This fall, HighSchoolOT will provide a play-by-play broadcast of a top game in North Carolina each Friday.

HighSchoolOT’s award-winning journalist J. Mike Blake will be on the call. Blake will provide live analysis with his unique brand of historical knowledge.

Our first Game of the Week live stream will be a 910 showdown between Richmond Senior High School and Seventy-First High School. The game will be played at Seventy-First. It starts at 7:30 p.m.

Along with our Game of the Week broadcast, HighSchoolOT will continue to have the most up-to-the-minute scores from across North Carolina. Access our live scoreboard here:

The matchup is between two of the better programs in state history.

The Richmond Raiders have won seven N.C. High School Athletic Association state championships. The Seventy-First Falcons have won three.

Seventy-First is coming off of a runner-up finish in last year’s 3A state championship game. The Falcons lost to Hickory by a final score of 33-26.

This Seventy-First group will look very similar to the team that came up just short last season, especially on the offensive side of the ball. HSOT All-State quarterback DeAndre Nance is back for his senior season after he threw for 1,639 yards/20 touchdowns and rushed for 1,691 yards/38 touchdowns in 2023. Also back are his top backfield running mates: Donavan Frederick, SEC-offered Jayson Franklin, and Shon Pone. Frederick is the only returning First Team HSOT All-State defender. He had 175 tackles (10.9/game), 48 TFL, and six sacks as a junior.

Seventy-First is ranked as the No. 5 team in the state in the HSOT Top 25.

Richmond, a 4A program, will be playing its first game of the Brad Denson era. The Raiders picked Denson as the head coach after Bryan Till departed for Union Pines in the offseason. Denson is a popular Richmond alum who was the team’s starting quarterback on the 1997 and 1998 4A state championship teams.

The Raiders return 13 starters from last year’s playoff team, including their best defender Joe Parsons.

In addition to the Game of the Week broadcast, HighSchoolOT will have plenty of other high school football coverage from across the state.

After the games, tune in to the return of the live HSOT Postgame Show at 10:30 p.m. HSOT Managing Editor Nick Stevens will recap all of the biggest stories and performances that happened under the Friday night lights.

Source: highschoolot.com