Welcome back, Mr. Scott, Lee defense
Welcome back Dae’ Quan Scott. Lee fans missed you. Something tells us Liberty-Bedford and, this week, Brookville won’t be sending you any welcome-back gifts any time soon.
Seriously, does anybody out there know of any other football player that can A) Leave his final regular-season game injured, B) Get three weeks away from the football field to heal and C) Still look in midseason form when he takes to the field for a playoff game?
Anyone? Anyone?
Yeah, thought so.
Oh, and here’s the best part. Mere minutes after leading R.E. Lee to a 35-7 dismantling of Liberty-Bedford, mere minutes after throwing the pigskin around for 146 yards and a score, mere minutes after, well, proving to everybody that his shoulder is all fine and dandy, Scott says this: “I did alright. But I know that I can do better.“
That’s. Just. Scary.
Look out Bees.
Hey look, some team had a penalty-marred game that included a couple of unsportsmanlike calls and an ejection. No, stupid, it wasn’t Lee. It was Brookville in its 38-0 win over Northside. I’m just saying, you know, to quiet any haters.
Speaking of haters: Another game, another Friday night of holding an offense to one score (heck, in that Rockbridge game, that Lee defense held the Wildcat offense to no scores).
I’ve said it countless times since that final regular-season game and I’ll say it again: R.E. Lee’s defense is playing with a chip on its shoulder.
Good on them. And, at this rate, they’re going to eat defensive coordinator Mike Roark out of house and home with his “Good On The Defense” barbeques.
I don’t think William Campbell was running up the score on Riverheads. Not. One. Iota. It’s the playoffs, people, and now’s the time for your team to prove points. Mainly, you know, “We’re here and there’s no way on the gods’ green earth you’re going to beat us at home.“
But I do know this much. Riverheads and William Campbell seemingly meet every year in the Region B playoffs and, when these two teams do this all over again in 2009, methinks the Gladiators are going to have some speaks with the Generals.
That is all.
Hey, did anybody else have six kinds of fun watching this Riverheads team grow up over the course of the season? You should have, Greenville. (Then take a few minutes to start that Robert Casto for Mayor of Greenville campaign. And, no, I’m not kidding.)
Home playoff games? Gap don’t need no stinking home playoff games.
Though the Bison, duh, are going to have their work cut out for them Friday. If you can dump 64 points on Riverheads, that should have anybody worried.
The Gap defense faces its biggest challenge this season. Stay tuned.
