Patriots Win, Vikes and 'Stangs Lose

Union Pines fell to Cardinal Gibbons Friday in nonconference high school football. Philip Taylor

As of Saturday, September 18, 2010

Pinecrest defeated Western Harnett 31-0 Friday on the road to run its record to 5-0 on the season in high school football.

Union Pines fell to visiting Cardinal Gibbons 38-7, and is now 2-3 on the season.

North Moore fell to Jordan-Matthews on the road 69-8, dropping the Mustangs' record to 0-4.

All games were nonconference contests. The conference season begins next week.

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RD28327 2 years, 8 months ago

Also, Jordan-Matthews routs North Moore 69-8.

nm43 2 years, 8 months ago

why is phs playing 3a schools I guess to get easy wins.

@nm43--Stirring the pot, I see. Not that I am opposed "getting up the dander" of all those PHS folks, but you will probably hear the same things they have been saying for the last four years--winning gives confidence, and winning breeds winning. I'm sure the "2 year contract" bit will be thrown in too. Well, since we are on year 4 of the Metzger leadership, it would seem the contracts should have expired or will after this year. I guess we will have to see who is scheduled for next year to know when it stops.

Ross 2 years, 8 months ago

nm43 - you sound like a 10 year old complaining that his little sister get preferential treatment........

theonewithsense 2 years, 8 months ago

Some 3A schools are decent, but pinecrest schedules scrubs. Hopefully, they will start to increase the competition out of conference. But hey, they could be like Union Pines and schedule bad 1A teams and still lose. In fact, pinecrest knows all too well about scheduling smaller teams and losing.

packy 2 years, 8 months ago

Its great that Pinecrest is winning now because they will be tested soon. They have some very tough games coming up against Richmond and Scotland.

RD28327 2 years, 8 months ago

There are some good 3A schools that could take Pinecrest apart (i.e. Douglas Byrd). They just don't happen to be on Pinecrest's schedule.

UP needs to drop all these 1A schools (except North Moore, of course). Games like those help the 1A schools more than they help UP. And, at least UP got a taste of 3A competition versus Cardinal Gibbons.