Coming off a strong opening week performance in a 64-2 victory over Madill in the Marshall County Super Bowl, the Kingston Redskins squarely have their focus set on a big Top 10 showdown on the road Friday at Fairview.
The perennial Class A power Yellowjackets provided the Redskins’ lone regular season loss 35-28 at Kingston a year ago and Coach Brad Hill’s club will be looking for some revenge in its three and a half hour trek to northwest Oklahoma.
Although they lost a record- setting quarterback to graduation, Fairview is definitely still capable as shown by its 56-0 shellacking of Class 2A regular contender Alva in the opening week.
Even though the Yellowjackets have a new signalcaller they did not miss much of a beat with junior running back Alex Houk and his 15 rushing touchdowns back along with junior Haddon Miller, who accounted for 47 catches for 566 yards receiving.
There’s also several key returnees on the defensive side of the ball for Fairview, including all three linebackers in Houk, Colt Hamen and Ridge Cottrill.
Kingston will be looking to get off to another fast start, muchlikeaweekagoinwhich they raced to a 36-0 edge after one quarter and were in front 58-0 at intermission.
The Redskin defense set them up with short fields most of the night as they accumulated 317 yards on just 32 offensive plays while scoring eight touchdowns.
Reid Patterson rumbled 24 yards to paydirt for the opening score of the night and Logan Stephens added scoring bursts of 18 and 23 yards on the next two possessions. That was pretty much the bulk of the duty for the starting Kingston backfield as 12 rushers all picked up carries while totaling 284 yards and seven scores on the ground.
Parks Ratzlaff also scored on one of his two first half carries and tallied a team-best 64 yards. Stephens posted 56 yards, Ethan Mowles added four totes for 51 yards and a score with Koewyn Young checking in with four carries for 51 yards as well.
Patterson rushed for 29 yards and threw for 33 yards with two total touchdowns. Boen Proctor had 24 yards and scored on both his carries, Kelly Gray chipped in 22 yards on three carries with one touchdown and Jaksyn Martin carried once for 21 yards.
EliMendezhadnineyards on one rush, Ty Jones ran once for six yards, Kruz Harjo contributed one carry for four yardsandWyattLewisadded four yards on one tote.
Hudson Everhart had two catches for 16 yards, including a touchdown. Jake Hofferber tossed in one grab for 17 yards. Jones also had a defensive touchdown.