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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26,2016 9
Pirates fall to Camden, lose big to Plymouth
From Staff Reports
For the Camden offense,
it had been an uphill battle
against Perquimans on Fri
day night.
When the Bruins needed
a play, senior quarterback
Brandon Underwood deliv
ered.
Underwood completed
the game-winning 60-yard
touchdown pass to Will Bun
ton with less than two min
utes remaining in the fourth
quarter to lead Camden to a
16-12 win over rival Perqui
mans in a Coastal 10 Confer
ence game.
Underwood accounted
for two touchdowns for the
Bruins (2-6.2-2 Coastal 10).
Perquimans (4-5, 2-3
Coastal 10) had a chance on
a final drive to win the game,
but JR Williams intercepted
a Dallas Hall pass in the rain
to close out the game.
“Just been waiting for the
kids to put together a game
like they put together (Fri
day),” Camden coach Scott
Jones said. “The defense
kept us in the game.”
Before the game-winning
score by the Bruins, the Pi
rates appeared to deliver the
STAFF PHOTO BY MALCOLM SHIELDS
Camden quarterback Brandon Underwood (7) had a
rushing and passing score against Perquimans, Friday.
knockout punch to Camden.
Hall scampered into the
end zone from nine yards out,
but Perquimans was called
for holding and a taunting
penalty, which negated the
score and moved the bail
back outside the Camden 20-
yard line with 2:11 to go.
“It costs us,” Perquimans
interim coach Aaron Burke
said.
To make matters worse
for Perquimans, junior run
ning back Dwuan Williams
went down on the drive with
an apparent lower body in
jury.
Williams, who entered
the game with 742 rushing
yards, had to be helped off
the field.
Camden took advantage
of the second chance as
the Bruins got a stop fourth
down to get the ball back.
That set up Underwood’s
pass to Bunton.
“Brandon has always been
a pinpoint accurate passer,”
Bunton said. “You have to
give credit to the line. That is
where it all starts.”
Underwood’s return to
the lineup after dealing with
a concussion was a needed
boost for Camden, which
snapped a four-game losing
streak.
Perquimans’ Max Nor
man took the opening kick-
off back for a touchdown to
start the game, but Under
wood tied the game at 6-6
late in the first by breaking
multiple Pirates tackles and
sprinted 64-yards into pay
dirt.
Perquimans took a 12-6
lead in the second on a Wil
liams’ 1-yard touchdown run
with 2:35 remaining.
Camden cut the deficit to
12-9 just before halftime on
a 30-yard field goal by Kevin
Robertson.
Perquimans had oppor
tunities to break open the
game in the first half, but an
interception by Bunton and
a fumble by a Perquimans
receiver deep in Camden ter-
ritoiy ended drives.
The win was needed for
Camden, which takes on
conference co-leader Gates
this Friday in Gatesville. Per
quimans, which had its se
nior night and regular season
home finale against Camden,
travels to Mattamuskeet on
Friday.
PLYMOUTH 54,
PERQUIMANS 19
In a game postponed until
Oct. 17 because of Hurricane
Matthew, Plymouth beat the
Pirates 54-19.
Because the school was
out for a week, Perquimans
was hampered from practic
ing before playing last year’s
1-A state champ.
Coach Burke said he was
able to have two practices
one of them had just 13 play
ers available.
Perquimans let a tie game
slip away before halftime
with 20 unanswered points
by the Vikings (5-3,4-0).
The final 2:47 began with
a spark when the Pirates’
defense stuffed Plymouth
on fourth down inches short
of the goal line. Perquimans
then got out of its own end
zone on a 16-yard pass from
Dallas Hall to Mahli Jones.
Two plays later, however,
Dwuan Wiliams had the
game’s lone lost fumble on
the 25. The Vikings did not
waste another opportunity
and went ahead 19-7.
A second costly turnover
followed on a pick of a Hall
pass returned for a touch-
down with seconds before
the half.
“We have to take advan
tage of the good things that
happens for us, whether it’s
offense or defense,” Burke
said. “Good job by the de
fense with the stop, and
they’re only up one score.
