The 4A St. Clair Saints will be traveling down Highway 411 to take on the defending 3A State Champion Greenwave.

Saints coach Charlie Boren said that the Leeds game will gauge how well his team can handle a tough, traditional county rival, and how they will fair when they resume regional play next week.

“We’re looking forward to it. I always enjoy playing Keith (Etheredge) and his guys,” Boren said. The teams used to start their school year by playing each other in a pre-season jamboree. “We need a good measuring stick as we go forward here in regional play starting next week and there’s no better team than Leeds to help us do that.”

Because of the torrential weather last week, the Saints didn’t wrap up until after midnight.

“We probably picked the worst night to play our worst game on both sides of the football,” Boren said. “We had too many costly mistakes and that catches up with you. There were just too many adverse conditions going against us. On the first couple of drives we marched right down the field and turned it over, unfortunately.”

On the Saints third drive in the first quarter, they put 7 points up on the board, before, as Boren put it, “just going in reverse.”

In last week’s game senior quarterback Tarez Goldsby had 94 rushing yards on ten carries and put the lone TD into the endzone. He was six for 12 passing while throwing for 49 total yards on a wet evening.

Sequoah Humes had 50 yards on 12 carries and Justin Trellison had an impressive 15 tackles.