Friday Football Finish:On a night when Page Pirates honor former football players Jeffires, Brooks and Rouson, Patterson and Blackwell step up and show what they can do

It was either on Saturday Night Live, or MAD TV, they used to have a segment/skit, called “Look At What I Can Do”

And tonight/Friday night at Page High School, Tim Patterson and Jerron Blackwell put on a show of their own, with two excellent defensive plays that could have been labeled, “Look At What I Can Do”

Patterson made the Ragsdale Tigers pay the price when he took a Pirates’ Pick Six to the house…It was a 25-yard interception return for the touchdown by Patterson…The Page-Ragsdale game was all tied up when Patterson made his ‘house call’…Then with Page up on Ragsdale, 14-7, Blackwell recovered a Ragsdale fumble near the Pirates’ 30-yard line and he ran the fumbled football back for Page, to the Tigers’ 15…This turned out to be a 55-yard fumble return for Blackwell and Page, and the Pirates ended up with a touchdown from their QB Marquis Lewis…

Patterson and Blackwell were putting on a show, on night when Page had three former Pirate greats in attendance…Michael Brooks, Haywood Jeffires, and Lee Rouson were all back for their upcoming Saturday night inductions into the Page Pirates Athletics Hall of Fame…That is some big-time company for Patterson and Blackwell to be hanging out with, on a Friday night…

Patterson and Blackwell showed Michael, Haywood, and Lee that they could hang with the Big Boys during the Friday Football Finish, at Walter Hines Page High School…

Quite the night to be hanging around with Brooks, Jeffires, and Rouson, and it brought back memories when Jeffires and Brooks were playing college ball for the N.C. State Wolfpack, and when Rouson was with the Colorado Buffaloes…Jeffires on to the Houston Oilers in the NFL, Brooks to the San Diego Chargers, and Rouson to the New York Giants…

All that talent around the football field at Page High School on a Friday night, and here comes Tim Patterson and Jerron Blackwell to steal the show…Not sure if Page coach Doug Robertson would agree with me, but Patterson and Blackwell got my votes for the Steak n Shake Players of the Game, and we should give a major offensive effort to Marquis Lewis, the Pirates’ QB, who had two TD runs…The Page kids and adults, were shining all over the place on Friday night, and we also learned that Page can go four-deep at the quarterback spot…Lewis got the start, Jerron Blackwell took snaps, and then PJ Thompson came on late in the game to QB the Pirates…Page also uses senior Nick Williamson at QB when he is healthy…Four QB’s for the Pirates, and it appears to me, that Thompson and Blackwell are more like Wildcat QB’s and that they are mainly runners back there, but they do on occasion, put the ball in the air..

The Page offensive line really seemed to be in sync, and they are coming together…The line that outlasted the other line, offense vs. defense, would end up going home with the “W” on Friday night, and Page took home the WWE Offensive Line Belt, for this week’s battle from down in the trenches….

Page at Northwest Guilford next Friday night, and what do you say??? The number two spot in the Metro 4-A Conference behind the Grimsley Whirlies is beginning to look like a coveted spot to me right now…Page, NWG, Northern Guilford, Southwest Guilford, Ragsdale, and Southeast Guilford will be fighting for that #2 Metro pole/poll position, and right now, that spot right behind Grimsley, is still up for grabs…

Grimsley over Northwest Guilford 55-12, and by the looks of the film/video on the FOX 8 Friday Football Frenzy, and then on the WFMY NEWS 2 Friday Football Fever Show, Alex Taylor and Terrell Anderson were giving the NWG defense fits…

Let’s look at this thing a little bit more…

Why don’t we put it all on the table…Metro 4-A after our Week Six Friday night games…
Grimsley(5-0) Whirlies(2-0) Metro
Page(3-2) Pirates(2-0) Metro
Northern Guilford(3-2) Nighthawks(1-1) Metro
Northwest Guilford(3-2) Vikings(1-1) Metro
Southwest Guilford(3-2) Cowboys(1-1) Metro
Ragsdale(1-4) Tigers(1-1) Metro
Southeast Guilford(3-2) Falcons(0-2) Metro
Western Guilford(0-5) Hornets(0-2) Metro

With Northern Guilford topping Southeast Guilford, the Nighthawks stay in the race, and SEG has fallen at least two games behind, in the quest for the playoffs…Southwest Guilford is still at on-the-mark, get-set, GO…

Ragsdale is still on the radar for that place at the second-best spot in the Metro 4-A, but like we mentioned, Southeast Guilford has found their Falcon selves, on thin ice…Western Guilford is looking back through their rearview mirror, and the Hornets will continue to look out for positive signs of improvement…

