BEARVILLE — A lot will be riding on Friday night’s Region 3-AA encounter involving Pierce County and Appling County.
The regular season finale is the first time since 2017 neither program has been ranked and just the second time since 2011. In five of the past six seasons the region kingpins have both entered ranked. PCHS (8-1 overall, 2-1 region) can still win the region title and a top eight seed with a victory over the Pirates (6-3, 3-0), who enter on a five-game winning streak.
“Everybody saw them early in the year and thought they (Pirates) weren’t any good,” said Pierce County head coach Ryan Herring. “The coach (Tucker Pruitt) got there in the summer and started putting in a whole new offense. I told everybody, once they get about five games under them, they’ll get rolling. And that’s kind of what happened.
