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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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The Skipps Twins Deliver Alaska’s Title, and Dimond’s Run Ends One Game Short
Alaska’s girls flag football championship ran through a pair of twin sisters.
Taimane and Jade Skipps combined to score all four of North Pole’s touchdowns as the Patriots beat Colony 27-21 on Oct. 10 at Wasilla High School to win the ASAA First National Bowl state championship. Both twins were named to the all-tournament team. North Pole finished 19-2 and claimed its second state title in three years, having won Alaska’s inaugural tournament in 2024.
The Patriots’ semifinal was the weekend’s most lopsided statement: a 32-0 shutout of Anchorage power Dimond. Colony reached the final by upsetting defending champion South Anchorage 13-0 in the other semifinal, after opening its tournament with a 53-6 rout of Service.
Dimond, pictured above in its Sept. 29 meeting with South, had authored its own memorable fall — a 46-6 rout of Wasilla and a 6-0 overtime win over South among the highlights the Lynx posted this season. The semifinal shutout ended the run one game short of the final, but Dimond remains one of the programs setting the standard in the Cook Inlet Conference, where Anchorage’s schools have driven the sport’s growth.
That growth is the bigger Alaska story. A state tournament that did not exist three years ago now produces a final four of North Pole, Colony, Dimond and South Anchorage — programs from the Fairbanks area, the Mat-Su Valley and Anchorage trading shutouts and one-score games in October weather that would cancel games almost anywhere else.
North Pole owns the trophy again, and the Skipps twins own the story. But the field chasing them is getting deeper every year, and Dimond’s fall is proof the Patriots will not hold the top spot unchallenged for long.
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