While last week’s game at Habersham didn’t go as hoped, the Madison County Red Raiders are back on the gridiron this week hosting a team that is all about pressuring the attack.
Friday night is the Red Raiders taking on the Wildcats in the sixth week of the season.
The Apalachee Wildcats are 3-1 coming into Friday night having already faced three of the same teams as Madison County. Apalachee has defeated Habersham and Salem, but fell to Flowery Branch. After last week’s 44-14 defeat, the Red Raiders have lost to each of those teams. By a straight numbers game on paper, Apalachee would appear to be the team to bet on. However, Madison County is not out of the running.
“[Apalachee] is a Wing-T offense and an eight-man front philosophy defensively, but as soon as I say that they will get in a 4:3 quick as anybody,” coach Randell Owens said. “They like to pressure you and to attack. They will come after you and force the issue.”
How Owens plans to combat this on Friday night is by working on Madison County’s spread offense.
Week to week we exercise different portions of our offense depending on what people are doing,” he said.
Last Friday, the Red Raiders put the ball in the air a little more in an effort to regain some ground lost to Habersham, the boys also pulled a “trick play” that added some yards.
“Madison County is going to put some athletes on the field," said Apalachee head coach Shane Davis. "They do enough offensively to cause problems. They are probably going to use more formations than anyone we play. They use a lot of trick plays. We will have to be ready defensively.”
Owens, in response to hearing Apalachee’s coach comment, said that Madison County does like to keep a few tricks for opponents and see when to play them.
“We’ve been know to run a trick play here and there,” Owens said. “We always have one in the repertoire for various reasons, we are trying to keep people off balanced. We will always have a trick play or two for the opponent. … Sometimes it’s letting them work on a particular trick play that never comes.”
Apalachee comes to Danielsville on Friday night at 7:30 p.m.
Friday’s game is also Homecoming for the Madison County Red Raiders and during halftime, the annual crowning of the queen and court will take place.
For more on the Habersham County game, see the print edition of Madison County Journal.
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reprinted from The Madison County Journal online October 1, 2010 edition
by Justin Poole
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