Calhoun faces North Murray; Sonoraville on bye week

Yellow Jackets continue region play this week against Mountaineers

MBaron@CalhounTimes.com

This Friday, the Calhoun Yellow Jackets (3-0, 1-0 region) return to action as they host the North Murray Mountaineers (2-1, 1-0 region) at Hal Lamb Field at Phil Reeve Stadium.

Calhoun enters Friday coming off of a 17-7 win at Sonoraville.

Calhoun’s offense is led by senior quarterback Jake Morrow and junior running back Jerrian Hames. The duo have combined for nine of Calhoun’s 11 touchdowns so far on the season.

Expect them to play a big factor in the Yellow Jacket offense on Friday.

North Murray arrives in Calhoun on a two-game winning streak. The Mountaineers’ most recent contest, a 45-17 blowout of Ringgold, bore witness to a 35-point offensive explosion and a second-half defensive shutout.

North Murray’s only loss of 2019 came in its season opener at Rabun County by the score of 38-17.

The Yellow Jacket defense has proven itself early on this season, conceding just 15 points in three games.

Senior Kendez Griffin is one of the leaders to watch for on Friday night. In Calhoun’s home opener against Therrell on Sept. 6, Griffin recovered a fumble on the first play of the second half. Two snaps later, and the Jackets were in the end zone.

Last Friday, Calhoun’s defense held Sonoraville junior quarterback Brady Lackey to 196 yards and one TD.

Friday’s kickoff between the Yellow

where we can put our guys in the right spots,” Hamilton said. “I’m hoping we’ll be able to see that against Pepperell.”

Hamilton said the message this week is finishing on both sides of the pigskin.

“We have to be able to finish and that’s going to be a major theme until we can start to finish off drives offensively,” Hamilton said. “Our defense has been playing some stellar football, but eventually it gets to a point where it kind of breaks a little bit.”

“Against Gilmer County, we left three points on the board from a field goal and then we move the ball and then we end up ... secondand-15 and then we’re playing behind the chains ... and we’d have to dig ourselves out of that,” Hamilton said. “We can’t keep doing that to ourselves each week in order for us to be a very very good football team.”

The Pepperell Dragons enter Friday’s contest on a two-game winning streak. Their most recent win was a close one, 20-13, over Heritage