Football Preview: Prattville Lions vs. Oak Mountain Eagles
The Prattville Lions will head out on the road to face off against the Oak Mountain Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Prattville is headed into the matchup after thoroughly thrashing Stanhope Elmore: they outscored them in every quarter. Everything went Prattville's way against Stanhope Elmore on Friday as Prattville made off with a 34-13 victory. Given the Lions' advantage in MaxPreps' Alabama football rankings (they are ranked 37th, while the Mustangs are ranked 153rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Oak Mountain won against Briarwood Christian last Friday with 38 points and they decided to stick to that point total again on Friday. Oak Mountain strolled past Pelham with points to spare, taking the game 38-20. The Eagles pushed the score to 38-6 by the end of the third, a deficit the Panthers cut but never quite recovered from.
Will O'Dell was nothing short of spectacular: he rushed for 175 yards and two touchdowns on only 13 carries, and also threw for 297 yards and two touchdowns on only 18 passes. His longest rush was for an impressive 65 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total. Jacob Moore also helped out with an impressive 109 receiving yards.
On the other side of the ball, a lot of the credit has to go to Oak Mountain's defense and their four sacks. In that department, Daveon Johnson was the leader with two. His also deserves a shoutout for his performance on D, picking up two sacks and making two total tackles (2.0 for loss).
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Oak Mountain was moving up and down the field and finished the game with 557 total yards. That's the most total yards they've posted since was before the start of last season.
The win made it two in a row for Prattville and bumps their season record up to 2-0. As for Oak Mountain, their victory ended a five-game drought on the road dating back to last season and puts them at 2-0.
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