I’ve gotta say Owen has improved in the last 4 weeks a ton. They lost 3-0 to East Henderson who is now 3-1. They fought hard all night and had chances to take the win including having first and goal from the 3 late in the game. They were unable to punch it in but I believe wins are coming. Stay the course gentlemen. Your chips are accumulating and you will win some games. I said it after the Enka game we literally at any given time have 85-90% freshmen and sophomore’s on the field, so with basically a jv team we are giving varsity larger school teams all they want. We were in the games with NB and NH till late in the games also and just ran out of gas with a lack of depth. If the players and coach’s will stick around and keep building I can see multiple wins this year and probably double the wins next year and even more the following year. More of our kids need to come out and play also. There is some talent it’s just young. I really like what upperclassmen we have just don’t have many. I believe it’s 7-8 total. It’s coming Warhorses you can see it. Buy in to your staff and each other and block out the noise. You can only be successful if everyone is pulling in the same direction. The valley is with you!!

*Weddington (4-0) @ Chapel Hill (1-3)
Monroe (3-0) @ *Porter Ridge (4-0) 👀🏈
*Sun Valley (3-1) @ Alexander Central (2-2)
South Caldwell (2-2) @ *Cuthbertson (3-1)
*Marvin Ridge (2-2) @ Indian Land SC (3-0)

*Conference Standings:
Weddington (4-0)
Porter Ridge (4-0)
Cuthbertson (3-1)
Sun Valley (3-1)
Marvin Ridge (2-2)

Thoughts?

So much noise about player movement, with even articles about it from Langston Wertz. Now that official practice has started no more movement!

Who were the biggest winners and losers of the portal this summer? My picks…

Winner- Independence

Loser- Chambers

What's is your prediction for this game who is going to win?

"Due to inclement weather, we will postpone the Tarboro vs. SouthWest Edgecombe Varsity football game to 8 p.m. If the rain persists, we will move the game to Saturday, September 14th @ 12 p.m."

Would love to have this played in the rain, just for football sake. Bitter rivals. Both undefeated. Kings of the county on the line. Played in the rain??? Sign me up! Football is better when there's mud on your uniforms.

Post those scores!

I will go with couple. Butler keeping it close with Weddington. AC Reynolds losing big to Watauga.
What is your biggest surprise of the night.

Any thoughts? The boards have been really sparse so far. Last year Reidsville was down 1/3 of key playmaker. EA is 0-3. We still need to clean up some unforced errors.

How in the world does Glenn lose to Parkland the week after wrecking Chambers?

Have picks in by 5:00 on Thursday!!

WEEK 4

1. Ben Smith at Thomasville
2. AC Reynolds at Watauga
3. Charlotte Catholic at Crest
4. First Flight at Bertie
5. Havelock at West Craven.
6. Kinston at Washington
7. Leesville Road at Heritage
8. Orange at Montgomery Central
9. Bandys at South Caldwell
10. West Stokes at North Surry

BONUS: Rolesville at Cardinal Gibbons

Didn’t have them losing to Jack Britt on my bingo card.

0-3 Hickory Ridge vs 0-2 Chambers. Interesting. Any thoughts

Post em.

ND vs Walkertown
OG vs North Forsyth
Ledford at ED
CD at Lexington
MC vs Orange County
Aboro vs Providence Grove

North is putting themselves in a hole that usually would be filled a bit by playing a smaller school like Walkertown. However, the Wolfpack are on a tear under ND grad Tripp Huneycutt and beat Salisbury, a team North lost to in week one. Then followed it up with a win over Forest Hills. With the defense getting blown away by the Davie passing game in the second half, ND desperately needs a win but it doesn't look like it will be nearly as easy as last year...

OG got back on track against Ragsdale and is operating methodically through the schedule as expected. They will face a 2-1 North Forsyth team that beat 2 weak opponents and got blown out by Mt Tabor. Look for the Grizzlies to continue their success in nonconference action before conference play begins in two weeks.


Ledford finally pulled through, dominating perennial doormat Wheatmore. East Davidson doesn't look much if any better... Panthers feast on Eagles this week unless something crazy happens like the WD game.

Central got into the winning column last week with a convincing win over rival West. Lexington is looking better this year but Central most likely continues their recent dominance of the still rebuilding Jackets.

MC looking good so far. They beat Orange County last year and look to continue their improvements under their coach the last few years.

Aboro also looking better this year. They may be able to keep that going against Providence Grove, we shall see.

What do we say fellas?

I'm so glad football is back in earnest. I missed this...

Brevard is favored, but any thought and predictions?

All I'm going to say is 😬.................... that was rough

I’ll lead off. West Craven down to Havelock early 6-0

With lot of open dates going on this weekend this game seems to be the one to watch. 3-0 Mt Pleasant vs 1-1 NW Cabarrus. Any thoughts with this game.

Not sure how many JVs games are still on for this evening. Post any score.

Mooresville is growing and getting some good talent coming in. So should Mooresville strengthen up their non conference schedule. Who would you like to see them play.

Final 69-27 Hickory

Probably the worse coached game I’ve ever seen in EG history and there have been some bad ones. This one is on the AD. 1st year head coach with ZERO high school football coaching experience. Dark days ahead. Congrats to Coach Wilson and NoGa. Hate EG couldn’t land Wilson but we all know our previous coach went out guns blazing telling every candidate not to come to EG.

We are the Mighty Red Raiders! We are not representing! I understand that a Cleveland County thread has 8 million comments, but really? Crestrulz? C’mon man!

Cut some knees, twist some ankles, spit in some faces and nut drag Cleveland County!

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