Player of the Week honorable mention(Coaches are invited to nominate players by emailing Ward Gossett at wgossett@timesfreepress.com by 2 p.m. each Saturday)JoJo Tillery, East Ridge: He completed 14 of 17 passes for 262 yards and two TDs and ran for 49 yards and a 2-point conversion in a win over Polk County.Alex Trotter, McCallie: On the heels of a 374-yard, seven-TD rushing performance against Pope John Paul II, the senior ran the ball 14 times, gained 264 yards and scored three TDs in the Blue Tornado victory over Siegel.Octavius Matthews, North Jackson: He was allowed just 11 carries in the Chiefs’ rout of Priceville but made them count – 178 yards and three touchdowns.
Charles Fant and his staff spent most of the Sunday and Monday last week laying out the grand scheme Notre Dame would use to attack Boyd-Buchanan’s defense.
A couple of series into the game and possibly sooner, those plans were folded and slipped into back pockets. Auston Banks made sure of that.
The diminutive senior runner was on his game.
“We had all these lofty plans and schemes we wanted to do against Boyd and he kinda’ changed our plans real fast,” Fant said.