Week Four - September 7, 2007

Game of the Week
Athens Drive (2-0) at Sanderson (3-0) - Athens passing attack vs. Spartans' defense

Also worth watching
Wakefield (3-0) at Garner (3-0) - The first real test for Wakefield
South Johnston (3-0) at SSS (3-0) - Two teams not known for football success

The rest of the local schedule
WF-Rolesville (3-0) at High Point Central (1-2)
Chapel Hill (1-1) at Broughton (1-2)
Enloe (1-2) at Durham Riverside (0-2)
Green Hope (0-3) at Leesville Road (3-0) – Leesville 55, Green Hope 7
Millbrook (2-1) at No. Durham(1-1)
SE Raleigh (3-0) at Cary (1-1) – SER 21, Cary 14
Fuquay-Varina (3-0) at Clayton (1-2) – F-V 17, Clayton 0
Lee County (1-1) at Pittsboro Northwood (2-1) – Lee 47, N’wood 34
Holly Springs (0-3) at Panther Creek (0-3) – PC 35, Holly Springs 14
East Wake (0-3) at Scotland Co. (2-0)
Durham Jordan (1-1) at Knightdale (0-3)
Spring Lake Overhills (1-1) at West Johnston (1-2)

Big games around the state
West Charlotte at Independence - Can Indy bounce back after its' 109-game winning streak has ended?
Shelby at Crest - a HUGE rivalry game west of Charlotte
Greenville Rose at Rocky Mount - could Rose's long winning streak end this week?
Charlotte Catholic at Charlotte Latin - Two of the state's top private school teams

9/6/2007 10:20:57 PM

Anyone going to the Bunn home opener tomorrow to see Brandon Barnes play?

9/6/2007 10:46:13 PM

^^ Oops...I forgot to take out my predictions for a few of the games before posting that.

9/7/2007 9:46:22 AM

^ Uh ... That is definitely a pretty liberal interpretation of that rule ...

I would doubt that the ball is dead on an interception in OT ... But then again ... Its been a while since I went to a HS football game.

9/7/2007 11:19:36 AM

^ I confirmed the rule from talking to a local ref. If the defensive team gains possession in OT, then the ball is immediately dead.

9/7/2007 3:56:31 PM

Fuquay-Varina 17, Clayton 7
Garner 37, Wakefield 21
Athens Drive 28, Sanderson 16
Enloe 37, Durham Riverside 35
Cary 20, SE Raleigh 7
Millbrook 26, Northern Durham 17
Pittsboro Northwood 34, Lee Senior 27

Rocky Mount 17, Greenville Rose 7 - Rampants' winning streak ends at 40
Boiling Springs Crest 14, Shelby 7 - Crest's first win over rival Shelby in a while
Charlotte Independence 49, West Charlotte 32 - No let-down for the Patriots after their first loss in 7 years
Charlotte Latin 44, Charlotte Catholic 22
Eastern Alamance 28, Burlington Cummings 0 - Cummings' usually high-powered offense shut out
Hope Mills South View 20, Fayetteville 71st 7
Thomasville 12, Albemarle 7 - T'ville now has the state's longest winning streak, at 41 games

9/7/2007 11:52:18 PM

Next week will be a great game between Rocky Mount & Hertford County


HC has only given up 13 points in 4 games all season, beating WS Parkland and Southern Durham in the process

9/8/2007 8:44:15 AM

East Lincoln 35
East Gaston 6

4 of East Gaston's players quit by halftime last night. At 3-1, the Mustangs next face Charlotte Christian. Maybe ^^ can tell me a little about them. The guys are looking at the matchup as one of the most important games of the season.

Other scores not mentioned above:

North Gaston 47
Lincolnton 20

South Point 48
Alex. Central 21

Hickory 42
Bandys 35

West Montgomery 82 (Almost equalling Cummings)
Central Academy 0

Kannapolis (AL Brown) 28
Sun Valley 10

Ashbrook 35
Burns 28

Richmond County 28
Purnell Swett 20

9/8/2007 7:09:23 PM

millbrook that is what i like to see...could inscore actually be coaching them up???

9/8/2007 7:10:33 PM

^^ Charlotte Christian has a very solid team. They destroyed First Assembly Concord 44-0 (which was expected), beat an okay Parkwood team 24-7, then got an impressive 24-21 win over Asheville High. This week, they were supposed to play Camden (SC) Military, which I know nothing about.

