Lee County Wins Tri-County 3A Title – Beats Southern Lee 44-0

The Lee County Yellow Jackets won their 3^rd 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 34^th 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 1^st downs in 2^nd 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 1^st downs in the game to 14 for Southern Lee.
• Lee County overcame 100 yards in penalties to 20 for the Cavaliers.