Escambia Academy Beats Northview, 41-14 (With Gallery)

September 2, 2017

The Northview Chiefs were beat at home Friday night by the Escambia Academy Cougars, 41-14.

“They were better than us tonight in every facet of the game. They fought better, they tackled better, they ran better. They ran routes better, they covered better…every facet of the game,” Northview head coast Derek Marshman said. “There were some positives. We had some young guys step up. We had freshman and sophomores on the field. We’re a young team. I mean this is like a JV team playing a varsity team age-wise. So in the grand scheme of things we had some young guys really step up and fight but overall they just out performed us tonight.”

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The running-clock loss will serve as one of those character building, a team building lessons in life for the Chiefs.

“To see competition like this you know, No. 3 (Fred Flavors) and No. 7 (Trey Turner) are just helluva football players. You get competition like that and you see there speed it helps, it really does, but overall like I said, it’ll help us because we had young guys stepping up, and that’s what matters. We are a young football team and our leaders are young guys,” Marshman said.

Turner had three touchdowns on the night, including a 55-yarder, for the Cougars, while junior Patrick McGhee had two touchdowns.

Escambia Academy held a 28-0 lead at the half, with Northview coming back to outscore EA 14-13 in the second half.

Northview scored with a 70-yard touchdown run from Jaden Jackson and a 5-yard run by Aunterrio Minor.

Next week, the Chiefs (1-1) make the trek to South Walton (1-1) while Escambia Academy will host Pickens Academy.

“Next time we go to South Walton and they got moved up to 4A so it’s going to be a challenge for us. They are going to throw the ball around and they are going to do some really good things in the spread so it’s going to be a little different type of look for us,” Marshman said.

For a photo gallery, click here.

Look for cheerleader, band and other photos to be posted by Tuesday on NorthEscambia.com.

NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.


Comments

3 Responses to “Escambia Academy Beats Northview, 41-14 (With Gallery)”

  1. Betty Killam on September 5th, 2017 9:13 pm

    I appreciate the fact that Coach Marshman said—Hey, we got beat by a better team—no beating around the bush and making excuses like most of the college coaches do. Just tell it like it was—young team, less experienced team got beat! They learned a lot and will get better as the season progresses. They played hard and did their best. We love our Chiefs!

  2. Michael jones on September 2nd, 2017 8:34 pm

    You forgot MJ Jones 69 yd td reception

  3. Well on September 2nd, 2017 10:47 am

    Got to love them character builders.
    But finally a nice rivalry right here close to home.

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