East Lincoln's opening loss to Newton-Conover must have been disappointing, and the win over East Gaston lacks the luster it would have had last year. This will be the first really good team that EL has played, so it's tough to say how they'll do. I'm guessing that CC will be about a 10-point favorite, but early in the season, it's tough to say for sure.


^^^ Rocky Mount vs. Hertford County will be a terrific game! They'll both be ranked when the season's first edition of my Fantastic 50 rankings come out this week. I'll take Rocky Mount by a TD in that one.

9/8/2007 9:59:34 PM

Week Five - September 14, 2007

All of the statewide rankings are now out:

NCpreps.com has Indy, Butler, Hoggard, Western Alamance, and Reidsville at the top.

Brian Simmons' computer rankings have Hoggard, Indy, Butler, Leesville, and Garner.
http://ncpreps.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=713671

The BCS' Kenneth Massey's 11-man list is topped by Butler, Indy, Hoggard, Charlotte Latin, and Richmond.
http://www.mratings.com/rate.php?lg=hsf&sub=NC

My Fantastic 50 is led by Indy, W. Alamance, Hoggard, Charlotte Latin, and James Kenan.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/%7Erdpasteu/football/fan50.html

The AP 4A Media Poll has the top 5 of Indy, Butler, Richmond, Hoggard, and Crest.

WRAL-TV's Football Friday is offering a $500 prize to the winner of their season-long picks contest.
http://www.wral.com/sports/prepsports/footballfriday/

Game of the Week
Sanderson (3-1) at Cary (2-1)

Also worth watching
Millbrook (3-1) at Apex (2-1)
Jordan (2-1) at Enloe (2-2)

The rest of the local schedule
West Johnston (2-2) at #13 Garner (4-0)
Middle Creek (0-3) at #15 Leesville Road (4-0)
Northern Durham (1-2) at #22 Wake Forest Rolesville (4-0)
Broughton (2-2) at Athens Drive (3-0)
Riverside (0-3) at Wakefield (3-1)
Clayton (1-3) at Southeast Raleigh (3-1)
Holly Springs (0-4) at East Wake (0-4)
Knightdale (0-4) at Smithfield-Selma (4-0)
Southern Lee (2-1) at Lee Senior (1-2)

With rain in the forecast, some of these games may be moved to Saturday or Monday.

Statewide Big Games
#32 Greenville Rose (2-1) at #3 Wilmington Hoggard (2-0) -- Rose's 39-game W streak ended last week, in a 17-7 loss at 3A Rocky Mount.
#16 West Charlotte (3-1) at #10 Charlotte Butler (3-0)
#12 Rocky Mount (4-0) at #25 Hertford County (4-0)
#28 North Gaston (3-0) at #40 Charlotte Catholic (2-2)

9/14/2007 10:34:22 AM

what was rocky mount ranked? seems like they would have been higher than 12 after beating rose

9/14/2007 12:32:11 PM

REPRESENTING THOMASVILLE

9/14/2007 1:06:11 PM

^^ Rocky Mount was #25 last week. Because Rose had already had two close calls against weak opponents, Rocky Mount was a 2-point favorite going into that game, despite the Rampants' long winning streak.

^ Thomasville (which now has the state's longest active winning streak, at 40 games) was in the top five going into the Davie game a couple of weeks ago. Beating a good 4A team was a big accomplishment, but their ranking dropped slightly, as T'ville was a 9-point favorite. Last week's scare against a mediocre Albemarle team hurt more, dropping them to #20.

9/14/2007 1:42:36 PM

Wilmington Hoggard representing!! I thought last year was supposed to be our "last chance" for a state championship....they seem to be doing better now. I just saw on the news we beat greenville rose 48-17, last year when half of wilmington went to the game eastern finals in greenville we lost on a 2pt conversion..

9/15/2007 2:53:00 AM

^ Although it was expected, Hoggard's big win over Rose is huge psychologically for the Vikings, since Rose ended their season last year. This Hoggard team is really outstanding, and has a great chance to play for a state championship.

