Hibriten only league team to win in Week 2 of the season
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Hibriten High handed head coach Sam Mackey his first career football victory on Friday night, rolling past Hickory 42-12 at Barger Stadium in Hickory.
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The Panthers (1-1) outgained the Red Tornadoes (0-2) – who were playing a second game in five days – by 419-186.
The Panthers led 35-0 at the half, scoring on five straight first-half possessions.
Quarterback Daren Perry had 148 all-purpose yards for Hibriten and sophomore running back Zion Norwood finished with 12 carries for 95 yards and one TD.
At the half, Hibriten had gained 304 yards to Hickory’s 24.
Hibriten was coming off a 28-19 home loss to Alexander Central that snapped a 34-game regular-season win streak.
“We responded really well from last week to this week,” Mackey told The Lenoir News-Topic. “We were much more coachable this week. We had a good week of practice and it paid off.
“That loss to Alexander Central almost was like a shell shock to these guys.”
St. Stephens 21, Bunker Hill 13
St. Stephens’ passing game carried it to a victory at Bunker Hill, giving the Indians six straight wins over the Bears.
Quarterback Connor Williams threw 52 and 61 yards to receiver Zach Lee for touchdowns and Zac McLauchlin had a 43-yard scoring run for the Indians (1-1).
Jay Abrams’s 61-yard scoring run early in the second quarter got the Bears within 7-6, and Williams’ first scoring throw to Lee had St. Stephens up 14-6 at the half.
The lead increased to 21-6 early in the third quarter on McLauchlin’s TD run.
There was no scoring after Bunker Hill (0-2) closed within eight points via a 35-yard TD pass from Carson Elder to Chadz Stevenson in the closing seconds of the third quarter.
The victory came in Wayne Hicks’ 70th game as head coach at St. Stephens (24-46) and was the fourth straight for the Indians at Bunker Hill.
Freedom 60, Draughn 14
Quarterback Jayden Birchfield threw for six scores – a Burke County record – and added a rushing TD as the Patriots (1-1) rolled to a road victory.
Birchfield, who has committed to Navy, completed 12 of 17 passes for 316 yards, hitting receiver Desmond Caldwell for three TDs, and Damien Dula had two TD receptions.
Freedom is 11-0 all-time against the Wildcats (0-2).
Draughn had fewer than 10 yards rushing and quarterback Braxton Cox went 18 of 38 for 152 yards passing.
Bandys 27, Fred T. Foard 7
Bandys scored on back-to-back possessions in the fourth quarter – the second score after recovering a fumble — to win its 10th straight home game.
The Trojans (2-0) led 14-7 heading into the fourth quarter and gained possession at the Foard 49, scoring five plays later on a 14-yard run by Christian Sigmon. Jessie Pope’s PAT made it 21-7.
Foard’s Corey Siemer then fumbled after a 12-yard gain on the Tigers’ next possession and Bandys got the ball at its 32 with nine minutes, 53 seconds to play.
Highlighted by first down runs of 13 and 16 yards by Malik Kennedy, the Trojans drove 68 yards and scored on a 25-yard pass from Hunter Jones to Blake Reynolds to extend the lead to 27-7.
Foard (0-2) fumbled four times and lost three and finished with 172 rushing yards, led by Siemer’s 93 on 19 carries.
Bandys had four players gain more than 49 yards – Jackson Spicer (69), Isaiah Gilchrist (54), Kennedy (52) and Parker Dehart (49) – and ran for 308 yards.
The Trojans took their first lead with 5:38 left in the third quarter on a 4-yard run by Jones and PAT by Pope.
Bandys beat Foard for the eighth time in their last 11 meetings.
McDowell 41, East Burke 28
Quantavian Moore ran for three TDs and had 179 yards rushing as the host Titans (1-1) won a game that included 734 yards of combined total offense.
Moore ran for scores of 23, 60 and 4 yards and had a TD reception as McDowell rolled up 315 rushing yards and 398 yards overall.
East Burke (1-1) got 174 rushing yards by Josh Moore and Brett Childers added 107 for the Cavs, who lost two fumbles.
McDowell jumped to a 21-0 lead after one quarter and led 35-14 by halftime.
Josh Moore ran for four TDs for East Burke, which had 336 yards of total offense.
The teams played for the first time since 2014, leaving East Burke head coach Mark Buffamoyer at 4-20 as the Cavs’ boss.
R-S Central 41, Patton 13
The visiting Hilltoppers erased a 13-point deficit to beat the Panthers (0-2).
Xavier Toms ran for 161 yards, starting R-S Central’s rally with an 86-yard scoring run.
Max Short’s 13-yard scoring run in the final seconds of the first quarter gave the Panthers a 13-0 lead.
Jaiden Coston, who had 156 yards of total offense, gained R-S Central (2-0) its first lead on a 39-yard TD pass to Jayden Hooper.
Patton quarterback Weston Fleming threw for 105 yards .
South Iredell 25, West Iredell 0
Landon Evans opened the scoring with a 45-yard interception return, sparking an 11-0 lead by halftime for the visiting Vikings.
Davis Smyre and Alterek Adams added short yardage rushing TDs in the fourth quarter for South Iredell (1-1).
Adams ran for 167 yards for South Iredell while West Iredell quarterback Eli Kitchens went 20-for-39 and threw for 189 yards.
The Warriors are 1-1.
North Wilkes 52, West Caldwell 14
Dylan Church ran for four TDs to lead North Wilkes (2-0) to a home victory that extended West Caldwell’s losing streak to 16 games.
Church had scoring runs of 10, 3, 3 and 40 yards, and Adam Winebarger caught a 30-yard TD pass and returned an interception 40 yards for a TD for North Wilkes’ first two scores.
The Vikings led 42-7 at the half.
Cameron Beaver caught a 20-yard pass from Mark Lopez in the first quarter and had a 7-yard TD run in the third quarter for West Caldwell’s scores.
West Caldwell is 0-2.