West QB Brant Graham and head coach Louis Kraft

By Mike London

Salisbury Post

MOUNT ULLA — Claiming it was a great 2025 local high school football season is an argument you can’t win.

The six Rowan County schools were done after two postseason rounds, and with the mayhem and expansion brought on by the switch to eight classifications, there were 112 teams still alive in the NCHSAA playoffs at that point. West Davidson is still playing. South Davidson is still playing. It’s like the football world has been turned upside down.

The records for the Rowan schools this season: West (7-5), North (7-5), Carson (5-6), East (4-7), South (3-8) and Salisbury (2-9). That doesn’t look awful on the surface, but then you have to consider that a lot of those wins, especially with five Rowan teams pack

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