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2013 Football Preview
Page B-1 • August 29, 2013
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Clay-Chalkville senior running back Sidney Battle, Hewitt-Trussville senior defensive end Austin Wysor and Pinson Valley senior cornerback/running back Jaylyne
Rhone are ready to kick off the 2013 high school football season.
Pinson Valley opens
with tough test at
No. 2 Oneonta
Friday Feature:
Huskies travel to
No. 2 Clay-Chalkville
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Editor
Want to see a tough
way to open the 2013
high school football season?
Look no further than
Pinson Valley.
Pinson Valley, which
replaces 17 starters from
last season, travels to
Class 4A No. 2 Oneonta
on Friday to open the
football season. Kickoff
is at 7 p.m.
Oneonta has many recent accomplishments.
The Redskins have finished as the runner-up in
the Class 4A state championship the past two
seasons, in which it has
totaled a 26-4 overall
record. Oneonta scored
665 points in 15 games a
season ago, eclipsing the
40-point mark six times,
the 50-point mark three
times and scored 60-plus
points twice. Oneonta’s
average margin of victory last season was a
Thirty points in a
single quarter killed
Hewitt-Trussville’s belief a year ago.
Leading rival ClayChalkville 10-7 at halftime of last season’s
Paws and Claws Bowl,
Hewitt-Trussville came
out relatively flat in
the third quarter. ClayChalkville took advantage, pouring on
30 points in the third
quarter and adding two
long scoring runs by
Stephone Sheffield in
the fourth quarter. The
Cougars won the most
lopsided game in the rivalry’s 15-year history
51-10.
Clay-Chalkville leads
the all-time series 10-6.
The Cougars have won
11 of the 16 games on
the field, but the 31-15
victory over HewittTrussville in 2011 was
vacated due to an ineli-
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Clay-Chalkville senior quarterback Hayden Moore,
a Cincinnati commitment, is one of the Birmingham
metro area’s top quarterbacks.
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The last time HewittTrussville won a game
on the field was in 2008,
when it won 21-7.
Eight games have
been decided by a touchdown or less, while the
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2013 Hewitt-Trussville High School
Varsity Football Team
2013 Hewitt-Trussville High School
Varsity Football Roster
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Christian Gagliano
Jake Vetters
Jacob Stotser
Jarett Nelson
Matthew Parker
Blake Bailey
Patrick DePew
Tristan West
Luc Riddle
Clayton Speed
Sam Partridge
T.J. McGettigan
Zach Thomas
Logan Eastham
Matthew Cottle
Chase Barnett
Christian Madison
Jordan Pannell
Cyle Moore
Harper Johnson
Peyton Palmer
Seth Keahey
Jarion Street
Cole Head
Blaine Cardwell
Zac Keahey
Blake Buchanan Will Ormond
Jerrod Bennett
Will Gunter
Devin Reed
Jared Wilks
Nick Campbell
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Dalton Meadows
Carson Foster
Chris Dixon
Trevian Jenkins
Garrett Blalock
Irie Reed
Blake Gaiser
Jordan Howell
Neiman Thomas
Hunter Rich
Justin Booker
Zach Smith
Tanner Harwell
Hunter Reid
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Joseph Roberts
Cole Compton
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Cody Wilcox
Kyle Miskelly Garrett Terwilleger
Chase Mathews
Cole Parks
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Tucker Horn
Bailey McElwain
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Shane Bailey
Austin Peoples
Chris Easterling
Adam Swindal
Garrett Law
Kirk Robinson
Garrison Garner
Heath Horn
DeMarcus Kelly
Connor Stewart
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Jaron Godbolt
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2013 Hewitt-Trussville Football Schedule
Aug. 30
Sept. 6
Sept. 13
Sept. 20
Sept. 27
Oct. 4
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
Oct. 24
Nov. 1
Clay-Chalkville
Vestavia Hills
Woodlawn
Carver
Minor
Shades Valley
Mountain Brook
Gardendale
Huffman
Gadsden City
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Quickness may be theme for young Hewitt-Trussville
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Where Hewitt-Trussville will be lacking in
size this fall, it will try
to make up for in quickness.
“We’re going to be
OK,” said 12th-year
Huskies head coach Hal
Riddle. “We’re just not
going to be as big.”
The offensive line
won’t be as big, especially at the right guard
position, vacated by
three-year starter Carson Cooper, a 6-foot-6,
330-pounder now play-
ing at Mississippi College.
Riddle said HewittTrussville, which posted
a 4-6 record last season,
won’t be a team that lines
up and pounds the ball
between the tackles 45
times per game. The ball
will be spread around on
offense, and the defense
will need to be fast from
sideline to sideline.