And then we fumble, and we
can’t have those mistakes
against good teams.”
To Wiliams’ credit, he
had all of the Pirates’ touch-
downs, all on the ground
with the longest being from
six yards out
His second score closed
the margin to 27-13 only to
see the Vikings go back to
bullying Perquimans’ defen
sive front to give their carri
ers extra yardage.
Plymouth rushed for 346
yards. Even its one com
pleted pass on third and long
extended a drive that put
the Coastal 10 power ahead
for good early in the second
quarter.
School, teams remember, honor Madelyn Byrum
BY OWEN HASSELL
The Daily Advance
To everyone who knew
Madelyn Marie Byrum, her
smile could light up all of
Perquimans County.
It’s that simple expres
sion of happiness that made
Byrum, who died tragically
in an ATV accident in June,
beloved by so many in such
a tight-knit community.
Youth in the county also
understand more than ever
what that grin meant.
“Everything I do I do it
for her, especially games,”
said Ellie Howard, one of
Byrum’s many friends and a
Perquimans High JV volley-
ball player. “I love her.”
Byrum, who would have
been a sophomore at the
school this fall and played on
the co-ed soccer team, was
remembered Friday night in
a ceremony before Perqui
mans’ football game against
Camden.
Her fellow student-ath
letes have made it their mis
sion to remember her at all
sporting events. Almost all
have Twitter accounts with
profile statements that read
“Rest easy Madelyn” or use
her initials MMB.
They partnered with a
local printing company to
make T-shirts with her jersey
number, No. 4, on the front
and her name on the back
over top a soccer ball. Pro
ceeds from T-shirt sales go to
the Byrum family.
Many volleyball players
sport head bands with MMB
inscribed. Sophomore Cayce
Copley, who like Byrum
played sports last year as a
freshman, said her memory
will live on beyond all the
Madelyn-inspired apparel.
“We’ve got T-shirts, head
bands and everything, but
what we try to do in her mem
ory was tire funeral where
her dad said she always did
everything so wholeheart
edly,” Copley said. “That
shaped our volleyball team
STAFF PHOTO BY OWEN HASSELL
Two of Madelyn Byrum’s closest friends, Ellie Howard
and Daisy Swayne, hold up mementos of Byrum.
to make sure to give it all all
the time.”
The show of support ex
tends throughout the com
munity.
An organization dubbed
the Hertford Ladies - A Red
Hat Group contributed $500
as the initial contribution to
fund the Madelyn Marie By-
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Scholarship for a graduating
senior in 2017.
The Perquimans Recre
ation Department got word
of an individual willing to do
nate money for soccer shirts
for all of its 4-6-year-old divi
sion teams.
Seeing that Byrum once
played at that level and that
her parents still coach teams
there, it gave department di
rector Howard Williams an
idea when presented with
one team name of Madelyn’s
Angels.
“Why don’t we do all
teams like that?” wondered
Williams.
So they did. There’s Mad
elyn’s Angels with red shirts,
Madelyn’s Angels with blue,
and so on.
“Every time you turn
around there’s something
about her, and it’s a testament
to her life and the person she
was and the family she came
from,” Perquimans volleyball
coach Kristie Thach said.
“You do want to help people
who deserve it and live the
right way and set examples.
I think Madelyn was a good
example of what a teenager
should be like.”
Alec Nixon, a teammate of
Byrum’s on the soccer field,
echoed Thach’s words.
“She was just so nice,” said
Nixon, who could still re
cite her phone number from
memory without stumbling.
“Never went to any parties or
did anything bad or hang out
with anybody bad. And she
always laughed about stuff
and smiled.
“She didn’t care if you
saw her braces. Even if she
said, ‘I don’t want to do that
today,’ she would still smile
about it”
No wonder everyone who
talks about Byrum today al
ways starts off with the same
theme.
“No one will ever forget
her smile,” said volleyball’s
Megan Denson, who added
they hung out together so
much and looked alike that
they were considered twins.
“It didn’t matter what was
going on, she was smiling,”
said teammate Samantha
Midgett
“She made everybody’s
day with her smile,” said
good friend and volleyball
player Daisy Swayne.
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