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PILOT MOUNTAIN – Former Bandys High quarterback and head football coach Trent Lowman is headed back to a state championship game.
TRENT LOWMAN
Lowman, in his second season as head coach at East Surry, guided the Cardinals to a 35-28 victory at home on Friday night over Mitchell County to advance.
Top-seeded East Surry (14-0) faces a rematch of last year’s 1AA title game on Saturday at Duke (at a time to be announced) against East No. 1 seed Tarboro.
Tarboro (14-0) — which beat East Surry 50-10 at N.C. State to win 1AA — advanced Friday with a 35-6 victory over third-seeded Edenton Holmes.
Lowman, son of former Bandys head coach Randy Lowman, is in his seventh season as a head coach.
After serving as an assistant coach on his dad’s coaching staff, he replaced him as head coach at Bandys in 2013. His five 23-35 Trojans teams went and to the state playoffs three times.
East Surry was 11-4 in 2018.
Trent Lowman’s teams have gone 48-39, putting him on pace to reach 50 career wins in seven seasons; his dad got No. 50 in his 10th season (1996) when he guided Bandys to the first of its three appearances in a state title game.
TRENT LOWMAN ON THE GAME (HighSchoolOT.com): https://www.highschoolot.com/trent-lowman-getting-back-to-the-1aa-state-title-game-was-east-surry-s-goal-all-along/18817655/
MORE COVERAGE (Mount Airy News): https://www.mtairynews.com/sports/high-school-football/80894/a-prophecy-fulfilled