Offensively, 5-foot-9,
160-pound senior Peyton Palmer will see a lot
of time at running back.
He’s not the typical between-the-tackles runner, but he will come out
of the backfield and slot
to catch passes.
“In the past, we’ve had
guys that can just about
do it all,” Palmer said.
“They can run outside,
they can run inside. They
have power, they have
speed.”
Riddle said the offense
returns just three starters from a season ago.
All the skill positions are
filled with new starters,
though senior wideout
DeMarcus Kelly has significant experience.
“We think we may
have a few more guys
that can catch the ball,”
Riddle said.
The same aspect ap-
Hewitt-Trussville sophomore running back Jarion Street makes a run against
Pinson Valley last week.
Hewitt-Trussville senior running back Peyton Palmer (22) looks for running room in
last week’s game against Pinson Valley
plies to the defense,
which is lacking in
game experience. Riddle pointed to defensive ends Austin Wysor,
Hunter Songer, Joseph
Roberts, and linebacker
Hunter Reid, as players
who should stand out on
defense.
He said senior defensive lineman Michael
Messer, safeties Luc Riddle and Deontay Wilson,
and senior cornerbacks
Caleb Rigg and Harper
Johnson will contribute
to a relatively inexperienced defense.
The defense doesn’t
have “a lot of hollering
guys,” Riddle said. They
lead by example rather
than vocally. Riddle just
wants them in the right
spots.
“We think we’re going to move around, be
a little quicker,” Riddle
said. “If we’re not getting around and running
guys to the ball, we’ll be
in trouble.”
Of the 99 players listed
on Hewitt-Trussville’s
roster, 35 are seniors.
There are 22 juniors and
a whopping 42 sophomores listed.
“We’ve still got a
bunch of work to do, but
we’ve got a lot of good
young ones,” Riddle
said. “We’ve just got to
get them ready to go.”
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Tough region, but Huskies ready to return to playoffs
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Hewitt-Trussville head
football coach Hal Riddle would like to have an
obligation the first week
of December.
He’d like to be on a
bus to Tuscaloosa, preparing for the Alabama
High School Athletic Association Class 6A state
championship game at
Bryant-Denny Stadium.
To accomplish that
goal, Hewitt-Trussville
must first reach the playoffs, something it failed
to do last season for the
first time since 2006.
“I hope these guys
will tell you they’ve
seen more from the head
coach because he wasn’t
excited about it,” Riddle
said at last month’s Jefferson and Shelby County High School Football
Media Day, accompanied by senior linebacker
Hunter Reid and senior
running back Peyton
Palmer. “The work ethic
has been good this winter and through the summer.”
Class 6A, Region 6
poses an assortment
of tough opponents.
Vestavia Hills and Mountain Brook are likely the
class of the region, the
two teams Riddle forecasts as the top squads.
“At Vestavia, I see the
same staff with the guy
in charge (Buddy Anderson) since I’ve been
working so the past 34
or so years that has been
the same,” Riddle said.
“They’re going to run the
football and when you
try to come up, they’ll
throw the ball over your
head.”
Other teams likely
in the mix for playoff
spots from the region are
Shades Valley and Gardendale.
Reid said the team is
Hewitt-Trussville senior defensive back Caleb Rigg looks for running room after intercepting a pass as junior
defensive back Deontay Wilson blocks during last week’s jamboree against Pinson Valley.
a lot more driven this
season. Palmer said the
team does not feel any
pressure, just some expectations of reaching
the playoffs.
“I think we should
be right back in there,”
Palmer said.
Hewitt-Trussville’s
goals this year include
maximizing potential,
getting the defense off
the field on third down
and finishing offensive
series with points on the
board.
“The good teams do,”
Riddle said.
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Sept. 27
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Nov. 1
‘Superstitious’ Battle hoping for breakout year
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Clay-Chalkville senior
running back Sidney
Battle is very superstitious, and the writing
was on the wall.
Despite rushing 143
times for 681 yards and
eight touchdowns in 11
games last season, it
wasn’t enough for Battle,
who missed the last three
games of the regular season after a scary concussion injury in the win
over Gadsden City.
“I didn’t have the season I really wanted,”
Battle said.
Battle’s
displeasure
was over his jersey num-
ber. He wore No. 3 last
season, the first time
he strayed from No. 24
since he played in recreational leagues as a
kid. He had chosen No.
24 because of former
Georgia running back
Knowshon Moreno, who
rushed for 2,736 yards
and 30 touchdowns in
his two collegiate seasons. He switched to No.
