It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Adairsville can now relate to. They lost 48-23 to the Sandy Creek Patriots on Friday. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Georgia football rankings (they are ranked 209th, while the Patriots are ranked 49th).
Several Tigers players turned in solid performances despite ultimately coming up short. Perhaps the best among those players was Ethan Long, who threw for 236 yards and three touchdowns.
Leading Sandy Creek to victory were Caleb Hill and Amari Latimer. Hill threw for 285 yards and three touchdowns while completing 83.3% of his passes, while Latimer gained 171 total yards and two touchdowns. Zalen Green was another key player, picking up 98 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Adairsville dropped their record down to 6-5 with the defeat, which was their fourth straight on the road. As for Sandy Creek, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 10-1.
Adairsville does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Sandy Creek, they will challenge LaGrange at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Sandy Creek is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 35.5 points per game this season.
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