Hillcrest’s game against Georgiana will be the eighth all-time meeting between the two schools in football, and Hillcrest holds a 1-6-0 edge in the all-time series. Hillcrest beat Georgiana, 49-0, last season, and the Jags haven’t lost to Georgiana since 2006. In fact, that’s the only time the Jags have ever lost to Georgiana.
Sparta will play Wilcox tonight (Thursday) in Evergreen, and this year’s game will be the 21st all-time meeting between the two schools in football. In a series that goes all the way back to 1971, Sparta is 7-11-2 all-time against Wilcox, and Sparta beat Wilcox, 24-7, last year in Camden. Sparta’s last defeat at the hands of Wilcox came in 2009, when Wilcox won, 20-0, in Evergreen.
Tonight’s game will close out Sparta’s 41st football season, and Sparta’s game against Wilcox will be the 438th football game in school history. It’ll be the 214th all-time game at Stuart-McGehee Field in Evergreen.
Tonight’s game will close out Hillcrest’s 23rd football season, and Hillcrest’s game against Georgiana will be the 239th football game in school history. It’ll be the 120th all-time Hillcrest game at Brooks Memorial Stadium in Evergreen.
Neither Hillcrest or Sparta qualified for the state playoffs this year. Hillcrest made the playoffs last year for the first time since 2002 and has made the playoffs in eight out of 23 seasons.
Sparta hasn’t made the playoffs since 2008 and has made the playoffs in 13 out of 41 seasons.
As of Monday, most of the first-round playoff games had been set and football fans will have their choice of big games in our area to watch Nov. 3-4.
Games on the table for those nights that you might want to check out include Tallassee at Greenville (5A), Elmore County at Andalusia (4A), Straughn at Dadeville (4A), Greensboro at T.R. Miller (3A), Walter Welborn at Opp (3A), Billingsley at Flomaton (2A), Prattville Christian at Monroe Academy (AISA-3A), Fort Dale Academy at Bessemer Academy (AISA-3A) and Escambia Academy at Springwood (AISA-2A).
As of Monday, the World Series remained in full swing as the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals remained at two games each in the best-of-seven series.
I couldn’t help but notice how much weight all of the baseball news carried on Monday in the football crazy South. After an exciting game in which the Rangers came back to beat the Cards to tie up the series, the story received a Page 3B treatment in the Mobile Press-Register. Stories that got higher billing than the World Series included a story about the stockcar race in Talladega and a short blurb about an upcoming Nick Saban speaking engagement.
Not that I’m complaining.
Here are my picks for this week’s slate of SEC football games. I like Arkansas over Vanderbilt, Auburn over Ole Miss, Georgia over Florida, Mississippi State over Kentucky and South Carolina over Tennessee. Alabama and LSU do not play. Last week: 4-1 (.800), Overall: 51-10 (.836).
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