe 10 games,in the past two years they have won 14 and made the playoffs twice,noone has done that since wilson who made the playoffs I know 4 years running.strickland is running a great program with discipline and chracter,exactly what it takes to have a winning program. i still "try" and live buy what my head coach mark wilson instilled in us.the three c's class,character and commitment.

GO BLUE
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