Don’t be surprised if Hixson’s celebration is still ongoing.
The Wildcats’ seniors were in the third grade the last time Hixson beat Red Bank in high school football at Hixson. That is, until Friday night.
And it was senior night, and those 22 seniors treated their home crowd to a 23-0 victory over the Lions.
Not to be lost in the hoopla is that it was a District 6-AA game. Hixson (6-2) leads the district standings at 4-0 and controls its own destiny with league road games remaining at Central and Brainerd.
“These seniors said to me they wanted to change the perception they believed Hixson had been given,” coach Jason Fitzgerald said. “Over the years they wanted to change that.”