Southern Academy is on a four-game streak of home losses, Hooper Academy a seven-game streak of away losses dating back to last season, but someone's luck is about to change on Friday. The Southern Academy Cougars will welcome the Hooper Academy Colts at 7:00 p.m. Southern Academy is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 28 points per game this season.
It was a proper cat-fight when Southern Academy challenged Wilcox Academy last Friday. Southern Academy received a blow as they fell 57-40 to Wilcox Academy.
Despite the defeat, Southern Academy saw an underclassman step up: freshman Drew Rogers threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns while completing 78.6% of his passes, and also rushed for 44 yards and a touchdown. Those 44 rushing yards gave Rogers a new career-high. Wyatt Martin was another key player, picking up 90 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Even though they lost, Southern Academy was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 263 rushing yards. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 96.6 rushing yards per game earlier this season, but in their last four contests they've averaged 225.8.
Meanwhile, a win for Hooper Academy just wasn't in the cards on Friday as the squad wasn't able to take the lead at any point. They had to suffer through a 57-7 loss at the hands of Banks Academy.
Southern Academy's loss dropped their record down to 1-8. As for Hooper Academy, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-8.
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