Perhaps never has giving up a touchdown drive been more beneficial for a football team than it was for Calhoun during Friday night's win over Blessed Trinity in their GHSA Class AAAAA semifinal.
Right now in Calhoun, Georgia, there is a bit of an identity crisis that produces wry smiles on the football field and creates utter chaos for opponents.
There have been times this football season when the once-vaunted Calhoun High School defense has looked rather ordinary.
Like most twins, Christian and Christopher Lewis are alike in a lot of ways. It's the differences, though, that make the Calhoun High School football stars stand out.
Needing a defensive stop in a football game that had included very few of them, Calhoun got a memorable one to seal a dramatic postseason win Friday night.
Kaleb Park has one of the best views in the house when Rob Brown takes off on one of his patented long touchdown runs, so the Trion High School senior offensive lineman is the perfect person to describe his star teammate's playing style.
Standout senior Rob Brown and the Trion High School football team's running game continued to dominate Saturday night as the Bulldogs moved from the regular season to playoff mode without any trouble.
As it turns out, Ringgold High School football coach Robert Akins had no need to worry about his Tigers on Friday night.
The road to Atlanta and the GHSA football state championship games will no doubt be rocky for the 10 area teams that made the playoffs this year, though the recently completed regular season also had its share of potholes and detours for northwest Georgia programs.
In the end, Ringgold's defense won the battle but lost the war at Rockmart.
