South Fork 2A Week 7

flyrod5518

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Newton-Conover (1-0) at Bandys (0-1)

Lincolnton (0-1) at East Lincoln (1-0)

Maiden (1-0) at West Lincoln (0-1)

North Lincoln (1-0) at Lake Norman Charter (0-1)
 

Wolf4Lyfe

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  • Newton by 21
  • West Lincoln at home by 3 in a close one
  • North by 50
Its rivalry week for us coming off a fairly poor performance at Newton to speak frankly. We have got to get more consistent and establish a running game. That will be a challenge this week given the Ponies are very good up front on both the defensive and offensive side of the ball. It will be imperative that our young guys rebound from last week and gain some confidence this week against our cross county rival. I have not seen the Ponies this season but the talk around town is that they are strong up front as always and have a couple of solid athletes. Our offensive line is green, but we have got to get those guys going if we have a chance Friday. Defensively I look for us to give their offense some fits with our speed and quickness up front as getting pressure on the QB will be a game changer. It is important that our offense is able to sustain drives and give our defense some time to rest; that has yet to happen this season. Hopefully we will get in a groove offensively with the freshman settling into the starting QB role.
 

LTown Wolves

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We lost 3 starters on defense to injury Friday, pretty sure none of them will play this week. That isn’t gonna help the hole we’re already in with our lack of offense.
 

Burkeforreal

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Pretty standard predictions. Only one I believe is in the bag unless half the team quits is NL. The rest are winnable games for the underdog teams. I’d give the edge win to West Lincoln over Maiden though. The ground/pound good defense plus great game against North oughta come in handy for this prediction.

Lincolnton will play East tough in a rival game and could go Lincolntons way if there are critical turnovers.
 

GrizzlyDevil

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Bandys wins at home. Bunker Hill caught them sleeping. Maiden was able to smack them in the mouth early and too much damage was done in the first half. They won't be caught off guard again.

East Lincoln wins this one. Lincolnton is rebuilding with a lot of promise, just not there yet.

Maiden wins at West. Our run defense has greatly improved and it's shown this season and we are only getting better week to week. Our kids were hitting harder last week than I've seen in years. I wouldn't call it a revenge tour but our kids want to right all the losses suffered last year and it started with Bandys.

North wins. Perfect your core plays and let your backups get some valuable playing time.
 

Burkeforreal

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Has Norths backups done much in the well decided games? Just wondering since there’s rarely a score in the 2nd half’s of ER, WC and BC games.

Not taking anything in the world from West Lincoln by no stretch of the word, they’re tough, but being an outside the area fan looking in I’m just wondering how far North will actually go in the playoffs considering they lost to Parkwood which was a first game go around and having to come from behind against West Lincoln. Every game is different and looking back at 07’ East Burke, they still got to 3rd round and even coulda possibly won against Indy had a few things gone right, and at beginning almost lost to Maiden the first of the season that year. Maiden was good yes but you’d think EB shoulda beat them by 3 scores to show they can go far in postseason. So I said that to say this, perhaps North May still prevail in the postseason against the likes of Hibriten, and South Point at least. Burns or Shelby I’d bout say forget it but hey, play the game and the see what happens.

EL had a surprise loss to Cherryville in 06’ but still came out later and gave Shelby a heck of a match. Play the game, can’t base what a team might do in this or that game based off of other games.
 

Burkeforreal

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2 of the games close or can be close. Not a bad night of football for the South Forkers. Key for North: conservative with starters however any fancy plays to try out to prep for the serious games ought to be done tonight.

Hibriten has that “play try out” advantage every conference game ha ha. I’m telling ya send LNC over to that conference and bring in Hibriten. Give the Lenior boys a challenge at least.
 

West17

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Newton
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North Lincoln

As every week I don't predict our own score. Call it superstitious. Newton is well improved from last year and I feel Bandys is having a tough time getting it together this year after losing key players.

The tell all sign for Lincolnton will be tonight. Lincolnton always steps up when its against county rivals. There is too much pride in that program to roll over but as ive said since the end of the season last year; East is a dark horse this year.

North by a lot, even without Price. If Price hits the weight room hard; the sky is the limit for that kid. I had the pleasure of meeting him Monday. He seems like a great kid. He will have a ton of D1 schools knocking at his door next year. Probably the best prospect thats even come out of North.

My son is good to go this week. Got his brace and will be playing tonight.
 

GrizzlyDevil

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Maiden and West gridlocked in a 14-14 tie at the half. Both teams have a returned kickoff for a TD.
 

Wolf4Lyfe

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East lined up to punt on 4th and 4 under a minute to go and we jump offsides, East wins 10-7. As many injurys as we have we played extremely well. Congratulations mustangs on a hard fought win.
 

GrizzlyDevil

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28-27 West wins. Congratulations to West. Your boys played hard. However, worst clock keeper I've ever seen. Refs were bad for both of us so I won't gripe there.

If we played the game 10 times we'd split 5 and 5.
 

Pure7

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Heck of a game between East Lincoln and Lincolnton. East has got to cut down on turnovers. At least 2 maybe 3 of those fumbles were in Lincolnton territory with East driving with momentum. Could have easily scored a few more points. Awesome job by the defense picking their offense up and having their back on a few occasions. A valiant effort by the Wolves. Fought their hearts out and gave their all. East Lincoln faced adversity and very easily could have folded. But at the end of the night a wins a win no matter. Best of luck to the Lincolnton Wolves the rest of the way. Go Mustang's #ELUKNOW
 

Burkeforreal

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Looking forward to the big one next Friday. Get the hype started. Unfortunately I won’t be there. ...Go Knights.