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Staff | 10/8/2024
Staff | 10/8/2024
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TERRORS BLANK MUSTANGS, 31-0
By Kevin Price
For GCS Athletics
The Glynn Academy Red Terrors got back on the winning track Tuesday night with a 31-0 rout of South Effingham in Guyton.
With the Region 1-AAAAA victory, the Terrors ended a two-game losing streak.
Glynn is now 4-3 on the season with three games remaining and is 3-2 in region action.
The game against the Mustangs was originally scheduled to be played on Thursday, but when the region met last week to reschedule games that were postponed by the recent storm, this game was moved up a day to Wednesday.
That move was intended to help South Effingham which has a makeup game early next week, and Glynn was able to accommodate the move to 24 hours earlier because the Terrors ended up having last Friday night off as did everyone else in the region as all league games were put on hold.
Glynn’s game against Evans which was slated for last Friday was placed on Nov. 8 which is now the last weekend of the regular season. The Georgia High School Association also announced last week its decision to extend the season by a week to give teams across the entire state more time to make up games that were not played the last two weeks in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene which wrecked large sections of the Peach State.
With Hurricane Milton now bearing down on Florida and possibl impacting coastal Georgia as well as early as late Wednesday, Glynn and South Effingham officials elected on Monday to go ahead and move the GA-South Effingham game up yet again to Tuesday evening.
The Terrors, who began game-planning for the Mustangs late last week, had no trouble in this one, jumping out to a 24-0 lead at halftime.
South Effingham fell to 0-5 on the season with the loss and is now 0-3 in region games. The Mustangs have been shut out in three of their five games and have scored only six points in their three region games combined.
They lost their league opener 49-6 to Lakeside-Evans before getting blanked 47-0 by Effingham on Sept. 20 the last time they played a game.
Glynn was coming off back-to-back losses to Lakeside and rival Brunswick after defeating Bradwell Institute and Statesboro to open region play.
The Terrors’ opening score on Tuesday came on a 27-yard field goal by Tuck Tucker after Glynn blocked a South Effingham punt deep in the Mustangs’ territory.
That gave Glynn a 3-0 lead after the first quarter.
Also before halftime, the Terrors posted three touchdowns in the second quarter. GA quarterback T.Y. Chisolm scored on runs of 20 and 37 yards after the Terrors started drives in South Effingham territory for a 17-0 advantage.
Chisolm also threw a 33-yard TD pass to Lavonte Lockett in the closing minute of the second quarter to give the Terrors their 24-0 cushion going into the halftime break.
The only score in the second half came on a late 74-yard run by Glynn running back Da’Sean Howard.
The Mustangs drove deep in GA territory in the closing moments but the Terrors kept the home squad from scoring as time ran out to record the shutout.
The Terrors are idle next week and will return to action on Oct. 25 with a region game at Effingham. That’s the first game of a big three-game finish to the season for the Terrors which will decide their playoff fate.
Their final two games, also region games, are both at home. They play Greenbrier on Nov. 1 and Evans as noted above on Nov. 8.
GCS
Staff | 10/8/2024
Staff | 10/8/2024
