The Brunswick High Pirates stormed past Lakeside-Evans 60-6 Friday night at Panther Stadium in the Region 1-AAAAA game between the teams. The Pirates rebounded in a big way from their surprising loss a week ago at Statesboro when the Blue Devils knocked off BHS 28-21 to forge a three-way tie for first in the region standings. Brunswick, Statesboro and Effingham all went into the final three weeks of the season with one region loss each, but the Pirates needed to win their final two games and get a Statesboro loss to claim back-to-back region championships because of their head-to-head loss to the Blue Devils. The Pirates own the head-to-head tiebreaker over Effingham which they defeated this season. Effingham and Statesboro meet the final week of the regular season. Effingham won its game Friday against Greenbrier while Statesboro knocked off Evans. Brunswick is off next week before taking on South Effingham at home on Oct. 31 to finish out the regular-season schedule. With Friday’s win, the Pirates ran their record to 7-2 overall and 6-1 in the region. The Panthers, who are rebuilding after finishing second behind BHS in the region last fall, remain winless on the season after losing to the Pirates. They are now 0-9 and 0-7. They finish out the 2025 schedule against Bradwell Institute next week. Bradwell lost to South Effingham on Friday night. The 54-point margin of victory by the Pirates was their second-largest this season. Brunswick defeated Evans 65-0 back on Sept. 12 for its largest-ever victory margin in the history of the program. BHS led only 7-0 after the opening quarter on Friday, but used a 27-point second period to take a 34-6 cushion into the halftime break. Lakeside started the game with an onside kick, but the Pirates recovered the early attempt by the Panthers to steal a possession. Last week, Statesboro recovered an onside kick to open the game and would score to grab the lead from the get-go. Brunswick would score on its first offensive series on a run from its power package by Heze Kent for a 7-0 lead after the point-after kick. The Panthers drove deep into Brunswick territory on its first possession but would miss a field goal. The Pirates extended their lead to 13-0 on their third possession on a 6-yard run by Nigel Gardner for a touchdown after a fourth-down pass from Grant Moore to Isreal Henry picked up a first down for the Pirates inside the Lakeside 10-yard line. BHS zipped down the field the next time it got the ball, scoring on a 19-yard carry by Gardner for a 20- 0 advantage inside the 6-minute mark of the second quarter. The Panthers got on the board on a long run when they got the ball back, but their two-point try failed, leaving the score 20-6 with 3:27 remaining before halftime. Brunswick’s Dontre Butler would return Lakeside’s kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown and a 27-6 lead with the extra-point. BHS decided to give an onside kick a try, and the Pirates successfully recovered their attempt, giving them another chance to score before the close of the first half. The Pirates actually had to punt, but they would get the ball right back on an interception by Rakeim McCaster with just over a minute left in the half. BHS would turn the takeaway into a touchdown when Moore teamed with Josiah Gibbons for a 26-yard scoring pass that gave Brunswick a 34-6 lead at the halftime break. The Pirates immediately found the end zone in the third quarter, too. They attempted a pooch kick to start the second half and would pounce on the loose football before the Panthers did, taking possession at the Lakeside 21. Brunswick called Gardner’s number on the first play and he dashed to paydirt for this third rushing touchdown of the night and a 41-7 lead. Before the end of the third quarter, the Pirates tacked on two more scores. Moore hit Kent for a 30 yards and a touchdown. And after a Samir Dobbins interception, the Pirates went on a drive that was finished off with a Gibbons’ 5-yard scoring run for a 54-6 advantage. The clock ran continuously in the fourth quarter under the 30-point mercy rule. The Pirates did put one last score in the books when Brody Marshall carried for the team’s final touchdown of the night. ----- Compiled by Kevin Price for GCS Athletics ...

