The Grovetown Warriors will take on the South Gwinnett Comets at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Grovetown is looking for their season's first win.
Grovetown's offense might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Grayson on Friday. They were outmatched by the Rams on the road and fell 63-0. While losing is never fun, the Warriors can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Georgia football rankings (they are ranked 304th, while the Rams are ranked 12th).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask South Gwinnett). They blew past Rockdale County, posting a 59-6 victory at home. The team's explosion on offense also rewarded the Comets with their most commanding win of the season.
South Gwinnett can attribute much of their success to Xavier Butler, who rushed for 149 yards and a touchdown on only 12 carries, and Eric Ramey Iii, who rushed for 147 yards and two touchdowns on only ten carries. The dominant performance gave Ramey Iii a new career-high in rushing yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, South Gwinnett was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 319 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 178 rushing yards in three consecutive contests.
South Gwinnett wouldn't let Rockdale County keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. South Gwinnett can thank Jaylen Brown and Jaiden Braker for forcing both of them.
Grovetown's defeat dropped their record down to 0-5. As for South Gwinnett, their win bumped their record up to 4-1.
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