Christ Church- 50
Calhoun Falls Charter- 6 Dixie- 49 Greenwood Christian- Tell em 'bout it Whitney Crescent- 47 Ware Shoals- 20 Bethune-Bowman- 34 Whitmire- 26 North Central- 46 Great Falls- Tell em 'bout it Dwight Lamar- 35 Crestwood- 21 Lewisville- 52 C.A. Johnson- Tell em 'bout it Dean Wormer McBee- 40 Mullins- 28 Scott's Branch- 14 Timmonsville- 12 Blackville-Hilda- 20 Wagener-Salley- 2 Denmark-Olar- 42 North- 6 Hunter-Kinard-Tyler- 22 Estill- 14 Williston-Elko- 44 Ridge Spring-Monetta- 28 Baptist Hill- 22 North Charleston- Tell em 'bout it Gene (RIP GENE) R.B. Stall- 35 Military Magnet- 12 St. John's- 53 Oceanside Academy- 6 Lake View- 59 The Charleston Finishing School and Bricklaying Academy- 6 Branchville- 19 Palmetto Christian Academy- 3 Hemingway- 28 C.E. Murray- 12 Cross- 22 Lake Marion- Tell em 'bout it Sgt. Schultz Green Sea Floyds- 26 Camden Military- Tell em 'bout it Alison Hannah-Pamplico- 19 Waccamaw- 15 Breakdown- First of all, my apologies for the tardiness of this post, but sometimes work has to come before writing goofy blog entries about football. I mean, it doesn't come before it by choice, but I like having the ability to store perishable food items and flush my toilet...because I'm spoiled and weak. My great grandiddy didn't have no fancified refrigerators and functioning commodes. He ate dirty taters, raw, right out of the ground, and old salted pork, did his business in the creek next to hungry bears. But I digress... With nearly everyone already into their region schedules, we had fewer "playing up" games last week. It was a good week on that front, though, with Class a schools posting a 6-4 record against teams from higher classifications. Your winners included Lamar over Crestwood, Lewisville over C.A. Johnson, McBee over Mullins (so the beastly Region II accounted for half of the "up" wins), Baptist Hill over North Charleston, Cross over Lake Marion and Hannah-Pamplico over Waccamaw. The one that really sticks out, obviously, is top ranked Lamar not only beating a AAAA team, but beating a good AAAA team and doing so handily. Crestwood actually returned the opening kick-off for a score, so Lamar trailed for the first time this season. From there, though, The Silver Foxes doled out a 35-14 rogering. My confidential, embedded Lamar correspondent said the team didn't do anything fancy, they just played solid in all phases and physically whipped a school five times their size. The numbers back that up, as Lamar attempted only nine passes. Jaquez Lucas had 139 yards and two touchdowns on the ground, Tyriek Herion added 122 and the awesomely-named Jeblonski Green ran for two scores. For a long time I enjoyed watching Lamar because they had a crisp, well-run, balanced offense with some surprises and wrinkles added almost every week. They aren't like that now, really, having gone to a much heavier ground-based, three-back offense last year. They had maybe the most explosive back in the state last year (Tre Caesar) and this year have three guys that log a lot of carries and consistently move the chains. The switch has obviously been a good one, since the team has won 14 in-a-row dating back to last year (including the state title game). Slightly longer drives, perhaps, have helped keep the defense fresher...so it's sort of like a box baking soda in your refrigerator. You know, it's cool to have leftover fish and collards, you just don't want to have to smell them every time you open the door. So, it's like a big, scary box of baking soda that wears a helmet and runs a 4.5 and drinks your blood. The two-day delay obviously did not aid me in crafting better metaphors, but you get my point. The defense, in this 14-game winning streak, is allowing 6.8 points a game. Lamar has this Friday off, then opens the region with what figures to be one of the games in the year in Class A against Lewisville. Speaking of the Lions, they laid waste to C.A. Johnson (do you C.A. Johnson...woo hoo!) 52-0 Friday and that was with a running second-half clock. The previous week they had a little bit of a sloppy game against Eau Claire, with a couple of touchdowns being wiped out by penalties and three turnovers. They clicked on all cylinders last week, though. Trey Keels threw for more than 270 yards on only 12 completions, the rushing attack ripped off yards in giant chunks, the defense held the Hornets to negative four yards and the punt return team accounted for a score and set up two others. A lot of people are already looking toward next week when Lamar and Lewisville face off...The Lions are not among those looking ahead, though, since they face a now-healthy McBee team Friday. After losing two straight while Deshonnel Wright and