Football Western Foothills 4A/5A - 4th round

Lincolnton

All-Conference
Jul 8, 2025
432
1,343
93
Congratulations to Hickory and Lincolnton as well.
How about that 321 Gang? 3 schools in 3 different classifications within 20 miles of each other, all playing in the Western Finals!
Thank you Grizzly tamer, a big congratulations to you and the Blue Devil nation. Must have been a war in Lenoir… Come Monday, we’ll all have to start getting ready for BIG games…All the best to you.
 

oldburkeman

Junior
Aug 23, 2025
178
302
63
Most locals I’ve seen stay in it at this point …. EVER. Congrats to ADM Grizz maiden creek and their big time team I know yall are happy. Lincolnton, don’t celebrate too hard lol, Cheerduck I’m sorry for doubting you guys big congrats to those Tornaders’

And hey, Watauga made it, barely but them boys done it. None of the big dogs predicted a Watauga win.

Toes bout gone I got in car flipped on radio and heard the missed field goal in Lenior. Talk bout dodging a bullet.
 

The Patriot

All-Conference
Mar 2, 2022
1,315
2,202
113
I was telling someone else is going to take some creativity 🤣
Blaming Spider-Man GIF
 

HeelRaiderMBD

Sophomore
Nov 14, 2022
61
169
21
Unofficial
Yall threw for 213, rushed for 135.
We threw for 221, not sure on rushing but probably under 100 yds.
12 penalties for Hibriten 80yds
11 penalties for Maiden 126yds
Max verifies your Maiden numbers exactly. Nothing posted on Hibriten's stats, but I'm sure you're very close. What an absolutely dead even game. Just looking at the score by quarters would tell you that.

I was worried at halftime because, by my count, Hibriten had been penalized eight times, mostly five yard procedure penalties, and Maiden had been penalized only twice. That hasn't been how its gone for us this season, and I knew it wouldn't last. It didn't. In the second half, yellow rained down on Maiden, mostly holding penalties, plus a face-mask and an unnecessary roughness penalty mixed in. Par for the course.

Then, with Maiden leading 29-28, Hibriten was looking at fourth and about 12 from deep inside its own territory. I couldn't believe the throw and catch they pulled off on that play. A ball thrown deep, right on the sideline, to a receiver covered by two Maiden defenders, and he comes down with the ball. The catch probability on that throw had to be less than 10%. Maiden played a really tough schedule this season and faced a lot of good QBs. Lincolnton had a really good QB, as did Hickory, East Lincoln, Newton-Conover, and certainly the Bandys QB. But, IMO, the Hibriten QB was the best QB we faced all season. He was a good runner as well as passer.

Not many teams could survive that much penalty yardage against a team like Hibriten. It took a missed chip shot FG attempt in order to make that happen. Fortunately, we have another opportunity to clean up the penalties. We'll need to, because we're probably the underdogs against Brevard. But if Maiden can avoid beating Maiden, we'll have a decent shot at winning.
 

Grizzly Tamer

Junior
Nov 7, 2017
96
305
42
Max verifies your Maiden numbers exactly. Nothing posted on Hibriten's stats, but I'm sure you're very close. What an absolutely dead even game. Just looking at the score by quarters would tell you that.

I was worried at halftime because, by my count, Hibriten had been penalized eight times, mostly five yard procedure penalties, and Maiden had been penalized only twice. That hasn't been how its gone for us this season, and I knew it wouldn't last. It didn't. In the second half, yellow rained down on Maiden, mostly holding penalties, plus a face-mask and an unnecessary roughness penalty mixed in. Par for the course.

Then, with Maiden leading 29-28, Hibriten was looking at fourth and about 12 from deep inside its own territory. I couldn't believe the throw and catch they pulled off on that play. A ball thrown deep, right on the sideline, to a receiver covered by two Maiden defenders, and he comes down with the ball. The catch probability on that throw had to be less than 10%. Maiden played a really tough schedule this season and faced a lot of good QBs. Lincolnton had a really good QB, as did Hickory, East Lincoln, Newton-Conover, and certainly the Bandys QB. But, IMO, the Hibriten QB was the best QB we faced all season. He was a good runner as well as passer.

Not many teams could survive that much penalty yardage against a team like Hibriten. It took a missed chip shot FG attempt in order to make that happen. Fortunately, we have another opportunity to clean up the penalties. We'll need to, because we're probably the underdogs against Brevard. But if Maiden can avoid beating Maiden, we'll have a decent shot at winning.
That 4th down throw and catch was phenomenal! I agree that he may have been the most well rounded QB we faced.