The Homewood Patriots will challenge 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 games with that exact score. Homewood never let Jackson-Olin onto the board and left with a 52-0 win on Thursday. The match marked the Patriots' most dominant victory of the season so far.
It was another big night for Will Myers, who threw for 177 yards and three touchdowns, and also rushed for 89 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries. Evan Ausmer was in the mix as well, providing Homewood with two touchdowns.
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 and Oxford were almost perfectly matched up, but Mountain Brook suffered a 29-28 defeat.
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. Another player making a difference was Stuart Andrews, who rushed 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 took a serious blow against Mountain Brook when the teams last played back in October of 2021, falling 49-14. Can Homewood avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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