South Point stays perfect, beats Huss 51-20

South Point looked really dominant in its conference win over Hunter Huss last night. As coach said, “they came ready to play”.

More importantly, the visitor’s side of the stadium at Huss was PACKED with red and black South Point fans. What a great turnout Belmont !  Way to support your boys away from home.

The Huss field had been completely refurbished and looked great. Much better than in years past. The concession did a great job handling the large crowd, obviously much more than they had experienced in a while.

The South Point band got to play two songs at halftime, but got to play the fight song many more times as a result of the scoring binge.

13 of Huss’ 20 points came in the second half when coach Devine began substituting 2nd and 3rd stringers into the game. QB Desmond Lowery had another very good game, this time connecting with some nice passes.

South Point’s defense is still a bit loose in the middle and off tackle. When they play Ashbrook next weekend at home, this could be dangerous.

Speaking of Ashbrook, they lost in triple overtime to North Gaston, and Gaston County Jail parolee, A.J. Blue, 44-38. The Green Wave may just be a Tsunami by the time they hit the Lineberger shore next Friday night. Ashbrook played a great game according to all reports.

Other scores:

Forestview got killed by Crest, 35-0

East Gaston lost to King Mountain, 38-20

Cherryville beat Highland Tech, 42-0

Bessemer City lost to North Lincoln, 52-24

 

County approves $200,000 for college driving track

Ok, so the county doesn’t have money to spend on a Senior Citizen’s Center, and has to charge for parking at the Courthouse, but can unamimously approve a driving track for county police?

The commissioners make the Parks and Recreation Department run through all kinds of hoops to get funding for a project that would affect thousands of people, and yet, has little comment on projects that affect a few.

“Gaston County may eventually try to recoup some of its investment by approaching other area police departments that will benefit from the track.” — a quote from the Gazette article.

We believe that’s wishful thinking on the part of the county commissioners. Their track record on “investments in the community” is not so good. It seems that it would have been more prudent to secure the collaborations and commitments to use the facility BEFORE approaching the taxpayers for money.

But again, people like Tom Keigher and Mickey Price like to spend OPM (“Other People’s Money”).

     

 

Prep football game previews for Sept. 28

 

The Gazette’s take on tonight’s games around the area.

The BIG game is the Ashbrook and North Gaston matchup. We have to go with Ashbrook on this one.