After each having a week off, the Fairhope Pirates and the Hoover Buccaneers will dust off their jerseys to face off against one another at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The squads are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Fairhope has struggled recently with three losses in a row, while Hoover will arrive with four straight victories.
Fairhope is headed into the match out to prove that what happened against Baker two weeks ago (when they were outscored in every quarter) was just a minor bump in the road. Fairhope lost 34-14 to Baker. While losing is never fun, the Pirates can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Alabama football rankings (they are ranked 60th, while the Hornets are ranked 20th).
Fairhope might have lost, but man, Bryon Martin was a machine: he picked up 84 receiving yards and two touchdowns. The bulk of those receiving yards came from one huge play: a catch that gained an incredible 54 yards.
Meanwhile, Hoover didn't have too much trouble with Vestavia Hills two weeks ago as they won 38-20. The Buccaneers pushed the score to 38-14 by the end of the third, a deficit the Rebels cut but never quite recovered from.
Hoover's win bumped their record up to 8-2. As for Fairhope, their defeat dropped their record down to 5-5.
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