Jacksonville 63, D.H. Conley 22<\/p>\n
Jacksonville scored over 60 points for the second consecutive week to pull away from D.H. Conley in Big Carolina 6-A\/7-A Conference action.<\/p>\n
Amari Pearson had three touchdown runs. He gave the Cardinals a 7-3 lead in the first quarter with a 57-yard scoring run while his 36-yard touchdown extended Jacksonville’s lead to 21-9 in the second. Pearson’s 3-yard score made it 35-16.<\/p>\n
Domonic Williams had a 55-yard punt return for a touchdown and returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown in the fourth and Josiah Benton added touchdown runs of 24 and 3 yards.<\/p>\n
Isaiah Hillard threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to SaRonn Thompson and Joshiah Jordan, Jr., added a 4-yard touchdown run for the Cardinals, who have won four straight over the Vikings.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville (6-2, 3-1) visits White Oak next week while D.H. Conley (6-3, 2-2) visits J.H. Rose.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Northside 29, Swansboro 0<\/p>\n
Rahlai Anderson rushed for 150 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries, and the Monarchs recorded their third shutout in a win at Swansboro.<\/p>\n
Northside clinched at least a share of the league title.<\/p>\n
Anderson scored touchdowns on runs of 6 and 4 yards in the second quarter and added a two-point conversion in the fourth. Zion Jones added 45 yards on eight carries, scoring on a 9-yard run in the second.<\/p>\n
Reginald Gray III threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Gavyn Davis in the fourth. Eric Patrick had an interception on the last play of the first half.<\/p>\n
The Monarchs outgained the Pirates 306-172.<\/p>\n
Northside (9-0, 5-0) hosts Havelock next week while Swansboro (6-3, 2-3) hosts Richlands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Richlands 34, Dixon 28<\/p>\n
Richlands defeated Dixon for the fifth consecutive time as the Wildcats earned their first Coastal Conference victory.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats led 14-6 after the first quarter, 14-12 at halftime and 21-20 after the third.<\/p>\n
Chase Boutwell and Gabe Mentor each scored two touchdowns while Baylee Rathe added a touchdown for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n
Aiden Tilley scored two touchdowns and Tristan Frick and Aaron O’Donnell each added a touchdown for the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n
Richlands (2-7, 1-4) visits Swansboro next week while Dixon (2-7, 0-5) visits Croatan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Southwest 44, South Lenoir 0<\/p>\n
Davion Cephus found Mason Houze for a 40-yard touchdown pass in the middle of the first quarter, and Southwest never looked back en route to an East Central Conference victory over South Lenoir.<\/p>\n
A blocked punt set up Ton Bolden’s 2-yard touchdown run as the Stallions led 16-0 in the first. Bolden added a 25-yard touchdown run as Southwest led 24-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n
The lead was extended to 30-0 when Cephus found Houze for 55 yards. Kayden Clark added a 30-yard scoring run, Justin Kirksey added a 60-yard touchdown run and Alex Torres reached 100 tackles for the season.<\/p>\n
Southwest (4-5, 3-1) visits Clinton next week while South Lenoir (3-6, 0-4) hosts East Duplin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
East Duplin 34, Pender 6<\/p>\n
Noah LeBlanc rushed for 109 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries as East Duplin topped Pender to earn at least a share of the East Central 3-A\/4-A Conference crown.<\/p>\n
LeBlanc had a 36-yard touchdown run in the first quarter that saw the Panthers outscore the Patriots 21-0. He added a 4-yard score in the second and also had 11 tackles and one sack.<\/p>\n
Keeshon Mckinnie added 84 yards rushing on nine carries, scoring on a 2-yard run to give East Duplin a 7-0 lead. Zachary Cruz had 63 yards on six carries, scoring on a 39-yard run in the second. Hayes Lanier had a 9-yard scoring run as the Panthers led 34-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n
James Matas had 11 tackles, three for loss, and a sack, Semaj Scott had 11 tackles, a sack and a forced fumble and Amir Lamont made nine tackles.<\/p>\n
East Duplin (8-1, 4-0) visits South Lenoir next week while Pender (3-6, 1-3) travels to Trask.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Liberty Christian 64, Wayne Prep 24<\/p>\n
Eddie Deptola rushed for three touchdowns and threw for another and Korvin Wilson ran for three touchdowns as Liberty Christian Academy topped Wayne Preparatory Academy to close the regular season.<\/p>\n
Caleb Malpass added a rushing touchdown, a two-point conversion, a sack and a fumble recovery, Noah Horne added a receiving touchdown and a two-point conversion and Logan Potting had a rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n
Eli Arnette, Andrew Smith and Cam McFarlane also scored two-point conversions. McFarlane and Brantley Warren each had sacks.<\/p>\n
The game was tied at 6-6 before Deptola scored a touchdown and Horne added the two-point conversion to make it 14-6 in the second quarter. Wilson then scored two touchdowns as the Heat pulled away.<\/p>\n
Liberty Christian (7-0) hosts Community Christian next week in the NCISAA Christian Independent Conference championship game. Wayne Prep (2-4-1) visits North Wake next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Croatan 20, West Carteret 0<\/p>\n
Kannon McBride had two rushing touchdowns as Croatan grinded out a Coastal Conference victory over West Carteret for its second consecutive series win.<\/p>\n
McBride’s 1-yard score extended the Cougars’ lead to 14-0 with 7:21 left in the third quarter. He had a 36-yard run with 3:10 left in the game to make it 20-0.<\/p>\n
Croatan first got on the board with 51 seconds left in the second quarter when Andrew Boucher took a screen pass and darted 43 yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
Croatan (8-1, 4-1) hosts Dixon next week while West Carteret (3-6, 2-4) hosts Northwood in a nonconference game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pamlico 36, Lejeune 28, OT<\/p>\n
Lejeune fell short, despite a valiant comeback, as the Devilpups dropped an overtime decision to Coastal Plains 1-A\/2-A Conference foe Pamlico.<\/p>\n
Izir Benjamin’s 3-yard touchdown run and two-point conversion for the Hurricanes were the differences in overtime.<\/p>\n
The Devilpups trailed 22-7 at halftime before Cameron McKinnis returned the third-quarter kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown. He had a touchdown run in the third and fourth as Lejeune took a 28-22 lead.<\/p>\n
However, Benjamin tied the game with a 32-yard touchdown with two minutes left in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Desean Godbolt had a touchdown run to give the Devilpups a 7-6 lead in the first.<\/p>\n
Lejeune (2-6, 1-3) visits Southside next week while Pamlico (3-6, 2-2) hosts East Carteret.\u00a0<\/p>\n
South Central 46, White Oak 14<\/p>\n
White Oak allowed 46 straight points between the second and fourth quarters as the Vikings dropped a Big Carolina Conference game to South Central.<\/p>\n
The Vikings took a 6-0 lead late in the first on Tony Hendrick’s 3-yard touchdown. He added a 5-yard score in the fourth.<\/p>\n
White Oak (2-6, 0-4) hosts Jacksonville next week while South Central (4-5, 1-3) visits New Bern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville 63, D.H. Conley 22 Jacksonville scored over 60 points for the second consecutive week to pull away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,110],"class_list":["post-436665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}