Seahawks, Sharks both shut out North Florida Christian
North Florida Christian took it on the chin Friday night in a preseason classic in Eastpoint.
But it was mainly due to their sticking their neck out.
After a fourth team dropped out, the Eagles agreed to play all four quarters, two against the Port St. Joe Tiger Sharks, and the second two against the Franklin County Seahawks. And what they found was that both teams shut them out.
In the opening half, the Tiger Sharks put four touchdowns on the board, and in the second half, the Seahawks did so as well.
Port St. Joe’s Corban Butts had about 100 yards and two touchdowns, while Chance Gainer had a 94-yard kickoff return, and Ashee Peacock a five-yard touchdown run.
Coach Tanner Jones said he liked what he saw, mainly the extra effort.
“There’s a lot we got to fix, but we’re going to the right spots, and we’re blocking who we need to block,” he said. “I was very happy to see them excited about flying around and making tackles and everybody getting to the ball.
“There were no dumb penalties,” Jones said. “We played football and got up and played the next play. Once we watch the film, you know what they say ‘Nothing is ever as good as it seems and nothing’s ever as bad as it seems.’ I’ll find what we need to work on.’
The Tiger Sharks face a huge test this Friday in Wakulla County, when they take on the War Eagles, a school with 1,700 students and a much bigger classification.
“We’re going to test them early and see what they’re made of,” Jones said. “Tonight we looked tough and we’re going to see how tough we are next week, and hopefully we leave that one and we’re still tough and how much pride we have when you play with us.
“We’re never going to schedule a game where we don’t think we can go out and compete,” he said. “I think we’re big enough, we’re fast enough, we’re strong enough to go take on a team like that, especially early in the year. We can play weak teams that we can beat and never get any better, or we can test ourselves and play Wakulla week one and Holmes County week two, and then Liberty and then Blountstown and we’ll know within the first five weeks what we need to work on.”
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.