Football Preview: Oak Mountain Eagles vs. Prattville Lions
The Oak Mountain Eagles will take on the Prattville Lions at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: both posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
If Oak Mountain beats Prattville with 38 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Oak Mountain took down Pelham 38-20 on Friday. 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 went supernova for Oak Mountain, rushing for 175 yards and two touchdowns on only 13 carries, while also throwing for 297 yards and two touchdowns on only 18 passes. O'Dell's 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.
Oak Mountain's defense stepped up as well, laying out the QB four times. In that department, Daveon Johnson was the leader with two sacks. 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.
Meanwhile, you can't lose the contest if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Prattville's strategy against Stanhope Elmore on Friday. Prattville blew past Stanhope Elmore 34-13. 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.
Oak Mountain's win ended a five-game drought on the road dating back to last season and puts them at 2-0. As for Prattville, the victory made it two in a row for them and also bumps their season record up to 2-0.
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