This the 99th meeting. Mayfield has won the last 6 games. Tilghman is very athletic , this should be a very good contest but if Mayfield is hitting on all cylinders, I like their chances.

Mayfield in a close one.

I'll take PT by a TD. Should be a hell of a game.

Mayfield will keep the Tornado off balance enough with the passing game to offset Tilghmans superior size and speed and come out of this one with a close win..

Looking at long range weather forcast, this game could be played in the aftermath of the hurricane with heavy rain predicted for the weekend. Mayfield's field has a excellent crown for drainage but a wet field could be a factor

This will be the 99th meeting between these big rivals. Mayfield will have to play a complete game to beat the Tornados.

99th meeting, at Mayfield, Mayfield has won the last 6 in a row which represents the longest winning streak in the series by either team.

PT Coach Wyatt has never defeated Mayfield. Mayfield is 13-4 against PT in the last 17 meetings. The most lopsided game in the series was a 85-6 Mayfield win in 1919. In 1925 Mayfield won 3-2 with Weldon "Nappy" Yates scoring all 5 points in the game via field goal and safety.

Paducah Tilghman 23-22.

Okay this is not even funny, who deleted the other original Mayfield-PT thread that was full of posts and left this one with 1 post? Please restore the one with the posts in it

^ Done.

Okay this is not even funny, who deleted the other original Mayfield-PT thread that was full of posts and left this one with 1 post? Please restore the one with the posts in it

Don't know. I was asked by a Mod to start the new thread. Must have gotten lost in cyber space for awhile.

Don't know. I was asked by a Mod to start the new thread. Must have gotten lost in cyber space for awhile.

 

No worries as long as good ole randy paker is running the show! thanks randy

I believe this will be a great game...Coach Wyatt of PT is feeling the pressure of not having beaten Mayfield yet...after last year's loss, I listened to his radio show the next day and he was in meltdown mode. So, needless to say, the Big Blue will be motivated. But I still think that Mayfield has all the tools to hang a seventh consecutive defeat on the Blue Tornado. Mayfield wins by a touchdown.

No worries as long as good ole randy paker is running the show! thanks randy

 

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Tilghman’s mission:

Stop Mayfield, streak

 

The six-year streak isn’t unprecedented.

Three times in the Paducah Tilghman-

Mayfi eld football rivalry

has one team won six consecutive

meetings. The Tornado has done

it once, from 1942-47. Mayfi eld

equaled the feat between 1995

and 2000, and the Cardinals’

current winning streak is at six,

beginning with an overtime victory

in 2006.

Friday night’s 99th Tilghman-

Mayfi eld game at War Memorial

Stadium has a chance to see

something unprecedented: Mayfi

eld’s seventh straight win.

“When I started coaching, I just

wanted to beat them once,” Mayfi

eld coach Joe Morris joked. “It’s

hard to believe we’ve gotten it to

six. We had to beat some really

good football teams to get where

we are now, and we’re going to

have to beat another good one.

They’re tough.”

If Mayfi eld prolongs its winning

streak, this senior class —

which includes a four-year starter

in all-state linebacker Jonathan

Jackson — will be the fourth consecutive

group to graduate from

Mayfi eld without ever losing to

Tilghman.

The six-game streak has had

some tough moments for Tilghman.

Two of the losses came in

overtime, a 14-7 decision in 2006

and a 23-20 result two years ago

— both of them on Mayfi eld’s

turf.

“I feel like they’ve got a hold on

us,” said Tilghman coach Randy

Wyatt, who is preparing to face

the Cardinals for the fi fth time.

“It’s time for us to break that.

This is the seniors’ last opportunity,

and we want to get it.”

Offensive lineman DeAndre

Mayes, who will start his third

and fi nal Tilghman-Mayfi eld

clash, senses the urgency. He still

believes Tilghman let a win overthe Cardinals slip from its

grasp two years ago, when

the Tornado didn’t connect

on a fourth-down pass in

overtime and was beaten

on a fi eld goal.

“We were real close,

and we could’ve won that

game,” Mayes said. “The

coaches don’t have to talk

about it because we talk

about it ourselves, even

when they’re not around.

We know this is our last

chance.”

Tackle Kendal Calhoun,

in his second year as a

starter, admits to having

plenty of respect for Mayfi

eld, given the two programs’

longtime status as

state powers.

“It’s an old rivalry, a

real competitive rivalry,”

Calhoun said. “We’re both

really good programs. We

won a state title when I was

a freshman, and they’re

the dominant team in their

class.”

Mayes even mentions

the unthinkable, that perhaps

a win over Mayfi eld

is just as important as

winning a state championship.

Mayes was on a state

title team as a freshman,

but he’s never been part

of a program that beat the

Cardinals. He admits that

even a second state title

wouldn’t erase the sting of

four straight losses to Mayfi

eld.

“I want to win a state

championship,” Mayes

said, “but I really want to

beat them, too. If we don’t

beat them, I’ll still feel

like that was one thing we

should’ve done.”

Tilghman defensive back

Darius Garnett, also a twoyear

starter, doesn’t quite

see it that way.

“The state ring, that’s

what we’re all playing for,”

Garnett said. “But this is

a big game. We’ve just got

to go out there and forget

about the last few years. If

we go out and perform like

we can and make big plays,

we’ll win it.”

He also relishes the notion

that Tilghman could

end the streak where it began,

at Mayfi eld, denying

the Cardinals a chance to

accomplish something for

the fi rst time on their fi eld.

“Yeah, that would be

great, not just for the program,

but for the school

because it’s been such a

long time,” Garnett said.

“Just winning the game

would be great.”

Call Joey Fosko, a

Paducah Sun sports writer,

at 270-575-8661.

STREAK