South Carolina football commit Zacch Pickens kept kissing the logo on his helmet, the T.L. Hanna High School Yellow Jacket one he won’t get to wear again as part of his team.
His senior season, his decorated career were over, coming on the Williams-Brice Stadium field where he’ll soon enough play his college ball. His first important memory competing there, it didn’t sit well.
“This one is the worst one,” Pickens said.
The state’s Gatorade Player of the Year and his squad stayed with powerful Dutch Fork for the first half, but things came apart in the second with a slew of turnovers in a 59-20 loss.