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Ten Straight and Counting: Pope’s Greyhounds Keep Finding Ways to Win

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Blowouts are nice. Five-overtime wins build character. The Pope Greyhounds are collecting both.

Pope (Marietta) has won 10 straight games to reach 11-1 on the season, according to MaxPreps, and the Greyhounds’ late-October run showed the full range of what this team can do. On Oct. 21, Pope went on the road in region play and swept River Ridge 20-7 and Kell 33-14. One night later, on Oct. 22, the Greyhounds survived a 15-14 thriller over Pace Academy that needed five overtimes — then turned around and shut out Lithia Springs 32-0 in the same doubleheader.

That two-night stretch says everything about this group. When the offense is rolling, Pope can bury teams: the Greyhounds hung 41 on Denmark, 39 on Hiram and 33 on Kell during the streak. When a game tightens up, they can win the last play of a five-overtime marathon. And the defense travels — Pope has posted shutouts of St. Pius X Catholic, Denmark, Hiram and Lithia Springs during the run.

Pope’s only loss came early, a 26-7 defeat against Central on Sept. 26 in tournament play. Everything since has been a win, and the Greyhounds closed October as one of the hottest teams in the metro Atlanta flag scene.

The schedule does not let up. Pope faces Sequoyah and Rome on Oct. 29, then McEachern — a national top-10 program — on Nov. 4, with Lassiter, Allatoona, Creekview and Woodstock still ahead before the GHSA state tournament opens Nov. 18.

Ten straight wins buy confidence. The next two weeks will tell everyone whether the Greyhounds are a good story or a genuine state title threat.

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The Skipps Twins Deliver Alaska’s Title, and Dimond’s Run Ends One Game Short

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Alaska’s girls flag football championship ran through a pair of twin sisters.

Taimane and Jade Skipps combined to score all four of North Pole’s touchdowns as the Patriots beat Colony 27-21 on Oct. 10 at Wasilla High School to win the ASAA First National Bowl state championship. Both twins were named to the all-tournament team. North Pole finished 19-2 and claimed its second state title in three years, having won Alaska’s inaugural tournament in 2024.

The Patriots’ semifinal was the weekend’s most lopsided statement: a 32-0 shutout of Anchorage power Dimond. Colony reached the final by upsetting defending champion South Anchorage 13-0 in the other semifinal, after opening its tournament with a 53-6 rout of Service.

Dimond, pictured above in its Sept. 29 meeting with South, had authored its own memorable fall — a 46-6 rout of Wasilla and a 6-0 overtime win over South among the highlights the Lynx posted this season. The semifinal shutout ended the run one game short of the final, but Dimond remains one of the programs setting the standard in the Cook Inlet Conference, where Anchorage’s schools have driven the sport’s growth.

That growth is the bigger Alaska story. A state tournament that did not exist three years ago now produces a final four of North Pole, Colony, Dimond and South Anchorage — programs from the Fairbanks area, the Mat-Su Valley and Anchorage trading shutouts and one-score games in October weather that would cancel games almost anywhere else.

North Pole owns the trophy again, and the Skipps twins own the story. But the field chasing them is getting deeper every year, and Dimond’s fall is proof the Patriots will not hold the top spot unchallenged for long.

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