The Stringer Red Devils and the Enterprise Bulldogs will tee it up Friday in Stringer with a playoff spot on the line for the Red Devils.

“Enterprise is a tough team with the saying three yards and a cloud of dust,” said Stringer head coach Bubba Brannon. “Well, they believe in it and they live by it. Defensively, Enterprise is a solid team, but we have to be able to move the ball on them.

Brannon coached at Enterprise for several years before moving to Stringer. “It will be fun to coach against some of my friends over there in Enterprise,” he said. “We just have to stop what they are going to do.”

Brannon feels the Bulldogs have a very good offense. “They have two good backs that can hurt you, so we have to control the ball, and keep it out of their hands.,” he said.

This game with Enterprise will be for a playoff spot in next week’s first round. “A win here would put us in the playoffs which would be nice because we have lost four straight, and we just need a victory,” he said.

Mize at Taylorsville

The Mize Bulldogs will make the short trip to Taylorsville to take on the Tartars in a battle for a division title Friday.

“We won last week and that was our main focus -- to win t and get home-field advantage in the playoffs,” said Mize head coach Kenny Robinson.

“Taylorsville is a typical Taylorsville team,” he said. “They pass well, have good running backs and solid defense.”

Robinson said special teams will play a big part in the game. “We have to play well in the special teams on kickoffs, and on punts, we need to keep them backed up as much as possible,” he said.

The game will determine the division champion in region 7-2A. “We want to win the division,” Robinson said. “We haven’t done that in a while but we have won state titles when we were runner-up. “Either way, it’s not the end of the world.”

The game will determine the division champion in region 7-2A. “We want to win the division,” Robinson said. “We haven’t done that in a while.”

Taylorsville was idle last week, and Coach Bud Blackledge says Mize is a good football team. “Mize reminds me of us,” he said. “They look like a mirror image of our team. They run to the football well on defense, they are well-coached, they throw well and they run the football well.”

The county championship and the division title on the line. “A win here would mean the Smith County title, plus it would put us in a bracket where we could control some things as far as matchups go in the playoffs,” Blackledge said.