Fairmont focusing on details as East Bladen visits

FAIRMONT — After dropping 14-12 at West Bladen Friday, Fairmont coach Lonnie Cox stated his group could be specializing in the small particulars that led to lapses in execution within the defeat.

The Golden Tornadoes hope that spotlight to element nets stronger play Friday after they host East Bladen at 7:30 p.m. at Hal S. Floyd Stadium.

“Throughout our first 10 performs at West Bladen, we made a number of psychological errors on every of these first 10 performs, and the purpose that I actually drove house to our children was, if we’re making errors after we’re not drained, what are we going to be extra liable to do after we do get drained?” Cox stated. “So the main target this week, and the main target from right here on out, goes to be we now have to concentrate to the little particulars, as a result of if we don’t guarantee that we handle these little particulars that go into operating a soccer play, the play’s not going to look good.”

Fairmont (0-5, 0-2 Southeastern Athletic Convention) remains to be looking for its first win underneath Cox, and has misplaced 9 straight video games relationship again to a March 5 win over West Bladen.

East Bladen hosted West Bladen in a make-up sport on Tuesday night time; the Eagles entered that contest, which was their convention opener, at 1-3 total. The Eagles posted a 32-27 win over West Carteret on Aug. 27, together with lopsided nonconference losses to Wallace-Rose Hill, Whiteville and Laney.

The Eagles, who’ve a longstanding status as a group with a powerful run sport, have 4 backs with at the very least 121 speeding yards on the season: Sherman Monroe (44 rushes, 273 yards, two touchdowns), Corey Ballard (60 rushes, 218 yards, one landing), Masion Brooks (37 rushes, 186 yards, three touchdowns) and Tim McLean (31 rushes, 121 yards).

“The one factor that’s particular and distinctive about East Bladen is that they’ve by no means modified their identification from (former coach Lenon) Fisher to Coach (Robbie) Priest,” Cox stated. “They’re who they’re, and I actually imagine that they offer themselves an opportunity to achieve success, week in and week out from 12 months to 12 months, as a result of they only discover methods to get higher at their system. They solely run a number of performs; they don’t throw loads of curveballs at you. They’re the kind of soccer group that they’re going to check their will towards yours.”

East Bladen has allowed 47.5 factors per sport getting into Tuesday’s sport towards West Bladen, although they’ve performed so towards a tough nonconference schedule.

“We won’t go into the sport pondering that we now have some form of benefit towards them by way of scoring factors,” Cox stated. “We all know that they’re a bodily soccer group. However like I stated, we are able to’t fear a lot about East Bladen. For us, and us attempting to develop as a program and work in direction of getting that first win, it’s actually nonetheless received to be us vs. us. We’ve received to scrub up what it’s we’re attempting to do, as a result of in the event you don’t clear up and attempt to improve your individual identification as a group, it’s actually pointless to fret about anyone else.”

Fairmont is 1-16 towards East Bladen since 2000, with the one Golden Tornadoes win coming in a 58-56 sport in 2013. Earlier than East Bladen’s 50-12 win on March 12, nevertheless, the earlier three conferences from 2017-19 have been determined by a complete of eight factors. East Bladen leads the general sequence 30-11.

“The previous few contests have been actually aggressive in nature and it got here all the way down to a play or two, so I’m actually assured going into Friday night time that our children can have an opportunity to win, and that the one win on this century received’t put any doubt in our minds,” Cox stated.

Lumberton at South View

Lumberton performed its finest sport of the season in a 27-7 loss to Jack Britt final week; they’ll need to play even higher to have an opportunity this week towards South View.

The Tigers (3-1, 1-0 United-8 Convention), who entered the season as favorites to win the United-8, have shut out three of the 4 groups they’ve performed this season: Overhills, Hoke County and a 55-0 win over Douglas Byrd Friday. Their one loss was a 23-15 defeat at perennial powerhouse Richmond through which they led the Raiders into the fourth quarter.

South View runs about twice as a lot because it throws; dual-threat quarterback Cedavion Wimbley has thrown for 391 yards and 5 touchdowns and rushed for 150 yards and one landing. Michael Breedlove (26 rushes, 127 yards, two touchdowns) is the main rusher in a backfield the place 5 gamers have at the very least 15 carries; Cory Barr and Christian Rutledge have additionally rushed for 2 touchdowns every. Jamareese Ray (13 receptions, 226 yards, three touchdowns) is the Tigers’ main receiver.

Lumberton (0-4, 0-2 United-8) scored for the primary time this season final week towards Jack Britt; the Pirates stayed in contact with the Buccaneers into the fourth quarter.

South View has received 15 of the final 19 conferences relationship again to 1995, together with the 2 most up-to-date conferences in 2017-18, and leads the all-time sequence 22-13.

Purnell Swett at Jack Britt

The Purnell Swett soccer group is scheduled to play its first sport of the season Saturday after being compelled into quarantine on account of virus protocols on three events this fall.

They’ll face a Jack Britt (2-2, 2-0 United-8) group coming off consecutive convention wins by a mixed rating of 76-7 over Douglas Byrd and Lumberton.

Jemell Vereen rushed for 180 yards and two touchdowns towards Lumberton, and now has 368 speeding yards and 5 touchdowns on the season; Honest Baines rushed for 116 yards and one landing towards the Pirates to deliver his season totals to 306 yards and 5 touchdowns.

For Purnell Swett, senior Nathanael Henderson returns at quarterback and the group is predicted to make use of a running-back-by-committee method; Garyen Maynor and Caleb Moser lead a receiving corps that must be a power. Defensively, Rams coach Stephen Roberson likes his group’s secondary.

In a sequence relationship again to only 2015, Jack Britt has received 5 of the six conferences, together with a 46-0 win on March 19; Purnell Swett’s one win within the sequence was a 23-8 triumph in 2016.