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Another week, another cross-county rivalry game for the Rebels as they played host to the West Carroll War Eagles, Friday night, in what would be a close contest that carried into overtime. Prior to the game during the coin-toss, one of the West Carroll captains, quarterback Trace Fuller got a nice surprise with his sister, Marshawnda Fuller, returning home from active duty. (see related story elsewhere in the paper.)
West Carroll, coming off a close win over Bruceton in their opener, took the ball first and started slashing at McKenzie’s defense with double digit yardage runs mainly by Jarrius Weatherford and P.J. Odom. Odom scored the first points on a 14-yard scoring run with 10:32 left in the first quarter. They missed the extra point leaving the score 6-0 in favor of the War Eagles.
McKenzie had difficulties getting their offense moving punting the ball on their first three possessions while the Rebel “D” kept West Carroll from scoring again the remainder of the first quarter.
The second quarter opened with the Rebels having possession following a West Carroll punt, The War Eagle defense forced McKenzie into a 4th and 12 situation at their own 35 and blocked Larson King’s punt attempt. War Eagle freshman Jack Barrow recovered the punt and ran the ball inside McKenzie’s 20 yard line. West Carroll went five plays and scored on a 2-yard run by quarterback Trace Fuller. This time the extra point attempt by Devin Nash was good for a 13-0 West Carroll lead.
McKenzie continued to have offensive problems for the remainder of the half swapping possessions with the War Eagles for the remainder of the half with the 13-0 West Carroll lead holding up at halftime.
McKenzie came out after halftime and scored touchdowns on three straight possessions to take the lead in the contest.
The Rebels received the second half kickoff with Wes Cook running it back to the McKenzie 39 yard line. McKenzie began a long drive mixing up short passes and hard by Eli Surber and Joseph Miller that resulted in McKenzie’s first score with Surber scoring from 2-yards out with 7:16 left in the third quarter. The extra point was no good making the score 13-6.
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