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Hurricane Helene split the Upstate high school football schedule like an uprooted oak, and some teams are only now beginning to pick up the splintered pieces.

They will have a better idea of what the season cleanup looks like Tuesday, when the South Carolina High School League executive committee meets at 10 a.m. to decide on the best way to continue. For now, all Week 7 games are on, and the regular season will end after Week 10.

It was officially announced Monday that Byrnes at Gaffney, both highly ranked in the Super 25 and statewide by MaxPreps, will meet Friday at The Reservation in a much-anticipated matchup. Landrum at Blacksburg is also locked in, according to those schools.

These games have been moved to Saturday: Greenwood at Greenville (noon), T.L. Hanna at Woodmont (noon), and Hillcrest at J.L. Mann (7:30 p.m.).

Greenville County schools won't re-open until Wednesday, that district office announced, but teams will be allowed to return to practice on Tuesday afternoon.

In the aftermath of the storm’s devastation, football teams did the best they could to stay together and focus on common goals, even if those were shifted from sports to community service. Athletes from all sports worked with school districts and church groups to help provide relief.

For example, Dorman football players assisted Thursday and Friday last week with the handout of food and water provided by Spartanburg School District 6. Up in District 1, more than 2,000 meals were served last Wednesday and Thursday at Landrum High and Mabry Middle School, where showers were also available. Landrum players helped deliver supplies across the state line to even more damaged areas of western North Carolina.

Pendleton’s football team lifted spirits in a different way. The Bulldogs, along with the school’s volleyball and cheer teams, held free camps for elementary school kids. The two-hour football camp drew more than 100 children, providing a welcome distraction from destruction.

It will take some doing by the SCHSL to get football teams back to the same number of games played, if that’s what the committee deems necessary. Some teams have played four games. Some have played seven.

Byrnes (2-3) and Dorman (3-2) were able to move their game and play two days before the storm hit Sept. 27. Everybody else in the Upstate, with the exception of Belton-Honea Path, is now at least two games behind.

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BHP (6-1) played last Friday at West-Oak in the Upstate's only game, winning 55-6. That was played one day after the South Carolina Athletic Coaches Association posted an open letter to SCHSL asking for a two-week pause and an extension to the season.

The SCHSL extended the football season by a week in 2015 because of massive flooding in parts of the state. In 2016, the season was pushed back two weeks because of Hurricane Matthew, championship games held on the same weekend as the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas all-star game in Spartanburg. In 2018, Hurricane Florence caused a two-week delay in the season.

Todd Shanesy covers high school athletics for the Greenville News, Spartanburg Herald-Journal and Anderson Independent Mail in the USA TODAY Network. Contact him by email at todd.shanesy@shj.com. Follow him on X, formerly called Twitter, at @ToddShanesySHJ.

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