The Grovetown Warriors will face off against the South Gwinnett Comets at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Grovetown will come in still looking for their first win of the season.
Grovetown's offense might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Grayson on Friday. They were beaten by the Rams 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 302nd, 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 breezed by Rockdale County at home to the tune of 59-6 on Friday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest win of the season.
South Gwinnett relied on the efforts of 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 games.
Grovetown's defeat dropped their record down to 0-5. As for South Gwinnett, their victory bumped their record up to 4-1.
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