COMMENTARY: Columbia defense rising to the occasion during playoffs

  • Columbia defensive lineman D.J. Bennett (9) makes a tackle against Ponte Vedra during Friday’s Region 1-6A playoff game. (BRENT KUYKENDALL/Lake City Reporter)
    Columbia defensive lineman D.J. Bennett (9) makes a tackle against Ponte Vedra during Friday’s Region 1-6A playoff game. (BRENT KUYKENDALL/Lake City Reporter)

    Columbia has been a different team the past two weeks.

    And I’m beginning to think the Tigers can hang with anybody in Region 1-6A.

    Columbia now has an offense to match a tenacious defense that’s been cl…