Hillcrest beat Straughn, 27-26, in overtime at Straughn. Sparta beat Ellwood Christian, 48-0, in Selma.
Hillcrest’s win on Friday was their first ever against Straughn, and the Jags are now 1-1 all-time against the Tigers.
Sparta’s big win over Ellwood was Sparta’s biggest win in football since the 1997 season, when the Warriors beat Lakeside, 60-0.
Friday night’s game dropped Ellwood to 0-5 on the season. This year is Ellwood’s first ever in 11-man football after two seasons of playing in an eight-man football league. So far, Sparta’s 48 points are the most that Ellwood has allowed in a single game.
Ellwood gave up 47 points to Lowndes Academy earlier this year, and Sparta will face Lowndes tomorrow (Friday) night in Evergreen.
Sparta and Lowndes don’t have much of a football past. Their game last year was the first ever between the two teams in football, and Lowndes won that game, 33-13, in Lowndesboro.
Hillcrest plays W.S. Neal in Evergreen, and the Jags are 8-8 all-time against Neal. Hillcrest hasn’t lost to Neal since 2007, and the Jags have posted some big wins against Neal since then. Hillcrest won 55-18 in 2008, 34-14 in 2009 and 47-28 in 2010.
One of our readers put me on to an interesting (and unusual) high school football story earlier this week, one that describes how a team in Arkansas built a 29-0 lead over one of its rivals before the opposing team ever got the chance to run their first offensive play.
In the Sept. 16 game between Arkansas powerhouses, Cabot High School and Pulaski Academy of Little Rock, Pulaski led, 29-0, before Cabot ever ran an offensive play.
While such a feat is rare, how Pulaski pulled this off was pretty simple and involved several onside kicks. Pulaski won the opening coin toss, elected to receive and drove down the field for a touchdown.
Pulaski then kicked an onside kick, recovered it and quickly scored another touchdown. Moments later, they pulled the same stunt: kicked an onside kick, recovered it and scored another quick TD.
Pulaski then proceeded to kick another onside kick, recovered the ball and scored another touchdown with 7:35 left in the first quarter.
Leading 29-0, Pulaski went for a fourth onside kick, but Cabot finally recovered. In the end, Pulaski, ranked No. 99 in the country by Rivals.com, won, 64-34.
The NFL season is well underway, and the number of undefeated teams are falling by the wayside with each round of weekly games. As of Monday, the only undefeated teams left in the NFL were the New England Patriots, the Buffalo Bills, the N.Y. Jets, the Houston Texans, the Washington Redskins, the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions.
Here are my picks for this week’s slate of SEC football games. I like Alabama over Arkansas, Auburn over Florida Atlantic, LSU over West Virginia, Georgia over Ole Miss, Mississippi State over Louisiana Tech, Florida over Kentucky and South Carolina over Vanderbilt. Tennessee does not play.
Last week: 7-2 (.777), Overall: 26-5 (.839).
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