Sometimes it is a matter of pride.
Despite a football playoff berth already earned, the Thomas E. Edwards High Tigers have one final opportunity to even up their current 4-5 record before it enters the record books.
Last Friday night in Clarksdale, the Tigers missed that chance when they dropped an 8-6 decision to the now 5-5 Tigers of Coahoma Early College.
“We came out flat and did some things that hurt us,” said Edwards High Head Coach Damaris Mitchell. “We can’t get it back so we just have to move on to this week’s game and continue to get ready for the playoffs.”
The final preparation for the Tigers’ November 8 opening game of the 3A state playoffs will occur this Friday at Winona High School. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
In the second consecutive week involving a Tigers versus Tigers football game, the Edwards High squad will take on a 7-2, 2-1 Winona team still stinging from last week’s high-scoring 42-36 loss to Region 3 frontrunner Amanda Elzy High of Greenwood.
Those 42 points given up last Friday night are the most allowed by the Winona squad, whose only other loss this season occurred in week five by way of a 41-35 defeat at the hands of Yazoo County High School.
As for the November 8 start of the 3A playoffs, the Tigers will take on the No. 1 seed from Region 3-3A and the expected leader to emerge is Choctaw County High of Ackerman.
Other teams representing that region appearing to be playoff bound are Noxubee County of Maben, Houston High School, and Hatley High School.
In last Friday’s loss to Coahoma Early College, a 15 yard scoring pass in the first period by the Clarksdale squad was followed by what proved to be a game-clinching two point conversion run.
This 8-0 score stood until the fourth quarter when quarterback Joseph Perez scored on a three yard run for the Ruleville-based Tigers.
However, the two point conversion attempt was repelled and the Tigers were ultimately forced to absorb their loss.
