CLEVELAND, Tenn. – While there are a variety of words to describe Red Bank’s offensive performance Friday night, one sums it up best: efficient.
The visiting Lions scored on eight of their nine possessions, racking up 422 yards of offense on their way to a 58-6 nonregion victory over Walker Valley.
“I love watching you play football,” first-year Lions coach Chris Brown told his team after the game. “I love watching you warm up, I love watching you support each other. There aren’t too many teams out there that love each other the way we do.”
Red Bank (6-0), a Class 3A program, needed only 13 plays and 2:58 of game clock during their five first-half touchdown drives, which totaled 245 yards. It was special teams, however, that got the game started with a bang for the Lions as senior Michael Porter took the opening kickoff 85 yards.
After Class 5A’s Walker Valley (0-7) was forced to punt on the ensuing possession, the Lions’ offense got to work. Calvin Jackson scored on a 50-yard run on the team’s longest touchdown drive of the game – a four-play, 64-yard drive that took one minute. Kyle Smith drilled a 28-yard field goal on Red Bank’s next possession to put his team up 17-0 after one quarter.