The Homewood Patriots are taking a road trip to 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 team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Homewood's defense stepped up to hand Jackson-Olin a 52-0 shutout on Thursday. The game marked the Patriots' most dominant victory of the season so far.
Will Myers was his usual excellent self, throwing for 177 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 89 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries. Evan Ausmer was in the mix too, providing Homewood with two touchdowns.
Meanwhile, Mountain Brook faced Oxford in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Friday. Mountain Brook and Oxford were almost perfectly matched up, but Mountain Brook suffered a 29-28 loss.
Mountain Brook might have lost, but man, Cayden Hofbauer was a machine: he 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 defeat 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 loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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