2021 schedule
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Aug. 20 – South Forsyth at Roswell Aug. 27 – Cambridge at South Forsyth Sept. 3 – Dawson County at South Forsyth Sept. 10 – South Forsyth at Central Gwinnett *Sept. 16 – South Forsyth at Lambert Sept. 23 – BYE Oct. 1 – BYE *Oct. 8 – West Forsyth at South Forsyth *Oct. 15 – South Forsyth at Gainesville *Oct. 22 – Denmark at South Forsyth *Oct. 29 – North Forsyth at South Forsyth *Nov. 5 – South Forsyth at Forsyth Central *Region 6-7A game Jacob Smith Forsyth County News
South Forsyth defensive end Ben Harvey, left, hopes to terrorize opposing quarterbacks, while offensive lineman Mason Cooper plans to keep his quarterback upright.
South Forsyth reloads on offense, led by quarterback Ty Watkins By David Roberts
droberts@forsythnews.com
The keys to the South Forsyth offense belong to Ty Watkins. For first-year head coach Troy Morris, there aren’t many more deserving than Watkins, the War Eagles’ 6-foot-2, 215pound junior. “I’ll tell you what, Ty has impressed me ever since he stepped on our campus,” Morris said. “He is the ultimate leader. He really is. I’ve coached for a lot of years now and I’ve never coached a kid that’s hungrier to be successful and to be good. Just how he goes about his business, how intent he is; every single day he’s getting better. He’ll stare a hole through me when I’m coaching him, just because he wants to soak it up so much. I get texts from him after practice, you know, ‘Coach, how did it go today? Give me more
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information.’ He’s just a hungry kid.” Watkins completed 12 of 18 passes for 206 yards and three touchdowns playing behind Kyle Durham, who since transferred to Johns Creek. The War Eagles must also replace their two leading rushers from last season [Durham and Tre Green], as well as their top two receivers [Mitch Thompson, Devin McGlockton]. South does return senior Gavin Morris, who Troy Morris expects to be even more involved in the offense than last season, when he caught 26 passes for 488 yards and six touchdowns and rushed for 129 yards and three touchdowns. “We’ll still use him on both sides of the ball,” he said. “Offensively, he’s probably going to get more reps than he has in the past. Then, defensively, we actually moved him out of the position he was in
last two years and moved him back to safety. We’ll see how he does back there.” However, Morris will need more than one player to step up to replace Thompson and McGlockton, who combined for more than 1,600 yards and 20 touchdowns. Senior Mason Capers is one candidate to help fill the void after moving to tight end during the offseason. Capers, 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, already has offers from Charleston Southern and Davidson. “We’ve asked Mason to move to the tight end spot for a lot of different reasons. He’s excited about it,” Morris said. “He’s actually put on weight to play that spot.” As for production out of the wide receiver position, South has plenty of speed between See SOUTH | 26
2020 results 5-4 Overall, 2-3 Region 6-7A South Forsyth 63, Dawson County 49 South Forsyth 52, Central Gwinnett 27 *South Forsyth 44, Lambert 14 South Forsyth 30, Alcovy 10 *West Forsyth 41, South Forsyth 34 (2OT) *Gainesville 28, South Forsyth 14 *Denmark 36, South Forsyth 22 *South Forsyth 52, North Forsyth 7 **Norcross 47, South Forsyth 20 *Region 6-7A game **GHSA playoff game
trophy case First varsity season: 1991 Playoff appearances: 16 (1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) Region titles: 1 (1997) State titles: 0
the coach Troy Morris
At South: 0-0, first season Overall: 0-0, first season Fall 2021
