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    Pender 106, Hobbton 83

    That Cardinal Gibbons-ENCSD game was played in 1995. Gibbons, at the time, was one of the worst teams in the state, but they hired a new coach that year who brought in a lot of new players and they were immediately much better. They'd beaten Oak Ridge 82-18 a few weeks before and then decided to...
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    Best 1a team since 2010

    2019 East Surry is the best 1A team I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them. Sort of miss seeing the 1A teams now that I'm working in an area with 3A teams. There may be teams that were as talented, but very few have ever beaten another state champion at a higher class in the season they...
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    Sandhills 3A/4A Week 8 picks

    I like Scotland's chances to take care of business against Bye.
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    Sandhills 3A/4A picks -- Week #4

    Writing the preview for the Sanford Herald right now. Mecklenburg is a first-year consolidation of two smaller schools, Bluestone and Park View. Bluestone lost the last 13 games it ever played. Park View won one game last year, against Bluestone. Meck lost 54-20 to a good-but-not-great Virginia...
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    Wallace Rose-Hill @ Princeton

    Only team in NCHSAA history to win more state playoff games (3) in a season than regular season games (2). Also avenged two of their regular-season losses along the way. That playoff run and the next two seasons were a lot of fun.
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    High School OT .com Projected high school playoffs

    Well, this is already out of date, because Lee beat Scotland tonight and will be Sandhills 3A #1, and Northern Nash beat Southern Nash, so those two will switch as well.
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    3A/4A Sandhills Athletic Conference Pre-season šŸˆ Predictions

    I was just talking to Lee's coach the other day and we discussed how it might be harder to win the Sandhills than to win the 3A state championship. Of course, they are going to do their best to win both.
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    East Surry - Tarboro Game Thread

    That Maxton team must have been sick. I've been seeing that number in the record book for many years and always wondered how they did that in 1975. They won the state championship game 86-8! Their closest game was against Robbinsville in the semis, when they were in the middle of their dynasty...
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    East Surry - Tarboro Game Thread

    I don't know if anyone's ever had a chance to put up that many on Reidsville and Tarboro in the same season. I do know there have been at least two other occasions since 1980 where a state champion beat a team that won the championship in a higher classification that season:
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    West Columbus vs Winston Salem Prep

    Prep is very athletic, and much better coached than they have been in years past. They're a very young team, only two seniors on the roster and neither of them play. They actually moved the ball on the Bears, but couldn't stop Johnathon Smith and he hung seven TDs on them. I can't see West...
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    Walkertown not making playoffs is a travesty!!

    Walkertown is definitely better than some of the teams that got in. I saw they play against North Surry and they're a decent team. But I also saw North Forsyth. How in the world Walkertown managed to lose to that team is a mystery. Beat them and they're in. Don't let North Surry drive the...
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    Tarboro Small 1A

    They would believe that. Just like the East Surry kids didn't believe all of the power ratings that said they were double-digit underdogs when they played Reidsville. If Tarboro played Mallard Creek, they would welcome the challenge and would go out there and play like they had nothing to lose...
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    NCPreps Elite 8 1A Rankings - Week 11

    I actually moved Robbinsville up in my AP poll voting this week after that Swain result, but no way would I rank them ahead of East Surry. I've been ranking all of Robbinsville, Murphy and Holmes 3-4-5 differently week to week based on how they did. Robbinsville was an easy No. 3 after the Swain...
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    South Stokes 58 WS Prep 56

    I remember a game a few years back when East hosted Prep and several of his offensive starters, including his top two or three running backs, were all out with injuries and there was some Prep fan on this site who had been counting East Surry as a win for them anyway. Prep had size and some good...
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    BAD NIGHT FOR AP TOP TEN IN 2A

    Basically, they just invite different media outlets around the state to vote. I had a vote for years when I was in Garner in the early-to-mid 2000s, but I guess I'm just now important again, after going to the west to Mount Airy.
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