Kickoff: A look at Brunswick High’s next game: Opponent: Lakeside-Evans When: 7:30 p.m. Friday Where: Panther Stadium, Evans Records: BHS 6-2, 5-1 Region 1-AAAAA; LE 0-8, 0-6 Region 1-AAAAA Last week: BHS lost 28-21 at Statesboro. Lakeside-Evans lost 21-14 at Greenbrier. Last year/All-time: BHS won 61-34. BHS leads all-time series 5-1. Game Preview Brunswick High will be looking to rebound from last week’s surprising loss at Statesboro. The loss to the Blue Devils ended the Pirates’ six-game winning streak and was their first loss in region play since the 2023 season. BHS is now tied for first in the league standings with Statesboro and Effingham with one region loss. Brunswick has beaten Effingham head-to-head and would win the tiebreaker over the Rebels if they were to end up tied for the top spot in the standings, but the Pirates would lose the tiebreaker to the Blue Devils if they were to finish tied for first with them. To win the region title and get the top seed for the state playoffs, the Pirates need to win their final two games and hope for a Statesboro loss in one of its final three games. Brunswick closes the season with league games against Lakeside-Evans and South Effingham in two weeks. The Pirates are off next week. Statesboro plays Evans this week, South Effingham next week and then Effingham the following week. Effingham finishes with Greenbrier this week, Glynn Academy next week and then faces Statesboro. Lakeside-Evans is struggling big-time this season after losing a talented senior class from a year ago that led the Panthers to a runner-up finish behind the Pirates in the region and a victory in the opening round of the Class AAAAA state playoffs. The Panthers also lost their head coach who took another job following the 2024 season. This season, their head coach is Brett Johnson who had been serving as the team’s defensive coordinator previously. The Panthers are 0-8 and have lost all six of their region games. Last week, they fell 21-14 at Greenbrier. The previous week, they lost in overtime to Statesboro, 36-29. Brunswick’s senior quarterback Grant Moore has thrown for 1,900 yards and 20 touchdowns with four interceptions. One of those interceptions came late in last week’s game with the Pirates trying to pull out a come-from-behind victory. BHS running backs Josiah Gibbons and Nigel Gardner are both closing in on 1,000 yards rushing. Gibbons has carried for 903 yards while Gardner has rushed for 904 yards. Gardner has 11 rushing scores while Gibbons has six. Five different BHS receivers have more than 250 yards catching the ball including Heze Kent (512), Waseem Murray (484), Dontre Butler (342), Gibbons (277) and Isreal Henry (263). Kent and Butler both have five TD catches while Murray has four. Junior linebacker Braylen Johnson leads BHS with 107 tackles while averaging 13.4 tackles per game. ---- Compiled by Kevin Price for GCS Athletics ...

By Kevin Price For GCS Athletics The Brunswick High Pirates can still win the Region 1-AAAAA championship, but they no longer control their own destiny. The Pirates were upset by Statesboro Friday night, falling 28-21 to the Blue Devils at Womack Field. The loss ended the Pirates’ six-game winning streak and left them now tied in the loss column with Statesboro and Effingham in the league standings. Brunswick is now 6-2 overall and 5-1 in the region while both the Blue Devils and the Rebels are 4-1. The Pirates own the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Rebels because of their win over Effingham already in the region opener, but the Pirates would lose the head-to-head tiebreaker with Statesboro if the two teams were still tied for first in the standings at the end of the season. BHS has region games left against Lakeside-Evans and South Effingham. Effingham still has to play Greenbrier, Glynn Academy and Statesboro. Statesboro still has Evans and South Effingham before the game against Effingham to end the regular season. The region loss was the first for the Pirates since they fell to Effingham in the final game of the 2023 season. Brunswick won all eight of its league games last season on the way to the region championship and top seed for the Class AAAAA state playoffs. The Pirates played from behind from the start against Statesboro which opened the game by recovering an onside kick and taking the ball in for a touchdown on its first offensive series. The Blue Devils would force a Brunswick fumble with a sack of quarterback Grant Moore to set up its second touchdown after starting with a short field. Keon Childers, who scored all four touchdowns for the Blue Devils, carried for the TD. The Pirates, who have the third-highest scoring team in Class AAAAA with a 45.7 scoring average, scored to make it 14-7 on a run by Moore. But, the Blue Devils would build their lead to 20-7 in the second quarter with a third touchdown on a short run by Childers. Operating their single-wing attack as they were playing their third straight game without their starting quarterback, the Blue Devils chewed up clock and scored as planned, but this time the extra point was blocked. Brunswick forced a Statesboro punt inside the final three minutes of the opening half and produced a late score before halftime to get within 20-14 at the break on a 54-yard TD pass from Grant Moore to Heze Kent. At the start of the third quarter, the Pirates also forced a