Akridge Leads Red Bank Past Central, 47-7

Saturday, September 29, 2012 - by special report to chattanoogan.com

Darrius Akridge ran for three touchdowns Friday night and led Red Bank past Central, 47-7, in a high school football game at Central.

The Lions improved to 2-4 and 2-1 and Central dropped to 1-5 and 0-3.

Akridge ran for 123 yards on 14 carries and had scoring runs of 10, 5 and 15 yards.

Vincent Gordon had a 44-yard interception return for Red Bank and Hagen Wilkey threw two touchdown passes.

STATISTICS

Red Bank……….………..…….………13 14 13 7 -- 47

South Pittsburg………....……..……0 0 0 7 -- 7

RB – Darrius Akridge 10 run (Christian Valazquez kick)

RB – Vincent Gordon 44 interception return (kick failed)

RB – Akridge 5 run (run failed)

RB – Michael Robinson 55 pass from Hagan Wilkey (Demetrius Williams run)

RB – Akridge 15 run (Valazquez kick)

RB – Malik Davis 20 run (Valazquez kick)

CE – Jaylan Hobbs 11 run (Tareq Faleh kick)

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                                                                                    RB                               CE

First downs                                                              15                               10

Rushing                                                                     209                             90

Passing                                                                      102                             38

Comp-Att-Int                                                           4-8-1                          4-16-2

Punts-Avg                                                                1-12                           5-25

Fumbles-Lost                                                          1-1                              2-1

Penalties-Yards                                                       4-25                           4-45

(E-mail Stan Crawley at wscrawley@earthlink.net)


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