Cute wasn’t cool for the Fike High varsity football team in the second round of the NCHSAA 5-A playoffs before a late-arriving crowd on a chilly Friday night, Nov. 13, at Fike’s Buddy Bedgood Stadium.
Other situations also confronted the Golden Demons, the No. 6 seed among the 24 5-A East Region entrants. But as star junior receiver Braylen Loftin and acting head coach Larry Warren, in the absence of suspended interim head coach Marcus Johnson, noted: “We pulled it out.”…