Lowcountry football players, coaches picked for second annual Blitz Border Battle

More than 30 Lowcountry football players were picked for the second annual Blitz Border Battle all-star game to be held Jan. 12 at Memorial Stadium in Savannah, Ga.

The game matches senior players from South Carolina Lowcountry against Coastal Empire from Georgia. The game is being sponsored by WSAV. Coastal Empire won it last year, 15-3.

May River has the most players picked with nine. The Sharks’ Rodney Summers is the SC head coach after leading May River to an unbeaten regular season and trip to the third round of the Class 3A playoffs.

Eight of Summers’ assistants will be part of the staff along with Battery Creek’s Walt Wilson and Wade Hampton’s Jerry Brown.

Lowcountry All-Stars Roster

Battery Creek: Jordan Gwyn, Denarol Brown, Gabe Singleton

Beaufort: Ky’Yea Little, Dexter Ratliff

Beaufort Academy: Edward McCormick

Bluffton: Ronald Reid, Jaishon Jenkins, John Swinton, Jaylon Thompson

Colleton County: Lance Calcutt, Shykem Chisolm, Lane West

Hilton Head Island: Nate Brown, Johnathan Orr, Diante Richard, Jai Roberson, Sterling White

John Paul II: Freddie Aiken, Zach Doe

May River: Jordan Barrow, Zach Brzezinski, Micah Burton, Kam Gleason, Grant Laseter, Michael Ludwig, Connor Kovacs, Gabe Long, Joe Whiteaker,

Ridgeland-Hardeeville: Jertaveon Smalls, Renae Wright

Thomas Heyward: Trey Pusha

Wade Hampton: Josh Brown, Sheldrick Gibbs, Pernell Maxwell, Jylin Price, Matt Smith

Whale Branch: CJ Brown, Daquan Griswold, Kyshon Hipp

Head Coach: Rodney Summers, May River

Assistants: Thomas Dyer (May River), Jason Hatcher (May River), Wesley Starkes (May River), Adam Kinloch (May River), Leon Martin (May River), Andre Swinton (May River), Noah Keefer (May River), Adam Henry (May River), Walt Wilson (Battery Creek), Jerry Brown (Wade Hampton)

This story was originally published December 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM.