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Aggies get huge region win, now to face Clarke County
The Jackson High Aggies pulled out a huge region win over the Panthers of Southside-Selma 35-18. The Aggies got the scoring started with 7:49 left in the opening quarter when Andrew Ezell took it in from two yards out to give Jackson the 6-0 lead. The only other score of the first half came when Michael Austin also took a two yard run into the end zone. Broderick Washington added the two-point conversion and the Aggies had the 14-0 advantage going into the locker room at halftime. The Aggies came back out and scored with 4:30 left in the third quarter. Washington took it in to make it 21-0 on a 10-yard run. With 59 seconds left in the third quarter, Austin made it 27-0 on a 15 yard touchdown run. J.D. Mitchell came on and added the extra point, and Jackson was defeating Southside of Selma 28-0. The Panthers got their first score on a 22-yard pass play on 4th and 14. The two-point conversion failed and it was 28-6. Corey Besteda intercepted Southside's pass on the next possession and took it back to the Panther 1-yard line. Washington powered the football in to make it 34-6. Mitchell added the PAT to make it 35-6. Southside added two more scores, one on a pass play with 7:00 left in the fourth quarter of play, and the last one coming on the last play of the ballgame when the Panther quarterback took the ball in from four yards out to send the final to 35-18 in favor of the home team. "This was a huge region win for us," said Jackson head coach John Blackmon. "This is a game that we had to win to stay in the region race and we succeeded at that. We should have played better, but an ugly win is a lot better than a pretty loss. "This was a good comeback off of that tough region loss to Thomasville last week. We are now 2-1 in Class 4A Region 1 play."
The Aggies will play host to county-rival Clarke County this week as they celebrate homecoming. Southside-Selma will travel to Central-Hayneville for their second non-region game.
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