The Perry Panthers began their title defense tonight at Fort Valley State by taking on the Baldwin Braves and the result was a strong Panthers’ victory 37-6. The Maroon, Gold, White scored a TD on the first drive of the game and the PAT made it 7-0 Perry and they would add another TD and PAT to make the score 14-0 Panthers which would be the score at the end of the first quarter.
The Braves had a punt that went through the back of the endzone for a safety to bring the score to 16-0 in favor of the Maroon, Gold, and White. Perry added seven more pts and took a 23-0 lead into halftime. The Braves came out and scored when their QB ran for a 63 yd TD and the two-pt try failed and the score read 23-6 Perry. The Panthers added 14 more pts to end the third quarter up 37-6 to bring in a running clock in quarter four.
The fourth quarter would go scoreless as the Maroon, Gold, and White would win 37-6 to start 2024 off at 1-0. Perry will host Peach Co next Friday while Baldwin opens at 0-1 and will host Northside next Friday.
