Ridge Spring-Monetta- 21
Timmonsville- 17 McBee- 47 Ware Shoals- 12 Williston-Elko- 36 McCormick- Less than WIlliston had, by like, 36. Whitmire- 35 Estill- 3 Branchville- 30 Military Magnet- 22 Hemingway- 34 Scott’s Branch- Remember how many more nights Phil Collins asked for? One less than that. St. John’s- 39 Charleston Charter School for Origami, Engineering and Stink Bait Production- 8 Breakdown- I was a perfect 7-0 picking the first round of the Class A playoffs, so if you followed my advise and bet accordingly, you are now wealthy beyond all measure. Also, if you filled out a Class A parlay card, you have problems and should seek help, but I digress. Sadly, the only two competitive games played last Friday are the two I haven’t found good accounts of. It did sound, though, like Ridge Spring-Monetta’s win over Timmonsville was the game of the night. Timmonsville led 17-0 on the strength of two touchdowns and a field goal courtesy of Jamaric Morris, who can almost literally do anything on the football field. He’s a QB, he’s a DB, he’s a kicker, he’s a punter, he parks cars, he sells fresh boiled peanuts at the concession stand, he’s the ill-tempered gate attendant who doesn’t care that you left your phone in the car. If you leave the stadium you gotta buy another ticket etc. The Whirlwinds carried that lead into the fourth quarter, but the Trojans came storming back to pull out the victory late. I’d love to hear from someone who was there and saw it. My guess (and it’s only a guess) is that in the fourth quarter, the huge disparity in depth started to play a factor, as did the playoff experience of the Trojans and that special knack they have for finding a way to win when the playoffs start. Timmonsville had a good season for new coach Ron Baker despite some tough injuries and a thin roster. They’ll miss Morris (one of the state’s most criminally underrated players) and Fanando Jackson terribly next year. For RS-M, they now go to a good Dixie team in a game they certainly can win. Should they win there, they’ll face either Blackville-Hilda or McBee (both of whom they could beat) for the chance to play for an upperstate title, meaning they could end up right where we expected them to be all along, they’ll just have taken the scenic route to get there. The other close game was Branchville’s win over Military Magnet, but I got nothing for you on that one other than Branchville won. That’s the kind of riveting commentary and inside information you’ve come to expect from this blog. None of the other games were close. Whitmire methodically took Estill apart with one lengthy drive after another. It was the old frog in the boiling water trick. They slowly turned up the heat until the water was bubbling and the poor frog had no choice but to eat himself, being all supple and tasty as he was by that time. That’s how that old analogy goes isn’t it? Anyway, that was the most predictable result of the weekend. It was also the program’s first playoff win in more than a decade so congrats to Coach Jenkins and company down in the Pearl of the Piedmont. They get the unenviable task of going to Chitlinville this week. Williston gave McCormick a proper seeing to. That they won didn’t surprise me, but given their defensive struggles, I was surprised to see them pitch the shutout. That win gets them a trip to Lamar, which, you know, might not go well. We’ll see. I wouldn’t have thought Hemingway would have won by such a large margin either, but almost no outcome, from blowout win, to fetal-position inducing rootin’ surprises me where they’re concerned this year, since they’ve had some of both. That said, hard not to see them as a bit of a favorite this week against the Mr. T Haircuts. St. John’s dispatched the Charleston Charter Academy of Learningness and Haberdashery pretty easily. Tyrus Richardson wins my CRANKSMACK of the week with his 225-yard rushing, two TD performance. The Islanders have one of the most intriguing matchups of the year going to Lake View this week. Suggested Reading See, you can’t throw the frog in the boiling water because he’ll just jump out and whatnot… You can check out capsules of several playoff games right here, including a win for St. John’s…or you can not check it out, claim you did and keep putting up that front Cheryl, but everybody’s onto you.
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