others were out, the team bounced back to knock off Mullins last week. Region II will be a three way world war type of situation between the three schools and we'll have a pretty good handle on who has the inside track in the next few weeks, since Lewisville opens the region by playing McBee and Lamar. The already thin ranks of the undefeated got even thinner Friday as Wagener-Salley lost to Blackville-Hilda 20-2. I was pretty sold on the Pig Innard All-Stars based on the fact that I saw their level of improvement from 2014 to last year and saw their 4-0 start as the next step in that process. Granted, they only had one win that I would've put in the "quality" category (Bethune-Bowman) but they were winning by wide margins and racking up insane, video game-type rushing numbers. That obviously ceased Friday, when they were only two points away from having their score explained with a dumb video link or a reference to a white candy bar in my scoreboard. I wasn't sure what to make of Blackville-Hilda coming into that game. They were on a three-game winning streak, but those games came against teams with a combined record of 2-14, so there was a possibility they were feasting on a sweet, delicious cupcake of a schedule. I think in completely shutting down a highly productive Chittlin' Town offense, we have evidence that they are legitimately good. I haven't seen the Fighting Hawks in person, but I've talked to some folks who have. Their size stands out...that goes both up front and in the backfield. They are running a sort of funky single-wing-ish offense that utilizes two quarterbacks. They run some QB sweeps and stuff, but it's a steady diet of "oww Blackville, that hurts" right up the gut. As we've already discussed, running the ball, owning the clock and playing good defense is a perfectly acceptable way to comport ourself on the football field. Quick hits- Big congrats go to Lake View defensive back Dwane Nichols for being selected to the Shrine Bowl roster. He was the only Class A player so honored. The. Only. One. I know good players are going to get left off the roster because there are more good players than spots for them and many will be selected for the North-South game, but Class A always seems to get the crap end of the selection process. Unless a player has a bunch of D-1 college offers, they are rarely picked. On-field production is way down the list of criteria that seems to be considered, which is a shame since a guy who runs like a deer and can bench press a house at a combine sometimes can't tackle or block or keep from messing his pants on the field. Class A players are FAR more likely to play both ways than in other classes, the epitomize what high school football should be and I wish more of them got all-star recognition for it. Someone give me a hand, I need help getting off this high, high horse...The 59-6 warping Lake View laid on the Charleston School for Culinary Arts and Moped Repair (or whatever the actual name is) was actually far worse than I imagined. It was 41-0 AT THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER! So they were on pace to score 164 points, which I think is a lot. Stone Spivey, who sounds like he should be tag-teaming with Chief Wahoo McDaniel, returned two interceptions for touchdown in the opening frame. The aforementioned Nichols, who also plays quarterback, accounted for three touchdowns in the first 12 minutes. Hard to see how they don't finish the regular season undefeated and continue to leave scores of butt hurt school children in their wake...Hard not to be happy for Hannah-Pamplico, who is sitting at 3-2. The program has had one winning season in the last 12 years but is now riding a three-game winning streak and kept it alive in dramatic fashion, getting an Eric Mays touchdown pass with 15 seconds left to down Waccamaw 19-15...Now for our weekly AA update. My favorite non-Class A player, Mullins running back Willie Nelson, had a touchdown last week against McBee, but his team still lost 40-28, so I don't guess he got to celebrate it much. When you lose, THE PARTY'S OVER real quick. SNERK DIDDLY DAW HAW HEE! Suggested reading Lewisville doled out a most inhospitable railing to C.A. Johnson and Great Falls had a tough time on the road against North Central. Just a warning, though, dude that wrote that stories is hacky deluxe. They tied in a rousing game of "who has more hyphens in their name" but Williston-Elko won a game of football against Ridge Spring-Monetta. You can read capsules on wins by Cross, Denmark-Olar, Blackville-Hilda and others here, or can make other life choices and suck as a person. You be you, Hoss.
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