Carolina Forest looking for pseudo three-peat over Myrtle Beach

After pulling off an upset in 2013 and then getting some postseason relief via Myrtle Beach’s use of an ineligible player in the game last year, Carolina Forest has an opportunity to make it three in a row against the Seahawks on Friday when the teams meet in The Sun News Game of the Week.

Neither coach has wanted to make too big of a deal of last year’s forfeit, which was originally a 52-35 Seahawk victory on the field.

“It’s one of those things that happens,” Myrtle Beach’s Mickey Wilson said. “It was an unfortunate situation. You shake your head and you move forward.”

At the time, it actually stripped Wilson of what would have been his 70th career win at the school and left Morris with his 100th overall coaching victory between his stops in North Carolina and South Carolina. Both have since made that a moot point with a pair of wins so far this year.

The forfeit, though, also brought with it some history between the two schools.

If Carolina Forest wins this week, it would be just the second time in school history that it pulled the three-peat over Myrtle Beach. The Panthers did so from 1998-2000, when the Seahawks were on the tail end of seven consecutive losing seasons.

In between, Myrtle Beach was rarely even tested by Horry County’s second-newest high school. From 2001-2012, the Seahawks won 11 of the 12 games. Eight of the 11 wins came by at least 20 points, including each of the first five after Carolina Forest made the jump to Class AAAA.

Needless to say, Wilson and Co. believe this to be a truer game against a team from the state’s largest class than it has been in some of the past seasons.

“You’ve got a team is a couple plays away from being 4-0 right now,” Wilson said. “They could have easily upset the No. 2 team in AAAA [Fort Dorchester]. Those guys are playing well. They’re fundamentally sound. Marc Morris is doing a really good job right now.”

HTC Game of the Week

HTC will also head to Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium for its Game of the Week program on Friday. Carolina Forest-Myrtle Beach will be broadcast live on HTC Channel 4, as well as HTCConnect.com.

A replay will be available on Monday.

It will then feature Myrtle Beach’s trip to Conway for the annual Victory Bell rivalry game on Sept. 25.

This story was originally published September 14, 2015 at 7:42 PM with the headline "Carolina Forest looking for pseudo three-peat over Myrtle Beach."