Southside Christian- 35
Dixie- 35 fewer points than Southside Christian had Blackville-Hilda- 26 McCormick- 6 Ware Shoals- 77 Great Falls- 22 Lewisville- 62 Whitmire- 8 Lamar- 48 Eau Claire- 7 Pageland Central- 40 McBee- 16 North Central- 24 Timmonsville- 7 Calhoun County- 33 Hunter-Kinard-Tyler- They scored what that white candy bar is named C.A. Johnson- 39 North- 8 Wagener-Salley- 29 Bethune-Bowman- 6 Williston-Elko- 29 Woodland- 14 Baptist Hill- 20 Academic Magnet- 19 Battery Creek- 54 Charleston Charter School for Finger-painting and Equestrian Activities- zip Garrett Academy Polytechnic Institute- 56 Military Magnet- 16 St. John's- 48 North Charleston- 18 Cross- 38 Kingstree- 0 Bamberg-Ehrhardt- 25 Scott's Branch- 6 Aynor- 47 Creek Bridge- 18 Latta- 48 East Clarendon- 14 Loris- 28 Green Sea-Floyds- 14 Hannah-Pamplico- 36 The sausages- 35 Andrews- 44 Hemingway- 22 Lake View- 54 Mullins- 30 Breakdown- First off, my apologies for the lack of previews or week in review last week. I had a family member get married and was out of town for several days as a result. I mean, I really love 1A football and sure do appreciate all of you who read my silly musings, but if you were chilling in Charleston with lots of free food and tasty adult beverages, you wouldn't have written a preview about Hannah-Pamplico v Johnsonville either. Don't say you would have. Also, rest assured my cousin paid dearly for the transgression of scheduling his wedding on a football Friday...he asked me (and another equally goofballish cousin) to deliver a speech at the reception...after the open bar had been serving for a good 90 minutes. That worked out really, really well for him. But I digress. We're still in the time of the season when a lot of Class A teams are "playing up" and it was a pretty good week on that front. Class A teams went 7-11 against larger classes, with your winners being Lake View (54-30 over Mullins), Hannah-Pamplico (36-35 over the sausage demons), Cross (with a 38-0 whipping of Kingstree), St. John's (a 48-18 victor over North Charleston), Baptist Hill (with a 20-19 win over previously unbeaten Academic Magnet), Williston-Elko (29-14 over Woodland) and Lamar (who pantsed Eau Claire 48-7). I told you some time ago that my secret, embedded lowcountry pigskin poobah said Lake View looked like one of the teams to beat. With most of their starters back from last year, a big talented offensive line that injures opposing school children and a stable of backs, they were his favorite to represent the lowerstate in Columbia. WELP! Looks like he knew what he was talking about as they ran for six touchdowns against AA Mullins...then threw a couple for the same reason you pointed and laughed at Jimmy the booger-eater after you smoked him in the face in dodgeball in 4th grade...because he wasn't going to do anything about it. The only thing about Lake View that bugs me is something they largely can't do anything about, which is their schedule. Their remaining opponents are 4-20 on the season, so they aren't going to be tested until the playoffs start and aren't really going to be proving anything with the string of big victories that are to come. They'll just be picking on ol' Jimmy for the next seven weeks. Baptist Hill remains, to me, a team that is flying under the radar but deserves a lot of attention. Now, I don't know how good Academic Magnet is (the team they beat Friday) but I do know that's a team that beat Baptist Hill 50-14 last year. It's the second time Baptist Hill has doled out a whoopin' to a AA team that beat them last year (Garrett High Academy A&M Lowcountry Campus being the other). Quarterback Corey Fields, who already has a game with 500 yards of total offense on his resume this year, went for 289 and three touchdowns in the air against the smart kids and Richard Bailey caught eight balls for 157 yards and a score. The Bobcats should rightly get some attention this week as they'll be taking part in one of Class A's biggest contests Friday, facing Cross. Cross, just oh by the way, with its starting quarterback out for most of the game and several starters, umm, not available for the first half, we'll phrase it that way, completely trucked Kingstree 38 to NOT NAM. Torrest Richardson was pressed into action under center when the team's normal QB got gored or cut or something and needed stitches. He obviously did a good job there and at defensive back where he picked off three passes. As an aside, maybe don't throw it at Torrest...that doesn't seem to be an effective offensive strategy. Nate Walker ran for 167 yards for Cross. I'll have a full preview of this match-up later in the week, provided some cousin