Most of the local games were rained out...here's the schedule (and a few scores):
#33 Bunn 21, Oxford Webb 20
Fayetteville Terry Sanford 37, Harnett Central 0
Durham Hillside 42, Northern Vance 6
Southern Durham 17, New Hanover 8
South Brunswick 18, Cardinal Gibbons 13

Robbinsville at Wake Christian - Saturday 11:00 a.m. (R'ville has a very long drive home)
Sanderson at Cary - Saturday 1:00
West Johnston at Garner - Saturday 1:00
Durham Riverside at Wakefield - Saturday 6:00
Holly Springs at East Wake - Saturday 6:30
Clayton at SE Raleigh - Saturday 7:00
Middle Creek at Leesville Road - Saturday 7:00
Millbrook at Apex - Saturday 7:00
Raleigh Word of God at Raleigh St. David's (8-man) - Saturday 7:00
Southern Lee at Lee - Saturday 7:30

Broughton at Athens Drive - Monday 7:00
Durham Jordan at Enloe - Monday 7:00
Cedar Ridge at Carrboro - Monday 7:00
Chatham Central at Pittsboro Northwood - Monday 7:00
Northern Durham at Wake Forest-Rolesville - Monday 7:00

Knightdale at Smithfield-Selma - Friday, October 12 (I guess they both have open dates then)


Around the state (not all the games, obviously)...
#1 Charlotte Independence 28, Charlotte Vance 0
#2 Western Alamance at Burlington Cummings - Saturday 7:30
#3 Wilmington Hoggard 48, #32 Greenville Rose 17
#12 Rocky Mount 60, #25 Hertford County 28
Anson County 24, #23 Kannapolis Brown 21
Pender 25, #24 Wallace-Rose Hill 14
#40 Charlotte Catholic 26, #28 North Gaston 24
#39 Asheville High 35, #41 Brevard 14
#44 Charlotte Christian 36, East Lincoln 14

#16 West Charlotte led #10 Charlotte Butler, 13-0 in the 3rd, when the game was postponed

9/15/2007 12:52:40 PM

heard the Catholic game was good

9/15/2007 1:14:51 PM

Week Six - September 21, 2007
Most teams start conference play this week

Due to Benson's "Mule Days," the Johnston County games were played last night...
#14 Garner (6-0, 2-0) 15, Clayton (1-4, 0-2) 7 -- Clayton's defense is good, but this shouldn't have been close
Smithfield-Selma (5-0, 1-0) 21, East Wake (1-5, 1-1) 14 -- Again, closer than expected
South Johnston (4-1, 1-0) 30, Harnett Central (1-4, 0-1) 22

Local Game of the Week
Sanderson (4-1) at Wakefield (4-1)

Also Worth Watching
#26 Leesville Road (5-0) at Enloe (3-2) -- The over-under in this one is about 70 points
Apex (2-2) at #50 Athens Drive (4-0) -- Athens' offense puts on an air show every Friday night

Other Local Games
Millbrook (4-1) at Broughton (2-3)
Knightdale (0-4, 0-0) at Southeast Raleigh (4-1, 1-0)
Fuquay-Varina (4-0) at Panther Creek (1-3)
Green Hope (0-4) at Middle Creek (0-4) -- MC is the state's best winless team
Holly Springs (0-5, 0-1) at West Johnston (2-3, 0-1)
Durham Hillside (3-1) at Southern Durham (1-3) -- Good battle, even with the teams down
Durham Jordan (2-2) at Northern Durham (1-3) -- Ditto
East Chapel Hill (0-4) at Durham Riverside (0-4)
Cary (2-2) at Lee County (1-3)
Chapel Hill (2-2) at Person (3-0)

Around the State
#29 Fayetteville Jack Britt (3-1) at #5 Richmond County (4-0)
#40 Huntersville Hopewell (4-0) at #12 West Charlotte (4-1)
#21 Charlotte Butler (3-1) at Charlotte Ardrey-Kell (4-0)
#37 Asheville A.C. Reynolds (2-2) at #47 East Burke (5-0)

9/21/2007 1:19:34 PM

Come on Rose, you guys have got to get back to our dominating ways of playing football..this is NOT Rampant football! Ill call up Andre Brown and throw him in a green, blue, and white jersey if I hvae to hehe.

GO RAMPANTS!

