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Sullivan Central’s Andrew Griffith Latest Local Brevard Signee

/ Dennis Griffith / 5 Comments

By Steve Wilmoth – TriCitiesSports.com

With a head coach and three assistants with ties to the Northeast Tennessee area, Brevard College has made serious in-roads acquiring local talent for their 2010 football recruiting class.

The latest is Sullivan Central wide receiver/defensive back, Andrew Griffith, who inked with the Tornados in ceremonies at school on Friday.

Griffith joins Sullivan North place-kicker Arrick Blevins, Daniel Boone lineman Isaac Bowman, and Science Hill lineman Joel Shrum as local signees with Brevard. Like Blevins, Griffith said Brevard came on strong late in the recruiting process.

“I really wasn’t considering them at first, but I went for a visit and I just kept getting more and more interested,” said Griffith.

Griffith was recruited by Marshall Doss, a former player at Emory & Henry. In addition to Doss, Brevard has on staff former ETSU lineman Jim Beverly and defensive backs coach Teddy Gaines, a former player at Dobyns-Bennett and the University of Tennessee. All are under the direction of former ETSU head coach Paul Hamilton.

“He thinks I can come right in and contribute,” said Griffith of Doss who recruited the former Cougar as a wide receiver. “Hopefully I can make an immediate impact.”

Griffith came to Central as sophomore transfer from Pennsylvania and was also considering Geneva College, close to his former Pittsburgh home, Emory & Henry and University of the Cumberlands were also in the picture.

“Since Brevard was a Division II school, I chose them,” added Griffith. “I just decided I would rather play Division II than Division III.”

Griffith has plans to major in elementary education while at Brevard.

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This article first appeared in Tri-Cities Sports.com on February 20.  Tri Cities Sports.com is a subscripton based publication that covers colege, high school and middle school sports around the Mountain Empire.  This article is published here in whole with thank to Steve Wilmoth.  Links have been added.

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/ Dennis Griffith / Leave a comment

The final game of my sons’ 2008 football season has come and gone.  While in most respects it was a disappointing season for their teams, both of them accounted for themselves fairly well. 

This picture above was taken after the final game – a “W”.  It was special because our younger son, Matthew, a Freshman, who plays TE and DE, was invited to dress out with the varsity. This is the first time our boys have been on the same team, so we thought we would take a picture.  Also somewhat unique is that Matthew was given #1, while Andrew, a Junior, wears #2.