Darlington’s football season comes to an end, Lamar and Hartsville advance
By Drake Horton, Contributing Writer
All of the Darlington county public high schools were in action this past Friday for the opening round of high school playoffs with the Darlington Falcons on the road against the Georgetown Bulldogs while both the Hartsville Red Foxes and the Lamar Silver Foxes enjoyed playing in the friendly confines of each home stadium.
Darlington 14, Georgetown 31
Georgetown – The Falcons historic season came to an end this past Friday as the Falcons fell to the Bulldogs and were eliminated in the class 3A playoffs.
Georgetown jumped out to an early 14-0 lead over the Falcons before Thomas Wheeler got Darlington on the board with his two-yard touchdown run with four minutes left in the second quarter.
The Bulldogs increased their lead to 28-7 in the third quarter before Frankie Johnson, the “do it all” quarterback scored on one-yard rushing touchdown late in the period.
That was the last score for the Falcons as Georgetown tacked on a field goal in the fourth quarter for extra measure.
Lamar 60, Blackville-Hilda 6
Lamar – A 28 point first quarter and a 25 point second quarter was more than enough for the Silver Foxes as Lamar crushed Blackville-Hilda 60-6 in the opening round of class 1A playoffs.
The Silver Foxes outgained Blackville-Hilda 519 to 125 yards in total offense which including a whopping 437 of those 519 yards coming on the ground in the rushing department.
Lamar’s Dashon Barr led the Silver Foxes in rushing with 101 yards rushing, while Tre Caesar, who had 94 yards and Tyson People, who had 88 yards rushing gave Lamar three runners with over 80 yards.
Quarterback Decobie Durant had a stellar game for the Silver Foxes completing all five of his passes for 82 yards and a touchdown while rushing for 53 yards two touchdowns.
Blackville-Hilda’s lone score came in the first quarter.
Hartsville 42, North Myrtle Beach 13
Hartsville – The Red Foxes kept their record blemish free as it defeated the North Myrtle Beach Chiefs 42-13.
Hartsville, who is the defending the lower state champions and viewed by many as the best team in all of 3A, got off to a slow start against the Chiefs as the score was only 7-6 with the Red Foxes leading at the end of the first quarter.
Depth and talent has a way of taking over a ball game however, and that is exactly what happened as Hartsville finally started to pull away in the third quarter going up 21-6 early in the quarter.
By the fourth quarter, Hartsville was firmly in control scoring early in the period increasing its lead to 35-6 and finished the game off scoring late giving the Red Foxes its 42-13 victory.
North Myrtle Beach scored once in the first quarter and once in the fourth.