3 for his junior season after watching former Alabama running back Trent
Richardson mow down
defenders.
“That kind of amazed
me,” Battle said. “I was
trying to hit the weight
room like him and everything. I just learned
last year you’ve got to
do your own thing, be
your own running back,
so I went back home (to
No. 24).”
Clay-Chalkville head
football coach Jerry
Hood said Battle, who
has a Jacksonville State
offer, is bigger, stronger
and more powerful this
year.
“He’s a little bit superstitious,” Hood said.
“No. 3 was a bad luck
number to him.”
Another superstition
Battle has is watching
film before every game,
behind a locked door
in the athletics office.
Sometimes, he takes a
nap. Last season before
the team traveled to
Huntsville for a game, he
Clay-Chalkville senior running back Sidney Battle
looks upfield in the Cougars’ May spring game
against Pinson Valley.
fell asleep and awoke after the team had already
left. Someone gave him
a ride to Huntsville, allowing him to play in the
game.
Fellow running back
junior Terrelle West
switched his number,
from No. 30 a year ago
to No. 12 this year in
honor of his father.
expect one guy to get the
bulk of the load.”
Wide receiver Brian
Clark, who caught 30
passes for 702 yards
and nine touchdowns a
season ago, is back, an
athletic receiver who
“takes us to another
level,” Floyd said. The
No. 2 Cougars will also
feature receivers in senior Jamal Borders, junior Eric Blockum, junior Izzy Bennett and
senior Cordell Scott, all
who have impressed this
spring and summer.
There are seven offensive starters back from
a year ago, a season in
which Clay-Chalkville
scored a school-record
506 points in 14 games.
For all the offensive explosiveness, there is an
equal amount of tough-
ness, of grit, in the
trenches. The Cougars
have three offensive
line starters returning
this season, and a total
of four with significant
playing time. Senior Ron
Hawkins can play both
tackle positions, and
senior NeKiah HintonJohnson is a guard that is
the most athletic lineman
on the team. Senior Matt
Reeves may be the strongest, senior Austin Sizemore has significant experience and senior Josh
Davis has impressed in
the spring and summer.
Juniors Justin Daniel and
Tyon Hardy are in the
mix for playing time.
“The offense depends
on them,” said Moore, a
Cincinnati commitment.
“I think they will do
great for us in the fall.”
“He felt like he had
to carry on the legacy
of No. 24,” West said
of Battle. “He had it the
year we went undefeated
and he also told me we
have unfinished business.”
Clay-Chalkville,
of
course, forfeited nine of
its 10 wins two seasons
ago for playing an ineligible player. The 6-foot,
190-pound Battle said he
hopes to add more scholarship offers to his resume on the team’s way
to a successful season.
“They (college coaches) are waiting to see
what I’m really about,”
Battle said. “That’s why
I went back to No. 24.”
Best offense in Clay-Chalkville history returns many
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Clay-Chalkville
senior quarterback Hayden
Moore is going to have
many options this season.
He’s got senior running back Sidney Battle
and junior running back
Terrelle West lining up
behind him -- two backs
that combined for 1,609
yards and 20 touchdowns last season -- not
to mention other backs
Stephone Sheffield, DeAndres
Merriweather
and Christopher Marshall.
“Awesome,”
ClayChalkville offensive coordinator Stuart Floyd
said of Battle and West.
“Their leadership, I
A Clay-Chalkville wide receiver jumps for a pass over
Pinson Valley junior cornerback Juray Smith in May’s
spring football game.
haven’t seen anything
like that maybe since
(UAB running back)
Darrin Reaves. I don’t
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Floyd said the offense
is built differently than
a season ago, built for
more plays in space with
the team’s more athletic
players.
“We’re
definitely
ahead of the game offensively,” Floyd said.
Floyd said this year’s
offensive philosophy is
“more creative,” mainly
because of the departure
of former fullback Kenterrius Gray, who was a
strong blocker and holeopener for the Cougars.
“I fully expect us to do
what we do,” Floyd said.
“We should compete in
every game, for sure.”
Good Luck to our boys!
