Friday night highlights: Baldwin County's best offensive performances of 2009

Fairhope's Jamal Woodyard picks up some of his 435 total yards of offense against UMS-Wright in week five. Woodyard accounted for three scores in what was voted the best county offensive performance of the season.

It seemed that county football teams could score from anywhere on the field this past season. 

Sustained, clock-eating drives didn't seem necessary with the likes of Jamal Woodyard making defenses look foolish, Logan Paul doing damage through the air and on the ground and Daryl Norris picking secondaries apart. 

So that made picking the lineup for the third annual best Baldwin offensive performances a difficult task. A group of Baldwin Register and Press-Register writers, editors and photographers poured over statistics from nearly 30 games by 13 players to develop this year's list. 

Following are the results, starting with the top performance of 2009: 

No. 1: Jamal Woodyard vs. UMS-Wright 

When a player averages 16.5 yards a play, you would assume it was a receiver making a number of big grabs. But the gaudy figure was actually what Woodyard averaged per rush in Fairhope's 41-21 win against the Bulldogs in week five. 

Woodyard sliced through the UMS defense for 314 yards on just 19 carries, and scored on runs of 66 and 77 yards as he surpassed the 1,000-yard mark for the season. For good measure, Woodyard caught three passes for 121 yards, including a 96-yard score on a screen pass. 

And the senior's performance didn't come against a weak stop unit. UMS entered the game as the defending 4A state champion and was ranked third in the state. 

"I was in the zone," Woodyard said after the game. "I felt like every time I touched the ball (that) I could make a big play. I kept looking for a hole." 

No. 2: Jamal Woodyard vs. Foley 

Two weeks prior to running through UMS, Woodyard stunned the Foley crowd by amassing 384 yards rushing and six touchdowns on 32 carries in a 40-20 Blue-Gold Trophy game win.

Woodyard finished with scoring runs of 1, 1, 2, 8, 80 and 90 yards. He had 240 yards and four touchdowns by halftime.