By: Kipp Branch

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

The BHS Pirates were destroyed by Richmond Hill in the first region game of the season 41-7 at home in front of a sparse crowd at Glynn County Stadium.

The loss dropped the Pirates to 3-4 on the season and 0-1 in region play.

Nothing went right for BHS all night as they were only able to muster a 16 play 80-yard TD drive for the only score of the night on the first play of the second quarter.

Richmond Hill’s offense dominated the Pirate defense all night long which led to a running clock in the 4th quarter of a home region football game.

The Pirates travel to Effingham next Friday to try and regroup against the Rebels from Springfield.

This performance was very disappointing coming off back to back wins against New Hampstead and Monroe.

Pirate Report Card.

Offense: F. Other than one drive the offense didn’t do much on the evening.

QB KJ Lee was ineffective and the offensive line got beat consistently by the Wildcat front 7. Wide Receivers had too many drops. It was just an overall bad effort by BHS on the offensive side.

Defense: F. This was the worst defensive effort I have witnessed watching BHS football in recent memory.

There were penalties, missed tackles, physically whipped up front, couldn’t get off blocks, blown assignments in the secondary, and the list goes on.

F is the lowest grade on the grading scale, but if a Y or Z could be issued it would have been earned in this contest. The effort was lacking and this unit just looked bad.

Special Teams: C. Mitchell Richburg punted all night from inside his own 20-yard line. Translation that’s not good. The punt coverage was good. It may have been the only bright spot of the night.

Coaching: D. The game plan if executed would have been good enough to win, but this one is one the players not the coaches. However, when you get beat 41-7 at home the grade can’t be much higher than this on the coaching scale.

Overall: F. The players mailed it in at the half. That pretty much sums it up. You can’t sugarcoat lack of effort. This team never showed up in this contest. Very disappointing effort by the football team in this contest.

Next up Effingham on the road in what looks like a must win for Brunswick’s playoff hopes.