FRIDAY RECAP (Week 8): Trinity downs Pike Lib; Tallassee gets road win; Hooper earns rare win over Lowndes
COMBINED REPORTS
Trinity 46, Pike Liberal Arts 8
TROY -- The Wildcats piled up 459 total yards and spread out touchdowns among four rushers to defeat the Patriots 46-8 on Friday night.
The win set up a battle of unbeatens for the Class A Private Region 2 title next week when Montgomery Academy visits Ragsdale-Boykin Field on Friday night.
Patton Mitchell completed 5 of 8 passes for 148 yards and a pair of touchdowns while also rushing for 25 yards on three carries in the win.
Tristan Wright hd 50 yards and a touchdown on six carries and also caught a 55-yard touchdown pass from Mitchell. Drew Sanders rushed five times for 28 yards and a touchdown and also had a touchdown reception from Mitchell, accounting for 27 yards on two catches.
Jaekob Wright added a 31-yard touchdown run and Reed Bledsoe rushed six times for 75 yards and a touchdown.
Victor Fahel added a field goal as the Wildcats led 22-0 after one quarter and 43-8 at halftime.
Wilson Cherry led the Trinity defense with four tackles, an interception and a tackle for loss. Bledsoe had three tackles and a sack and Camp Phillips had three tackles.
Trinity (7-2) returns home to play host to Montgomery Academy next Friday, while Pike Liberal Arts (1-7) remains home to play Alabama Christian.
Tallassee 13, Valley 7
VALLEY -- Tallassee finally closed out a competitive game in the fourth quarter as Trent Morris threw nine yards to Hamp Love to give the Tigers a 13-7 win at Valley on Friday night.
Valley struck first with Mason Yarbrough’s 16-yard reception from Bryant Hopkins for a 7-0 lead before Tallassee countered later in the first quarter with Morris’ 6-yard pass to Hudson Timmerman to tie the game. The two teams then battled through a scoreless second and third quarter before the Tigers finally delivered the knockout blow in the fourth quarter.
Morris rushed for 105 yards on 21 carries while completing 14 of 28 passes for 108 yards and a pair of touchdownss. Love caught five passes for 33 yards and a touchdown and rushed 13 times for 7 yards.
Timmerman added four receptions for 32 yards and a touchdown and Abram Whittington had three catches for 24 yards.
Joseph Hutchinson led Valley with 115 yards on 18 carries. Hopkins completed 8 of 25 passes for 105 yards and a touchdown.
Tallassee (3-6) won for the third time in four games and closes out the season next week in Eclectic against Elmore County. Valley (5-3) remains home to play host to Beauregard next week.
Hooper Academy 42, Lowndes Academy 26
HAYNEVILLE -- Kingston White and Ayden Newman combined to score five touchdowns as the Colts won for the first time since 2004 in Mac Champion Sadium with a 42-26 win over the Rebels on Friday night.
White had 19 carries for 144 yards and a pair of touchdowns, while Newman had 12 carries for 88 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the win as Hooper improved to 7-2, its best win total since the 2002 team went 7-4.
Hunter Bowman also had a 21-yard touchdown pass to White. Heyden Chun connected on all six extra-point attempts.
Defensively, Hudson Allen led the Colts with 10 tackles, while Layton Davis had six tackles and returned an interception for a touchdown. Jeremy Griggs and Peyton Stallings each had eight tackles.
Hooper closes out the regular season next week at Davis Henry Field against Southern Prep. Lowndes Academy (4-4) will travel to Prattville next week to play Autauga Academy before returning home to close out the regular season against Wilcox.
Elmore County 48, Beauregard 13
BEAUREGARD -- The Panthers returned two kickoffs for touchdowns to defeat the Hornets 48-13 in a region matchup on Friday.
Tyler Payton returned the opening kickoff of the game 68 yards to set the tone and added a 67-yard touchdown run later in the first quarter for a 20-0 lead.
Payton finished with 108 yards and a touchdown on six carries.
Kason Moe threw a pair of touchdown passes to Beau Traylor, one for 14 yards in the first quarter and another for 39 yards 14 seconds into the second quarter, for a 27-0 lead.
Moe added a 27-yard touchdown pass to Crewe Gray before Beauregard finally answered with a Katravious Reese 2-yard pass to Kentavious Foreman with 28 seconds remaining to cut the deficit to 34-6 at the half.
Donavan Aldridge added a 5-yard touchdown run for the Panthers and Reshaun Floyd added an 88-yard kickoff return for a touchdown with a little over three minutes remaining.
Moe completed 11 of 14 passes for 200 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Panthers. Aldridge had four receptions for 69 yards and scored on his only carry of the game. Traylor added three receptions for 60 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Elmore County returns home to play host to Tallassee next week, while Beauregard travels to Valley.