See where Grimsley won by something like 65-0 on Friday night…Will anybody in their conference, come out ahead/on top this season…Grimsley can hit you several different ways, and it may one of those things where nobody scores on Grimsley this season…Whirlies at (4-0) and appearing to be ready to roll through their conference, with Wins on every Friday night….Next week the Whirlies will play host to the Western Guilford Hornets, and the question remains, will any of Grimsley’s conference opponents score on the Whirlies this season of 2025???
The Northern Guilford Nighthawks are now at (4-1), and they are headed off to the Bye next week…The NG Nighthawks sure looked good at home, inside the Johnny Roscoe Stadium, on Friday night….Way too much yellow laundry on the field, and some of those penalties had fans scratching their heads…But in the end, this might have been the Best Game of the Evening….NG takes it from Oak Grove, 26-21…
Northern got up early in this contest, with the Nighhawks taking a 17-0 in the first half…
The Nighthawks got on the scoreboard early when NG kicker Kobe Guardado nailed an 33-yard FG, to put NG up, 3-0…
Then in the second quarter Kemp connects with Greyson Council for a huge 99-yard Touchdown catch…The pass was originally planned to be for a minimal gain, but Council took it to the House…Guardados’ PAT Kick was good…
NG moves on top of Oak Grove, 10-0, with 6:59 left in the 2nd Quarter…
Then Kemp comes right back with a 67-yard pass play to Council for the Touchdown…166 yards alone on just those two plays for the NG Nighthawks…Northern Guilford 17-0, over Oak Grove….
Oak Grove got on the scoreboard just before halftime, when the Grizzlies’ main/big man Jaiquan Clay scored on a 1-yard jump pass from OG QB Grayson Treadway…The Eli Fulcher PAT Kick was good, and now our score was, Northern Guilford 17, Oak Grove 7, headed into the Halftime Session….
At 7:16 of the Third Quarter, Kobe Guardado kicked a 25-yard FG to make the score, 20-7, in favor of the NG Nighthawks…
We go to the 5:24 mark of the 3rd Q and Oak Grove gets a 51-yard pass play, with the Grizzlies QB Grayson Treadway hooking up with Caleb Tuttle for the Touchdown…Fulcher’s kick after the touchdown is good again by Eli Fulcher, and the new score is Northern Guilford 20, Oak Grove 14…
With 5:52 left in the football game, Kimari McFadden scores on a 6-yard TD run for Oak Grove, and Grizzlies have tied this game up at 20-20….Eli Fulcher’s PAT Kick is perfect, and this will give the Grizzlies a 21-20 lead with only 5:52 to go in this contest…Yes, 21-20, Oak Grove is in front…
But not to be denied, Northern Guilford starts down by their goal line, and the NG Nighthawks go on a game-winning drive for the ages…Oak Grove was up 21-20, but NG was not done yet…On fourth down and fourteen, going hard and long, to get into the Oak Grove end zone, that is where one of the Big Plays of the Day came into focus…Kemp hit C.J. Morrison for the necessary yards and Morrison got the ball to the Six-Yard Line, for first and goal…After a couple of cracks, Northern’s Amare Akers scores his team’s Game-Winning Touchdown, and the Two-Point attempt was not successful…
With 47.8 seconds left in the game, Northern Guilford has re-gained that ever-important lead…NG on top of OG again, now at Northern Guilford 26, Oak Grove 21….And that was our Final Score:Northern Guilford 26, Oak Grove 21…..
NG now at (4-1) with their OFF week coming up for next Friday…Oak Grove falls to (2-3)…Our offensive players of the Game for Northern Guilford were the Kemp to Council Connection…Over 200 yards receiving for Council and Kemp with near 3OO-plus yards passing…Those ‘Hawks were tearing it up, in the end it became Kemp and others getting Northern to the Promised Land…For NG, it was 2 TD passes from Kemp to Council, 2 FGs from the foot of Guardado, and the Amare Akers one-yard TD run that made “The Difference”….Defensive Player of the Game was NG sophomore Lucas Hilliard, who had Two Interceptions for the NG Nighthawks…Hilliard had a huge pick on the last drive of the game by the OG Grizzlies offense…His take-away down near the left corner of the end zone, sealed the deal for the ‘Hawks…Hilliard now with Interceptions in Three Straight Games for Northern…Hilliard’s grandfather, Chuck Mardis, is his position coach/defensive backs coach at Northern Guilford HS…
Have been seeing this bunch of Nighthawks since they were together and acquiring a Perfect Season, back in 2021, when they were at the Northern Guilford Middle School, and being coached by current NG AD, Chase Cochran…(This 2025 edition of the Nighthawks will be at Unbeaten Asheboro, in two weeks, for their first conference game of this season.)
The High Point Andrews Red Raiders fell for the first time this season, losing to the Randleman Tigers, 41-20…HP Andrews falling in a convincing fashion….
And now for 2025, we only have Two Unbeaten Teams left, with Grimsley and High Point Christian Academy both at (4-0)…What’s happening next for us??? I feel like I have been down a Long Road, with several speed bumps along the way, but are done for Tonight, and we will keep it cooking, as look ahead now to, the next Big Games(Week #6)…….
Next Week and Beyond, NEXT…..