High School Football Tonight in and Around Guilford County:
4-A West:
#5 Hough(12-1) at #1 Grimsley(13-0) 7:30pm
Hough with a big bunch of Huskies, some very big O-lineman and big D-lineman…Hough looking to be more of a passing team, based on their 34-0 win over the Mallard Creek Mavericks last Friday night…Hough QB Ralph Blakeney going 14-26 vs. Mallard Creek, and hit on three TDs, to go along with his 230 passing yards and 0 interceptions…
Top receiver was Sean Brady who made 8 receptions for 180 yards and he caught all three of the Blakeney touchdown passes…No other receiver was even close to Brady’s output…
Top rusher last week for Hough was Jycen Anciso who had 13 carries for 102 yards and 1 TD…823 yards and 8 TDs on the season for Ancisco..Season for WR Brady goes 929 yards on 50 receptions and 15 TD receptions…QB Blakeney with 2,549 yards passing, with 39 TD passes and 4 INTS…Pretty darn impressive passing numbers right there…Blakeney with 278 yards rushing and 6 more TDs on the ground…Kicker Kandler Happe with very strong foot and leg, averaging 35.8 yards per punt, and he has 69 Touchbacks, on his kickoffs…
On offense it looks like for Hough, QB Blakeney, RB Ancisco, and WR Brady have to be your marked men…Got to get with Blakeney, and put pressure on the QB…He seems similar to Grimsley QB Faizon Brandon in many ways…Very good passer and good runner too, plus Blakeney is 6’2/215, about the same size as Brandon…Those 39 TD passes are very much attention grabbers…Hough defense has given up three(3) points in the playoffs…
Grimsley with top three on offense….QB Faizon Brandon 135-177 passing for 2,256 yards with 27 TDs/1 INT…76.3% Completion Rate…RB Mitchell Summers 1,771 yards on 210 carries and 41 TDs…Kaden Catoe with 53 receptions for 700 yards and 8 TDs…Comes down to the Grimsley defense being able to get after Hough’s Blakeney, and Grimsley’s ability to get both Summers and Brandon running hard, strong, and productive…Got to get both Summers and Brandon off and running…
Game will be on TV on local MY48 TV…Bryant Roche from the News and Record will be there in coverage, while Dave Polaski and Mike Fanning will there with radio coverage…TV, Newspaper, and two radio groups, this one will have blanket coverage…Cover two, cover three, and cover four…
3-A West:
#8 West Charlotte(10-2) at #5 Dudley(13-0) 7pm
Very intriguing game here, with both teams very athletic, and that is an understatment right there…We will have this game for you on GreensboroSports Radio…Coach Randy Norris on board with us, with Don Moore back at the scoreboard….GreensboroSports Radio at Tarpley Stadium, for Dudley vs. the West Charlotte Lions…
Write it down, Jamouri Nichols, the West Charlotte QB is what makes this team roll….He is just a sophomore, but he runs a very steady offense…From my time in the film room, the reason he has had so much success back there as the WC QB is because he has not seen enough pressure this season…Got to get to him, and put pressure on this young quarterback…The kind of pressue that the Dudley front five can bring, with Jalile Elliot, Andrew Rogers, Jordyn Ratliff, Dakota Brown, and Seth Lawrence…
(Elliot with right at 25 Sacks for the season, and Rogers with 22 Sacks…Elliot had 4 Sacks last Friday night, at JM Robinson.)
Got to get that kid Nichols off of his balance, he wears #4, so he has to be a marked man….The kid with right at 2,800 TOTAL yards, with 26 TDs and only two picks/interceptions…Around 2,200 passing yards for Nichols and around 550 more rushing…Kid can motor and he is smooth…Got to get to him…
Very good receivers in #2 Nicholson(600 yards), #8 Finch(575 yards), #9 Cotton(280 yards), and #14 Jones(375 yards)…All four of these receivers can go and get it….Dudley with lockdown coverage coming from Jerron Blackwell, Nasir Newkirk, Kordell Bartley, AJ Southern, and Le’Ezra Brown…Dudley LBs Robert McCollum and Adae Motley will be there to get in on every tackle, plus Jeremiah ‘Dre’ Deese will get a piece of the LB action too…
Got to be quick and get to the ball and work to keep these Lions out of the end zone…Top Lion RB is #5 Aiden Turner(Around 700 rushing yards)…Like we were saying, QB Nichols close to 3,000 total yards for the year, and Nicols has been bringing the dimes and taking no quarters, just leaving two dimes, and a Nichol…
The West Charlotte defense has only given up three points so far in the playoffs, while the Dudley Panthers have allowed a total of 7 points…And I guarantee that Dudley had a much tougher opponent in the Third Round, than West Charlotte did…JM Robinson vs. Charles Erwin, of Asheville, not even close…Dudley and West Charlotte looks real close though…West Charlotte has a load of athletes, but they were really just tested in their losses to Mallard Creek, 13-12, and to Hough, 40-14…
The Dudley offense should be ready to put the fear of God into West Charlotte…Here comes Kordell Bartley as a runner, and you have to catch him…Good luck, if he gets past the line of scrimmage…Dudley QBs with Jaquez Crawford 127-150 for 2,064 yards 27 TD/2 INT…84.7% Completion Rate and Brayden Jeffries going 97-136 for 1,547 yards with 19 TDs/4 INT…71.3% Completion Rate…
Top Dudley runner is LJ Southern 976 yards on 106 carries with 9 TDs…Jayden Brown with 908 rushing yards, but he has been injured…
Dudley receivers, CJ Neely with 54 receptions for 988 yards and 14 TDs…Kordell Bartley with 55 receptions for 914 yards and 10 TDs…Nasir Newkirk with 52 receptions for 909 yards and 12 TDs…Antonio Lee with 42 receptions 613 yards and 6 TDs…3,611 passing yards from Crawford and Jeffries combined at QB…At WR, Neely, Bartley, Newkirk, and Lee with a combined 3,424 receiving yards…
Those are some hot numbers there for a cold night….Bring on the gloves, and make sure the gloves work…For West Charlotte, their QB Nichols likes to toss that looping pass and get the ball to his receivers and let them run…They like to feast on the big plays…Dudley likes and uses that same formula…Got to shut down the Big Play capability of West Charlotte…
One final note…West Charlotte is a big 3-A school, with 2,332 students, and the team they beat last Friday night, Charles Erwin of Asheville, has 1,082 students…Just hoping that Dudley has the right Student-Athletes in place, to win this game on Friday night…Might set up a rematch at Hickory next Friday night, you never know…But for now Let’s Go See what is going to happen…Again, you can listen to, and hear the game on GreensboroSports Radio…Jim Sand at the game, in coverage for the News and Record…
More 4-A West:
#3 East Forsyth(13-0) at #2 Weddington(13-0) 7pm
More 3-A West:
#10 North Lincoln(12-1) at #3 Hickory(13-0) 7pm
1-A West:
#5 Corvian Community(13-0) at #1 Mount Airy(13-0) 7pm
This week’s picks:
Grimsley
Dudley
Weddington
Hickory
Mount Airy
Hopefully a good night for the Whirlies and the Panthers tonight.