The Southeast Guilford Falcons have won BIG football games all season long and tonight they won another one of those BIG GAMES, defeating the Dudley Panthers 21-18, and now the SEG Falcons move on to the NCHSAA 3-AA East Regional Championship Game vs. the Cleveland Rams, at Bill Slayton Stadium, now known as “The Slate”
SEG wins 21-18 over Dudley tonight, the Falcons beat Dudley, at Dudley back in September, 22-12, SEG topped Eastern Guilford, 9-3 last Friday night at “The Slate”, and it was in OT of all things vs. EG, SEG took care of Eastern during the regular season, 37-23 at EG, and SEG also handed Southern Alamance a 27-8 loss, and that makes FIVE BIG GAME WINS for the SEG Falcons and heck, the only SEG loss was 28-27 in OT to Northwest Guilford, way back on August 31….
This 2018 Southeast Guilford team is (13-1) and the Falcons are legit…Time to show these kids some respect, seeing as they are the only Guilford County team we have left in the playoffs…
The 2018 BIG GAME Wins for Southeast Guilford:
Southeast Guilford 22, Dudley 12
Southeast Guilford 27, Southern Alamance 8
Southeast Guilford 37, Eastern Guilford 23
Southeast Guilford 9, Eastern Guilford 3 (OT)
Southeast Guilford 21, Dudley 18…..
And those are five real BIG, BIG-GAME wins for the SEG Falcons…….I spoke with SEG head football coach Kennedy Tinsley way back in early August, when football practice was getting cranked up and I told him point blank, that “Southeast Guilford has to win the BIG GAMES”, and Coach Tinsley agreed with me, and now his Falcons have gone out and done it…
The SEG Defense let the Falcons hang around long enough tonight/Friday, until the Southeast offense was able to get rolling..
Dudley led 12-0 at halftime and Dudley owned the first half and they got there by a super effort of finishing off what Southeast Guilford was giving the Panthers, and that was great field position, after SEG fumbled the ball away and Dudley took advantage and turned the SEG fumbles into points, and with Tawahn Young back there at QB, Dudley was moving the ball up and down the field and Dudley probably should have led by at least 3 TD’s at halftime, instead of just two, but the SEG defense was keeping their team in the game…
But all of that Dudley momentum was fleeting, as SEG came out in the second half and began to dominate on both sides of the football…
Ryan Douglas took the football into the end zone on a one-yard TD run, then later on Douglas found Tyler Hoff open in the left corner of the end zone, and sent a high arching pass that way that came down in Hoff’s hands, for 15-yard Falcons touchdown….And to top it off, after the BIG play by Douglas to Hoff, Braxton King went charging into the end zone of a 20-yard touchdown run and with Jonathan Medlin going 3-3 on SEG PAT kicks, SEG wins the BIG Football game, by those three points, 21-18….
As strong as the ‘Dudley Machine’ was the first half, Southeast Guilford was just as strong if not stronger in the second half, and in the end, the Falcons proved and earned it, with their 21-18 victory over the Dudley Panthers…
**********Again next week at the Bill Slayton Stadium, it will be the #2 seeded Southeast Guilford Falcons(13-1) vs. the #4 seeded Cleveland Rams(12-2)….**********
Tough way for kids like Jurriente Davis and Landen Johnson to see their high school careers end, #1 Davis was playing his tail off on defense and if you go back and listen to the tape of the game, you will be hearing Jurriente Davis name being called out more than Dudley Coach Steven Davis’ name…Jurriente Davis will not play for Dudley again, but he will play for Coach Steven Davis one more time, as he will suit up and play in the NC-SC Shrine Bowl, in just a couple of weeks…Landen Johnson, #21, the Dudley LB there beside J. Davis, also had a solid game and he recovered a key fumble that ended a SEG Falcon drive….Gonna miss ole’ LBJ…..Richard Monroe IV, one of the top DB’s for Dudley, had to be helped off the field in the later stages of the game, with what looked like a leg injury…
Gonna miss those Panthers and others, and Demetri Fitzgerald is a kid that plays with a ton of heart on the offensive line for the Dudley Panthers and he is another senior that will be missed…
I tell you what, Boateng Woodson the Dudley sophomore kicker, had an on-side kick toward the end of the game, and it came right after Dudley scored to make it a 21-18 game and Boateng could not have struck that on-side kick attempt any better…The kick traveled the required 10-yard distance and it took two hops along the way and the SEG Falcons finally got their hands cleanly on the ball along the SEG sideline at around the 47-yard line in SEG Falcon territory…
SEG QB Ryan Douglas played like the young man he his, with the “heart of a champion” on Friday, night and Douglas and his Falcons couldn’t get it going in the first half, but sure took over the game, in the second half…Douglas began to complete passes that he had been missing on, over the last 4-5 weeks….
A forty-six yard pass play to his brother Adam Douglas, a 35-yard catch-and-run pass play to #11 Jalen Stockham, who had another huge game on offense and defense….Douglas hit Tyler Hoff in traffic and he fit a short pass into a very small window and then Ryan connected with Hoff on the 15-yard fade route, for the SEG TD…Douglas also had #22 Octavious Benton to throw to on the outside as well…
Ryan Douglas became a “Football Man” tonight/on Friday night and to go along with his passing, he ran the ball like a man possessed…..
Give it up and hand it to Ryan Douglas, he might just be the top high school football player in Guilford County this season….
But what about Chad Stephens, Brett Shreve and all of those SEG defenders?????
Yes sir, they were getting the job done and the SEG Defense started getting to Dudley QB Tawahn Young in the second half and it made a difference my friends….
It is getting close to my 2am Saturday morning deadline/bedtime so now it is time to say goodbye and you all know where GreensboroSports Radio will be next Friday night…..Hey wait a minute, I can’t be there next Friday night, I have a prior commitment…Wait just another minute, I have not missed a SEG Falcon BIG GAME win all season long, I am a perfect five-for-five and if I am alive next Friday night I will be there, even if I do have to miss “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Goes to Czechoslovakia”, on TV 4/PBS……
We’ll see you there next Friday at “The Slate”/Bill Slayton Stadium, and if you want to whet your whistle for the game next Friday, be sure to listen to GreensboroSports Radio all week long leading up to the game and as you listen over the next week, you can hear the Southeast Guilford Falcons, take down the Dudley Panthers…..