PREP FOOTBALL

Senior Reed Charpia’s tenure as quarterback at Brookland-Cayce High School has been monumental.

“He has completed 70 percent of his passes,” said Rusty Charpia, Reed’s father and the Brookland-Cayce head football coach and athletics director.

Reed Charpia is also the top quarterback in the Midlands this season with 125 completions, more than 1,868 yards passing and 11 touchdowns, after Week 6. Following the 40-35 loss to South Aiken, Charpia surpassed over 2,100 passing yards with his 329-yard, 3-touchdown effort

“He makes throws that look too hard to complete and he sees people open that no one else sees,” Rusty Charpia said.

Charpia’s performance, for the duration of his BC career, has resulted in 27 wins, a 2016 Region 5-3A title and two Lower State title game appearances.

“He’s won seven playoff games as quarterback,” said Rusty Charpia.

The number of playoff wins for Brookland-Cayce before Reed Charpia was three. Charpia has also won more games than any other quarterback at Brookland-Cayce and he has thrown for more yards than any other quarterback in school history. He has scored more, too, but Reed Charpia is not focused on stats.

“I don’t think about the records,” he said. “I just want to win for my teammates.”

As for his plans next year, Charpia said he’s not sure. He’s a shortstop on the Bearcats’ baseball team and could play baseball in college. But that does not mean he doesn’t like football.

“I love it,” Reed Charpia said, adding he also said the time on the football team has flown by.

“It feels like my freshman year was yesterday. It feels like I just started.”

It has been a blink for his father, too. And Rusty Charpia said Reed will not be easy to replace next year.

“We’ll have to find somebody who can direct our offense,” he said. “And that quarterback have to will follow the most successful quarterback Brookland-Cayce football has ever had.”

Brookland-Cayce returns home Friday to face Midland Valley. The game can be heard online at www.thedove1620.com starting at 7:30 p.m.