COLLEGE PARK - The Statesboro High football team pulled off a tough win following a long road trip last week in the first round of the state playoffs, but couldn’t pull the trick again.

Woodward Academy ambushed the Blue Devils early, took a 17-0 lead one play into the second quarter, and outlasted a determined SHS squad in a 27-8 victory Friday night.

Statesboro (8-4) defeated Habersham Central in the opening round of the state playoffs, but paid a price as quarterback Beckham Jarrard and leading rusher Keon Childers were left battered and bruised. Jarrard struggled to get going and Childers wasn’t able to be a focal point of the offense as the War Eagles (10-2) held Statesboro to just six yards of offense in the first quarter.

“It was tough,” SHS coach Matt Dobson said. “We were bange

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