9/21/2007 1:45:10 PM

The Fantastic 50 - September 25
1) Independence (4-1) 153.3 (LW#1)
2) Hoggard (4-0) 142.1 (LW#3)
3) Charlotte Latin (5-0) 141.7 (LW#2)
4) Richmond County (5-0) 140.5 (LW#5)
5) W. Alamance (6-0) 139.7 (LW#4)
6) W. Charlotte (5-1) 138.8 (LW#12)
7) Rocky Mount (6-0) 138.3 (LW#7)
8) James Kenan (6-0) 137.2 (LW#6)
9) Char. Country Day (5-0) 136.8 (LW#8)
10) Grimsley (5-0) 135.2 (LW#11)
More info at http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rdpasteu/football


Week Seven - September 28, 2007

Game of the Week
Smithfield-Selma (5-0, 1-0 Greater Neuse) at Southeast Raleigh (5-1, 2-0) - This game is likely for second place in the conference, behind Garner


Also Worth Watching
#39 Athens Drive (5-0, 1-0 Tri-8) at Cary (3-2, 1-0) - Can anyone slow down Athens' offense?
Wakefield (4-2, 0-1 Cap-7) at Millbrook (5-1, 1-0) - This one is a toss up
Middle Creek (1-4, 1-0 Tri-8) at Apex (2-3, 0-1) - Middle Creek could make a run in the Tri-Eight
Durham Jordan (2-3, 0-1 PAC) at Durham Hillside (3-2, 0-1) - These Bull City battles are intense
Northern Durham (2-3, 1-0 PAC) at Southern Durham (2-3, 1-0) - The records aren't so great this year

Other Local Games
Broughton (2-4, 0-1 Cap-7) at #25 Leesville Road (6-0, 1-0) - Leesville may be the area's best team
Enloe (3-3, 0-1 Cap-7) at #27 Wake Forest-Rolesville (5-0, 0-0)
Knightdale (0-5, 0-1 Greater Neuse) at #16 Garner (6-0, 2-0) - Garner could score 100 if they wanted
Lee Senior (1-4, 0-1 Tri-8) at Fuquay-Varina (5-0, 1-0) - Homecoming at F-V & a long night for Lee
Green Hope (0-5, 0-1 Tri-8) at Panther Creek (1-4, 0-1)
Clayton (1-5, 0-2 Greater Neuse) at Holly Springs (0-6, 0-2)
West Johnston (3-3, 1-1 Greater Neuse) at East Wake (1-5, 1-1)
Chapel Hill (2-3, 0-1 PAC) at East Chapel Hill (1-4, 1-0) - Playing only for bragging rights
Durham Riverside (0-5, 0-1 PAC) at Person County (4-0, 1-0) - Might be closer than expected

Big Statewide Games
#45 South Mecklenburg (4-1) at #1 Charlotte Independence (4-1) - South is much improved
Pembroke Swett (4-2) at #19 Hope Mills South View (6-0)
#21 Shelby (4-1) at Boone Watauga (4-1)
Wallace-Rose Hill (4-1) at #22 South Columbus (5-0)
#33 North Gaston (4-1) at #28 Gastonia Ashbrook (3-3)

9/25/2007 9:33:04 PM

millbrook is back...jamal williams=darren mcfadden...time to take back what it rightfully theirs (the conference)

9/25/2007 10:42:01 PM

gotta give it to catholic so far. 2 well played OT games from what ive heard. 2 losses but coming to two solid private school teams this year..hopefully we can pull out another tourny run

9/25/2007 10:44:12 PM

Millbrook is much better this year, but their conference is very tough from top to bottom. They're probably only the 3rd or 4th best team in the league, so winning even a share of the championship will require an upset of Leesville or Wake Forest-Rolesville, plus taking care of business.

#71 Millbrook (5-1), Rating:115.3, #29 of 93 in 4A
Conference: Cap Seven 4A (1-0)
Conf. Finish: 1st-10%, 2nd-16%, 3rd-29%
Schedule (thus far): #104 toughest overall, #46 in 4A
Week #1: Lost 6-28 vs. #16 Garner (6-0)
Week #2: Won 3-0 at #273 Knightdale (0-5)
Week #3: Won 42-14 vs. #173 East Wake (1-5)
Week #4: Won 26-17 at #90 N. Durham (2-3)
Week #5: Won 28-25 at #122 Apex (2-3)
Week #6: Won 66-17 at #210 Broughton (2-4)
Week #7: vs. #147 Wakefield (4-2) 80% W (12 pts.)
Week #8: at #79 Sanderson (5-1) 51% L (1 pts.)
Week #10: vs. #25 Leesville Road (6-0) 76% L (10 pts.)
Week #11: at #27 WF-Rolesville (5-0) 82% L (13 pts.)
Week #12: vs. #157 Enloe (3-3) 82% W (13 pts.)


