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Marana Makes Its Statement: A 17-0 Shutout of No. 2 Salpointe Catholic
The scoreboard at Salpointe Catholic said it plainly when the clock hit zero: Guests 17, Home 0. Underneath it, the Marana Tigers knelt in a circle on the Lancers’ field and soaked in the biggest win of their season.
Marana’s 17-0 shutout of Tucson rival Salpointe Catholic on Oct. 22 knocked the Lancers off the No. 2 perch in the USA TODAY Super 10 Arizona rankings and launched the Tigers from No. 8 to No. 4. Marana sits at 9-4, and its résumé suddenly looks like a contender’s: the Salpointe shutout, a shutout of Phoenix Xavier Prep earlier this month, and earlier blankings of Sunnyslope, 28-0, and Tucson High, 44-0.
This was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Marana opened the season without two-way star Malaysia Roebuck, and the Tigers had to learn how to play without her. Instead, sophomore quarterback Izzy Garcia has lit up the stat sheet, per The Arizona Republic, and the defense has become the identity of the team — four shutouts and counting.
It has not been a straight line. The same week Marana stunned Salpointe, the Tigers also lost 24-13 to Tempe Corona del Sol, a reminder of how thin the margins are in Arizona’s 6A gauntlet, where Campo Verde, Highland and Mountain Ridge all loom in the top five of the state rankings.
But statement wins travel. When the AIA 6A playoffs open, nobody in the bracket will look at Marana’s 9-4 record and relax — not after watching what the Tigers did to the state’s No. 2 team on its own field. The photo above is the moment the rest of Arizona got the message: Marana is not a spoiler. Marana is a problem.
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Revenge on Senior Night: Hewitt-Trussville Rides a Roller-Coaster Season Into the 6A Playoffs
Few teams in Alabama have lived a season like Hewitt-Trussville’s — and few finished the regular season with a better story.
The Huskies closed their home schedule on Senior Night with a 25-15 win over Oxford, avenging a Week 2 loss to the Yellow Jackets and sending off a six-player senior class the right way. It was the last turn of a roller coaster that never really leveled out.
Hewitt-Trussville’s fall, as chronicled game by game on the team’s own feed, went like this: a 15-6 region win over Thompson in which the Huskies held the Warriors scoreless for the entire second half. A 35-0 road rout of 5A McAdory, done in three quarters, for a fourth straight win. A region win at Hoover so chaotic that, in the team’s words, no one could tell the time or the score because the scoreboard did not work. A 38-19 region-finale loss to No. 9 Prattville — followed immediately by a bounce-back win, because that is what this team does.
The Huskies play in Class 6A, Region 3, the deepest neighborhood in Alabama flag football, alongside unbeaten-in-region Spain Park, Vestavia Hills, Prattville, Hoover and Thompson. Surviving it earned Hewitt-Trussville a first-round date with James Clemens when the AHSAA 6A playoffs open Nov. 2-5.
The photo above — the whole program packed into a team dinner at Walk-On’s — is the other half of the scouting report. The Huskies are close, they are loose, and they have already proven they can beat region heavyweights and answer bad weeks with good ones.
James Clemens gets the next test. After the season Hewitt-Trussville just lived, there is not much the playoffs can show the Huskies that they have not already seen.
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