Page, at (2-0) could be looking at (3-0) if they stand tall at Northwest Guilford next Friday night…For NWG, that Page encounter quickly becomes a make-or-break contest…NWG has to have that game, to quell their loss at the hands of the Grimsley Whirlies…NWG at (1-2) will have the Vikings in a position of not improving over last year’s Metro Conference start…Page began last season at (4-0) in the Metro, and the Pirates have a chance to duplicate that start this season…Going to be some kind of race in the Metro in the coming weeks…Hope to be on the right side, of that ride…

These Metro games are becoming crucial, and will anyone be able to derail the Grimsley Whirlies??? They way Grimsley has played the last two weeks, that has begun to look doubtful…Grimsley is locked-and-loaded, and they are really deep, and highly skilled all over the football field/all over the place…You are going to have to play a near-perfect game, to beat them…

The Mid-State 3-A Conference is beginning to look like a two-horse race again…Dudley settling in, and settling down with/at the top spot in the conference, and Eastern Guilford looking to show up, and make some noise…The rest of the league, looks like they will be looking up at the Panthers and the Wildcats…I saw Dudley assistant coach Mike Quarles tonight on the way home from Page, and he told me that the Panthers are coming together, and that they are really starting to get IT…Eastern has RB Jaiden Evans back, and when you put Evans and EG QB Tyreik Boyd together, then you are moving the football all over the place, down in Gibsonville and abroad….

Hard to visualize anybody other than Eastern Guilford being able to beat Dudley in the Mid-State, and the same can just about be said of Eastern Guilford losing in the conference…It will take a team like Dudley to knock off the EG Wildcats…Southern Guilford may have a good shot at the three spot in the Mid-State…The three and four spots in the Mid-State 3-A is going to be where it gets very interesting again this season…We have entered the colder months now, and this is the time when you start thinking about the postseason, and with the season now officially half over/done for all of our teams, this is now becoming the time of, no time to go back, we have reached the point of no return…Let’s keep on marching forward…

How about how they are stacking up in the Mid-State 3-A Conference?????

Right now we see it as,
Dudley(3-2) Panthers(2-0) Mid-State
Southern Guilford(3-2) Storm(2-0) Mid-State
Eastern Guilford(2-3) Wildcats(2-0) Mid-State
Smith (1-4) Eagles(1-1) Mid-State
Northeast Guilford(3-2) Rams(0-2) Mid-State
High Point Central(0-5) Bison(0-2) Mid-State

High Point Andrews is now riding along at (3-3) and (1-1) on the 2-A level, after the Red Raiders loss on Friday night, to McMichael…We would have to check with Joe Sirera, from the News and Record on this one, but the Flying Phoenix of McMichael, might be the most improved team in the Triad this season….McMichael now at (5-1) and (2-0) in the Mid-State 2-A Conference…MAC has won five straight games, since an season-opening 30-13 loss to the Rockingham County Cougars…MAC vs. Reidsville, at home in Mayodan on October 21, will be a great test, and measuring stick for the Phoenix…MAC not in our county, but nice to be able to pass along some congrats to a near-by football program….

We may have overdone it here on this early Saturday morning, but this is how it is starting to look to us, as we lean forward, and move ahead toward Week Seven of the 2022 High School Football Season, in Guilford County…

Are you still with us, as we hit the gas pedal, and jump ahead at just $3.19 per gallon….

++++++++++Page-Ragsdale results from Friday September 23, and numbers coming on the Don Tilley Tally…..+++++++++
PAGE Second Quarter 10:30 QB Marquis Lewis runs for 14-yard touchdown…PAT Kick by Tylar Elliott good…Page 7, Ragsdale 0
RAGSDALE Third Quarter 6:29 RB Javonte Ford takes off down the left side of the field and heads to the end zone from 20 yards away, and the PAT Kick from Wrenn Gardner is good…Ragsdale 7, Page 7
PAGE Third Quarter 2:36 Page DB Tim Patterson comes up with a Pick Six, as he takes that Interception 25 yards to the house…The Tylar Elliott PAT Kick is good again, Page 14, Ragsdale 7
PAGE Fourth Quarter 6:48 QB Marquis Lewis with a one-yard run for his second touchdown of the night and Tylar Elliott makes it three-for-three on his PAT Kicks…Page 21, Ragsdale 7

Page with 31 carries for 151 yards rushing…Page was 2-6 passing for 42 yards, and the Pirates with 197 yards of Total Offense…Maurice Andrews with 11 carries for 64 yards rushing…Marquis Lewis with 11 carries for 52 for the Pirates, and two TD runs…PJ Thompson with 6 carries for 24 yards…

Ragsdale 41 carries for 138 rushing yards…Tigers 112 yards passing…RHS with 250 yards of Total Offense…
Devin Hackstall 12-23 passing with one Interception for the RHS Tigers…
Fabian Diggs with 17 carries for 97 yards for the Tigers
Javonte Ford with 8 carries for 54 yards…

           1st Q   2nd Q   3rd Q   4th Q  Final
Page       0       7       7       7      21      
Ragsdale   0       0       7       0       7