NCHSAA Announces Playoff Pairings – Lee County Earns #5 Seed – Draws West Johnston In First Round

The NCHSAA announced the football pairings for the upcoming state championships and the Lee County Yellow Jackets (7-3) earned the #5 Seed in the Eastern 3A bracket.  Thirty-Two of the fifty-one 3A teams in the east made the playoffs and the #5 Yellow Jackets will take on #28 West Johnston (5-5) in the first round at Paul Gay Stadium in Sanford.   Lee County goes into the playoffs as the #1 3A team from the Sandhills 3A/4A Conference after finishing 4-2 in conference play.   West Johnson finished 5^th in their 8-team conference behind Hunt, Fike, Smithfield-Selma and South Johnston with a 3-4 conference mark.

Quick Facts

West Johnson (Individual stats thru 8 games)

• Overall 5-5, Conference 3-4
• Scoring 25.0 ppg, Allowed 22.6 ppg
• QB Donte Harper is a dual threat – Passing 48 of 103 (46.6%) for 675 yards, 3 TD and 8 INT.  Rushing 101 carries for 404 yards and 6 TDs
• RB Nicolas Robinson leads the ground game with 149 carries for 845 yards (5.7 ypc) and 12 TDs
• WRs Nicholas Robinson has 20 catches for 214 yards (10.7 ypc) and 3 TDs and Ryan Schmidt has 18 catches for 248 yards (13.7 ypc) and 1 TD

Lee County (Individual Stats thru 10 games)

• Overall 7-3, Conference 4-2
• Scoring 30.5 ppg, Allowed 15.2 ppg
• QB Will Patterson – Passing 129 of 201 (64.1%) for 1617 yards, 14 TDs and 7 INT
• RB BJ Brown leads the Lee County ground game with 138 carries for 963 yards (6.9 ypc) and 6 TDs
• WRs Tyric McKendall 44 catches for 595 yards (13.5 ypc) and 6 TDs and Kenyon Palmer with 22 catches for 369 yards (16.7 ypc) and 4 TDs

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2021 NCHSAA 3A Football State Playoffs First Round Pairings

East

• #1 Eastern Alamance (7-1) vs. #32 East Wake (3-7)
• #16 Havelock (6-3) vs. #17 Rocky Mount (5-5)
• #8 Westover (8-1) vs. #25 Vance County (7-2)
• #9 North Brunswick (6-4) vs. #24 South Brunswick (6-4)
• #5 Lee County (7-3) vs. #28 West Johnston (5-5)
• #12 Southern Nash (8-1) vs. #21 White Oak (8-2)
• #13 Jacksonville (7-2) vs. #20 Western Alamance (4-5-1)
• #4 Hunt (8-2) vs. #29 Franklinton (4-6)
• #3 Seventy-First (10-0) vs. #30 West Brunswick (3-6)
• #14 Fike (7-2) vs. #19 Williams (6-4)
• #6 J.H. Rose (6-4) vs. #27 Croatan (4-6)
• #11 Currituck County (5-5) vs. #22 Terry Sanford (6-3)
• #7 West Carteret (7-2) vs. #26 Cape Fear (6-3)
• #10 Southern Durham (6-4) vs. #23 Scotland County (5-4)
• #15 Smithfield-Selma (7-3) vs. #18 South Johnston (8-2)
• #2 Northern Nash (9-1) vs. #31 Northwood (4-5)

Stay tuned to WFJA Sports & the WFJA website for more game information!