South Columbus Stallions earn state title berth with a win tonight

TABOR CITY, NC (WWAY) — South Columbus edged East Bladen 42-41 last Friday in the third round of the high school football state playoffs. Tonight the Stallions will face Edenton High School in the 2-A east finals. Had it not been for a Trequan Bellamy’s two point conversion late in the 4th quarter last Friday East Bladen would have been playing in the 2-A east finals instead. “I fumbled the ball. I thought I let the team down late in the second half last week,” Trequan Bellamy told WWAY’s John Rendleman. “The only thing I could do was put my head down. Then I thought about and said I was a better player than that so I asked coach for the ball and he gave it to me and I made a touchdown and the (go-ahead) two point conversion.”

Had the two point conversion late in the 4th quarter it would have been East Bladen playing in the 2-A east championship game on Friday, not South Columbus. “We don’t get a lot of the fame of lineman don’t get a lot of the fame, but we’re just glad to be out there helping the backs,” Stallion Luke Herring said.

South Columbus has been electric on offense the last few weeks. The Stallions definitely know how to light up the scoreboard. “We are all going to be excited,” South Columbus QB Robby Spencer exclaimed prior to practice on Monday. “We have never done this before. Second time in history that this has happened, especially hosting the 4th round game, we’ve all looked up to it and we’re ready to play.”

“Nobody thought we would be here. Nobody thought we would get this far. We proved everyone wrong.” Those were the words of South Columbus running back Dennis Leggett and the funny thing is expectations were not very high at the beginning of the season, no dis-respect to Russell Dove, who is in his first year at South Columbus. “We had beaten East Bladen earlier in the season,” South Columbus head coach Russell Dove told WWAY. “Early in the season teams are growing, teams are getting better and to be able to come back and to beat a good East Bladen team twice in the same year was pretty good and to be able to go onto the eastern championship is satisfying. The kids played lights out on both sides of the ball. Being that type of game to have a finish like it was just awesome to be a part of. Yeah we have a good running back, yeah we have a good quarterback, but this crew just meshes really well, in the locker room in the school halls and it’s a pretty special team.”