Catholic is still very good this year, and has done reasonably well against a brutal schedule, winning two games against ranked opponents. The Queen City is the state's weakest 3A or 4A conference, so another league title is almost a given. That will be enough to give Catholic a high seed in the playoffs, and I do expect another decent playoff run from them.

#29 Char. Catholic (4-2), Rating:126.2, #9 of 97 in 3A
Conference: Queen City 3A/4A (1-0)
Conf. Finish: 1st-89%, 2nd-9%, 3rd-2%
Schedule (thus far): #6 toughest overall, #2 in 3A
Week #1: Won 28-27 vs. #45 S. Mecklenburg (4-1)
Week #2: Won 35-18 vs. #145 Myers Park (2-3)
Week #3: Lost 6-14 at #9 Char. Country Day (5-0)
Week #4: Lost 22-44 at #3 Charlotte Latin (5-0)
Week #5: Won 26-24 vs. #33 N. Gaston (4-1)
Week #6: Won 35-28 at #99 Olympic (1-5)
Week #7: vs. #277 Waddell (0-5) 99% W (34 pts.)
Week #8: at #172 Harding (2-3) 94% W (22 pts.)
Week #9: at #339 Garinger (0-5) 99% W (40 pts.)
Week #10: vs. #181 W. Mecklenburg (3-2) 96% W (25 pts.)
Week #12: vs. #330 Berry Academy (0-5) 99% W (39 pts.)

9/26/2007 8:22:25 AM

Fuquay-Varina remains undefeated, beating Lee County, 27-7
Southeast Raleigh hands Smithfield-Selma their first loss, 36-15
#39 Athens Drive stays undefeated, beating Cary 42-33
Chapel Hill 28, East Chapel Hill 14
Durham Hillside 35, Durham Jordan 28
Undefeated Garner over winless Knightdale by only 42-21
Green Hope 27, Panther Creek 20 (first win of the year for Green Hope)
Harnett Central 40, Western Harnett 19
#25 Leesville Road 45, Broughton 7 (the undefeated Pride rolls on)
Middle Creek 30, Apex 14 (MC goes to 2-0 in conference play)
Millbrook 35, Wakefield 16
Southern Durham 26, Northern Durham 16
#27 Wake Forest-Rolesville 48, Enloe 10
West Johnston 28, East Wake 27 (OT) - WJ goes for two in the overtime, and gets it

#1 Independence 49, #45 South Meck 14 (ouch!)
#19 South View 21, Purnell Swett 14 (Swett has lost 3 times, all to very good teams, & all close)
#21 Shelby 34, Watauga 15
#22 South Columbus 33, Wallace-Rose Hill 15
#33 North Gaston 44, #28 Ashbrook 38 (in triple overtime)

9/28/2007 11:12:21 PM

The Fantastic 50 - October 2
1) Independence (5-1) 153.6 (LW#1)
2) Charlotte Latin (6-0) 144.5 (LW#3)
3) W. Charlotte (6-1) 139.2 (LW#6)
4) W. Alamance (7-0) 139.0 (LW#5)
5) James Kenan (6-0) 137.5 (LW#8)
6) Hoggard (5-0) 137.5 (LW#2)
7) Richmond County (6-0) 137.3 (LW#4)
8) Rocky Mount (6-0) 137.2 (LW#7)
9) Char. Country Day (6-0) 136.6 (LW#9)
10) SW Edgecombe (5-0) 135.8 (LW#12)
11) Reidsville (6-0) 135.3 (LW#11)
12) Butler (5-1) 133.5 (LW#15)
13) Roberson (6-0) 132.6 (LW#13)
14) Grimsley (6-0) 131.7 (LW#10)
15) South Point (6-0) 130.8 (LW#20)
16) Shelby (5-1) 130.1 (LW#21)
17) S. Columbus (6-0) 130.1 (LW#22)
18) Garner (7-0) 130.0 (LW#16)
19) South View (7-0) 130.0 (LW#19)
20) N. Gaston (5-1) 129.0 (LW#33)
More info at http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rdpasteu/football


Week Eight - October 5, 2007

Game of the Week
Fuquay-Varina (6-0, 2-0 Tri-Eight) at #37 Athens Drive (6-0, 2-0) - Athens Drive has a terrific passing game that is piling up points, while Fuquay-Varina is allowing just five points a game. Fuquay has won the conference for the last two years, but Jaguars are favored by a touchdown in this one.

