OHS Football season now underway

BY D. MARK MITCHELL

OPINION —

The Opelika Bulldogs (2-0) opened their home schedule, thumping Calloway [Georgia} (0-2)

48-13 at Bulldog Stadium last Friday night. Bulldog head coach Bryan Moore wanted his team to start fast, score early and often while playing good defense. That’s exactly what his team did against CHS, scoring 28 points while holding Calloway scoreless in the first quarter.

Jamari Hughley led the Bulldogs in rushing with 101-yards on five rushes and scored a TD, quarterback Colby Key was 11 of 12 for 143-yards and three TD passes and Jamari Miller rushed for 47-yards and scored two TDs.

The Dogs were four of four on third down and scored all four times they were in the redzone.

First quarter stats

OHS - Calvin Hughley Jr. four run (PAT good), 9:49

OHS - Jamari Miller 18 pass from Colby Key (PAT good), 9:08

OHS - Javari Johnson one run (PAT good), 6:11

The score at the end of the first quarter was 21 -0 (OHS)

Second quarter stats

OHS - Brodie Jones 17 pass from Key (PAT good), 10:01

CHS - Blake Harrington nine runs (PAT good), 4:28

The score at the end of the second quarter 28-7 (OHS)

Third quarter stats

OHS - Miller 83 kick return (PAT failed), 11:50

OHS - Miller 26 pass from Key (PAT good), 5:48

The score at the end of the third quarter was 41-7 (OHS)

Fourth quarter stats

OHS - Kaden Pierce 27 pass from Fuller Young (PAT good), 9:46

The score at the end of the fourth quarter was 48-13.

UP NEXT - OPELIKA at AUBURN

Opelika travels to Auburn’s Duck Samford Stadium to play rival AHS in a huge Area 2 Region game. Both teams enter the game with 2-0 records after beating two non-region teams.

Auburn beat North Miami (49-0) and Vestavia Hills (52-17) in easy wins at Duck Samford Stadium. This is the 99th meeting between Opelika and Auburn in football, the Tigers lead 48-47-3 including winning four in a row and six out of the last seven games. Auburn head coach Keith Etheredge is 4-0 against Opelika while Bryan Moore will be coaching his first Auburn/ Opelika game.

Note: Opelika coach Sam Mason is the only coach in the history of Opelika football to win his See ON THE MARK page B7

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