Charleston County Machine Shop and Cobbler Trade School (0-8, 0-2) at St. John's (6-3, 2-0)
St. John's had one of the "holy bleep" performances of the week last Friday, beating the upstart Baptist Hill team 54-8. Quarterback Kameron Smiley had 196 yards in the air and two touchdowns while both TJ Givens and LarRynz Givens each ran for right 150 yards. So apparently the Givens family can tote it. St. John's three losses this year all came to schools of higher classification and they've won four straight all by impressive margins. The school from Charleston, who I have created so many goofy iterations of that I forget what they are actually called, has been shut out five times this year and scored more than six points only once, so, I'll let you draw your own conclusions on how this'n might go. Bethune-Bowman (5-2, 0-1) at Branchville (3-4, 0-1) B-B is one of the feel-good, up-from-the-ashes teams we seem to get every year in Class A. After years and years of losing, they are at 5-2. The little bit of film I've seen on them they have an athletic quarterback, a running back who looks like a PO'd fire hydrant on rocket roller skates and a pretty active defense. That said, they got scalded by a very good C.E. Murray team last week 40-12. Branchville has three wins and that's great for them, but one of those was to a non-SCHSL team and the other two were against North and Military Magnet, who have combined for two wins. So, this seems like a good opportunity for the Mr. T Haircuts to get back in the win column. Scott's Branch (4-4, 1-1) at C.E. Murray (4-2, 2-0) The Eagles come in on a two-game losing streak. They've sort of beaten the teams you expect them to (Timmonsville and Denmark-Olar) and lost to the good ones you figured would beat them (Cross and St. John's). However, they gave Bamberg-Ehrhardt, Cross and St. John's all pretty good games, so they are certainly no pushover. The War Eagles (a more violent, aggressive version of the bird than what Scott's Branch has, I guess) tore up Bethune-Bowman 40-12. In the process, they showed that they aren't a one-trick pony offensively. Darius Rush had his customary good game (91 yards on just seven carries and a TD catch) but Sean Swaringer ran for 107 yards and three touchdowns and Marcus Reid had four catches for 76 yards and a score. C.E. Murray basically clinches a region title and the sweet, delicious playoff seeding that comes with it with a win tonight. East Clarendon (0-7, 0-2) at Creek Bridge (0-7, 0-2) Honestly there's not a lot of sizzle to sell on this one. The grill is cold and there ain't no meat in the fridge aside from one can of stand-up weenies, man. Both teams are winless this season. East Clarendon has scored 56 points and given up 226, while Creek Bridge has scored 60 and yielded 314. I will compliment both on playing very manly, beastly (manbeastly?) schedules. East Clarendon has been competitive in two games, falling in a close one to Timmonsville then inexplicably playing a good Hemingway team to an 8-6 final. So they have been close a few times. Unless the winner of this one also upsets Green Sea-Floyds (the other region VI team without region win) neither is going to the playoffs. But hey, somebody is going to win a football game and I don't say that to be trite. As hard these kids and coaches work, you hate to see them go an entire season without a victory, so it's good one or the other will get something to celebrate. Hannah-Pamplico (5-2, 2-0) at Green Sea-Floyds (3-4, 0-2) H-P is another of those warm, fuzzy stories of the year, shaking off several bad years and an 0-2 start to now having a five-game winning streak. Green Sea lost a close one to Hemingway last week and game unbeaten Lake View a good game their previous time out. They have a clock-eating power-running attack that is effective (with two excellent backs in Akil Gause and Mahummad Graham), shortens games a bit and has had them in just about every contest this year. The problem last week was a pair of fumbles, one of which was returned for a touchdown and one of which led to a touchdown. I don't think turnovers have been a persistent problem, so you might chalk that up to three weeks off the playing field and greatly curtailed practice time by one of the areas hardest hit by the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. If they don't win this one, they are staring at a four seed, or missing the playoffs entirely should they be upset by either East Clarendon or Creek Bridge the next two weeks, but it sure feels like they're due to win a close one and a big one. Should be a good game. Hemingway (6-1, 2-0) at Lake View (7-0, 2-0) Hannah-Pamplico will have something to say about it if they win tonight, but boy this feels like it's for the Region VI title. Lake View, the number two ranked team in Class A, didn't show any rust from their three-week layoff, blowing out Creek Bridge 43-14 last Friday. Honestly, the game wasn't even that close, with Lake View leading 35-0 10 minutes into the game. Shrine Bowler Duane Nichols accounted for two of those scores. My clandestine, sooth-saying lowcountry expert told me in the pre-season this was the team to beat in that part of the state and they've done nothing to prove him wrong. Hemingway used a couple of turnovers to beat Green Sea-Floyds 18-12 last week. Their previous game, though, was the aforementioned head-scratcher against winless East Clarendon, which they survived 8-6. That came on the heels of their biggest win of the season, a 28-12 comeback victory over C.E. Murray. Quarterback Troy Singletary make it all go on offense and aside from Andrews, no team has scored more than 14 points on Hemingway all year. Two very good teams who could maybe meet again this season. We'll see.
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