High School Football
The Elite
By: Jason Bishop
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Football season is once again upon us and we have seen an explosion of talent grace our area high school football teams in the past few years.
The truth is the talent just didn’t one day show up. It has been here all along, the college coaches are just now beginning to look at the Golden Isles and southeast Georgia as a recruiting hotbed.
Pirates Crew
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Since February Sean Pender’s new staff has been hard at work at Brunswick High School.
Since that time Pender has started changing the culture at BHS. The offseason conditioning program has been going strong and the Pirates have competed in several 7 on 7 tournaments.
Before the official start of the season let’s take a look at the positional groups of the 2017 Pirates.
Glynn Academy Red Terror Preview
By: Christian Goeckel
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
The Glynn Academy Red Terrors have been just that to the rest of Georgia high school football since the arrival of head coach Rocky Hidalgo.
Under Hidalgo the Terrors have amassed a record of 32-9 (78%) including a playoff record of 8-3 (72%). Making the quarterfinals in each of their first three seasons, including a state championship appearance in 2015, Glynn has established itself as a perennial power in the state.
Frederica Knights 2017 Preview
By: Alex Mathis
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Frederica Academy saw their season end last year in the second round of the playoffs against Deerfield Windsor. The Knights have improved the last two seasons in the win column.
Two years ago they went 7-4 and last year that went 9-2. I don’t see the trend stopping this year.
Head coach Brandon Derrick’s Knights are a little more dialed in this year. They could make a lot of noise in the next few months.
Buford Preview
By: Kenneth Harrison Jr.
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Buford High School has been a football powerhouse sicen the 2000’s. The Wolves have won a total of 11 state championships. Ten of those are from 2001 to 2014.
They have won over several different classifications starting in A in 2001 and ending in AAAA in 2014. Buford is a fairly small school with an enrollment of 1,150 students. Now they are in AAAAA.
Brunswick High Pirates 2017 Preview
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
To say that there is a lot of excitement on Altama Avenue regarding the 2017 Brunswick High football season would be an understatement.
The anticipation is through the roof. New head coach Sean Pender has the Pirate Nation fired up and with 35 seniors retuning on a talented roster, most loyal Pirates feel like the program can bounce back from back to back dismal seasons.
Let us take a look game by game and predict how the Pirate season will play out.
Swing Your Sword
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
As I always say it is never too early to talk Pirate Football.
When you follow a program as closely as I have followed the BHS program as a former player and now broadcaster you develop some special bonds with former and current players.
One of those current players that I am really close to is senior LB Kam Futch. Futch is one heck of a football player.
The Human Tackling Machine
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
I was sitting around in a hotel room in Haiti last week thinking about local high school football and in my 40 plus years of being a football fanatic in Glynn County you openly debate things in your mind, like who was better the better team the 1999 Pirates or the 2015 Terrors?
Who was better Darius Slay or Dee Jay Dallas? The list can go on and on, but then I asked myself ‘who is the most productive linebacker in all of your years watching football in this county’ and the name that comes immediately to mind is the heart and soul of the 2017 Glynn Academy Red Terror football team and his name is Hunter Hall.
Spring Game Report Card
By: Kipp Branch
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
Several weeks ago Brunswick High School and Glynn Academy renewed an old tradition of having an annual spring football game as the Pirates beat the Terrors 21-12 in the varsity portion of the contest. Both squads had 9 days of practice to prepare for the contest.
Glynn Academy and Brunswick High Scrimmage
By: Jason Bishop
TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services
The Spring Scrimmage has come and gone for the Glynn Academy Red Terrors and the Brunswick High Pirates.
The two squads took advantage of a rule passed by the GHSA allowing a spring scrimmage to be played against another school if so desired.
The cross-town rivals took advantage and played one half of varsity football against one another to a pretty large crowd for a spring scrimmage.
