Calhoun Falls Charter (1-7, 1-1) at Ridge Spring-Monetta (4-4, 1-1)
RSM is looking to snap a two-game losing skid and needs to win this one and next week against Dixie to lock up a second place region finish. Calhoun Falls Charter gave McCormick a better game than I expected before falling 37-18. I'm afraid the Flashes are in the midst of what happens to lots of teams with very thin rosters. When you only have 20-some kids and the inevitable injuries bite as the year goes on, it's a back-breaker. With small rosters, most players go both ways, so losing one guy actually creates two holes, which leaves you to shift players around or plug youngsters in who aren't really ready. In any event, the Flashes struggle to stop the run, as evidenced by the 600-plus yards they gave up to one-win Dixie two weeks ago, RSM is big and likes to run the ball...I'll let you draw your own conclusions...while dropping you the hint that your conclusions should involved RSM running for a lot of yards. Dixie (1-7, 1-2) at Whitmire (4-4, 0-3) Dixie lost to Fox Creek 48-28 last week, while Whitmire was on the receiving end of a 41-0 blanking from Southside Christian. Since I wrote a story about Whitmire, they've gone from 4-0 to 4-4, so I probably can't play at the public course or shop at Piggly Wiggly for a while. I think this is where the skid ends, though. That was a very tough four-game stretch against teams with decided size advantages in terms of enrollment and recruiting...oops. Didn't mean to say recruiting. I mean, I wrote it and didn't delete it, but yeah. Anyway, I see know reason the Wolverines shouldn't get back on track, win their last two and get a decent seed in the playoffs. Fox Creek (4-4, 1-1) at McCormick (6-3, 3-0) For the Chiefs, this is the region championship game. They finish up with a non-region match-up with Christ Church next week, so a win tonight clinch the title and all the juicy, succulent playoff points that come with it. Mataeo Durant ran for 227 yards last week in McCormick's win over Calhoun Falls Charter. Fox Creek got a big rushing performance of their own from Dalton Swires in last week's win over Dixie. He had 162 yards, a 70-yard kick-off return for a touchdown and a 36-yard receiving score. Additionally, he successfully executed a drop-kick and rescued a bus-load of orphans from an icy ravine. I made up the last two, but you get my point. This is a big game for the Predators too, because a win in this one and over Calhoun Falls Charter next week likely means there will be a big, bunched-up three-way tie for first between Fox Creek, McCormick and RSM, where RSM would have beaten Fox Creek, Fox Creek would have beaten McCormick and McCormick would've beaten RSM. They probably settle that with defensive points allowed within the tie...or a Connect Four tournament. Maybe Giant Jenga? I'll check the league constitution. Ware Shoals (2-7, 0-2) at Southside Christian (7-1, 2-0) The Sabres are officially now a favorite to advance to the upperstate title game, having soundly beaten McCormick, Fox Creek and Whitmire and taken a narrow win over Christ Church. I still don't see them winning that upperstate title unless there are mass suspensions or a typhoid outbreak in McBee, but they are a contender now. Ware Shoals had a nice little two-game winning streak going, but have now lost three straight and scored on 13 points combined in those contests. No part of that last sentence screams "will win on the road against Southside Christian" unfortunately. Christ Church (6-2, 2-1) at St. Joe's (5-3, 2-0) The Cavs bounced back nicely from their loss to Southside Christian with last week's blowout of Ware Shoals. St. Joe's seems to have really turned things around after a 2-3 start, winning three straight, including last week's impressive 20-12 triumph over Ridge Spring-Monetta. St. Joe's could still win a region title by winning this one and knocking off Southside Christian next week. Lamar (5-3) at Great Falls (1-6, 1-1) The Silver Foxes have bounced back from their stunning loss to Andrew Jackson with consecutive region wins over Lewisville and C.A. Johnson by a combined score of 88-6. In a 39-0 win over C.A. Johnson last week, Trey Ceasar only ran for 56 yards...but did it on eight carries and had three touchdowns, so you can't really say he was shut down as much as Lamar has a big, kind heart. Dashon Barr ran for 127 yards for the Silver Foxes...on four friggin' carries. Great Falls felt the full might and wrath of McBee's horrific drill...with the extra long bit attached and set to the "penetrate Fort Knox" speed. It was 84-0, but Great Falls was already struggling with numbers (28 kids) and has been without as many as five starters lately. That makes it a bad time to run into the number one team in the state as they did last week. Camden Military Academy (2-2) at McBee (7-0, 2-0) If this was a reenactment of The Battle of Camden, McBee would be portraying the part of Gen. Cornwallis, to CMA's Granny Gates... Blackville-Hilda (1-7, 0-3) at Hunter-Kinard-Tyler (4-4, 1-2) HKT broke out of a three-game losing skid with a 30-0 pasting of North last week. The week before I remember reading that a key HKT player missed the loss to Calhoun County "For unexplained reasons." Because I look for the good in all people, I took that to mean he was volunteering in a soup kitchen. I don't know if he's back or not but they won big last week either way. Blackville-Hilda has lost six in-a-row and has only scored in double figures twice in that stretch. Given how small HKT is (under 200 students) and that B-H is struggling so mightily, on offense especially, it's hard to predict which way this'n will swing. Calhoun County (8-0, 3-0) at North (0-7, 0-2) Last week's 30-0 loss to HKT was North's closest game in six weeks. Calhoun County beat what has looked like a pretty good Wagener-Salley team 63-22 last week with quarterback Terrance Brunson throwing for 375 yards and seven touchdowns. So let's just acknowledge this won't go well for North and move along... Wagener-Salley (4-4, 2-1) at Williston-Elko (5-2, 2-0) The proponents of shady end zones and pork chitterlings were trucking right along on a three-game win streak until last week's 63-22 diddling at the hands of Calhoun County. Williston-Elko got 166 rushing yards and three touchdowns from Shakur Chisolm in last week's win over Blackville-Hilda and have won five straight. These teams should battle for a tangible object...like some teams play for the old oaken bucket or whatever. I would suggest the be "The Battle for Platinum Hyphen" or something.
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