Vote: Who should be the North Carolina high school football Player of the Week? (11/4/2024)

Here are 10 candidates for your voting consideration

Mike Duprez | Nov 4, 2024

Pinecrest's Zymire Spencer (3) lunges for additional yardage in a game against New Hanover on Friday Sept. 13, 2024 at Legion Stadium in Wilmington, N.C. He passed for 243 yards and two scores last week against Leesville, in the CAP-6 Conference Championship Game, to earn a nomination as North Carolina High School Football Player of the Week. / KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Week 10 of the 2024 North Carolina high school season is complete. As usual, there were standout performances.

Congratulations to last week's winner: Grayson Harvey of Mountain Island Charter.

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Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10. The winner will be announced in the following week's poll. Here are this week's nominees:

Gannon Jones, Cardinal Gibbons

The Crusaders’ quarterback was 16-of-20 for 243 yards and 2 touchdowns as his team held off previously undefeated Leesville Road 25-7 to win the CAP-6 Conference championship. Jones also had a rushing touchdown.

Zymire Spencer, Pinecrest

Spencer, a senior tailback, ran for 284 yards and 4 touchdowns as the Patriots romped to a 57-7 victory over Union Pines.

Amare Dorsey, Jacksonville

The senior quarterback was 5-of-10 for 190 yards and 2 touchdowns in a 64-0 rout of Northside. Dorsey also had 116 yards rushing on just 3 carries, including touchdown runs of 4 and 39 yards. His other carry, for 73 yards, set up another score.

Shawn Davis, East Duplin

Davis ran 23 times for 237 yards and a pair of touchdowns as the Panthers downed Southwest Onslow 49-20.

T.J. Ellerbee, Red Springs

Ellerbee caught two touchdown passes and surpassed 1,000 yards receiving for the season in a 29-20 win over West Bladen.

Brody Sheppard, Southwestern Randolph

Sheppard ran for four touchdowns in the Cougars’ 49-33 victory over Trinity.

Eli Davis Helms, Bunker Hill

The Bears’ quarterback was 20-of-27 for 276 yards and 4 touchdowns with an interception in a wild 54-53 win over Bandys.

Qwazir Craven, Lexington

The 5-foot-6, 145-pound senior returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown and had a rushing touchdown as the Yellow Jackets for a 31-20 win over archrival Thomasville.

Irving Brown, Wallace-Rose Hill

Brown, an Ohio commit, ran 28 times for 141 yards as the Bulldogs toppled previously unbeaten James Kenan 17-14 and claimed the East Central 2-A Conference championship.

Travon Usher, Wilson Prep

The junior quarterback rushed for 252 yards and 3 touchdowns as the Tigers rolled to a 46-6 win over Southeast Halifax.

Published Nov 4, 2024|Modified Nov 4, 2024

MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.