BHP went on their longest road trip of the season as they traveled up I-85 to take on the Greer Yellow Jackets. Although the Bears played one of their best defensive games of the year, BHP took the bus ride home with another loss. However, in the grand scheme of the season and region play, that game was more of a way for the Bears to gear up for the rest of region play.
Now BHP looks to turn their focus squarely on region opponents for the rest of the season, and this week's opponent will be a familiar one, the Seneca Bobcats. With another Bear Friday Night comes another opportunity to take steps toward playoff seeding and a region championship.
Week 9 Preview
BHP will host the Seneca Bobcats as BHP gets back to region play. BHP and Seneca have faced each other every year BHP has been in existence except for 7 seasons, and most of those seasons had playoff implications, this season being no different. For the most part, the winner of this game will lock up the third seed from Region 1, however, BHP could put themselves in the position for even better seeding with later games.
Seneca comes into this game 5-3 on the season, but 0-2 in the region. Seneca got off to a fast start going 5-1 in their first 6 games. With wins over Blacksburg, Palmetto, Emerald, Eastside, and West-Oak. The only loss in their non-region slate was against Easley. Seneca then opened region play with Daniel and Wren back to back, both resulting in a loss.
Even with the losing skid, Seneca has scored 329 points this year, compared to BHP’s 169. BHP has not faced a potent offense like this all season.
BHP will need to bring the same kind of defensive performance as they had for the majority of the game against Greer in order to slow down the Bobcat offense. The Bears also need to do a better job converting drives into points and continue to dominate the time of possession battle.
2020 Game Stats
Score: BHP 17 -- Seneca 28
BHP Yardage:
Team Rushing: 37 rushes for 258 yards and 2 TDs
Team Passing: 8/18/3 for 118 yards
Team Total: 55 plays for 376 yards and 2 TDs
Rushing Leader: #21 Jauron Pruitt - 13 rushes for 111 yards and 1 TD
Passing Leader: #2 Tyler Fields - 6/15/2 for 59 yards
Receiving Leader: #4 Eli Strickland - 4 receptions for 38 yards
Defensive Lead: #44 Kaleb Horne - 8 solo tackles, 6 Assist, 1 INT, and 49 Defensive Points
Seneca Team Yardage:
Team Rushing: 49 rushes for 205 yards and 2 TDs
Team Passing: 11/29/3 for 141 yards and 1 TD
Team Total: 78 plays for 346 yards and 3 Offensive TDs
Rushing Leader: #26 Adrian Lewis - 23 rushes for 111 yards and 1 TD
Passing Leader: #16 Landon Moseley - 11/28/2 for 141 yards and 1 TD
Receiving Leader: #33 Levi Leard - 4 receptions for 71 yards and 1 TD
Quick Stats
- BHP is 26-21 all-time against Seneca (24-21 when the matchup is a region game).
- BHP has played Seneca 47 times which is the 3rd most of any opponent. The only teams that BHP has played more are Daniel - 51 and Palmetto - 55.
- BHP is 44 points away from scoring 1,000 all-time points against Seneca.
- BHP averages 20.3 points per game against Seneca while allowing 18.2.
- Last season Seneca ran 78 plays against BHP. That was the 2nd most run against BHP since 2014 (most is 2017 vs Greenville - 84 plays).
- In 2011 BHP set a school record for the most all-purpose yards against Seneca; 745 offensive yards and 166 return yards.
- In 2019 BHP set a school record for most points in a half and quarter against Seneca, 56 in the second half with 35 coming in the 4th quarter.
- BHP has run 110 more plays than their opponents this season.
- BHP is being outscored 130-58 in the second half this season.
- BHP has caused a turnover in all games this season except against Abbeville.
- 18.6% of BHP rushes have gone for 0 or negative yards.
- The game against Greer was only the 9th game since 2014 that BHP was held without a rushing TD. BHP is 2-7 in those games.
- Nevada Billups’ 99-yard reception from AJ Pendleton tied the BHP record for the longest pass in BHP history (tied with Matt Williams to Keinan Lewis in 2012).
- BHP’s Eli Strickland is 4 receptions away from having the 10th most career receptions at BHP.
- Since 2009 BHP has not lost more than 4 games in a season.
- Last season BHP had zero defensive scores. This season the defense has 2 touchdowns and 1 safety.
Conclusion
The Bears are back in region play, but some would call this region the toughest in 3A. Nevertheless, BHP will be able to pull from their experience playing a tough non-region schedule. The Bears finally put a complete game together on both sides of the ball and because of that, they will come out with a win to stay undefeated in region play.
Prediction: BHP - 35 -- Seneca 28
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