Kelvin LeonPLAYER 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)• DK Billingsley, Scottsboro: He ran for 246 yards and five TDs in the Wildcats’ loss to North Jackson.Hunter Maynor, Soddy-Daisy: He passed for 380 yards, completing 18 of 36 passes with three TDs, and also ran for two scores in his team’s win over Tyner.• JaVaughn Craig, McCallie: He was responsible for five TDs, throwing for three while completing 9 of 12 passes for 146 yards and running for 103 yards and two scores in the Blue Tornado’s win over top-ranked and previously unbeaten Ensworth.
Although he had been in tough spots previously, Kelvin Leon found himself on one of Tennessee high school football’s biggest regular-season stages Friday.
He and his unbeaten Ooltewah teammates, No. 5 in the latest Class 5A poll, were on the road to face another unbeaten in Class 6A seventh-ranked Kingsport Dobyns-Bennett.
The Owls were down 34-28. It was getting late and there was little room for error, and Leon showed why he had won a quarterback battle to succeed Brody Binder, a contest that carried over two games into the season.
“His stats were outstanding, but on the drive that put us ahead 35-34 he had three plays that were big-time,” Ooltewah coach Mac Bryan said.