The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (4-0) defeated the Columbia Eagles 31-6 on Friday night. https://twitter.com/CHSHurricaneFB/status/1700098800985993484?s=20 While the Cartersville offense has gotten accustomed to hot starts, the opening drive ended in a Ryan Johnson field goal to give Cartersville an early lead. The Columbia offense went three-and-out, which gave Cartersville another opportunity, and this time it capitalized. [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (2-0) defeated the Jonesboro Cardinals (1-1) 24-13 on Friday night. https://twitter.com/CHSHurricaneFB/status/1695028803725332778?s=20 Cartersville opened up the game with a bang. Nate Russell connected with Kendrick Price on the first play from scrimmage for a long touchdown pass to give Cartersville an early 7-0 lead. The Canes weren't done in the first quarter, [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (5-0) remained perfect on Friday night with a 49-0 shutout of Heritage-Conyers, which would mark a successful homecoming. Cartersville scored on its opening possession and the only blemish the Canes would have was a first quarter fumble recovered by the visiting Patriots. The defense stood tall and did not allow the [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (4-0) defeated the Columbia Lions on Senior Night by a score of 42-0. It wasn’t the best of starts for the Canes, as quarterback Nate Russell threw an interception on the team’s opening drive. The Cartersville defense stood tall and from that point on the box score was all Cartersville. https://twitter.com/CHSHurricaneFB/status/1568192190534524928?s=20&t=hmFh7q2NewY7-tqQlWR6WA [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (3-0) defeated the Allatoona Buccaneers (0-3) on Friday night by a score of 28-20. However, this was not a back-and-forth game as the score might indicate. Allatoona stifled the Cartersville ground game in the first half, which led the Canes being shutout for the game’s first 24 minutes. Allatoona, meanwhile, took [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (2-0) defeated the Jonesboro Cardinals 38-16 on Friday night. A lone field goal by Jesus Gutierrez was the difference in the first 12 minutes in the game, but the second quarter would reap big rewards for the Cartersville offense. Cartersville recovered a muffed punt deep in Jonesboro territory. It was able [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes (1-0) defeated the Cherokee Warriors (0-1) 35-0. The Canes scored in the first when Paul Gamble connected with Collin Fletcher midway through the first quarter. Jaylen Scott caught another Gamble pass in the second quarter to extend the Cartersville lead to 14-0. Malachi Jeffries scored two first-half touchdowns for Cartersville, while [read more...]
This Sunday marks 29 years since the biggest blizzard in Georgia history. The Superstorm of 1993 brought snow and strong winds to residents from Alabama to Maine, and Northwest Georgia experienced between 12 and 30 inches of snow. The days before were warm, making some locals doubt that such an intense weather event [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes defeated the Lithonia Bulldogs on Friday night 51-0 during the first round of the GHSA Class-5A state playoffs. Cartersville’s defense stole the show in the first half. On Lithonia’s opening drive, Myles Forristall recovered a fumble and ran it into the end zone for an early 7-0 Canes lead. But the [read more...]
The Cartersville Purple Hurricanes defeated the Woodland Wildcats Friday night by a score of 7-0. Jake Parker threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Jacob Ray on the first play of the game. Amari White scored on the Canes next possession. After a Woodland fumble, Khristian Lando scored on a 7-yard run to give Cartersville a [read more...]