three-and-out by the Blue Devils to get the ball for their high-powered offense. BHS would take its first and only lead on another touchdown pass from Moore to Kent for a 21-20 advantage. On the next Statesboro possession, a busted coverage in the BHS secondary allowed the Blue Devils to possess the ball deep in the Pirates’ territory. They did give up the ball on downs, but having the Pirates backed up would pay off. The Blue Devils ultimately forced a Brunswick punt, and when Kent couldn’t hold onto the ball on a punt attempt, the home team went back on offense deep in BHS territory. They would punch the ball into the end zone this time on another Childers rush to regain a 26-21 lead in the third quarter. Again, the Blue Devils would attempt another onside kick, and again, they recovered their kick to get the ball right back. This allowed them to drain more clock, even though they didn’t turn the good field-position into more points. Brunswick got the ball back after a Statesboro punt at is own 13-yard line with just less than five minutes to go. A long pass from Moore to Kent got the Pirates inside the Blue Devil 20. But a few plays later, a pass from Moore that was intended for Kent in the end zone was intercepted by the Devils to deny the Pirates. Statesboro would pick up a couple of crucial first downs, and with Brunswick out of timeouts, the Blue Devils ran all but the final 40 seconds off the clock before having to punt. Brunswick muffed the punt, but recovered the ball inside the 10. Two plays later, Moore was pressured and was called for grounding as he threw the ball up which led to the safety and the final points of the game for the Blue Devils. Brunswick plays at Lakeside-Evans next Friday before an off week. ...

By Kevin Price For GCS Athletics Glynn Academy grinded out another Region 1-AAAAA victory Friday night, knocking off South Effingham 28-2 at Glynn County Stadium. With a 355-yard rushing effort led by sophomore quarterback Max Noonan, the Red Terrors led from start to finish against the Mustangs in a game played in front of a sparse crowd and between intermittent rain showers. Glynn led 14-2 at halftime and added another pair of touchdowns in the second half in one of the quickest games in recent memory between the bricks for a game that didn’t include a running clock. The victory was the second in a row for the Terrors who ran their record to 5-3 overall and 4-2 in the region with two games left on the season schedule. Glynn has now beaten South Effingham in 11 straight games dating back to the 1990s when the teams first played. The Mustangs fell to 3-4 and 3-2 in the region with this latest loss to the Terrors. This win wasn’t the prettiest for the Terrors, however, according to head coach Rocky Hidalgo who said Glynn didn’t have a good week of practice leading into Friday’s game. “We played like we practiced, especially in the first half. We were all over the place,” Hidalgo said. “We made a lot of mistakes tonight. As a whole, there were a lot of things we could have done better.” The Terrors started out well, going 58 yards in nine plays on the game’s opening possession to grab a quick 7-0 lead. Ian Pomiewchowski scored from 12 yards out on a rushing play to cap the drive. Patrick Coyle added the extra-point kick for the 7-0 lead. Glynn scored its second touchdown with 7:37 to play in the second quarter on an 86-yard keeper by Noonan for a 14-2 lead. Between their two scores, the Terrors lost the ball on a mishandled punt inside South Effingham territory, giving the ball right back to the Mustangs when they could have inherited good starting field position. The Terrors also surrendered the safety when their punter went to a knee in the end zone when fielding a snap before getting off a kick. In the third quarter, Glynn went up 21-2 with a six-play, 62-yard drive on its first possession of the second half after forcing a punt by the Mustangs. Noonan went for 42 yards and his second score on a simple quarterback keeper on third-and-1 with 4:51 to play in the third. The next time Glynn got the ball late in the third, the Terrors marched 63 yards in 11 plays with Noonan keeping again for a 1-yard score with the game now in the fourth quarter. Coyle added the point-after to put the final 28-2 tally on the scoreboard with eight minutes left to play. For the night, Noonan carried 11 times for 171 yards to lead the Terrors on the ground. DJ Creighton added 56 yards on 11 carries and De’Sean Howard carried for 45 yards on eight attempts. Glynn attempted only one pass on the night with Noonan completing that to TJ Chisolm for 27 yards to the South Effingham 11-yard line on that last scoring drive in the final quarter. The GA defense held the Mustangs to only 98 total net yards for the game with all but 3 of those yards coming on the ground. Kyran White, a junior running back for South Effingham, carried 20 times for 76 yards. White ran for 236 yards last week in an overtime win over Greenbrier. Smith Whitehead recovered a fumble in the first half for the Glynn defense. The Terrors have a open date this coming week. They return to action on Oct. 24 against Effingham. The key region game against the Rebels will be at home. “Our focus has to be good the next two weeks. We’ve gotta have two great weeks of practice with a good team on the horizon and a chance to have a home playoff game,” Hidalgo said. ...

