The video war finally comes to a head when Brookwood travels to Grayson. The Rams would win the Region 8-AAAAA title with a victory while a Broncos win would force a three-way tie at the top with Dacula (5-3, 5-1). The Falcons hit the road to face Berkmar. ... Mays faces Marist at Hughes Spalding Stadium as both teams enter 7-1. The winner likely gets the No. 2 seed from the region and a home playoff game. ... The Lassiter Trojans travel to the Woodshed to face the Woodstock Wolverines in a game that could determine the final playoff spot out of Region 5-AAAAA. Woodstock sits at 1-3 in region play while Lassiter is 2-2. ... Walton faces a red-hot Marietta Blue Devils team that has won four straight. Marietta QB Anthony Jennings has nearly 2,000 total yards this season. This will be the final home game of the regular season for Walton. ... Lovett and Westminster will play knowing that the loser will have to face GAC next week in the region play-in game for a spot in the playoffs. Lovett was ranked No. 5 in Class AA before losing to Buford in late September. An upset loss to Blessed Trinity has Lovett at 6-2, 3-1 on the year. ... ML King cannot afford to look ahead to its showdown with Stephenson as the Lions travel to East Coweta. The Indians were recently ranked before a two-game losing streak dropped them to fourth in the region standings. ... Kyle Sloter of Mount Pisgah Christian will lead the Patriots against the Wesleyan Wolves, coached by this week’s Atlanta Falcons NFL High School coach of the week Franklin Pridgen. The Wolves are 6-2 and are gearing up for next week’s region play-in game.
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The Centennial Knights will make a visit to Alpharetta to face a Raiders attack that thrives on the pass. Junior quarterback Joshua Dobbs and junior wide receiver Carlos Burse have hooked up enough to help Alpharetta off to a 7-1 start. Dobbs passed for three scores against Roswell in the Raiders last game. The quarterback regularly exceeds 300 yards in coach Jason Dukes’ offense. Burse meanwhile is a member of the Score Atlanta 24 2Look4 in 2012. He caught four scores in the team’s first five games then snagged two against West Forsyth and one against Roswell. Jalen Simmons is also a threat on the ground to shred the opponent that drops back into a nickel to defend the pass.
Centennial will look to keep the Raiders offense off of the field with the Knights’ option attack. Quarterback Jimmy Meyer and tailback Zietrick Smith pack a strong one-two punch out of the backfield. Smith has carried the ball 128 times for over 600 yards and four scores while Meyer has kept it for 88 carries and close to 300 yards. Meyer has rushed for nine scores and has passed for seven touchdowns. Meyer is completing around 48 percent of his passes for 1,131 yards and five interceptions. Cyril Teal also gets carries in the Centennial offense, rushing for 149 yards on 32 carries. When Centennial does go to the air, usually the target is either Wade Francis or Christian Robinson. Francis has tallied 36 receptions for 660 yards and three scores, and Robinson has 29 catches for 438 yards and three scores.
An Alpharetta victory would sew up the Region 6-AAAAA title for Jason Dukes’ Raiders. Centennial still has an outside chance at the region title, needing to win against Alpharetta and then again next week against Northview and needing West Forsyth to lose at Roswell in the Wolverines’ regular season finale.
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