doesn't elope between now and then. Normally a Class A team losing to a school from a higher classification doesn't phase me much. I authored the definitive work of our times on the struggles inherent in the enrollment gap...or either it was a turd on an onion roll that confused people with too many numbers, I guess that's up to you...but the point here is that bigger schools usually have more athletes walking the halls, greater depth, more money for coaches etc., so bigger schools should beat smaller ones as a general rule. However, I was fairly well taken aback when I saw how badly Pageland Central worked McBee. My understanding is that Pageland is a little down this year, they already lost badly to Lamar (a team in McBee's region) and the Panthers have wins over a AAAA team and a good AA team this year. So Pageland 40, McBee 16 just didn't seem to make sense. As luck would have it, I do have a McBee guy to contact for just such emergencies...he's different than my soothsaying lowcounty/Lamar guy I mentioned earlier, but he told me McBee has five starters out injured, including Dashonnell Wright. If you've seen him play, you understand what a tremendous loss that is on both sides of the ball. He's like a crazy cross-breeding of a logging truck and a cheetah with the ball in his hands. Not really sure how that would work, you know, is it a big hairy truck, or is it a cheetah body with 18 wheels and a "how's my driving call 1-800-blah-blah" sticker on the back? The point is that he can run past you or over you and you don't take a talent like that off the field without a drop-off. The Panthers are off this week, which will hopefully give he and others time to get healthy. With the way Lewisville and Lamar are playing right now, they'll need their crazy truck-cheetah and all other hands on deck when region play begins. Quick hits- Ware Shoals came into Friday averaging seven points a game, then scored 77 against Great Falls. I've checked the math on that and can confirm they improved their scoring average...Lamar gave up its first touchdown of the year against Eau Claire on a 91-yard run by Jarquise Carter early in the game. That proved to be kind of like goading a bear or messin' with Sasquatch or accusing a gorilla's mother of working in a house of ill repute. The Shamrocks had 14 yards the rest of the game. It's pretty impressive, though, to think in four games, Lamar's defense hasn't gotten burned, gotten out of position, blown an assignment etc ONE FLIPPIN' TIME!...Blackville-Hilda won its second straight game and has allowed just 12 points total in those two victories. The Hawks are big, they run a funky offense and I'm glad to see them having success. I don't like seeing traditional powers down for too long and they've struggled for a few years. They have a winnable game coming up against Denmark-Olar, then we'll see how improved they are when they face Wagener-Salley the following week...Speaking of the Stump-Whooped All-Stars, they got the best Class A v Class A win of the week with a 29-6 victory over Bethune-Bowman, who came in unbeaten. Wagener-Salley ran two kicks back for scores early and rolled from there. They're 3-0 and can match last season's win total this Friday when they face a beat-up HKT squad. They, along with Bethune-Bowman and Baptist Hill, are one of this year's feel-good turnaround stories in Class A...Lewisville rolled up exactly 500 yards of offense in a rout of Whitmire while giving up exactly 100 yards, which is pure symmetry, or just a meaningless stat I'm making too much of, one or the other...I didn't see a box score or stats, so I don't know how my favorite non-Class A player (Willie Nelson of Mullins) did against Lake View, but he'll have a chance at another big game next week when the Aucs are ON THE ROAD AGAIN. SEE WHAT I DID THERE? HERP DIDDLY HAW HEE!!!! Suggested reading Cross is better at football than Kingstree. You can read capsules of lots of games here, including Lamar's win over Eau Claire and Lake View's victory over Mullins, which will allow you the chance to laugh at my incredibly funny Willie Nelson joke all over again. Hunter-Kinard-Tyler has some players hurt and was the rare victim of a shutout on the scoreboard Friday, but they are never shut out in the comma department, so there's that. Williston-Elko is better at football than Woodland. I used that line already didn't I? Yep. I checked and I sure did. I'll try to do better. You can read these capsules on Scott's Branch and the Chitterling Monsters, or can choose not to and pretend to know what happened. You're not fooling anybody, Bo, we know the truth.
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