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Daily List: 11 teams that beat ranked opponents last week

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By Todd Holcomb
Oct 24, 2016

Pickens' 35-34 victory over Ridgeland marked only the fourth time that the Dragons have beaten a ranked opponent, the first since 1985 (Gordon Lee) and first against a team in the same classification or higher since 1970 (East Hall). Pickens also beat a top-10 Murray County team in 1968. Below are the 11 teams that beat ranked opponents last week, and the previous most recent times they had beaten a top-10 team in the same classification:

*Blessed Trinity (2016 St. Pius)

*Brookwood (2012 Lassiter)

*Carrollton (2013 Stockbridge)

*Dalton (2002 Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe)

*Fitzgerald (2015 Jefferson County)

*Greene County (2005 Laney)

*Landmark Christian (2016 Stratford Academy)

*Northside, Warner Robins (2016 Lee County)

*Pickens (1970 East Hall)

*Valdosta (2016 Northside Warner Robins)

*Westminster (2016 Pace Academy)

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