PAWLEYS ISLAND — Last season, Waccamaw football was the king of Georgetown County for the first time in its history, beating Carvers Bay, Georgetown and Andrews. The Warriors pulled off a dramatic last-second win over the Yellow Jackets at Webber Rowell Stadium in 2023, and Andrews hadn't forgotten it. This year, the Yellow Jackets returned the favor, notching a 30-27 win over the Warriors at Waccamaw High on Sept.
20 to improve to 4-0. “We had Waccamaw at first [last year], and then we started letting up and they came back and beat us,” Andrews running back AJ Lee said. “So our mission tonight was to come out here and win the ball game.
They had posters up saying that they ran the county. We had to shut that down real quick.” As is usually the case in a game between rivals, things got heated, especially in the third quarter when Andrews racked up 60 yards in penalties.
Overall, there were seven dead ball personal fouls in the game, four on Waccamaw and three on Andrews. “It was chippy,” Andrews coach Scott Durham said. “It was chippy all night and we responded to some things that we shouldn’t respond to and put ourselves in a bad situation.
” Georgetown County's school district just hired a superintendent. She's a familiar face. After a defensive struggle of a first quarter that featured three punts and a turnover on downs, Andrews got on the board on the first play of the second quarter when Lee found the end zone from one yard out.
Lee was short on the 2.