Garrard County should win by a wide margin tonight. Madison Southern has some nice players, but with suspensions from last weeks game with South Laurel and the fact that Madison Southern has a terrible offensive line I am going to say...

 

Garrard County 52

 

Madison Southern 14

 

This is my son's last game in an Eagle uniform, and I'll tell you now I'm kind of glad. Southern has gotten better over the course of the year, but in my opinion these things must be corrected. Yes the numbers are way up. We are finishing the year with about 55 kids and that has not happened since Doug Carter's third or 4th year. I'm not even sure what defense we have, our fronts and coverages literally change every game and I know what some of you will say, but if you don't have a base defense how can your kids really learn to play that side of the ball. Madison Southern has not played a team faster than them at all, and we run the slowest offense in the world. We run a slow playing veer or that's what Coach Clark tells us. I do think things are better than when Coach Brmley was here, but I hope Coach Clark has learned from this year and I expect Southern to be a team to watch out for in the next few years if a few minor adjustments are made.

How many players will Southern be missing tonight?

Tonight marks the 12th meeting between these two schools. Garrard County has won all previous meetings, although many games (especially in the early 1990s) were close and competitive. Here's hoping for a good game tonight. Garrard could use a strong challenge before postseason and Southern certainly will want to close out their season on a positive note.

How many players will Southern be missing tonight?

 

Damian Harris is out with a chipped bone in his elbow, Casey Dionne is serving a suspension for getting tossed along with three South Laurel players, and I think 4 kids are out due to injury. All that being said I still think this game isn't close even if those guys did play. Garrard has a really good team, and I think they could play a couple of rounds deep into the playoffs. Good luck the rest of the way Lions!