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JULY 19-25, 2017 UCW 29 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM EARL VAUGHAN JR., Sports Editor. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomingweekly. com. (910) 987-5311. Above, you can see this year's composite football schedule for Cumberland County Schools. The biggest change isn't directly visible looking at the schedule, as many of the teams will face each other this year. But as we've reported before, the 10 schools will be split into two new conferences. Gone are the old Mid-South 4-A and Cape Fear Valley 3-A Conferences. Most of the county schools will now be in a combi- nation 3-A/4-A conference called the Patriot Athletic Conference. These include 4-A members Pine Forest and South View with Overhills from Harnett County. Moving to the 3-A ranks to join Cape Fear Valley hold- overs Westover, Terry Sanford, Douglas Byrd and Gray's Creek are 3-A newcomers Cape Fear and E.E. Smith. The remaining two county schools, Seventy-First and Jack Britt, are headed to the new Sandhills Athletic Conference, a 4-A league that includes old Southeastern 4-A members Richmond Senior, Scotland, Pinecrest, Hoke County, Lumberton and Purnell Swett. Here are a few odds and ends that jump out from the new schedule: • Cape Fear faces a tough non-conference schedule as it travels to Clinton and Wilmington New Hanover and faces a home game with its toughest Mid-South rival from last season, Seventy-First. The good news for the Colts is star quarterback Justice Galloway-Velazquez is out of the walking boot he was wearing following surgery on his damaged ankle and will hopefully be back at full speed by the time Cape Fear opens the season on Aug. 18. • Douglas Byrd will be getting a slight break in its non-conference schedule as it faces a pair of 2-A teams, Fairmont and South Columbus, in its first two games. Both teams made the state playoffs last year, South Columbus reaching the fourth round and Fairmont the second round. Fairmont is under the direction of former South View and Terry Sanford assistant Kevin Inman. • Douglas Byrd, E.E. Smith and Westover are the only county schools with six home games this year. Due to a quirk of moving to new conferences and starting new two-year schedule agreements, the other seven schools only play at home five of 11 games this year in the regu- lar season. • The award for longest trip on the non-conference schedule goes to Pine Forest, which will head to Concord for its second game of the year. Concord, a member of the tough South Piedmont 3-A last year, was 8-4 and finished in a three-way tie for second, one game back of league champion Concord Robinson. According to MapQuest, that's 113 miles one way from Andrews Road in Fayetteville to Burrage Road N.E. in Concord. Drive time is estimated at two hours and 27 minutes. • Former Terry Sanford coach Bryan Till may be at Richmond Senior this fall but he will not be a stranger to Cumberland County Schools. Till's Raiders will make two trips back to Cumberland County, visiting Pine Forest in the non-conference sea- son and coming to Jack Britt for a Sandhills Conference game. Seventy-First will also head to Rockingham to play Till's team in another Sandhills game. Cumberland County Schools Football by EARL VAUGHAN JR. HIGH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS ticket) Attention Students; Let Your Voice Be Heard Get published in our award winning community newspaper Up & Coming Weekly Send in your feature articles, editorials, short stories, movie and music reviews or original poetry and artwork to: highschoolhighlights@upandcomingweekly.com Subject line: High School Highlights Please include your photo and school information. Cape Fear D. Byrd E.E. Smith Gray's Creek Jack Britt Pine Forest Seventy-First South View T. Sanford Westover 18-Aug at Clinton* at Fairmont at St. Pauls S. Lee at S. View at P. Swett Westover J. Britt at F.-Varina at 71st 25-Aug 71st S. Columbus Dur. Jordan at Pinecrest at T. Sanford at Concord at C. Fear at Hoke Co. J. Britt Lumberton 1-Sep at N. Hanover* P. Swett 71st at J. Britt Gray's Creek Rich. Sr. at E.E. Smith at Lumber. at Cleveland Hoke Co. 8-Sep at T. Sanford S. View at Overhills P. Forest S. Lee at G. Creek S. Durham at D. Byrd C. Fear OPEN 15-Sep Overhills at P. Forest G. Creek at E.E. Smith OPEN D. Byrd OPEN Westover OPEN at S. View 22-Sep at G. Creek E.E. Smith at D. Byrd C. Fear Scotland at Westover at Pinecrest OPEN at Overhills P. Forest 29-Sep D. Byrd at C. Fear Westover at T. Sanford at Lumber. S. View at Hoke Co. at P. Forest G. Creek at E.E. Smith 6-Oct at Westover T. Sanford at S. View Overhills Rich. Sr. OPEN Lumberton E.E. Smith at D. Byrd C. Fear 13-Oct S. View at Overhills P. Forest OPEN at P. Swett at E.E. Smith at Scotland at C. Fear Westover at T. Sanford 20-Oct at P. Forest G. Creek OPEN at D. Byrd Hoke Co. C. Fear P. Swett T. Sanford at S. View Overhills 27-Oct E.E. Smith OPEN at C. Fear Westover at Pinecrest at T. Sanford at Rich. Sr. at Overhills P. Forest at G. Creek 3-Nov OPEN at Westover T. Sanford at S. View at 71st Overhills J. Britt G. Creek at E.E. Smith D. Byrd Home- * 7 p.m. All other games at 7:30 p.m. coming in BOLD Homecoming in bold. 7 p.m. All other games at 7:30 p.m. Cumberland County Schools Split Into Two Conferences by EARL VAUGHAN JR. Bryan Till Justice Galloway-Velazquez