The Lake Cormorant will head out on the road to face off against the South Panola Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Hopefully Lake Cormorant focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up four on Friday.
Lake Cormorant scored first but ultimately less than Saltillo in their game. They lost to the Tigers at home by a decisive 28-14 margin. The matchup was a 14-14 toss-up at halftime, but Lake Cormorant couldn't answer the 14 points Saltillo scored afterwards.
Lake Cormorant's loss came about despite a quality game from Jarcoby Hopson, who rushed for 92 yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, South Panola had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 20 points), and they went ahead and made it five on Friday. Everything went their way against Center Hill as South Panola made off with a 34-14 victory. South Panola pushed the score to 28-7 by the end of the third, a deficit Center Hill cut but never quite recovered from.
South Panola's victory bumped their season record to 6-1 while Lake Cormorant's defeat dropped theirs to 5-2.
