Video: Lawrence Scott highlights Byrnes QB in action against Boiling Springs earlier this season.
Some days go exactly according to plan. Even on South Carolina high school football fields.
All the higher seeds from the Top 25 won first-round playoff games on Friday, including No. 5 Gaffney, which won scoring a surprisingly easy 33-7 win over Sumter.
Undre Lindsay accounted for the first three scores of the game, on runs of 1 and 8 yards, and a 45-yard pass to Tyler Smith. A 35-yard touchdown pass from Stan Ellis to Ty'Rion Ingram made it 27-0 and field goals of 31 and 29 yards by AJ Hames closed out the scoring for the winners.
In other big games involving Top 25 teams, No. 1 Dorman and No. 2 Dutch Fork won by scores of 49-0 and 45-0 over Spring Valley and Wando, respectively. Third-ranked Byrnes had little trouble with No. 20 Laurens, 41-12 and No. 4 Fort Dorchester defeated No. 11 Berkeley 37-7.