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Shutout Statement: Jonesboro Blanks Mundy’s Mill, Sits at 5-2 in the Playoff Hunt

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October 22, 2026

Shutout Statement: Jonesboro Blanks Mundy's Mill, Sits at 5-2 in the Playoff Hunt

Jonesboro is stacking wins — and the Cardinals’ defense is making sure everybody in Clayton County knows it.

Jonesboro shut out Mundy’s Mill 22-0 on Oct. 9, the Cardinals’ second straight dominant performance after a 35-14 win at Dutchtown on Oct. 2. That Dutchtown victory was Jonesboro’s fourth straight win at the time, and it came against a 4-3 Bulldogs team on its own field. A week before that, the Cardinals rolled past Forest Park 48-0.

At 5-2, Jonesboro has built its record on both sides of the ball. Entering the Dutchtown game, the Cardinals were scoring 27.8 points per game while allowing just 16.0 — a plus-11.8 scoring margin that travels well in region play. Three of the wins in this run have come by 21 points or more, and two have been shutouts or near-shutouts, the mark of a defense that shows up every single Friday.

The tests keep coming. Jonesboro hosts M.L. King on Oct. 23, with the Lions arriving at 5-3 in a matchup that will shape the region race, followed by Arabia Mountain and a Nov. 7 trip to Stockbridge. Every one of those games carries playoff weight, and the Cardinals have put themselves in position to make all of them matter.

For a Jonesboro community that lives its Friday nights, this is the kind of fall to savor: a 5-2 team, a defense pitching shutouts, and the biggest games of the season still to come. The Cardinals are in the hunt — and they are not sneaking up on anyone anymore.

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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.