The Haynesville Tors remained undefeated with a close 28-20 win against the Arcadia Hornets on Friday night.
The Tors has to survive a stellar offensive night by Tyler Jefferson with a hand in all three touchdowns. Jefferson passed 7 for 8 for 124 yards and a touchdown pass to Ja’Qualon Crane. Jefferson rushes for 109 yards for two touchdowns.
Hornets defense had their hands full with the driving force of the Tors rushing offense which put up 254 yards rushing offense. Isaiah Jackson grabbed 7 tackles. David Buckley tackled five.
Jefferson drove down the field with a 24-yard pass to Crane. Jefferson struck again with a 24-yard pass to Khyrese Taylor to put the Hornets within the 10. The Hornets stung first with a 6-yard pass from Jefferson to Crane. Arcadia took an 8-0 lead into the second quarter.
Haynesville defense brought the Tors back into the game with fumble recoveries from Joh’nathan Beane and Ty’Rell Gill. Haynesville has capitalized on the turnovers taking Jontavion Brown bursting into the end zone for 6 yards. Kedric Grider followed with a 4 yard TD run. The Golden Tornados took a 15-14 lead into halftime.
Jefferson closed the gap in the third quarter with a 9-yard touchdown run. Haynesville’s Brown answered with a 2 yd run to keep the lead within a seven at 21-14.
Jefferson struck again breaking free right of the line and breaking a couple of hits to reach the end zone for a 60-yard touchdown run. Grider put any hopes for the Hornets with a 22-yard touchdown run to give the Tors the 28-20 win.
Haynesville remains undefeated at 4-0 overall and 3-0 in the district after the win. Arcadia drops to 1-3 overall and 1-2 in the district.
Haynesville will head back home as they will face the Lincoln Prep Panthers. Arcadia will take a week off from district and will head west on I-20 to face the 5A Haughton Bucs.
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