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It's hard to get a read on this game because both teams are going to come in trying to stop what the other one hangs their hat on offensively.. WJ's whole RB room was injured at one time I think and IDK how many of them has gotten back healthy. HHS best strategy on defense might be to just play back and keep the WJ passing game in front of them . If they try to man up and pressure Lindsey by bringing more people he's just going to roll out and throw it up to the rebounders they have playing receiver. A losing strategy for a defense IMO. Lacey is a defensive guy and I suspect he will try to disguise pressure and stop Lindsey from setting up and throwing. Honestly what Hattiesburg is hanging their hat on right now as an offense I'm not familiar with. Whatever it is WJ will almost certainly make them do something else. That's what Pierson does. Slow down the time the QB has to make a decision. So getting production running with something they haven't put on film would go a long way. I've said this before . Scott Pierson is a top five coach in the state . Lacey has been kind of hot and cold since last season so this is a chance for him to elevate his game again. If I had to make a pick I would say WJ just because of Pierson who loves to pick apart the special teams of the other side. Remember that. Teams are pretty evenly matched so it should be close with a turnover or special teams mistake deciding it. They are going to finish 1 and 2 in the region anyway so big picture a loss doesn't set either back . Facing PRC, Gautier or Pascagoula at home in R1 is not a make or break.

WC can wrap up the region this week by going 4-0 at Purvis. The first since 2013. I had to look twice at that but it's true. Purvis is one of the few places I've never visited for a game. It will be a goodbye of sorts too as they will be going back down a class. A pat on the back to our defensive staff for shaping the defense up after the non region schedule.

Im still thinking on that one .

Just a few things this week Leake Central is really going to win that region in their first year of existence as a school and have a good chance to make it to the title game. IN 5A 7A-4A Undefeateds left with very slim chances to make it to to the title game Lake Cormorant, Diberville and Pass Christian Tony Vance, I’ve never asked you for anything. Win that dam game this Friday for everything that is holy and just. Bring the drama as only you can. If Meridian pulls this off I will send you a bottle of top shelf of your choice through Vott. You got my word. Diberville now on to you. It’s all right there in front . Homefield all the way thru south State game. Consider this an intervention. Your defense is not gonna stop Gulfport . Your offense is not gonna be able to line them up and just push them out of the way like you’ve been doing to people. TWO WEEKS. Two weeks the coach has had to prepare for this. Undefeated and absolutely has the team to go in and win this game. Yet I can’t shake this nagging thought that they just gonna go out there and keep slamming into the line over and over and over and over. Congratulations brother unbeaten is a hell of an accomplishment, but all it does is buy you an opportunity like this Friday. I know sometimes it seems like I’m picking on this dude, but I spend a good bit of time over that way. To me over the years, they have wasted more championships than anyone I know. Let the chips fall where they may Two more weeks. . Be safe.

You could say first place is riding on this game Petal will be in the drivers seat with a win and chaos will reign if Meridian can pull it off. Petal likes to play it close and play for the last possession to protect their sorry defense. If this game is close and Meridian gets the ball with five or six minutes left they will win . They have the kind of style to grind it out and score . Vance won’t do like Brandon did with the lead Its hard to believe that Coach Boyles will lose this game at home plus you know what happens in Petal with officiating. Nobody has really given Petal a good arse whopping yet this season.. This would be a great time for it to happen. Fingers crossed. Meridian has the athletes to do it but they will need a few breaks to keep them hanging around until the end

I kind of did put Boyles in it indirectly in the poll, lol. Honestly I don't like it . Go somewhere out of the dam region, But that's Petal . I do know they pursued him. He was coming back to Meridian.

Strange things happen in Petal always to the visitors

You could say that . I could also make the case that they still are. I don't feel that way about Brandon at all. Gulfport will beat Brandon if they meet up and I could see OG beating them in a rematch. Brandon's coach is lacking.

There's a reason Paul put that statement from Tracey on the wrap up. He was on the sidelines too. He saw what was going on. I'm pretty sure they hurt one of the RBs ankle bouncing on it after he was down. It was something after every play. They were putting eight or nine at the line every at every snap. Their coach got mad when it didn't stop us from scoring.

