By Rocky Nimmons
Publisher

rnimmons@thepccourier.com

PICKENS — The Pickens Blue Flame entered Friday night’s contest with Belton-Honea Path with plenty of momentum.

After handing the undefeated Walhalla Razorbacks their first loss of the season the week before, the Flame had every right to be pumped to play a BHP Bear team that had already fallen to Walhalla on Sept. 28.

The fans were ready, the coaches were ready and the players were set to ride the Walhalla win to more victories — the only problem was BHP didn’t get the memo and the Bears started posting touchdowns from the opening whistle, handing Pickens a 27-10 homecoming loss at Bill Isaacs Field.

“I give BHP all the credit in the world,” Pickens coach Chad Smith said after the game. “They lined up and did what we try to do to people, and we couldn’t hold them out.

“(BHP coach) Russell Blackston and his crowd get all the credit in the world — they came in and punched us in the face and did a great job in the first half. We dug ourselves too deep of a hole.”

BHP pounded the Pickens defense, scoring on the first four times it had the ball. Pickens just couldn’t answer, and as a result the Bears dominated the stats, posting 404 yards of offense compared to the Flame’s 146.

The game started with BHP taking the opening kickoff and putting the ball

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