very very cpld up in those mountains. That was during the day they played state championship bgames at the high schools. the association would alternate east/west locations from year to year. there were no seeds back then. brackets and the home location was much more random.. I'm not so sure it wasn't better. There was no argument with random, they played them as they came.
Nate never played 2A. When he was in school, we were 1AA
They were 2A from 85-96 and in that time appeared in 5 state championship games and 7 western finals. They did go 2A again from 2009-2020 and went to the western finals once and deep in the playoffs those first few years before Brown retired. I still say that stretch from 85-96 is one of the more dominant stretches in 2A.
When you say dominant I think Antonio Goss from Randleman is in the mix. Did not come off the field. Running back, solo safety, punter, kicker (KO and PAT), KO and punt return. Big, strong, and fast. Hard to stop from the tailback position and when he came up on D to make a tackle it was nasty.
I saw most all of Jimmy Jerome's games. I was 12 yrs old when he was a senior. Wrh lost to South Stanley 14-6, in the regional finals that year. Jerome did not play that game though, due to injury. All the wrh faithful are sure, even to this day, that him being hurt cost us the state championship. He was an all-American, and could do it all. Wrh ran the single-wing back then, under the legendary coach Thell Overman.
Met him a few times while he was a UNCer.
He was hurt with 2 min to go and we were up big. Should of been on the bench. The legendary Thell Overman cost himself a state title that night
It was a few years before the full state playoffs were put in place but get the point.
Yes. Against tabor city. Probably was the greatest team wrh ever had. They didn't get scored on until the 7th week of the season.
