LHS hosts R-S Central, heads to Ironcity event

Published 5:33 pm Thursday, August 12, 2010

Landrum will face a familiar foe when it tees up a football at 6:30 Friday night at the Ironcity Kickoff Jamboree at Blacksburg (S.C.) High School.

Friday nights jamboree is just part of a big weekend of high school preseason football that actually begins tonight with the Wolverine Jamboree at Polk County High School. PCHS will also be involved in the 6th-annual Border Showcase Classic Saturday night at Shelby.

The Cardinals will face Region II-A foe Southside Christian in the second of four halves of football to be played in Friday nights jamboree. LHS also hosts RS-Central at 6 p.m. today in a controlled scrimmage.

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In other two-quarter contests at the Ironcity Jamboree, Chesnee will face A.L. Brown in the first contest, Broome will meet Kings Mountain in the third contest and Blacksburg plays McCormick in the nightcap.

LHS head coach Russell Mahaffey said he would prefer not to play a region competitor that he will see again during the regular season, but the need to see live action prior to the season outweighed those concerns.

This is the way it came out in the meeting we had, so well do it, Mahaffey said. Blacksburg actually plays (Southside Christian) twice during the regular season, so I agreed to play them.

Mahaffey said standouts during the first week of practice have included running back Cole McDowell and linebacker Kaleb Kuykendal.

Coles been moving the ball well, and I like Calebs attitude on defense and the way hes playing the position, said Mahaffey.

Mahaffey also praised his offensive and defensive lines as well as the receiving corps, but is anxious to see those players perform outside of practice.

Its time to go hit somebody else, Mahaffey said.