Area individual statistical leaders (Sept. 14)
It’s not easy to score touchdowns.
It’s especially not easy to do it every single week. Yet, four weeks into the South Carolina High School League football season, 10 area players have accounted for at least one touchdown in each one of his team’s games.
The list includes three players at Aynor, two each at Carolina Forest and Conway and one from Socastee, North Myrtle Beach and Georgetown. It is still early, and a single shutout against any of those teams significantly cuts the number down.
Individually, not only does a player need to stay healthy, he needs to remain highly productive against different styles of defenses. To show how rare it is, no area player scored a touchdown in every game his team played last year. Loris’ Ta’Jay Williams did it in all but one of his team’s 13 games.
That means the odds are stacked against Carolina Forest’s Dyverse Simmons and Matt Beale, Conway’s Peyton Derrick and Bryan Edwards, Socastee’s Brandon Goswick, North Myrtle Beach’s Ronnie Bass, Georgetown’s Tony Lara and the Aynor trio of Caleb Jenerette, Zach Todd and Colie Rogers.
Four of those players make up those from the area who have accounted for the most touchdowns so far in 2015, and some of the others appear in other spots below in our weekly stats leaders.
Rushing
Att. | Yards | Avg. | ||
1. Brandon Sinclair | MB | 70 | 577 | 8.2 |
2. Dyverse Simmons | CF | 96 | 576 | 6.0 |
3. Kered Class | NMB | 48 | 341 | 7.1 |
4. Jah’Maine Martin | Con | 40 | 322 | 8.1 |
5. Malachi McClendon | Soc | 60 | 321 | 5.4 |
6. Dequan Montgomery | NMB | 31 | 273 | 8.8 |
7. Wyatt Upchurch | GSF | 22 | 265 | 12.0 |
8. Muhammud Graham | GSF | 62 | 254 | 4.1 |
9. Ta’Jay Williams | Lor | 47 | 227 | 4.8 |
10. Henry Moody | GSF | 46 | 222 | 4.8 |
Passing
Comp. | Att. | Int. | TDs | Yards | ||
1. Peyton Derrick | Con | 56 | 95 | 2 | 10 | 893 |
2. Matt Beale | CF | 42 | 69 | 6 | 4 | 652 |
3. Jarvis Brown | GT | 28 | 57 | 2 | 5 | 574 |
4. Brandon Goswick | Soc | 37 | 67 | 3 | 5 | 564 |
5. Ronnie Bass | NMB | 33 | 52 | 3 | 7 | 474 |
Receiving
Rec. | Yards | Avg. | ||
1. Bryan Edwards | Con | 22 | 546 | 24.8 |
2. Desmond Dozier | Lor | 20 | 278 | 13.9 |
3. Taylor Karnap | Soc | 15 | 270 | 18.0 |
4. Tyler Gore | NMB | 12 | 254 | 21.2 |
5. Deakidd Anderson | GT | 10 | 218 | 21.8 |
Touchdowns
Name | TDs | |
1. Matt Beale | CF | 11 |
1. Peyton Derrick | Con | 11 |
3. Ronnie Bass | NMB | 10 |
4. Brandon Goswick | Soc | 9 |
5. Brandon Sinclair | MB | 8 |
Area teams: Aynor, Carolina Forest, Carvers Bay, Conway, Georgetown, Green Sea Floyds, Loris, Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Socastee, St. James, Waccamaw
This story was originally published September 14, 2015 at 4:32 PM with the headline "Area individual statistical leaders (Sept. 14)."