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M.L. King Lions Roaring at 5-3 Behind One of DeKalb’s Most Explosive Offenses

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44 minutes ago

October 22, 2026

If you want points, the M.L. King Lions will give you points. King’s offense has piled up 283 points in eight games this season, better than 35 a night, and the Lions sit at 5-3 with their playoff push in full swing.

The highlights are loud. King hung 61 on Forest Park in a 61-0 shutout on October 2. The Lions scored 59 in a road win at Drew, 40 in a shutout of Mundy’s Mill and 38 at Arabia Mountain. When this offense gets rolling, few defenses in DeKalb County have slowed it down.

The Lions have taken care of business in the games that shape a season, too, including a 28-21 win over Miller Grove in an all-DeKalb matchup. Their losses have come against strong competition, including region power Stockbridge and a Dutchtown team King nearly caught in a 26-21 fight.

That Stockbridge game, a 60-28 loss on October 16, showed the gap King still wants to close, but it also showed the Lions can score on anybody. Twenty-eight points against one of Georgia’s best defenses is nothing to hang your head about.

Look closer at the schedule and the story gets better. After dropping the season opener to Lithonia, the Lions ripped off four straight wins, beating Miller Grove, Drew, Mundy’s Mill and Arabia Mountain by a combined 165-49. That is not a team catching breaks. That is a team overwhelming people, on the road and at home, with speed and depth that few DeKalb programs can match for four quarters.

Jonesboro visits on Friday, October 23, and a trip to Eastside closes the regular season. The Lions have been especially strong at home this fall, and with an offense this explosive, King is a team nobody wants to draw in the first round of the playoffs.

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Miller Grove Wolverines Hunting a Strong Finish After a Season of Fights

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October 22, 2026

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The Miller Grove Wolverines opened their season with a statement, and they have been fighting ever since. A 31-0 shutout of Chamblee in the opener showed what this Lithonia team can be, and the Wolverines have spent the fall proving that night was no fluke.

Miller Grove owns a 35-6 road win at McNair and a 20-8 win at Carver in Atlanta, victories built on defense and toughness. Look at those three wins together and a pattern emerges: Chamblee scored zero, McNair scored six and Carver scored eight. When the Wolverines win, they win with a defense that gives up almost nothing, and that identity travels anywhere. At 3-4, with 131 points scored and 135 allowed, nearly every Wolverines game this season has been a genuine fight, decided by which team made the plays late.

That includes the tough nights. The Wolverines fell 42-10 to a strong Columbia team on October 16 and dropped a 28-21 heartbreaker at M.L. King in an all-DeKalb battle earlier this season. Those are the kinds of games a program learns from.

That defensive identity is worth repeating, because it is rare: across their three wins, the Wolverines have allowed a total of 14 points. Fourteen. In an era of spread offenses and video-game scores, Miller Grove wins the old-fashioned way, with tackling, discipline and a defense that takes points personally. That travels in November, and it gives the Wolverines a real chance in every game left on the schedule.

The closing stretch gives Miller Grove every chance to finish the right way. South Atlanta visits on Friday, October 23, then the Wolverines travel to Cedar Grove on October 30 before closing at home against Redan.

Three games, three chances to turn a season of fights into a winning finish. In Lithonia, the Wolverines and their families have every reason to believe that is exactly what happens next.