Matthews Butler(8-1) at Greensboro Grimsley(8-0) 7:30pm kickoff at Jamieson Stadium
Game can be heard on GreensboroSports Radio…Pregame at 7pm and kickoff at 7:30…
Grimsley last week knocked off Durham Hillside, 42-7, and Butler topped Providence, 35-0….Week one of the playoffs it was Grimsley 27, East Forsyth 13, while Butler defeated Kernersville Glenn, 42-7…The only loss of the season for Butler came when the Bulldogs fell to the Myers Park Mustangs, 24-21…Myers Park vs. Charlotte Vance for the NCHSAA 4-AA West title tonight…
Looking at the Butler Bulldogs and they are led by their senior running back Davion Nelson…Nelson tore his ACL his sophomore year at Butler, and he has been busting his butt, running extra hard during his junior and senior years to make up for the ground he lost in his 10th grade season…
Butler has really been led all season long by their 6’0/210 pound running back, senior Davion Nelson…Nelson has rushed for 1,194 yards on 143 carries, with 16 rushing touchdowns..Nelson with 8.4 yards per carry and 132.7 yards per game….Nelson has had 6 100-yard rushing games this season, and his biggest running night of the year came last Friday night versus Providence, in Round Two of the playoffs, when Nelson ran for 239 yards, on 25 carries and he scored two rushing TD’s…9.6 yards per carry for Nelson vs. Providence, in the Bulldogs’ 35-0 win last Friday night…The #2 rusher for Butler is Jaylen Taylor with 151 yards, on 15 carries, and he has scored 2 TD’s….Nelson with 143 carries and Taylor with 15 carries….
Butler’s QB Parrish Metzger has put up some solid overall numbers too, going 71-131 passing for 1,324 yards, with 19 TD’s and 5 INT’s…Top receiver for Butler is Jake Snapp, with 27 receptions for 527 yards and 8 TD’s…Metzger was 10-16 for 135 yards and 0 TD’s vs. Providence…The #2 receiver for Butler is Tyrian Moore with 11 receptions for 260 yards and 5 TD’s…
No defensive stats available for Butler….Top Butler linebackers are Blake Moore and JJ Coleman….
Grimsley numbers show the Whirlies’ quarterback Alonza Barnett III going 110-166 passing for 1,469 yards with 20 TD’s/1 INT….Barnett completing 66.3% of his passes, good for 183.6 yards per game….Grimsley running back Jeiel Melton now with 746 yards rushing on 141 carries, good for 8 TD’s and 93.3 yards rushing per game…QB Barnett with 428 yards rushing on 60 carries and he has scored 7 rushing TD’s….Grimsley receivers are lining up to catch passes from Barnett…Lawson Albright with 25 receptions for 360 yards and 2 TD’s….Tyson Resper with 24 receptions for 305 yards and 4 TD’s…Anthony Dunkins with 22 receptions for 361 yards and 8 TD’s…Christian Tutuh with 20 receptions for 233 yards and 5 TD’s…Grimlsey’s top tacklers include Quentin Williamson with 73 total tackles, Travis Shaw has 59 tackles, Tamorye Thompson has 49 tackles and Sincere Burnett has 42 total tackles..
Again, you can check out the Grimsley-Butler game on GreensboroSports Radio…The best way to get in is on Firefox, and not on Google Chrome..
Greensboro Dudley(8-1) at Mount Tabor(9-0) 7:30pm
Dudley ran past TC Roberson last Friday night, 77-33 and in Week One of the playoffs, Dudley went up to Boone and bested Watauga, 28-8…Dudley has been on the road for the entire playoff trip and Dudley is moving forward as a #8 seed….Last Friday Mount Tabor took care of Weddington 21-10 and in Week One, Mount Tabor rolled over Alexander Central, 36-7…Mount Tabor enters tonight’s game as the #2 seed in the 3-AA West…
For Mount Tabor, Tyress McIntyre, who has rushed for 214 yards on 60 carries, has passed for 709 yards, going 44-for-77 with eight touchdowns against just one interception.
B.J. McIntyre, has rushed for right at 900 yards on 105 carries with 14 touchdowns, and he has fumbled just one time…Kobi Perez has run the ball 54 times for 381 yards and six MT Spartan TD’s…Kobi Perez was with the Northeast Guilford Rams in 2019, and moved over to Northwest Guilford in 2020, but didn’t stay with the Vikings…Perez and Tevon Hester gave NEG coach Earl Bates a heck of a running backfield, at NEG, back in 2019…Kobi Perez now a full-time MT Spartan…Also for the Spartans, you have Lance Patterson with 306 yards on 27 carries and 2 TD’s rushing for Mount Tabor…Noah Marshall with 272 yards on 26 carries and 7 rushing TD’s for Mount Tabor…
Kobi Perez is the top Mount Tabor receiver with 13 receptions for 234 yards and 2 receiving TD’s…Lance Patterson with 12 receptions for 231 yards and 3 TD’s….
The Mount Tabor defense has plenty of playmakers, among them Max U’Ren(59 tackles), Josiah Banks(65 tackles/5 INT’s), Noah Marshall(41 tackles), Javouse Chambers(30 tackles) and Lance Simpson(41 tackles). They have allowed just seven touchdowns all season and have had 24 sacks.
For the Dudley Panthers you find their junior quarterback Jahmier Slade going 87-148 passing for 1,304 yards, with 11 TD’s and 5 INT’s…Three of his 5 INT’s came vs. Mount Tabor in the Panthers’ 9-6 loss to the Spartans, back on March 20, at Dudley…Slade looking to put the Tabor numbers from March 20 behind him tonight….Slade completing 58.8% of his passes, good for 144.9 yards per game…Slade with 72 carries for 423 yards on the ground….Milan Summers with 140 carries for 1,289 rushing yards and 25 TD’s on the ground….Summers running for 143.2 yards per game and 9.2 yards per carry….Dudley’s Michael Shaw with 548 yards on 57 carries and 7 rushing TD’s for the Panthers…9.6 yards per carry for Shaw…Mehki Wall with 22 carries for 330 yards and 3 TD’s for Dudley…15 yards per carry for Wall…Wall with 27 receptions for 412 yards receiving and 3 TD’s…15.3 yards per reception for Wall….Joncarlos Miller II with 21 receptions for 320 yards and 3 TD’s…Franklin Stockton with 13 receptions for 260 yards and 3 TD’s…Milan Summers with 11 receptions for 122 yards and 2 TD’s….1,411 total yards for Summers on the season…1,727 total yards for Slade on the season….
Dudley defense with DL Jahrie Little coming up with 21 total Sacks and 76 Total Tackles on the Season…Ayden Gamble with 4 INT’s on the year….Steven Davis II and Elvis Berry with 2 INT’s each on the year….Jaylan Richmond with 65 total tackles for Dudley…Jhyheem Pittman with 59 total tackles for Dudley….Logan Wright with 57 total tackles on the season for the Panthers…Little, Richmond, Pittman, and Wright are the top four tacklers for the Dudley Panthers….
We will pick both Greensboro Grimsley and Greensboro Dudley to win tonight, but we will let you leave/fill-in the scores……