Bandys @ St. Stephens: Trojans by 14
Bunker Hill @ Freedom: This one could be tough, but I'll go with Bunker Hill by 8
Christ School @ East Burke: The Cavaliers play a tough schedule but CS plays an even tougher one: Christ School by 7
Lincolnton @ South Point: Lincolnton by 1
Maiden @ Foard: Maiden by 12
Newton-Conover @ West Henderson: West Henderson by 10
South Caldwell @ West Caldwell: South Caldwell by 12
West Lincoln @ North Lincoln: North Lincoln by 7
Postscript: Friends, I just wanted to comment on Christ School at East Burke. I'd just like to say that I've only seen them play once, it was at Maiden during the 2021 season. The Blue Devils had a really good team, but Christ School was very hard for them to beat.
Their schedule is brutal with opponents such as Providence Day, Charlotte Christian and Rabun Gap. That year Maiden beat them 27-21 in overtime, CS would go on to beat Providence Day, who would eventually win the NCISAA title that season, I think.
Of course, all the best to the Cavaliers who have their hands full. Sometimes East Burke comes up with some big guys. Year before last when Lincolnton played EB, there, we had a really hard time with the big guys. We weren't able to run through their line, and had trouble stopping them from running through our line, and they had what looked to me like some size in the backfield, too. For most of the game it was very frustrating, almost as frustrating as scrimmaging Hibriten, the other day.
In that 2021 East Burke game, over and over, it seemed like we kept trying to tackle high, every time, arm tackling them high. Christ School will probably go by scripture, you know, the last verse in Matthew, where He says "
Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end," if they don't The cavs might start the year off in style, and BFR will be talking junk to us all.
*One last thing, speaking of Hibriten, before it's over with, us Wolves are going to have a belly full of the triple option having to face it for the next two games in South Point and North Lincoln...Oh, and to compound our problems we have to go to both places...Actually, South Point is a good place to take in a game even though they almost always beat us, they are cordial, even what few times we have beaten them. North Lincoln, might be a different story. Some of their supercilious lake fans might want us kindly Lincolnton fans sprayed with lysol before letting us come in.
