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Jenkins Takes Down Higher Ranked Richmond Hill 25-14

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November 2, 2026

Richmond Hill players huddle on game day.

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Jenkins made its loudest statement of the season on Tuesday, beating Richmond Hill 25-14 at Savannah High School Stadium in the week’s area headliner. MaxPreps said it plainly in its own recap of the day: Jenkins knocks off higher ranked Richmond Hill.

Richmond Hill arrived as the higher ranked team and left with a split day. The Wildcats shut out Savannah Arts Academy 45-0 in their other Tuesday game, then answered the Jenkins loss two days later with a 35-6 win over Camden County. At 11 wins and two losses, Richmond Hill remains one of the strongest teams in the Savannah area, and Tuesday’s loss reads more like a measure of Jenkins than a crack in the Wildcats.

The matchup was billed as Richmond Hill’s offense against Jenkins’ defense, headlined by Wildcats senior quarterback Claire Holker. On Tuesday, the defense won the argument. Jenkins held one of the area’s most productive offenses to 14 points and took the kind of win that travels well when seeding committees start sorting out the bracket.

Jenkins, at 10 wins and four losses, built the win on the defensive identity that carried the program to the Division 2 state final a season ago. The Warriors carried the momentum into Thursday, when they pushed Calvary Day to overtime before falling by a single point, 20-19. Two ranked opponents in three days produced one win and one classic, and both results say the same thing about where Jenkins stands.

With the GHSA state playoffs opening Nov. 18, wins over ranked neighbors are the currency of seeding season. Jenkins just banked a big one, and the Warriors get another ranked test at Evans on Nov. 3.

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James Clemens Gets the Hardest Draw in 6A: A Playoff Trip to Hewitt-Trussville

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November 2, 2026

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James Clemens players in action during the Jets' Oct. 20 win over Mae Jemison.

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Every bracket has a draw nobody wants, and in Class 6A it belongs to James Clemens. The Jets travel to Hewitt-Trussville on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. for a first round playoff game, a road trip confirmed on Hewitt-Trussville’s official athletics schedule.

James Clemens, from Madison, won six of its 14 games and closed the regular season the right way, with a 6-0 shutout win at Columbia on Oct. 27. The Jets’ wins include a 36-6 rout of Bob Jones, a 35-0 shutout of St. John Paul II, a 31-13 win over Mae Jemison on Oct. 20 and an 18-0 shutout of Hazel Green. The losses show the gap the Jets have to close. Gadsden City beat them 36-6 on Oct. 22, and Sparkman edged them 13-6 on Oct. 13.

Hewitt-Trussville is the standard on the other sideline. The Huskies are one of the powers of the 6A bracket, and the program’s flag account still points to the inaugural state title it won in 2021, before flag became an official AHSAA championship sport.

Three of the Jets’ six wins were shutouts, so the defense has traveled before. The game is also one of eight first round matchups in the Class 6A bracket, while eight other teams, including Spain Park and Smiths Station, sit out the week on byes and wait for the winners.

For James Clemens, the math is simple. The Jets have already shown they can pitch a shutout and score in bunches against their own level. Tuesday asks them to do it in the hardest building in the bracket.