Football Preview: Halifax Academy Knights vs. Seabreeze Sandcrabs
The Halifax Academy Knights are taking a road trip to take on the Seabreeze Sandcrabs at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Halifax Academy will be strutting in after a victory while Seabreeze will be coming in after a loss.
Halifax Academy is headed into the matchup after thoroughly thrashing Cornerstone Charter Academy: they outscored them in every quarter. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Halifax Academy blew Cornerstone Charter Academy out of the water with a 50-0 final score. The Knights pushed the score to 42-0 by the end of the third, a deficit the Ducks had no chance of recovering from.
La?Darius Simmons went supernova for Halifax Academy, throwing for 371 yards and four touchdowns while completing 84.6% of his passes, and also rushing for 92 yards. Simmons got the majority of those yards when he took off on a run and that went for an incredible80 yards. Another player making a difference was Jeremiah Barthelemy, who rushed for 147 yards and two touchdowns on only eight carries.
Barthelemy wasn't the only one working in the rushing yards department: Halifax Academy was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 239 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've posted since back in September of 2023.
Meanwhile, Seabreeze couldn't capitalize on their home-field advantage in their season opener. They had to suffer through a 50-0 loss at the hands of Spruce Creek. While losing is never fun, the Sandcrabs can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida football rankings (they are ranked 239th, while the Hawks are ranked 87th).
Halifax Academy was taken down by Seabreeze 49-0 in their previous meeting back in October of 2019. Can Halifax Academy avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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