The Homewood Patriots will take on the Mountain Brook Spartans at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Homewood is currently enjoying a perfect season and no doubt wants to keep things rolling.
If Homewood beats Mountain Brook with 52 points on Friday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Homewood never let Jackson-Olin onto the board and left with a 52-0 win on Thursday. The matchup marked the Patriots' most dominant victory of the season so far.
Will Myers was his usual excellent self, throwing for 156 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 89 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries. Evan Ausmer also helped with two touchdowns in total.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Homewood was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 233 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Homewood wouldn't let Jackson-Olin keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force three fumbles. It was truly a group effort as John Martin, Luke Eldridge, and Eldridge picked up one apiece.
Meanwhile, Mountain Brook faced Oxford in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Friday. Mountain Brook was just a hair shy of victory and fell 29-28 to Oxford.
Despite the defeat, Mountain Brook got top-tier performance from Cayden Hofbauer, who rushed for 98 yards and a touchdown on only eight carries, and also threw for 160 yards and a touchdown on only nine passes. Stuart Andrews was another key player, rushing for 147 yards and two touchdowns.
Homewood's win bumped their record up to 5-0. As for Mountain Brook, their loss dropped their record down to 3-2.
Homewood was taken down by Mountain Brook 49-14 in their previous matchup back in October of 2021. Can Homewood avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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