Also Worth Watching
Millbrook (6-1, 2-0 Cap Seven) at Sanderson (5-1, 1-0)
Cary (3-3, 1-1 Tri-Eight) at Middle Creek (2-4, 2-0)
#18 Garner (7-0, 3-0 Greater Neuse) at Smithfield-Selma (5-1, 1-1) - SSS is coached by former Garner star Anthony Barbour

Other Local Games
#22 Wake Forest-Rolesville (6-0, 1-0 Cap Seven) at Broughton (2-5, 0-2)
East Wake (1-6, 1-2 Greater Neuse) at Southeast Raleigh (6-1, 3-0)
#26 Leesville Road (7-0, 2-0 Cap Seven) at Wakefield (4-3, 0-2)
Holly Springs (0-7, 0-3 Greater Neuse) at Knightdale (0-6, 0-2)
West Johnston (4-3, 2-1 Greater Neuse) at Clayton (2-5, 1-2)
Apex (2-4, 0-2 Tri-Eight) at Green Hope (1-5, 1-1)
Lee County (1-5, 0-2 Tri-Eight) at Panther Creek (1-5, 0-2)
Southern Durham (3-3, 2-0 PAC) at Durham Jordan (2-4, 0-2)
Durham Hillside (4-2, 1-1 PAC) at Durham Riverside (0-6, 0-2)
Northern Durham (2-4, 1-1 PAC) at Chapel Hill (3-3, 1-1)
East Chapel Hill (1-5, 1-1 PAC) at Person County (5-0, 2-0)

Big Statewide Games
#4 Western Alamance (7-0) at #31 Northeast Guilford (5-1)
#10 Southwest Edgecombe (5-0) at #8 Rocky Mount (6-0)
#9 Charlotte Country Day (6-0) at #23 Boiling Springs Crest (5-1)
#21 Asheville (4-1) at #13 Asheville T.C. Roberson (6-0)
#30 Gastonia Ashbrook (3-4) at #15 Belmont South Point (6-0) - Ashbrook has played the state's toughest schedule
#19 Hope Mills South View (7-0) at Fayetteville Terry Sanford (6-1)
West Montgomery (5-1) at #29 Thomasville (6-0)
Currituck (6-0) at #46 Hertford County (6-1)
Washington (5-1) at #49 West Craven (5-1)

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 5:33 PM. Reason : .]

10/3/2007 5:32:59 PM

Quote :

"Fuquay has won the conference for the last two years, but Jaguars are favored by a touchdown in this one."

wow, there's lines for highschool games now?

10/3/2007 5:41:16 PM

Not betting lines, per se, but there are 3 or 4 sets of computer rankings published weekly on the Web, and each of the authors also makes predictions for future games.

10/3/2007 7:19:43 PM

Quote :

"SSS is coached by former Garner star Anthony Barbour "

also former Wolfpack player as well. Great guy. My mom talks to him almost everyday(she works at SSS), and said he is very respected at the school.


glad to see Smithfield-Selma doing well, since i left there. too bad they finally played decent 4aa school and lost. Maybe they can pull what we did my Junior year and upset Garner(we didnt upset Garner, but upset East Wake...they finished that year in the top-10 in the state, it was sweet)

they also got that Dixon kid playing RB who is 6'3 235 and can FLY

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 7:34 PM. Reason : yea]

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 7:38 PM. Reason : beast]

10/3/2007 7:33:57 PM

BTTT for Friday night...

Again there's a big game 2-3 miles from campus tonight, between undefeateds Athens Drive and Fuquay-Varina.

10/5/2007 3:44:34 PM

Cherryville 17
East Lincoln 60

The boys brought it tonight. This was the most impressive game I've seen them play since I was in school. Up next, Bessemer City.

