Vote: Who should be SBLive’s Upper State South Carolina Offensive Player of the Week (10//30/2023)?

Here are 10 players for your voting consideration

Mike Duprez | Oct 30, 2023

Vote: Who should be SBLive’s Upper State South Carolina Offensive Player of the Week (10//30/2023)? /

We have 10 athletes nominated this week for SBLive’s Upper State South Carolina Offensive Football Player of the Week from Oct. 26-27 and we ask you, the fans, to help decide who should indeed be the top athlete selected. Voting will conclude on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 11:59 p.m. and the winner will be announced in next week’s poll.

Congratulations to last week's winner: Reese Price of Wren.

Here are this week’s nominations:

Luke Gray, Pendleton

Gray ended the regular season with another huge effort, completing 27-of-39 passes for 384 yards and 4 touchdowns in a 54-8 rout of Walhalla. He also had 29 yards rushing on 7 carries.

Landon Fowler, Powdersville

Fowler caught 7 passes for 145 yards and a touchdown in Powdersville’s 33-7 win over Palmetto.

Mathai Scott, Chapman

Scott ran 19 times for 161 yards and 3 touchdowns in a 38-35 win over Broome that clinched the program’s seventh straight region championship. He also caught a pair of passes for 13 yards.

Landon Stone, Clover

The junior tailback ran for 194 yards and 4 touchdowns in the Blue Eagles’ 58-21 win over Rock Hill as Clover won its first region title since 2019.

Trenton Lynch, Spartanburg

Lynch carried 14 times for 171 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Vikings beat Dorman 35-14. The freshman tailback has 582 yards for the season.

Finley Polk, Northwestern

The 6-foot-2, 185-poumd junior quarterback was 16-of-24 for 303 yards and 4 touchdowns in the Trojans’ 52-10 rout of Catawba Ridge. Polk has thrown for 2,374 yards and 27 touchdowns against 6 interceptions in 2023.

Peyton Schrader, Eastside

Schrader was 17-of-20 for 257 yards and 3 touchdowns in Eastside’s 28-14 win over Wade Hampton. The Eagles’ quarterback also had 24 yards rushing on 9 carries.

Marquise Henderson, Belton-Honea Path

Henderson ended the regular season with another huge night by carrying 21 times for 235 yards and 3 touchdowns in a 51-14 win over Wren. The junior standout has 1,785 yards and 29 touchdowns for the season.

DaQuean Lewis, Dixie

Lewis caught 7 passes for 122 yards and 2 touchdowns in the Hornets’ 49-28 win over Calhoun Falls.

Triston Lewis, Greenwood

The sophomore quarterback didn’t have to throw a lot of passes in the Eagles’ 48-14 runaway win over Pickens. But he made them count. Lewis was 5-of-8 for 187 yards and 4 touchdowns.

Published Oct 30, 2023

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.