Gordon Central to take it slow during open date
The Gordon Central High School football team didn’t win last Friday night against Southeast Whitfield, but for the first time this season they seemed to have a lot of fun.
They scored 28 points, 22 of them in the first half. They had their first lead of the season, 7-6, after Allen Garcia made the extrapoint to follow their first touchdown of the game.
And they were truly in it until the fourth quarter when the home team began to pull away.
“We felt like if we could have gotten a couple of (defensive) stops and there were two 4th-and-ones, that if we had been able to convert them, that we could have won the ballgame,” Gordon Central
head football coach T.J. Hamilton said. “If we pick up those two first downs, we would have kept
the football and I really and truly believe the way we were moving the football that we would have scored on those two drives. But they had a running back that we just could not stop and in the end that was really the difference.”
But being competitive is the first step towards being successful and it seems on many levels that the Warriors took those first steps last Friday night.
“We definitely had some bright spots offensively,” Hamilton said. “We scored a lot of points. We ran the ball well. I thought we did a good job up front. I thought our backs ran hard and ran well.
“I thought our quarterback Payton Wilson made some plays with his feet and he threw ball well. We did a good job with our special teams, blocking three extra points and a field goal. So we made some