Other scores over on the Western NC area:


Shelby 30
Burns 13

Hickory 59
Newton Conover 20

Charlotte Catholic 30
Harding 14

Charlotte Country Day 17
Crest 0

Hunter Huss 51
East Gaston 17

South Point 35
Ashbrook 21

10/5/2007 11:26:44 PM

Athens Drive 49, Fuquay-Varina 21

Athens QB Nick DeMuro threw for over 500 yards, and accounted for all seven touchdowns (five passing, two rushing), for the undefeated Jaguars. He shredded a Bengal defense that had given up only 31 points all season, handing Fuquay their first loss of the year.

10/5/2007 11:33:10 PM

Other local scores
#18 Garner 35, Smithfield-Selma 14
#26 Leesville Road 37, Wakefield 5
#22 Wake Forest-Rolesville beat Broughton
Millbrook 14, Sanderson 3
Middle Creek 35, Cary 28
Apex 10, Green Hope 9

Big Statewide Games
#4 Western Alamance 28, #31 Northeast Guilford 14
#9 Charlotte Country Day 17, #23 Boiling Springs Crest 0
#21 Asheville 24, #13 Asheville T.C. Roberson 9
#15 Belmont South Point 35, #30 Gastonia Ashbrook 21
#19 Hope Mills South View 20, Fayetteville Terry Sanford 6
#29 Thomasville 32, West Montgomery 7
#46 Hertford County 49, Currituck 20
Washington 14, #49 West Craven 13
#10 Southwest Edgecombe (5-0) at #8 Rocky Mount (6-0) - postponed to Monday

10/5/2007 11:45:32 PM

Fuquay-Varina 33, Middle Creek 0 (F-V bounces back after an ugly loss at Athens Drive)
Leesville Road 51, Sanderson 0 (Wow! Sanderson isn't a bad team; Leesville is really great this year.)
Wake Forest-Rolesville 17, Wakefield 0 (One step closer to the Leesville-WFR showdown)

G'boro Page 24, #16 G'boro Grimsley 23 (Page, a 22-point underdog, upsets their arch-rival)
#49 East Mecklenburg 22, #13 Charlotte Butler 21 (East Meck gets a late safety to win)
#39 Fay. Jack Britt 24, Fay. Westover 21 (OT) (Britt survives a scare)
#40 Scotland County 27, Fay. 71st 3 (Scotland hosts Richmond, both undefeated, next week!)
#1 Charlotte Independence 43, Charlotte Providence 7
Pasquotank County upsets #36 Hertford County
Concord 38, #43 Anson County 27 (This throws the South Piedmont Conference into chaos)

10/12/2007 11:59:46 PM

richmond county (8-0) @ scotland county (8-0) next week. talk about big game...

btw, terrell manning plays for scotland.


Bunn put up 55pts tonight... Wonder if Brandon Barnes got any touches?


CARY 40, Green Hope 20

10/13/2007 12:16:23 AM

Person 28, Northern Durham 25

Nice! Go Rockets!!

[Edited on October 13, 2007 at 12:20 AM. Reason : ...]

10/13/2007 12:17:32 AM

not sure where he gets his but here is a decent link to the kinston newspaper writers blog

http://bhanks.encblogs.com/

10/13/2007 12:21:20 AM

East Lincoln 21
Bessemer City 14

Almost a let down game for the Mustangs. Up next, West Lincoln.

Other scores over this way...

North Gaston 30
Crest 10

Shelby 41
Kings Mountain 14

Ashbrook 49
East Gaston 7

Newton Conover 43
Hibriten 42 2 OT

South Point 35
Forestview 16

Thomasville 29
Jordan-Matthews 22


Also, just a score of interest from a big SC game:

Byrnes 28
Clover 12

10/13/2007 12:23:23 AM

oh, sweet. Im guessin he just posts the AP stuff every weekend. Thanks.

Im excited. The new coach really seems to know what hes doing. We should be 7-0 right now.......damn athletic director. I'll take 5-2 (4-0) though.

10/13/2007 12:25:06 AM

New Bern 28
West Craven 21

10/13/2007 12:31:57 AM

Athens Drive 47- Lee County 28

10/13/2007 12:38:23 AM

HOGGARD beat ashley. Still undefeated. Definately a top 3 team in the state. The end.

10/13/2007 3:50:45 AM

^^ If you only saw the final score of the Athens game, you don't know what a battle that was. Lee (which has only won twice all year, both times against awful opponents) led Athens 14-6 at halftime, and 28-26 at the end of the 3rd quarter. Every time I announced a score with Athens losing at last night's Fuquay-Varina vs. Middle Creek game, a huge roar went up.

