Grayson 35, Miami-Central 3
Grayson won a showdown between teams ranked No. 1 by national polls on Friday.
Grayson, Georgia’s 2011 Class AAAAA champion, was ranked No. 1 by ESPN, while Miami Central was ranked as USA Today’s No. 1 team.
Grayson got two short touchdown runs from Robert Nkemdiche and longer scoring plays from Wayne Gallman and Jordan Germany in a dominating performance.
Grayson amassed 355 total offense to Miami Central’s 22. Miami had two running backs committed to FBS (formerly called Division I-A) schools but was held to 17 yards rushing and 3-of-12 passing. It was 21-3 at halftime.
David McTier 38-yard pass to Gallman set up Nkemdiche’s first touchdown, a 3-yard TD run, for a 7-0 lead with 5:58 left in the first quarter.
Early in the second, McTier hit Gallman on a 54-yard pass on third down for a touchdown and a 14-0 lead.
Grayson made it 21-3 on Nkemdiche’s 2-yard run with 14 seconds left in the half after a 76-yard, 15-play drive. Brandon Lewis’ 26-yard run and an interference call on Central Miami sustained the drive.
Germany’s 66-yard touchdown run with 9:23 left in the third made it 28-3, and David Fennell’s 2-yard run put Grayson up 35-3 with 1:40 left. Germany was Grayson’s leading rusher with 88 yards.
Central got its points on a 51-yard field goal by Emilio Nadelman.
Eric Bruce
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106 comments Add your comment
Thore Viking
September 4th, 2012
10:06 am
Reminds me of Lakeside in the late 60’s and early 70’s
Fred
September 4th, 2012
6:16 pm
@Joe – My comment was indeed focused on your apparent age as demonstrated by your words. Wishing a 17 year old ill will is certainly not a mark of maturity further emphasizing my point. Bigot? It is clear you know nothing about me and haven’t even bothered to read my comments on this and many blogs.
Fred
September 4th, 2012
6:19 pm
@ak – I too am concerned about the fumbles and the cramping. It appears as though Robert has gotten bigger since last year and may not have adjusted to playing at game speed. We will see as the season continues.
battleaxekid
September 4th, 2012
9:26 pm
Ga. has got the best ftball teams nationwide…… No surprise to me that Grayson put it on um… If Grayson goes undefeated this year , they ought to be national champs. The sad thing about it there are more games to go against the best hs football teams in the nation, right here at home…
I believe that ther are a few teams that can match up with Grayson in the state, Still too early to crown them 6a champs yet…..
i can name a few of them, and just did get by 2-3 teams in the state last year. and had one game given to them, the Brookwood game for one, and kell 7-0 and kell was 4a.. better be ready for some more of those type games because both of those games were won by lady luck….at least I know Brookwood was a gift grayson won the game but Brookwood gave it to um… right??
Fred
September 4th, 2012
10:17 pm
@battleaxekid – I don’t think you will find too many knowledgeable Grayson fans that don’t know we have a tough row to hoe. We have discussed the Kell game many times but to recap, Grayson did only what it had to to win the game. We were determined to show nothing. There was way too much improvement between the Kell game and the Edgewater game the next week. Did we almost blow it? Absolutely! Did we learn from that mistake? Gosh I hope so! Good teams put themselves in a position to take advantage of the flow of the game. We were able to capitalize on a Brookwood mistake. Many people say poo and it happened in the last few seconds. The last time I looked, games were a full 48 minutes, not 47 minutes and 40 seconds. Would it have made a difference if we had scored that last touchdown 5 minutes earlier? For what it is worth, R1 teams have had similar games where the opposing team makes a mistake in the waning seconds and have counted their blessings!
Grayson Fanatic
September 5th, 2012
10:00 am
With the way the defense is playing anyone in region 8 will be lucky to get any points. Only way to beat Grayson is to stop the offense consistently and pray to the gods that you can sneak a wide receiver or running back down the field.