Beech vs. Columbia 5A State Championship

[thebigman52]

You Beech fans sure do sound confident, but I can't say anything cause I haven't seen Beech play. But when a team's defense shuts out another team and holds them to under thrity yards, that should tell you something when it was in the semi-finals of the playoffs. Shows something about the defense.

 

Oh and the offense can step up and march down the field all night long, the offense just tried out some new things last night. They still have another week to progress and learn from mistakes, which they will.

 

Go Lions!

[CrossKeys]

It should be a good game. Columbia's strenght is the D-line. If Beech can run up the middle my hats off to them.

How is the passing game for Beech?

[Monkey Wrench]

good luck to central!

[sportsobserver]

You Beech fans sure do sound confident, but I can't say anything cause I haven't seen Beech play. But when a team's defense shuts out another team and holds them to under thrity yards, that should tell you something when it was in the semi-finals of the playoffs. Shows something about the defense.

 

Oh and the offense can step up and march down the field all night long, the offense just tried out some new things last night. They still have another week to progress and learn from mistakes, which they will.

 

Go Lions!

 

Just a FYI, most of the posters predicting a Beech win aren't from Beech, but high school football fans that probably saw a game or two during the regular season. The Bucs players and coaches know that this will be a hard fought game. Beech has the utmost respect for Columbia and looks forward to the challenge of facing a #1 seed. IMO, this has the makings of an exciting championship game between two ball control teams.

[secman21]

All i know about Beech is, Smyrna beat them like a redheaded stepchild and finished the season 5-5.

[ssssssss]

if you plan on running it against Columbia you might want to rethink...their front seven is

scary...I seriously doubt they have given up 200 rushing yards in four playoff games

combined. Their weakness is their secondary if you got a qb with a good arm and lots

of calm in the pocket cause they started blitzing since they dont cover so well

[90sLion]

You Beech fans sure do sound confident, but I can't say anything cause I haven't seen Beech play. But when a team's defense shuts out another team and holds them to under thrity yards, that should tell you something when it was in the semi-finals of the playoffs. Shows something about the defense.

 

Oh and the offense can step up and march down the field all night long, the offense just tried out some new things last night. They still have another week to progress and learn from mistakes, which they will.

 

Go Lions!

 

Just a FYI, most of the posters predicting a Beech win aren't from Beech, but high school football fans that probably saw a game or two during the regular season. The Bucs players and coaches know that this will be a hard fought game. Beech has the utmost respect for Columbia and looks forward to the challenge of facing a #1 seed. IMO, this has the makings of an exciting championship game between two ball control teams.

 

Great comment sportsobserver. Good luck to both teams.

 

GO LIONS!!

[allabouttheO]

All i know about Beech is, Smyrna beat them like a redheaded stepchild and finished the season 5-5.

Not a good comparison...you are talking 7-AAA football....Go Lions!!!

[MidTNCoach]

Lets shift it towards offense as it may be high scoring game.

 

On the Columbia side, they have quite the QB/WR combo.

[tennvolsfan27]

If Beech can throw the ball and play a little defense then they shouldnt have any problems, columbia pass d is horrible.

[SFWildcatBlood]

I was extremely impressed with the Lion's defense last night. Fleming and Goff were outstanding at LB and they were deep in the D-line. I wasn't as impressed with the offense or at least the play calling. Fumble in the red zone on the first drive after marching right down the field in one formation and go to the Wilcat and fumble. Scored a touchdown and then went back to the Wildcat for whatever reason. Intercept a pass and take it inside the red zone and come away with no points. I thought Bryant Belew was under utilized. It should have been 21-0 or 17-0 at halftime. Left a lot of points on the field.

 

CHS won with defense last night. Good job Lions! Represent.

 

Belew was lucky to play man, he was coming off a knee injury from the anderson gm. That may be the reason why, but expect him to shine in STATE!

[ssssssss]

Ive watched Columbia in three of their four playoff games and probably six or seven

times overall. They are very hard to run against. In all three playoff games the

opposition gave up running and basically just threw on every down. The problem with

that is two things...once you get in the red zone there isn't much room to pass

and when you throw on every down you invited holding calls, chop block calls,

procedure calls, interceptions, and qb sacks. Its definitely true that Columbia's

opponents get flagged a lot but thats because they expose their lineman by having

to pass block so much. Making it even tougher is the fact that Columbia is very

hard to block cause they are big, quick, and fast. If you don't hold them or go low

to cut them you will have a quarterback in a world of hurt.

I also noticed that Columbia has made a few changes in their secondary which really

seemed to help. They picked Sullivan South off three times