{"id":12,"date":"2026-03-26T07:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:46:23","slug":"statesville-greyhounds-win-third-straight-conference-football-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Statesville Greyhounds Win Third Straight Conference Football Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Statesville High School Greyhounds captured their third consecutive North Piedmont Conference football championship Friday night with a dominant 35-14 victory over South Iredell at Helmsman Stadium.<\/p><p>Senior quarterback Jaylen Mitchell threw for 287 yards and three touchdowns while adding 65 yards on the ground in a performance that head coach Marcus Tillman called &#8220;the best I&#8217;ve seen from any quarterback in my 20 years of coaching.&#8221;<\/p><p>The Greyhounds defense was equally impressive, holding South Iredell to just 180 total yards and forcing four turnovers. Linebacker Devon Washington recorded 12 tackles and two interceptions.<\/p><p>Statesville improves to 11-0 on the season and earns a top-four seed in the 3A state playoffs beginning next week. The team hasn&#8217;t lost a conference game in three years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Statesville High School Greyhounds captured their third consecutive North Piedmont Conference football championship Friday night with a dominant 35-14 victory over South Iredell at Helmsman Stadium. Senior quarterback Jaylen Mitchell threw for 287 yards and three touchdowns while adding 65 yards on the ground in a performance that head coach Marcus Tillman called &#8220;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}