The highly-anticipated matchup between the Savannah Christian Raiders and the Blessed Trinity Titans has been canceled due to the inclement weather from Hurricane Helene entering the area.
The schools announced on Thursday that the game will be unable to be played due to travel complications with Savannah Christian getting to Blessed Trinity for the game due to the storms entering the area beginning Thursday night and into the weekend.
“Disappointed that the weather intervened,” said Blessed Trinity head coach Ed Dudley. “What could have been a really good matchup, doesn’t get to be played. I totally think that we made the right decision to not make Savannah Christian travel four hours during a hurricane to play a high school football game. It’s unfortunate that it’s this late in the season where we can’t have a chance to make it up, but it’s just the way the brakes go sometimes.”
As of now, there are no plans to reschedule the game for this season. With it being late in the season, it’s hard for teams to find open weeks as the Georgia high school football season is gearing up for the home stretch with all roads leading to the postseason and then to Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the GHSA Football State Championships beginning on December 16.
Instead of lining up against each other on Friday night due to unforeseen circumstances, Savannah Christian will take on Savannah Country Day for its first region matchup of the season against the Hornets. Blessed Trinity will go from one big game to the next as they are scheduled to go on the road to face Kell next week in both programs first taste of region-action of the season
“Well I think for us it’s an easy transition,” said Dudley. “We go from prepping for Savannah Christian to playing Kell High School, who is one of the top teams in our region, if not the top, so I don’t think that the focus will be an issue. There are a lot of similarities between the two teams, I think there will be some carry over and I just think that with it being the first region game, it should be a real easy transition from a coaches point as far as getting the guys locked in and ready to play.”
While both programs are disappointed that the game will not be played, decision-makers on both sides know that safety is the top-priority.
“That’s a top program, class-situation,” said Dudley. “That’s what we really set out to do with our schedule is to play a lot of the top teams. We are disappointed, but we are at the same time, our top-priority is to keep everyone safe and it just wasn’t going to work out with the weather.”
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