Hillcrest High School and Sparta Academy both posted big wins on Friday, and it’s the second week in a row that they’ve both won on the same night.Hillcrest handed W.S. Neal a 19-6 loss, and Sparta beat Lowndes Academy, 38-30. Both of those games were played in Evergreen.
Last Friday night’s game was the 18th all-time meeting between Hillcrest and Neal in football, and Hillcrest is now 9-8 all-time against Neal thanks to their win last week. The Jags haven’t lost to Neal since the 2007 season, and Friday night’s game was Neal’s 20th straight loss.
Sparta’s homecoming win against Lowndes on Friday was Sparta’s first ever victory against Lowndes. Sparta is now 1-1 all-time against Lowndes. Last year’s game was the first ever between the two schools in football, and Lowndes won, 33-13.
Hillcrest and Sparta will have their work cut out for them tomorrow (Friday) night when they take on Andalusia and Autauga Academy, respectively.
Andalusia enters its game against Hillcrest with a 5-0 record and fresh off a big win over T.R. Miller in Brewton. Autauga, led by former Sparta head coach Mike Sims, is 6-0 and coming off a 48-12 win over Meadowview Christian.
This is not to say that Hillcrest and Sparta won’t win. They’ll just need to bring their A-games and cut out the mistakes to keep their winning streaks alive.
If you’re looking for a good, sports-related book to read this week, you might want to check out “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis.
Originally published in 2003, “Moneyball” is about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, and how he assembled a team based largely on an analysis of statistics and despite the team not having a lot of money to pay players.
“Moneyball” reappeared on Publishers Weekly’s trade paperbacks best-sellers list last Thursday thanks in large part to all of the publicity generated by the motion picture adaptation of the book, which opened in theatres on Friday.
The film stars Brad Pitt, so I imagine that this will be my wife’s favorite baseball movie of the year.
I get a big kick out of the SoundOff section each day in the Mobile Press-Register, and Monday’s edition included one that made me chuckle.
Entitled “World turned upside down,” the caller said that “The Lions and Bills are both undefeated. I have to go sit and contemplate life.”
The caller was referring to the fact that the Buffalo Bills and the Detroit Lions, both perennial NFL bottom-feeders, were a surprising 3-0 after Sunday’s round of games. The league’s other undefeated teams, as of Monday morning, included the Washington Redskins and the Green Bay Packers.
A handful of teams were still winless. The Miami Dolphins, the Indianapolis Colts (!), the Kansas City Chiefs, the Minnesota Vikings and the St. Louis Rams were all 0-3 as of Monday morning.
Here are my picks for this week’s slate of SEC football games. I like Alabama over Florida, Texas A&M over Arkansas, South Carolina over Auburn, LSU over Kentucky, Fresno State over Ole Miss, Georgia over Mississippi State and Tennessee over Buffalo. Vanderbilt does not play.
Last week: 7-0 (1.000), Overall: 33-5 (.868).
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