Soddy-Daisy’s Chase Payne (21) chases as Ooltewah’s Anthony Turner (02) dives for a pass.Ooltewah won the coin toss – and everything else Friday night.
The Owls marched 82 yards in eight plays with the opening possession and rolled to a 40-0 victory over Soddy-Daisy in a District 5-AAA high school football game.
Quarterback Kelvin Leon completed passes on the first three plays in the opening drive and was 5-for-5 in the possession, capping it with a 19-yard scoring strike to Anthony Turner.
“We wanted to put our offense out there first,” Ooltewah coach Mac Bryan said. “We felt like we could move the ball and establish something early. We executed very well that first drive.”
The Owls led 14-0 late in the second quarter when Soddy-Daisy (2-1, 0-1) was set to punt in its own territory. But a bungled snap led to the Owls’ Edward Hayes tackling the punter, causing a fumble that A.J. Diggs recovered.