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2013 Pinson Valley High School
2013 Pinson Valley High School
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Nathan Cunningham
Trey Underwood
Bryan McMillan
Errius Collins
Juray Smith
JaVonte Perkins
Deevon Scarbrough
Nick Gibson
Jaylyne Rhone
Devon Thomas
Elijah Bibbs
Brooks Garrett
Desmond Williams
Tyree Watson
Kenny Strickland
Trey Minnifield
Dylan Evans
Torrey Hendrix
Reggie Levins
Jay Woods
Adam Crocker
Darius Adams
Sederius Skanes
Tim Mauldin
Austin Humphrey
Conner Stripling
Dandre Hart
Dwight White
Malik Melton
Keenan Toney
Gavin Jarrad
Deon Gregory
Harrison Johnson
Josh Welch
River Farley
Jamarius Davis
Ladarius Scott
Saul Rios
Brady Edwards
Keante Townsend
Kris Lewis
Brandon Adams
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LB
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D.J. Gregory
Josh Jemison
Matt Jeffers
Jared Evans
Barrett Crossey
Chandler Gingras
Josh Barron
Rasheed Brown
Deonte Cooper
Jonathon Duke
Jacob Smith
Turner Shankles
Sam Hancock
Tanner Wilbanks
Ryan Fuller
Ryan Jackson
Justin Inman
Brandon Herring
Klint Ames
Kameron White
Bobby Hall
Emmanuel Lee
Jalin McIntyre
Calvin Burns
Keimon Norman
Gage Hogan
Quen Jones
Chris Jackson
Jacob Scott
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2013 Pinson Valley Football Schedule
Aug. 30
Sept. 6
Sept. 13
Sept. 20
Sept. 27
Oct. 4
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
Oct. 25
Nov. 2
Oneonta
Mortimer Jordan
Walker
Hayden
Clay-Chalkville
Center Point
Curry
Springville
Moody
Briarwood
Away
Home
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‘Breakout year’ on tap for Pinson Valley RB
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Nick Gibson always
wanted to be a linebacker, but he was just too
good at running away
from defenders.
The Pinson Valley junior running back, however, still draws inspiration from the defensive
side of the football. At
home, he searches YouTube for locker room
speeches by former
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis. The
speeches motivate Gibson.
“That really drives
me,” Gibson said. “I feel
like if he can make it,
then I can make it.”
Gibson is a standout
running back, one of
the best in the state, in
the country. The 6-foot,
195-pounder has scholarship offers from Mississippi State, Tennessee,
Arkansas and Florida
file photo by Anna Malone
Pinson Valley junior running back Nick Gibson is set for a breakout season.
State. Last season, Gibson rushed 137 times
for 938 yards and eight
touchdowns. He also
caught 15 passes for 260
yards and three scores.
As a freshman, he rushed
66 times for 581 yards
and five touchdowns.
Pinson Valley head
football coach Matt
Glover said he forecasts
a “breakout year” for
Gibson this season. The
departures of receivers
Earnest Robinson, Harry
Mason and other productive offensive weapons
means more carries for
Gibson this season.
“He’s going to get
his totes,” Glover said.
have our growing pains,
but I really like this football team and how they
have worked this summer,” Glover said.
This Pinson Valley
team will run the ball a
lot more and run playaction plays, playing to
the strengths of junior
running back Nick Gibson and senior quarterback Brooks Garrett. The
departures of former offensive standouts Earnest
Robinson, Harry Mason
and A.J. Freeman, among
others, will be tough.
The defensive side of
the ball lost some standouts, too, in linebacker
Zach Cunningham and
defensive backs Jeffrey
Blair and Mondeno Gibson, among others.
“It is going to be very
hard to replace the guys
that we lost because a lot
of them were three-year
starters,” Glover said.
“The hardest part about
replacing those guys is
the game experience that
they had.”
Offensive players that
will play key roles this
“He’s always one of
those guys that’s trying
to get better.”
Gibson said he’s good
with carrying the ball 20
to 30 times per game,
if that’s what his team
needs. A glimpse of this
was seen in May’s spring
game at Clay-Chalkville,
a game in which Gibson
played one half, rushing
16 times for 68 yards and
two touchdowns. He also
caught three passes for
33 yards.
He worked every day
this summer, staying after practice to work on
his craft. He pushes others to work as hard as
him, though he mainly
inspires through his
work ethic.
“I don’t really talk that
much,” Gibson said.
Gibson’s favorite part
of football is contact,
and he thinks he can be a
running back in the SEC
one day. He credits his
“talented” teammates,
though, for the success
Pinson Valley will have
this season.
“Nick works harder
than probably anyone
else on the team in the
weight room and on the
field,” said senior quarterback Brooks Garrett.
“He’s definitely one of
the strongest guys on the
team. He is very important to us this season and
we’ll be looking to get
him the ball as much as
possible. He has good
character and is liked by
everyone on the team.”
Pinson Valley coach optimistic for young team
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Pinson Valley this season is replacing 17 of 22
starters from a year ago,
but this team is head
coach Matt Glover’s favorite.
