Two Mecklenburg County prep football superpowers to open season in August, source says
Myers Park and Mallard Creek will play against each other to kick off the 2020 high school football season in August, a source close to the negotiations told the Observer.
For much of the 2019 season, the teams were nationally ranked in most high school polls and occupied the top two spots in the Observer’s Sweet 16 poll.
Mallard Creek was 10-1-1 last season and was upset by eventual N.C. 4AA state champion Vance in the second round of the playoffs. Myers Park was 12-1 last season and lost to Richmond Senior in the N.C. 4AA quarterfinals.
This will be the first meeting between the teams since Mallard Creek beat Myers Park 42-14 in the first round of the 2014 playoffs. Overall, the teams have split four previous meetings.
The game next fall will be the debut for new Mallard Creek coach Kennedy Tinsley, a former North Carolina football player.
Tinsley, who most recently coached at Southeast Guilford, will replace Mike Palmieri, who left for a job in Georgia.
