Vance starts the season No. 1 in the Charlotte Observer’s Sweet 16 prep football poll

Vance starts the season No. 1 in the Charlotte Observer’s Sweet 16 prep football poll

The last time there was public secondary school football in North Carolina, Vance High School bet its insurance claim as the finest group in the state.

The Cougars beat Raleigh’s Leesville Road, 24-3, in December of 2019, betting its insurance claim to among the state’s best-ever defenses.

Leesville Road (13-1), which was balancing 35 factors per video game, had 80 backyards complete infraction, as well as Vance required 5 turn overs.

To win the champion, Vance (13-2) won 5 straight roadway championship game. The Cougars defeated three-time state champ Butler, 21-0, as well as complied with that up by defeating the leading 3 seeds in the western fifty percent of the playoff draw– enabling simply 21 factors complete to Mallard Creek, West Forsyth as well as (*16 *) Senior.

The celebrity of that group– two-time Associated Press N.C. protective gamer of the year Power Echols– signed up at North Carolina early.But Vance starts No 1 in the Sweet 16 since it still returns 13 beginners as well as 20 lettermen.

(*1 *)

Rk

School (Cl)

2019 Record

1

Vance (4A)

13-2

2

(*16 *)Sr (4A)

13-1

3.

Charlotte Catholic (3A)

12-3

4.

Weddington (3A)

16 -0

5.

Shelby (2A)

14-1

6.

Hough (4A)

8-5

7.

Mallard Creek (4A)

10-1-1

8.

Crest (3A)

10-3

9.

AL Brown (3A)

8-4

10.

Butler (4A)

8-4

11.

Kings Mountain (3A)

12-3

12.

Burns (3A)

12-3

13.

Hibriten (2A)

11-2

14.

Myers Park (4A)

12-1

15.

Hickory Ridge (4A)

8-3

16

Salisbury (2A)

13-3