Glover said despite
this team’s youth -- 20
juniors and 29 sophomores -- it is a grownup
team, a squad that has
bought in to the coaching
staff’s philosophy.
“I am sure that we will
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Pinson Valley junior running back Tyree Watson will see significant playing time this
season.
season include Garrett,
Gibson, a bigger offensive line than a year ago,
senior tight end Dylan
Evans and junior running
back Tyree Watson. On
defense, senior linebacker Elijah Bibbs will play
a key role, as will junior
linebacker Deon Gregory, senior linebacker
Austin Humphrey and
others.
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staff features all new offensive coaches, Glover
said. Logan Colafrancesco, Pinson Valley’s
offensive coordinator in
2010, is back in the same
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Glover said at last
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Gardendale that he thinks
Pinson Valley “can be a
dominant football team.”
“I don’t know really
what to expect out of this
group because of the lack
of playing experience
but if they play like they
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Hewitt-Trussville senior quarterback Blake Bailey, a
Clay-Chalkville transfer, rushed for a touchdown in
last week’s jamboree game against Pinson Valley.
margin of victory in the
other eight games is 23.6
points. Not including
the 2011 vacated game,
Clay-Chalkville has averaged 28.8 points in its
wins and held HewittTrussville to an average of 11.1 points per
game. In the five games
Hewitt-Trussville
has
won on the field, it has
averaged 20.8 points per
game and held the Cougars to 13.4 points per
matchup.
The past is the past.
Close games in the past
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contests. What matters
are these teams and this
game, which kicks off at
7 p.m. Friday at Cougar
Stadium.
Clay-Chalkville
is
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behind just Hoover, and
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of the best offenses in
the state. Senior quarterback Hayden Moore is a
Cincinnati commitment
that has an arsenal of offensive weapons on the
outside and in the backfield with senior running
back Sidney Battle, ju-
PINSON continued from page B-1
nior running back Terrelle West and others.
The Cougar defense
returns just three starters
and is young, some inexperience Hewitt-Trussville may be able to zero
in on. Senior defensive
tackle Jalen Harvey is a
force in the middle.
Hewitt-Trussville is
also inexperienced. The
offense is equipped with
all new starters at the
skill positions and will
run plays at a quicker
clip this season. Keeping
the Clay-Chalkville defense off balance and not
turning the football over
will be keys. HewittTrussville’s defense will
be tested by the potent
Clay-Chalkville offense.
Senior defensive end
Austin Wysor and other
Husky defenders must
be able to get off the
field on third downs.
The
most
hyped
game on both schedules
doesn’t matter to the
players.
“It really doesn’t matter if it’s the last game or
the first game,” Moore
said.
Hewitt-Trussville senior running back Peyton Palmer agreed.
“I think that both communities always have
a lot of energy coming
into the game, because
it’s usually a pretty good
game,” Palmer said.
“Everybody comes out
and supports us.”
squandered an opportunity late in the third
quarter when it fumbled
at the 1-yard line. Pinson Valley also roughed
Oneonta’s punter, giving
the Redskins an automatic first down late in
the final quarter.
Senior
quarterback
Brooks Garrett threw
an 81-yard touchdown
in the game, and junior
running back Nick Gibson rushed for 96 yards.
Oneonta has already
suffered a big blow to
its team this season.
Last week, according to
Rivals.com’s Andrew
Bone, senior wide receiver/defensive back
Jalen Johnson, a 6-foot3 Georgia Tech commitment, suffered a torn
ACL and torn meniscus.
Johnson, an All-State
wideout a season ago,
also held offers from
Southern
Mississippi
and Furman.
Pinson Valley senior
linebacker Elijah Bibbs
knows Oneonta likes to
mix it up a lot offensively. The Redskins will try
to expose Pinson Valley’s defenders and get
them off balance.
“We just need to get
everybody in one place
and we should be able to
stop them,” Bibbs said.
Pinson Valley’s newlook offense -- a sturdy
offensive line blocking
for Gibson and play-action calls -- may have to
go score for score with
Oneonta. That could be
tough, with two-time
All-State
defensive
lineman Blake Bean, a
6-foot-3,
240-pounder who had more than
100 tackles last season,
lurking on the defensive front for Oneonta.
Oneonta also returns
Class 4A All-State honorable mention players
in tight end Brock Latta
and linebacker Ethan
Boyd.
While Oneonta returns All-State performers, Pinson Valley lost
four from a season ago
in linebacker Zach Cunningham, wide receivers
Earnest Robinson and
Harry Mason, and halfback A.J. Freeman.
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