Biggest week in Edmond football??
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
Think about it like this. When a game between Deer Creek (6-2, 4-1) and Altus (5-3, 4-1) is pushed to the back page, you know you have a pretty good week.
Edmond is the place to be Thursday and Friday. I don’t know which one I’m more geeked for, Edmond Santa Fe and Norman North on Thursday or a good ol’ fashioned Edlam battle between Memorial and North on Friday.
Deer Creek coach Grant Gower said he has no issues with being under the radar. “That’s the great thing about high school football. Every week, there are some huge games out there for people to see and be pumped about.”
Gower may even have to take a backseat in his own family. His brother, Andy, is the offensive coordinator at Purcell. The Dragons are coming off a huge win against Bethany last week and have a major showdown with Pauls Valley this week.
There are intriguing storylines for both games. If ESF can pull this off, you can pretty much pencil in a second-place finish. And as Del City fanatics have said, if the Eagles can continue their stellar run, all the sudden, NNorth is in quite the quandary.
For the T’Wolves, hey, chance to show some dominance. Make that statement heading into the playoffs.
It’s funny, but I think Tyler Tettleton needs to come up huge for NNorth to pull out this one. Beau Blankenship will be bottled up (but that doesn’t necessarily mean stopped).
And then you just have an Edlam game in Week 9. Say wha? The Huskies have come together just at the right time while Mark Walker’s kids aren’t getting any love from anywhere. All Memorial has done is quietly gone 6-2 and are giving up a mere 13 points per contest this season.
And how about Kameron Doolittle? You don’t think he’s not going to want to make something special happen? With all the known commodities, I’m saying the winner of the Qua’Don Henderson and Doolittle matchup, wins this game.
On both counts, I don’t care who wins these games. I just know they should be fun.
So if you could only go to one Edmond game this week, which one would it be?
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Indeed will be a great week for Edmond teams. Memorial has more speed and great linebackers,such as Anthony Morales,Adrian Shoecraft and Logan Thomas. The difference in this game will be the Leadership of SENIOR Anthony Morales in Offense when running the ball, don’t forget that he is Memorial leader in running 510 yds with 7 TDs as well and he has been involved in Edlam games as started the last 2 years.