What a way to open the high school football season.
A 90-point game on Thursday, a three-overtime game and a nip-and-tuck battle between two likely powers and an 84-point finale Saturday and two of the three days dotted with lightning and rain and crossed with thunder.
McCallie outlasted Cleveland 55-35 on Thursday, East Hamilton blocked a field goal in the final 30 seconds to preserve a 14-7 victory and Ringgold outlasted Dalton in a three-overtime thriller and Boyd-Buchanan kicked a field goal on the game’s last play to survive a shootout (43-41) with Red Bank.
N It probably went unnoticed because of all the offense, but McCallie didn’t punt a single time in its victory over Cleveland. The Blue Tornado put up 599 yards of offense, according to Gene Henley’s stats, 388 of that coming from JaVaughn Craig, the sophomore making his first start at quarterback.
The teams combined for more than 1,000 yards of offense.