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Full-time starter: QB Barfield looks to make his mark
Senior quarterback Tyler Barfield has grown significantly during his time in the Scotland High School football program.
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Scots deal with new challenges ahead of pandemic-affected season
LAURINBURG — The Scotland High School varsity football team might have to wait just a little bit longer to start its season due to being quarantined, but high school football season in North Carolina has arrived nonetheless.
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Scotland’s passing game continues to improve
FAYETTEVILLE — Scotland High wideout Trey Chavis has been targeted on deep routes numerous times over the past couple of years. It happened many times last season, when Chavis was Scotland’s primary target while Bruce Wall was injured. And now that the Scots are incorporating more passing plays into their…
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Quarterback decision will come ‘earlier rather than later’
LAURINBURG — Two sophomore quarterbacks shared playing time during Scotland High’s run to the 4A football state championship game last season. That scenario most likely will not happen this year. Head coach Richard Bailey wants to decide his team’s quarterback situation by the time Sandhills Athletic Conference play starts. Rising…
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Barfield carries on family legacy at quarterback
LAURINBURG — It’s been 20 years since Eric Barfield was unexpectedly called upon to take over at quarterback for Scotland in the first round of the state playoffs. He remembers that game like it happened yesterday. “It was definitely shocking,” Barfield said. “I was a little bit nervous, a little…
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Experience is a factor as Fighting Scots face 71st
LAURINBURG — Scotland football coach Richard Bailey called his team’s game on Friday at Seventy-First a “tale of two different quarterbacks.” “We’re playing two very inexperienced quarterbacks,” Bailey said. “Our quarterbacks have four starts between them, and then you’ve got their guy who has probably started 40 or 50 games…
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Fighting Scots ready for battle
LAURINBURG — It’s been almost two years since Hoke won a football game. Scotland will try to keep that drought going when they face the Bucks in a road game on Friday night. Hoke (0-5, 0-1 SAC) is searching for its first victory since Oct. 28, 2016, when the Bucks…
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High school football returns to Pate Stadium
Friday night football is back. After not playing a game for three weeks, the Scotland football team returned to Pate Stadium to face Purnell Swett on Friday night. The visitors were in a similar predicament. Located in Pembroke, Purnell Swett was also in the path of Hurricane Florence. Like the…
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QBs compete for starting job
LAURINBURG — Tyler Barfield and Mandrell Johnson split time at quarterback for the Scotland jayvee football team last season. One year later, the sophomores are doing the same thing on a bigger stage. That wasn’t the plan three weeks ago. Before the Fighting Scots took the field for their season-opener…
