The Blue Devils played a tough hard fought game down in Social Circle Friday night coming away with a 28-21 victory over a speedy and experienced senior laden SC squad. The young blue devil players seem to be growing up as penalties and turnovers were way down in this weeks win.  Elbert Co. started out strong as they held the Indians on their first possession forcing them to punt where the blue devils started a 12 play drive from their own 25 that ended with a lost fumble on the Indians 24 yard line. The blue devil defense then was tested as the Indians had a 13 play drive of their own but on 4^th down at the blue devils 18 the defense held strong allowing the offense to take back over early in the 2^nd quarter of play after a scoreless first quarter of play for both teams.  The devils first touchdown came on a tough run by Freshman Tyshon Dye from the Indian 29 yard line but he fumbled when he was stripped of the ball at the 4 yard line where there was huge pile fighting for the ball. Senior Leader Offensive Lineman Taylor Smith came out in the end zone with ball thus scoring the blue devils first touchdown of the night and Omar Vargas converted the point after putting the devils up 7-0.  Social Circle came right back and tied the game at 7-7 on a 10 play drive but the Blue Devils bounced right back scoring their second touchdown right before the half on a 1 yard run by Demarco Freeman with Vargas adding the point after to go into half time with a 14-7 lead over the Indians.  

In the second half the blue devils defense stepped up creating 2 turnovers (Interception DB Davion Shackleford, Fumble Caused DL Rick Hamm  & Fumble Recovered DL Seth Martin) and the blue devils went up 28-14 on some tough running by Junior Valdon Cooper, who had 11 carries for 85 yards and 2 touchdowns in the 2^nd half alone.  The Indians scored their 2^nd touchdown of the half with only 1:00 left in the game to close the gap to 28-21 where they then tried an onside kick which Keldric Rambert fell on and then the blue devils offense executed so as to run all the time off the clock to secure the win on the road. 

For the second week in a row the offensive line and Tight Ends (Taylor Smith, Ethan Fortson, Seth Martin, Keenon Umble, Trey Huff, Eli York, Keldric Rambert, Chance Yeargin, and Taj Letman) played well creating some holes for the blue devil runners to again have a strong night.  It was again a team effort out of the backs as the blue devils had a variety of ball carriers. This week it was Junior Valdon Cooper leading the pack as he had 13 carries for 100 yards and 2 TD.  Freshman Tyshon Dye had 6 carries for 61 yards, Senior Demarco Freeman 12 carries for 60 yards and 1 TD, Sophomore DJ Lewis 4 carries for 16 yards with 2 receptions for 56 yards, Senior Austin Jones 3 carries for 13 yards, and Hunter Blackmon 2 carries for 14 yards.  QB Robert Huff was 2 for 6 passing for 56 yards.  The special teams were strong again with Omar Vargas perfect on the point after conversions and Punter Andy Corder punting well again this week.

Defensively the defensive line - Ricky Hamm (8 tackles), Tray Heard (6 tackles), Antonio Hickman, Jim Hill, Eric Crenshaw (6 tackles), and Seth Martin (7 tackles), who filled in for the injured Hickman in the second half played well. The Linebackers were led by Junior Taj Letman (12 tackles), Soph. Tyler Mahaffey (11 tackles), Soph. Bryce Martin (10 tackles), Soph. Trent Allen (7 tackles), Soph. Philip Settles, Freshman Tyshon Dye, and Soph. D.J. Lewis who all saw playing time.  The defensive backs were led by Soph. Hunter Blackmon (13 tackles), Sr. Trez Haley (5 tackles), Junior Davion Shackleford (4 tackles & 1 interception), Junior Shi Marshall (4 tackles), Junior Valdon Cooper and Sr. Austin Jones.