by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 15, 2023 | News, Recaps
Cardinal Ritter 34, Hillsboro 21 The Gridiron Geek has groaned about Mississippi Conference clubs getting what’s known as a Pyrrhic Victory, in which a team wins in the short-term but loses out in other long-term ways. It happened to Festus High in 2020 when...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 8, 2023 | News, Recaps
Festus 49, Pacific 13 Friday night was a time for Cinderella to sing. In case anyone doesn’t think virtually ALL of MSHSAA’s favorites were playing under the season’s real full moon in Week 7, consider that the DeSoto Dragons took the football and...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 3, 2023 | News, Recaps
This season’s Herky Blackcat pep squad has sadly become like the 2 guys walking along the road at the end of “Dumb and Dumber.” Things are feeling lonely, downcast, even hopeless. “When are we ever gonna catch a break?” For Dunklin R-5,...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 30, 2023 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 69, Windsor 12 The Geek owes Windsor and HC Jeff Funston an apology for predicting that WHS’s option offense would be hapless against the Hillsboro Hawks. Signal-caller Luke Patterson and the Varsity Owls pierced Leon Hall’s starting-11 defense...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 24, 2023 | News, Recaps
Crystal City 12, Gateway STEM 8 Hmm, what an ugly score with which to lead-off a Friday recap with a bunch of perfectly pretty final scores in it, and some elite performances too. With the Tri-City school St. Pius X having laid an egg for 3 consecutive frames against...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 17, 2023 | News, Recaps
Jefferson 28, St. Pius 18 A Friday night that’s filled with mismatches doesn’t have to result in boring pigskin. Jefferson County fields (and other fields starring JC’s teams) were lit-up with TDs in Week 4. Yes, a lot of those touchdowns were scored...
