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Mounce Picks Three, Norred Deals: Smiths Station Shuts Down Auburn 19-6 to Earn Playoff Bye

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27 minutes ago

November 2, 2026

Smiths Station players in action during the Lady Panthers' 19-6 win over Auburn.

Photo by Gabriel Obleton Sports Media (@gabrielobletonsportmedia) via Smiths Station flag football (@smithsflagfootball) on Instagram.

Smiths Station saved its best region performance for the night that decided the bracket. The Lady Panthers went into Duck Samford Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 22 and beat Auburn 19-6 in the Class 6A Region 2 finale, locking up the region’s No. 2 seed, a first round bye and a home game in the second round of the playoffs.

Auburn struck first. Taylor Plott scored on a 1 yard direct snap run early in the second quarter, but the Lady Tigers never scored again. Smiths Station answered twice before halftime. Brooke Norred found Allen for a 17 yard touchdown, then hit Reagan Thomas on a 61 yard strike with 56 seconds left in the half, on Thomas’s only catch of the night. Maylin Bailey caught the extra point try, and the Panthers led 13-6 at the break. Janiya Jones finished the job with an 11 yard touchdown run with 1:15 to play.

Norred finished 19 of 44 for 211 yards and two touchdown passes, and the Smiths Station defense owned the rest of the night. Lynzie Mounce intercepted three passes, returned them for 10 yards and posted a team high six flag pulls. The Panthers recorded 26 flag pulls, three of them for a loss, and forced four turnovers. Plott carried 14 times for 82 yards and Auburn’s only score.

The win closed the regular season for Smiths Station with 10 wins in 14 games and six wins in seven region games. Auburn, with 10 wins and six losses, moves on to host Baker in the first round. Norred’s season gives the Panthers a chance against anyone left in the bracket: her 3,295 passing yards and 52 touchdown passes both rank second in Alabama, according to MaxPreps.

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James Clemens Gets the Hardest Draw in 6A: A Playoff Trip to Hewitt-Trussville

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8 minutes ago

November 2, 2026

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James Clemens players in action during the Jets' Oct. 20 win over Mae Jemison.

Photo by 100Shotz Media via James Clemens girls flag (@jchsgirlsflag) on Instagram.

Every bracket has a draw nobody wants, and in Class 6A it belongs to James Clemens. The Jets travel to Hewitt-Trussville on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 6 p.m. for a first round playoff game, a road trip confirmed on Hewitt-Trussville’s official athletics schedule.

James Clemens, from Madison, won six of its 14 games and closed the regular season the right way, with a 6-0 shutout win at Columbia on Oct. 27. The Jets’ wins include a 36-6 rout of Bob Jones, a 35-0 shutout of St. John Paul II, a 31-13 win over Mae Jemison on Oct. 20 and an 18-0 shutout of Hazel Green. The losses show the gap the Jets have to close. Gadsden City beat them 36-6 on Oct. 22, and Sparkman edged them 13-6 on Oct. 13.

Hewitt-Trussville is the standard on the other sideline. The Huskies are one of the powers of the 6A bracket, and the program’s flag account still points to the inaugural state title it won in 2021, before flag became an official AHSAA championship sport.

Three of the Jets’ six wins were shutouts, so the defense has traveled before. The game is also one of eight first round matchups in the Class 6A bracket, while eight other teams, including Spain Park and Smiths Station, sit out the week on byes and wait for the winners.

For James Clemens, the math is simple. The Jets have already shown they can pitch a shutout and score in bunches against their own level. Tuesday asks them to do it in the hardest building in the bracket.