Finally! SCA’s Cougar football team played its first home game of the year last Friday night, and what a way to start the home portion of the schedule! The Cougars hosted Madison St. Joe ,and the Cougars were not very hospitable to the Bruins of Madison County.
The Cougars opened the game with a 5 yard touchdown run by Carter Cocker with 8:39 to go in the first quarter. The extra point by Sawyer Dunn was good and the Cougars led 7-0. The Cougar D got the ball back for the team in Red and they once again put on a running and blocking show as Carter Cockrell went in to the endzone for a 28 yard touchdown run with 1:43 to go in the quarter and the try for 2 points was good as Aubren Kennedy took the pitch in for two. The score at the end of the first quarter was SCA 15 Madison 0.
The second quarter saw the Cougars decide to throw a little and it didn’t take long for that to work as well. With 11:17 left in the quarter quarterback Barrett McKenney hit Ben Kennedy for a 31 yard touchdown pass. The extra point by Dunn was good, and the new score was SCA 22 Madison 0. The Cougar O got the ball back again late in the half and drove it down field with excellent blocking by the big, tough SCA offensive line. With 2:07 to go in the half Carter Cockrell runs it in for touchdown number three on the day for him and with the extra point by Dunn the score was now SCA 29 to the Bruins 0. The Bruins did get a drive going right before half and put up a touchdown on the scoreboard so your halftime score was SCA 29 St Joe 6.
It didn’t take long for the Cougars to come out of halftime and get right back to dominating as Carter took a handoff and went 14 yards for a score with only 52 ticks off the third quarter clock. With the Dunn extra point the Cougars now led 36-6. On the next offensive possession the Cougars went back to the passing game. With 6:34 to go in the quarter McKenney hit his tight end Matt Adcock for a beautiful 16 yard scoring strike. The extra point by Dunn was once again good and now the rout was one 43-6 SCA. The clock ran the rest of the game as the Cougars now led by over 35 points.
Lots of young guys got see action the rest of the way and they all looked impressive as well. It was a great night for the Cougars, but I must give credit to the big guys up front. The Cougars rushed for 324 yards on the night and there were monstrous holes for the backs to run through all night. The line featuring Crosby Mullins, Lee Easterling, Gavin Barry, Garrison Ashley, and Olen Shows just dominated. We have great skill guys but it starts up front on both sides of the ball and these guys make it all happen.
For the night the Cougars had 418 total yards and St. Joe 233. The Cougars had 94 yards through the air with McKenney going 4-7 for 57 yards and 2 TD’s and the youngster Hayes Berry 1-1 for 37 yards. Rushing wise Cockrell led the way with 20 carries for 279 yards. The youngsters Sam Smith and Kade Walker got some carries and looked impressive as well. Defensively, the Cougars were led by their stud middle linebacker Matt Adcock with 10 tackles, and right behind him was Aubren Kennedy with 5.5 tackles.
The Cougars with the victory move to 4-2 on the season and 2-1 in district play. SCA will be off next week before going back on the road the following week to play rival Columbia Academy.