^ Hoggard is terrific again this year; they should easily roll to the 4A state championship game, where they are likely to meet West Charlotte. However, either of those teams could turn out to go 4AA.

Richmond vs. Scotland is, IMHO, the biggest rivalry in the state. The Scots have a great chance this year to beat the Raiders for the first time since the mid-1990s. Richmond-Scotland is a rivalry I've been wanting to see in person for years, along with Pisgah-Tuscola, Shelby-Crest, etc.

10/13/2007 2:10:44 PM

might have to check out that millbrook/leesville game next week

10/13/2007 2:17:28 PM

fantastic, i was at the FV game last night...didn't know you did the announcing over there.

also, FV has the absolute worst bleachers/stands i've ever seen.
If they keep winning they will need to get some larger stands in there...

Garner, Cary, Middle Creek, Broughton...all have nice and large stands...fuquay needs to catch up

10/13/2007 2:51:56 PM

FVHS co 1996

seems like they were good when i was there too, but we were a 3a school or something

want links to their DOC profiles?

haha

10/13/2007 4:08:24 PM

^^ I had a rough night behind the mic last night. After giving the Athens-Lee score, I had the Jaguars on my brain, and TWICE called the Bengals' opponent "Athens Drive" ... very embarrassing! The stadium was plenty adequate when Fuquay was 2A, but is certainly too small for a 4A school. However, stadium bleachers are super-expensive (six figures to make a decent expansion), and the county doesn't pay for squat. But the "new" schools (including Middle Creek) don't have very large stadiums, either -- I bet MC doesn't seat more than 2,500.

^ FVHS was a 2A power in the 70s and 80s, then a 3A power (in a weak conference) in the mid-90s, but '96 was the last of the "glory years." Things turned to $@%# during the years that I was the athletic trainer there (1998-2002, including the move to 4A in 2001) and stayed bad through the 2004 season. Under a new, veteran coach, FVHS won their conference the last two years (and went 11-3 last year).

Also, the school's academics are getting better (in the middle of the Wake schools), as compared to 3rd-worst (ahead of Garner and East Wake) when I was there. FVHS has had its' share of rough kids (sadly, one of my former students died recently), but also some football players who did the school proud, including Anthony Perkins (FVHS '97 - later started at UNC) and William Lee (FVHS '02, later the starting long-snapper at NCSU, while graduating with a 4.0 in engineering), both of whom are outstanding young men.

10/13/2007 5:39:22 PM

jesus christ.. and i thought we had a lot of fireworks sometimes

10/14/2007 10:19:49 PM

^ at least they probably win after an intro like that

10/14/2007 10:36:40 PM

yeah. they're 8-0

10/14/2007 10:39:11 PM

Three big games locally tonight, if they don't get rained out ...

#19 Leesville Road (9-0, 4-0 Cap Seven) at Millbrook (7-1, 3-0) - This is the first of the three-part championship series in the conference, with neither team having faced #43 Wake Forest-Rolesville (8-0, 3-0) yet.

Southeast Raleigh (7-1, 4-0 Greater Neuse) at #13 Garner (8-0, 4-0) - For the conference championship; the winner also will be in the draw for the #1 seed in the 4AA East.

Southern Durham (4-4, 3-1 PAC) at Roxboro Person (5-2, 4-0) - The winner should get at least a share of the conference championship, with Durham Hillside (6-2, 3-1) still in the race.

Down in the Sandhills, #7 Richmond County (8-0, 4-0 MSEC) at #35 Scotland County (8-0, 4-0) - The Scots have their best team in a long time, but they're a 10-point underdog at home against the arch-rival Raiders, who have beaten them 13 (?) years in a row.

Out west, #2 Charlotte Latin (8-0) at #10 Belmont South Point (8-0) - this is a non-conference battle of the state's top private school team and one of the best 3A teams.

In Greensboro, #45 Northeast Guilford (6-2, 2-1 Triad 3A) at #33 G'boro Dudley (6-1, 3-0)

In the small schools, North Duplin (7-0, 2-0 Carolina 1A) at Ayden-Grifton (7-1, 2-0) is the biggest game of the week.

Every Friday night at 10 p.m., unless everything is rained out, WPTF-680 AM has an hour-long scoreboard show, mostly focused on the Triangle area.

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10/19/2007 10:39:46 AM