Hunt Mistakes Costly

Southern Durham took the opening kickoff and went six plays for 75 yards and before Hunt could break a sweat they were down in the eastern 3-AA finals 7-0. The Warriors on their opening drive got one first down before punting but the snap from center sailed over the head of the punter and in a scramble in the end zone Hunt fell on the ball for a safety and they trailer 9-0 before five minutes had been played. The first series of the second quarter the Warriors began a come back and kicked a field goal to trim the Southern Durham lead to 9-3. Their very next drive the Warriors took the lead after the point after at 10-9 on a Jacob Williamson to Malik William 29 yard pass. Hunt on their next series is forced to punt with less than a minute and a half to go in the half but the punt is drilled into the back of blocker and Southern has the ball at the Hunt 10 and SD makes Hunt pay to lead 17-10 at the half. The opening kickoff of the second half Hunt takes and drives to the SD seven yard line when a Jacob Williamson pass is picked off in the end zone and returned 98 yards to the Hunt five yard line. There Hunt makes what could have been the game saving stop forcing SD to give up the ball on the Hunt 8 yard line. Every game has a turning point and the first play Hunt fumbles at their own 13 and this time Southern Durham will not be stopped again. The final score will grow to 38-10 but at this point it is 24-10 and Hunt has given up 24 points and Southern Durham has had only to drive 23 yards to score 17 of those points. There is no way any good team will win if you are going to give away points Hunt Finishes 10-4 on the season while Southern Durham will play Shelby Crest next Saturday night at B B &T field in Winston Salem who upset the three time defending State Champs Northern Guilford 23-17 after trailing 17-7 in the third quarter. Basketball scores that I know from Friday night Northern Nash beat Southern Vance 53 48 while the Lady Knights remain unbeaten winning by 20. Fike is having a good athletic year raising their record to 5-0 beating Beddingfield 47-44.