By Peyton Lazaroff

The Fountain Inn Fury lost their last home game on senior night against the Emerald Vikings with a final score of 34-37.

The Fury started the game strong, securing the only touchdown of the first quarter thanks to Sam Holliday running 37 yards for the score and passing to Xevi Gonzalez for the 2-pt conversion.

Late into the second quarter the Vikings were able to get their first touchdown, thanks to Christian Dean scampering 44 yards into the endzone, where the Vikings also performed a two point conversion tying the game. With one second left for the 2nd quarter Cru Hall was able to successfully execute a field goal bringing the Fury up 11-8.

After half time CJ Thomas-Anderson of the Fury was able to sprint, untouched, 53 yards into the endzone bringing the Fury's lead 17-8. The Vikings answered with Key Holloway running the ball into the endzone, cutting the lead to 17-15. The Vikings then got a safety, which tied the game 17-17. Thomas-Anderson scored his second TD of the night putting the Fury up 24-17. A few seconds later, Holloway dashed 90 yards away, into the endzone on the ensuing kick-off, tying the game, which went to overtime. 

The Vikings got the ball first and in their 2nd down Beau Hite passed to Max Divilbiss forcing the Fury to get a touchdown to tie with the score now 24-31. On 4th down, Holliday passed to BJ Currenton, which forced the game into the second overtime of the night.

With the Fury possessing the ball first, they were only able to manage a field goal by Hall, having a small lead of 34-31. In the end, Hite passed to Divilbiss who managed to make it into the endzone securing the win for the Vikings, 34-37.

Following this loss the Fury will look to bounce back against the Southside Tigers on Nov. 1st, at 7:30 p.m.

By Peyton Lazaroff

Fountain Inn had a big win against Carolina High School for their homecoming game, beating Carolina 56-6.

The Fury had a great start in the first quarter securing an early touchdown on a two play drive where Sam Holliday broke loose for 40 plus and Bojack Johnson scored on an 8 yard run. Cru Hall made a successful PAT setting the Fury 7-0. Johnson would add another score on drive two paired with a successful Hall PAT brought the Fury 14-0 ending the quarter.  

Leading by 14 in the second segment Holliday rushed for a TD run 3 yards pushing the lead to 21. Carolina got their first touchdown, thanks to quarterback Ja’Sean Bowens running the ball 28 yards away bringing them up 21-6. One offensive play later, Holliday hit BJ Curenton in the flat for a  28-6 lead. A late touchdown by defensive end Chase Lundy on a crazy punt helped boost the score 35-6 at the end of the first half.

During halftime we presented our 2024 Homecoming Court and crowned our first Queen and King, Lyris Grubbs and Renato Blanco-Rojas.

Starting the second half off strong, Johnson once again found the endzone on his final carry of the night, improving the score to 42-6 two minutes into the third segment. Freshman Ayden Burton added a pair of rushing scores in relief of Johnson on the way to a 56-6 Fury victory. The 56 points are the most scored in history, breaking the record previously set earlier this year against Liberty.

Following this victory the Fury will carry this energy over when visiting Saint Josephs on September 20th at 7:30 p.m.

By Peyton Lazaroff

Last Friday night, Fountain Inn Fury experienced their first loss of the season, defeated by the Woodruff Wolverines 27-30.

The Wolverines started the game off strong with Aiden Gibson running 45 yards into the endzone at 7:38. In addition, quarterback TJ Morris threw to Kam Taylor resulting in a TD pass, ending the first quarter 14-0.

The Wolverines were able to get another touchdown thanks to wide receiver Kori Moates running the ball 16 yards. However the Fury scored their first points with a successful 34 yard field goal by Cru Hall. With this newfound energy Sam Holliday was able to make a 20 yard run ending the first half with the Fury trailing, 10-20.

After half time Bojack Johnson was able to score on a two yard run with 2:47 left in the third bringing the Fury to 17-20.

The last segment of the game started off with a 10 yard run by Gibson raising the Woodruff lead to 27-17. Another 20 yard run by Holliday brought the Fury closer to the Wolverines with a score of 27-24. 28 yards away from the endzone Hall performed another successful field goal tying the game at 27-27 with 1:55 left on the clock. Despite the Fury's best effort, the Wolverines were able to pull off a 34 yard field goal by Joshua Ruiz as time expired, bringing the Fury record 1-1.

The Fury will look to comeback against the Mauldin Mavericks on September 6, at Mauldin High School.

By: Peyton Lazaroff (9th Grade)

Fountain Inn Fury cement their first win of the season rallying from 20 points down to defeat the Liberty Red Devils 42-34!

In the 1st quarter, the Red Devils jumped out to a 14-0 thanks to a strong ground game and quarterback Logan Smith who connected with Austin George and Conner Hood for a pair of TD passes. Smith had 193 yards with three touchdown passes, and rushed for another.

Trailing 20-0 late in the 2nd quarter the Fury were able to break through thanks to Sam Holliday and Bojack Johnson running the ball down the field, ending the drive with a 5-yard score for Johnson. 

After half, the Fury started revving up. Holliday and Johnson continued to run the ball, wearing down the Liberty’s defense and scoring on the opening drive on a Holliday run. After a defensive stop, Fountain Inn tied the game at 20 as Holliday again found paydirt.

In the final frame, Liberty got another Smith passing TD to Kendrick Jackson giving them a lead of 28-20. The Fury answered when Holliday found  Zach Madden in the flat and he scampered 29 yards untouched into the endzone. Holliday found Madden with a toe tapping 34-yd touchdown to give Fountain Inn their first lead 34-28 with 3:44 left to play. Defense came up with a huge stop and Johnson put the game away with a 4-yard run. Liberty added a late score, but the Fury earned a hard fought 42-34 victory to open 1-0.

Bojack Johnson finished with 142 yds on 21 carries and scored the first and final TD of the night for the Fury. Holliday added over 200 total yards and 4 touchdowns (2 run, 2 pass). 

Fountain Inn will host the Woodruff Wolverines this Friday at Fury Field. The Wolverines won their opener against Clinton 40-36. 

Just as teams were set to take Fury Field on Friday Night, lightning storms forced Fountain Inn and Woodruff into an extended delay, kick-off was pushed back to 9:20. But the weather was only one obstacle for the young Fury team as they faced a ranked Woodruff squad coming off a big Week 0 upset.

The Wolverines struck first with a 10 play drive that ended in a 22-yd FG and a 3-0 lead. The Fury fumbled the ensuing kick-off and two plays later Woodruff led 10-0. By half Fountain Inn trailed 24 - 0 and the team had a pair of costly fumbles.

In a fast moving second half the Fury failed to score and fell to Woodruff 31-0.

Cru Hall and Terry Cunningham both notched 6 tackles and Bryce Bigley recovered a Woodruff botched punt and added a pair of catches for 20 yards to lead the Fury in receiving.

Fountain Inn will travel to Crescent on Friday.