Kickoff: A look at Brunswick High’s next game: Opponent: Statesboro When: 7:30 p.m. Friday Where: Womack Field Records: BHS 6-1, 5-0 Region 1-AAAAA; SHS 4-2, 3-1 Region 1-AAAAA Last week: BHS won 60-14 at home over Bradwell Institute. Statesboro won 36-29 at home over Lakeside-Evans in overtime. Last year/All-time: BHS won 49-0. BHS leads all-time series 9-7. Game Preview Brunswick High goes on the road for the first time in a month to take on Statesboro at Womack Field in a Region 1-AAAAA game. Brunswick would keep the region lead with a victory as the Pirates are currently the only team unbeaten in region play with a 5-0 record. The Blue Devils are one of three teams going into Friday’s action at 3-1 in region play. The other two are Effingham and South Effingham. BHS has won six straight since the season-opening loss to Camden County down in Kingsland. Last week, the Pirates blew past Bradwell Institute in their Homecoming game as they won 60-14 at home. The 60 points were the second-most scored by BHS this season. The Pirates scored 65 in their shutout at Evans on Sept. 12. That game against Evans was the last true road game for the Pirates. They were at home against Greenbrier and Glynn Academy even though they were the away team on the scoreboard. Statesboro won in overtime last week against Lakeside-Evans. The Blue Devils have played the last two games without sophomore starting quarterback Beckham Jarrard. His status for this week was not known at the start of the week. Brunswick ranks third in scoring in Class AAAAA with its 45.7 scoring average per game. Thomas County Central leads Class AAAAA with 54 points a game while Hughes ranks second with 47.3 points a game. ---- Compiled by Kevin Price for GCS Athletics ...

Kickoff A look at Glynn Academy’s next game: Opponent: South Effingham When: 7:30 p.m. Friday Where: Glynn County Stadium Records: GA 4-3; 3-2 Region 1-AAAAA; SE, 3-3, 3-1 Region 1-AAAAAA Last week: GA won 40-17 at Evans. South Effingham won 34-28 over Greenbrier in overtime. Last year/All-time: GA won 31-0 in Guyton. GA leads 10-2 in all-time series Game Preview Glynn Academy will look to go into its open week next week on a good note with a victory Friday night over the Mustangs. Glynn bounced back from the tough loss in the City Championship Game two weeks ago with a 40-17 triumph over Evans last Friday in Augusta. That victory was the second for the Red Terrors in Augusta this season. They also have beaten Lakeside-Evans up there this season. Glynn will round out the regular-season schedule in Augusta on Oct. 31 at Greenbrier. The Mustangs already own wins over all three Augusta schools in the region. They beat Lakeside-Evans at home by 20-14 in overtime on Sept. 12 to kick off their region schedule, downed Evans 14-10 on the road on Sept. 26 and knocked off Greenbrier at home last Friday by 34-28 in OT. South Effingham lost its season opener 14-6 to New Hampstead before getting throttled by Toombs County 56-8 in its other non-region game. The Mustangs’ region loss was to Effingham at home on Sept. 19. The Rebels won 49-21. South Effingham closes its schedule with games against Bradwell Institute, Statesboro and Brunswick after facing the Terrors. Glynn will return from its off week to face off with Effingham before going to Greenbrier to finish out its schedule. Going into this week, Brunswick sits atop the region with a 5-0 league record. Effingham, Statesboro and South Effingham are all 3-1 in region play. Glynn is 3-2. The Terrors have won eight in a row over South Effingham since losing the first two matchups between the schools back in the 1990s. Glynn has shut out the Mustangs in the last two games. South Effingham did not win a game last season, failing to score in five of their 10 games. Last season, Greenbrier drilled the Mustangs 56-0. Last week in the OT win, South Effingham got a 236-yard rushing effort from Khyran White. Freshman quarterback Liam Coburn scored the winning touchdown on a 4-yard run in OT. The Mustangs can expect to see a heavy workload from Glynn halfbacks De’Sean Howard and DJ Creighton. --- Compiled by Kevin Price for GCS Athletics ...