Louisville begins the MHSA Class 4A State Football Playoffs on Friday at R.E. Hinze Stadium by hosting a familiar foe. Their first opponent is Yazoo City, a team they beat 49-0 earlier in the year.
Yazoo City has won just two games all year but both were conference wins which landed them in the playoffs. Shorter is warning his team not to let the record fool them or the fact that they beat them 49-0 earlier in the year.
“Watching their last two ball games of the year, they’re playing good football right now. They always have some talent, I just think we hit them so fast the last time. That was early in the year and everybody has gotten better. They’re a different team so we’re going to treat that game like we haven’t played them.”
A win for the Wildcats will have them matched up with the winner of North Pontotoc and Pontotoc next week.
— Robbie Faulk
UPCOMING SPORTS SCHEDULE RETURNS
Beginning this week the Winston County Journal will begin running a local sports schedule to keep its readers informed of the upcoming sports activities in the area.
High schools covered by Louisville Publishing — which consists of the Choctaw Plaindealer, Winston County Journal, and Webster Progress times — are included in the schedule as well as Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Holmes Community College and East Central Community College. Also, colleges, which have players from one of our local high schools on their rosters are included as well. If you have any questions send sports editor Austin Bishop a text at 601-938-2471.
— Austin Bishop
REGION 2-1A PLAYOFF SCENARIOS
Nanih Waiya has clinched the No. 1 seed and Noxapater has clinched the No. 2 seed.
If West Lowndes beats Tupelo Christian and Smithville beats French Camp, then West Lowndes is the No. 3 seed and Smithville is the No. 4 seed. If Tupelo Christian beats West Lowndes by 5-10 points, then West Lowndes is the No. 3 seed and Tupelo Christian is the No. 4 seed.
If Tupelo Christian beats West Lowndes by 11 points or more than Tupelo Christian is the No. 3 seed and West Lowndes is the No. 4 seed. If French Camp beats Smithville and West Lowndes beats Tupelo Christian, then West Lowndes is the No. 3 seed and Smithville is the No. 4 seed.
— Brandon Shields
ADDING UP QUICKLY
Mississippi’s high school career record for passing yardage could soon be changing hands.
Taylorsville quarterback Ty Keyes, just a junior, enters the playoffs this week against Union with 2,996 yards passing on the season.
Keyes threw for 4,562 as a freshman and 3,736 as a sophomore to give him 11,294 yards for his career. That leaves the junior quarterback just 1,265 yards short of Mississippi’s all-time yardage leader Dylan Farve of St. Stanislaus who finished with 12,559 yards.
On the year, Keys is 155-of-222 passing and has 35 touchdowns which gives him 119 for his career.
— Robbie Robertson
FCA BACK RUNS WILD
A superman type performance in a 45-20 victory over Vardaman, brought French Camp Academy’s C.J. Johnson very close to 1,000 rushing yards for the season. The junior quarterback ran 18 times for 331 yards and four touchdowns. He also compered three passes for 75 yards and a TD.
Johnson has 141 carries for 994 yards, better than seven yards a try, with 13 TDs. He has thrown for 667 yards and six TDs.
— Laurence Hilliard
KOSY HOSTS PMG CLASSIC
Kosciusko High School will be hosting a 10-game prep basketball event on Saturday at the KHS Gym which features 14 different schools.
The Premier Medical Group Classic is set to tip-off at 9 a.m. with the Raleigh and Eupora girls squaring off and features the McAdams girls taking on Greenwood at approximately 4:30 p.m. and closes out the long day of hoops with the Kosy and West Point girls tangling at approximately 7 p.m., followed by the Kosy and West Point boys. Admission to the event is $6.
The rest of the 10-game schedule, which allows just and hour and 15 minutes per game so actual tip time may vary is as follows: 10:15 a.m. — Pelahatchie and West Tallahatchie boys; 11:30 a.m. — Canton and Grenada girls followed but he same two schools in a boys game; 2 p.m. — West Lowndes and Amanda Elzy girls; 3:15 pm. — Pearl and Amanda Elzy boys; and 5:45 p.m. — Florence and Greenwood boys.
— Austin Bishop