IDK if huff the red was coaching for his job or something but he acted like it . He threw the kitchen sink tonight. EC played like they didn't think they could win coming in so they tried to put it in the refs hands. It didn't work. They lost the game on second down. They would gain yards running it on first down and invariably run some goofy play that took forever to develop on second and WC would run them down. They got some corn feds on the OL but they play with inconsistency. They could give someone a game in the first round It was needed. WC had to call on a different kind of craft to overcome them

Wayne County 35 East Central 14 final Our freshman wont forget this game and I hope they don't

Interception. Drive down for a TD and beat them at their own disrespectful game. That's what WC football is about. East Central needs to learn to play football and quit whining after every play because they wanted the refs to lay off the whistle. It worked too, Dirtiest team I seen since Natchez. EC maybe dirtier because theirs was sustained the whole game. Usually happens when you are getting whipped. What happened to them they used to just line up and play football the right way ?

WC 28 East Central 7 half EC should look at things when the season is over on their staff. He reminds me of Hankins with trying to be more of a a wizard than just lining up and snapping it

WC hasn't been 3-0 in region play since '22 . Hankins second year and the year he really broke things.

Thinks wal mart scooter is still coach . 21 points ???

Hattiesburg and GC has shaped up to be a huge game. Lacey can't lose to GC or things could get rocky for him

That's not all that talks. Some stuff stepped in talks too. Laurel's streets are brick also If Hattiesburg happens to be doing a search my gut tells me they will try to get T.V. back

If that's the move they will make it will be clear immediately when the season ends. . Him being that close and available to talk to it will already be done. All Unle Rukus has to do is step down and announce it

East Central is 2-0. Winner gets the leg up in the region at 3-0. George County ran over our defense a few weeks ago with the same grind offense. We were forced to watch for what feels like the last twenty years an after version of it, It's now known as wal mart scooter old man offense. It was horrible . That Vancleave team WC just steam rolled bullied our team and beat their arse. All that saying the offense they are bringing into our stadium needs to be officially buried. EC just happens to line up with that timeline. This will be the biggest game Pound has coached. Biggest for most of our team too. EC will have to score forty just to be even

that does make sense. they do want him gone. people have already tested his stance on willingness to move on. He sent word back and that was the end of it. A lot of schools passed over him during the last several years. . Tracy has never been a self promoter.. He is a shrewd winner though and will leave you crying if you underestimate him. I am trying to keep my enthusiasm tempered for now, but at some point, it is what it is. They are about to be able to throw just as efficient as rushing. Seven seniors on this team. so no pound is not going anywhere until he finishes what he had planned to do when he applied for the job.

What are they going to do there? Rolling Uncle Ruckus back out there is not an option I wouldn’t think.

Everyone starting to see the playoffs in the distance. Short and to the point Oak Grove is the best team in the south The last time I watched a coach fall to pieces as bad as the Brandon coach at Petal I don’t remember but I’m sure it’s happened. Vancleave doesn’t belong in 5A. I watched Kevin Fant go in and end Hattiesburg’s season a few yers ago. I thought he would be capable at a bigger school. I was wrong. He’s a poor man’s Lewis sims Seth will be a coach somewhere on the coast next season. PRC is on the verge of collapse since that debacle about Poplarville. Just sayin North Reps this season 7A Tupelo 6A Warren Central 5A ???? Hey Pine Belt social media sports guy. Quit repeating stuff I put on here Everyone have a good week

Leave the rain gear at home. Mild temperatures and a clear sky with a big moonrise about kickoff

It feels good putting stuff in the ride a couple of days before Friday again instead of looking at reasons not to go. IDK know what to think about Al Smith trying to bandwagon his way back amongst the faithful. Madam Supt. watch this stooge or he will be defacto running things again . Let him go support his god son Reynolds helping steer Laurel off the cliff on his program nuked tour

The area that encompasses George County school district they should be dressing eighty or more players. Less than that and a coach really has to decide between being competent on just one side of the ball. You can’t win with that in 6A. Look at the requirements to play football versus the minimum test scores for the state