Lee County Wins Tri-County 3A Title – Beats Southern Lee 44-0
The Lee County Yellow Jackets won their 3rd straight Tri-County 3A title with a convincing 44-0 win over Southern Lee Friday night at Paul Gay Stadium. The Yellow Jackets took advantage of 4 Cavalier turnovers and solid efforts by the Yellow Jacket offense and defense to win their 34th consecutive regular season game. AJ Boulware led the Lee County rushing attack with 160 yards on 19 carries and 3 TDs while Colin Johnson finished the night 11 of 15 for 145 yards and 2 scores. Lee County finished with 465 yards of total offense and Southern Lee finished with 143, only 24 yards of offense and two 1st downs in 2nd half. Lee County finishes the season at 11-0, 5-0 while the Cavaliers finish at 6-4 and 3-2. Both teams are expected to be in the playoffs next Friday night.
Scoring
Southern Lee 0 0 0 0 0
Lee County 14 13 14 3 44
Scoring Summary
LC – AJ Boulware 1 run (Trey Underwood kick)
LC – Boulware 43 run (Underwood kick)
LC – Larry Baldwin 45 run (2-pt conversion failed)
LC – Tyric McKendall 18 pass from Colin Johnson (Underwood kick)
LC – Boulware 12 run (Underwood kick)
LC – Jason Berdecia 2 pass from Johnson (Underwood kick)
LC – Underwood 20 FG
Rushing
SL – Rodney Ingram 14-51, Nick Locklear 5-7, Elijah Foxx 1-19, Keshaun Mays 4-18, Tanoah Lockley 1-12, DeAndre McAllister 4-(-23) Totals 29-84
LC – Boulware 19-160, Baldwin 3-67, Marcus Gray 10-74, TJ Johnson 3-5, Will Patterson 1-0, Colin Johnson 3-14 Totals 39-320
Passing
SL – Deandre McAllister 5-12-59
LC – Colin Johnson 11-15-145
Receiving
SL – Lockley 4-37, Foxx 1-22 Totals 5-59
LC – McKendall 5-106, AJ Boulware 1-9, Tarrius Alston 1-1, Berdecia 2-11, Jackson Lamb 2-18 Totals 11-145
- The Normann Financial Group Players of the Game were Tyric McKendall for the Lee County Yellow Jackets and Cedric Douglas for the Cavaliers.
- The F&W Playhouse Play of the Game for Lee County was the 45-yard TD run by Larry Baldwin and for Southern Lee was a 31-yard pass from McAllister to Tanoah Lockley.
- Lee County had 23 1st downs in the game to 14 for Southern Lee.
- Lee County overcame 100 yards in penalties to 20 for the Cavaliers.