GDW Game of the Week preview:
Hanceville Bulldogs at Cold Springs Eagles
Thursday 7:00 p.m.
Cranford Stricklin Stadium
RADIO: WKUL FM (92.1) and WKUL.com
SERIES: Hanceville leads 6 to 3
2024: Cold Springs won 48 to 30 at Hanceville.
Hanceville 1 & 9 in 2024
Cold Springs 5 & 6 in 2024
Levi Estes 2nd year at Hanceville, 1 & 9
Brendan Voce 4th year at Cold Springs, 13 & 18
Cold Springs has won 3 consecutive season openers under coach Voce, beating Curry in 2022 & 2023 and Hanceville last season.
The Eagles were seen by Gameday Weekly in a spring jamboree at home vs. Walter Welborn.
Welborn won by a final of 14 to 6.
Hanceville played a fall jamboree last Friday with the Bulldogs getting shut out by West Point 42 to 0.
Cold Springs rushed for 158 yards in their jamboree in May.
The Eagles had 20 yards passing for 178 total yards in 3 quarters vs. the school from Anniston.
Ethan Day was the QB for the Eagles with his top runner being Cason Alexander.
Hanceville has Hunter Black as an experienced signal caller.
Black and the Bulldogs struggled in their half of football last Friday with West Point.
Cold Springs last season scored the most points in 1 game vs. Hanceville, 48 to 30 with 4 touchdowns going on the scoreboard in the 4th quarter.
The Eagles last year were 3 & 2 in the first half and would get five wins out of 10 games in the regular season.
Hanceville has not seen a good season of football since 2012.
It will be special for both teams. Hanceville is in its 100th year playing AHSAA football.
Cold Springs started the sport back in 1970. The Eagles played to a 14 to 14 tie with Good Hope and finished 5/2/1 in their inaugural year.
This is the 2nd of 3 consecutive opponents for Hanceville being out of the Cullman County system.
West Point met them in the fall jamboree, the Bulldogs visit Cold Springs in the first week and will be at Ray Talley Stadium the following week in a game with the Holly Pond Broncos.
Hanceville and Cold Springs tangled for the first time in 1994.
The Bulldogs are 2 & 2 all time in playing at Cold Springs.
Photo of the Cold Springs Eagles in a 7 on 7 passing camp at Good Hope July 15.
GDW photo by Johnny Thornton.
