PHOTOS: East Laurens hosts Laney for spring football scrimmage

Eastside fans enjoyed some spring bird-watching as the Falcons hosted the Wildcats, and made an impressive showing in their spring exhibition.

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May 28, 2026
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Eastside fans enjoyed an offseason football sighting last Thursday night as their Falcons took the field to wrap up spring drills with a scrimmage against Augusta’s Laney Wildcats. 

It was, overall, a strong showing for East Laurens and its core of rising juniors and seniors who are scheduled to come into their own this fall.

A number of new and familiar faces stood out with impressive plays on either side of the ball.

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The defense came up with a fourth-down stop on Laney’s long opening drive and scoring via interception early in the third quarter, while the offense moved the football effectively via run and pass, with several big plays sprinkled in, as it traded a touchdown with Laney in the first half, and scored two more as younger players trickled into the game in the second.

Here are more scenes from the action: 

JUST TOO QUICK: Major Floyd beats a couple more Wildcats to the pylon, after outrunning about three on his way to the edge to score the first touchdown of the game early in the second quarter/ZACH DAWSON
PUSHIN’ ‘EM BACK: Lagen Mack and Travunta Carroll lead the Falcon defense in a first-down tackle for loss/ZACH DAWSON
LOTS OF ROOM TO RUN: Tawan Horne takes off for a big gain after the catch on East’s first drive of the night/ZACH DAWSON
LETTING IT FLY: Quarterback Skyler Snead and the Falcons weren’t shy about turning it loose on short-, medium- and long-range passing attempts that were each an effective part of Thursday’s attack/CLAY REYNOLDS
HOLLIMAN HOUSE CALL: Demarcio Holliman carries back a pick-six early in the third quarter/ZACH DAWSON
DARK HORSE: Though the sun had already set, Rhajon Fullwood found plenty of daylight around the right end on this double-digit carry early in the third quarter/CLAY REYNOLDS
TOUCHDOWN, ON HOLD: A downfield foul wound up partially calling back the score, but it didn’t nullify the celebration as Kingston Stanley (23) was met by Easton Wood (66) in the end zone after rushing for a TD in the third quarter. The Falcons would punch it in officially only a few plays later/CLAY REYNOLDS
HIGH-LIGHT CATCH: Major Floyd shows off the ups with a leaping grab early in the second half/ZACH DAWSON
STRETCHING THEIR WINGS: The Falcons get loose for the second half/CLAY REYNOLDS
BUSTING OUT: Jaden Griffin scurries loose on a second-half run/CLAY REYNOLDS
PILING IT UP HIGH: At least six Falcons flock to the ball to stand up a Laney run on the Wildcats’ opening drive, which would end with a stop on downs forced by Cayden Stanley a few plays later/ZACH DAWSON
THUMP!: Jaleel Coleman (22), Jayden McClendon and Zion Boston laid a big lick on this Laney quarterback after his recovery of a fumbled snap late in the fourth quarter/ZACH DAWSON
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Clay Reynolds

Clay has headed up the Sports Desk since 2020, but his background at The Courier Herald – as a virtual jack of all trades – covers close to 15 years in a variety of full- and part-time roles since breaking in as a student intern during high school in 2010. The Dublin native, a proud alum of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, has received numerous Georgia Press Association awards for his writing, photography and editing, including first-place honors recognizing the paper’s sports section in 2022, and its annual Heart of Georgia Football preview in 2023. In addition to reading his area sports coverage, you can also hear him on the radio as a local play-by-play voice, host of 92.7 WKKZ’s “Tailgate Party” and occasional contributor to the Georgia Southern Sports Network.

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