South Pittsburg
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South Pittsburg Pirates win big in five
The coaching staff didn't know if Matt Allen would be at his best. For that matter, South Pittsburg's coaching staff didn't know how well Jacob Toney could play or how long.
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Football Preview: South Pittsburg Pirates see continuity in Branham
Coach: Vic Grider (149-33 here and overall)
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South Pittsburg’s title season game by game
SOUTH PITTSBURG 53, GRUNDY COUNTY 14
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Hale’s record year keys Pirates’ title
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. - Walk the halls of small South Pittsburg High School, and Raquis Hale likely will go unnoticed. An unassuming, almost bashful kid, he doesn't carry himself with the swagger of the stereotypical star athlete. Instead, he blends into the crowd of teenage classmates, rarely opening his mouth except for a contagious smile.
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South Pittsburg looks to shut down rush threat
For two years the achilles heel for South Pittsburg's football team has been stopping power-running opponents. As Union City proved in last year's championship game, as well as Polk County twice, Boyd-Buchanan last year and Signal Mountain this year, the Pirates have struggled stopping the most simplistic offense - the ones that bulldoze their way down the field.
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Pirates take aim at top
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. - Just before entering the city limits, at the bottom of a wooden sign welcoming visitors, a list proclaims the four state football championships won by South Pittsburg High School.
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South Pittsburg receivers an unheralded threat
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. - Because Raquis Hale has saddled the team on his back for much of the playoffs, it would be easy to forget South Pittsburg's offense is not limited to its all-state running back. The dangers of such short-term memory loss could be costly.
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Hale, Pirates plow through Coalfield
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. - Six times, all in the regular season, South Pittsburg had big enough leads at halftime that the mercy rule was in effect at the start of the second half. After Friday's TSSAA Class 1A state semifinal, it's up to seven.
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Pirates deliver big birthday gift
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. - There are times for fire and brimstone pregame speeches, but this wasn't one of them.
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Polk rips Pirates
BENTON, Tenn. - Following a similar blueprint as it used in last year's meeting, Polk County brutalized South Pittsburg up front on both sides of the ball and achieved something that had never happened in history. Class 3A's fifth-ranked Wildcats administered a mercy-rule beatdown of 1A's top-ranked Pirates, 42-7.