Hewitt-Trussville Huskies (9-2)                 vs.        Thompson Warriors (10-0)
                       

Class 2A B.B. Comer at Abbeville is Small-School TV Game

Thompson-Hewitt Rematch is Featured
AHSAA TV Network Game of the Week Friday  
MONTGOMERY – When Thompson and Hewitt-Trussville high schools clash in football, one thing is certain. Fans are promised a classic battle of two of the AHSAA’s premier Class 7A football teams.
    The defending Class 7A state champion Warriors (11-0) roll into Friday’s AHSAA TV Network/NFHS Network Game of the Week riding a 15-game winning streak. Hewitt-Trussville (9-2) comes in as the last team in the AHSAA to beat Thompson – winning 35-29 in the last game of the regular season in 2019.
     Thanks to WOTM TV and its executive producer Vince Earley, this much anticipated re-match will be on statewide and national display Friday night at Alabaster’s Warrior Stadium as the AHSAA TV Network/NFHS Network Football Game of the Week. WOTM TV is also producing a second small-school Game of the Week – B.B. Comer (10-1) at Abbeville (10-1), which will be shown over the AHSAA TV Network of WOTM cable affiliates as well as being live-streamed over the NFHS Network.
      The NFHS Network’s AHSAA School Broadcast Program has scheduled 40 of the 52 AHSAA state-playoff games on the live-streaming subscriber-based platform this week and member schools in the NFHS Network are producing another 170 boys’ and girls’ varsity, junior varsity, freshman and middle school basketball games through Saturday. A total of 74 varsity girls’ and boys’ have been scheduled as the 2020-21 AHSAA basketball season closes out its second week of the young season.
      Plenty of attention will be directed to Thompson, coached by Mark Freeman, and Hewitt-Trussville, coached by Josh Floyd. The two coaches’ careers and their successes at their current schools closely mirror each other.  Consider these facts.

• Hewitt-Trussville played its first season in 1922. The Huskies are currently 450-428-28 overall since that start. Thompson fielded its first football team in 1928 and currently stands at 449-381-14 overall.

• The Warriors and Huskies have played 12 games with each winning six in the series. The two schools split a six-game series played from 1972-78 and have also gone 3-3 in their more modern series – playing six times in the last seven years with each winning three games apiece.

• The series has been close – with Hewitt outscoring Thompson 309-302 in the series – including 194-188 in the last six meetings.

• Thompson’s Freeman and Hewitt’s Floyd are both in their sixth seasons at the two schools. Freeman is 56-14 in that span with the school’s only Class 7A state crown, and Floyd is 56-23 with back-to-back 11-1 seasons in 2017 and 2018.

• Freeman is 220-51 overall with stops at Spanish Fort, Gulf Shores and AHSAA non-member Bessemer Academy. His teams won two state titles at Spanish Fort and four AISA state crowns at Bessemer.

• Floyd, who came to Alabama from Arkansas, is 140-46-1 in 16 seasons with four state crowns and one state runner-up finish at Shiloh Christian in Springdale.

    Both teams are loaded with talent this season. Thompson won the regular-season battle 35-21 over the Huskies and Hoover handed Hewitt its over loss 29-28. In last week’s first round of the state playoffs, Thompson beat Grissom 49-7 and Hewitt downed James Clemens 55-12.
    Abbeville (9-1) and B.B. Comer (10-1) roll into their Class 2A second-round playoff contest with a lot of momentum. The Yellow Jackets of Coach LaBrian Stewart beat Thorsby 44-6 last week and the Tigers of Coach Adam Fossett advanced with a first-round COVID 19 forfeit from St. Luke’s Episcopal.
     For a preview of both games, check out the AHSAA TV Weekly Program at the following link: https://youtu.be/w3UBPK1yODw
     Kickoff for both games is set for 7 p.m., and can be seen over the subscriber-based NFHS Network and the WOTM TV Network’s cable station affiliates across the state.
     WOTM will also feature a playoff game of the week in the quarterfinals and semifinals and will produce all seven state finals at the 2020 Super 7 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa in December for the AHSAA TV Network.
    The NFHS Network link for the Thompson-Hewitt Game of the Week is:
http://www.nfhsnetwork.com/events/ahsaa/gambf0ad8861b?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=ahsaa.com&utm_campaign=ahsaaweekly
        The NFHS Network link for B.B. Comer vs. Abbeville is:
http://www.nfhsnetwork.com/events/ahsaa/gam585303fb4d?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=ahsaa.com&utm_campaign=ahsaaweeklyFor information concerning the

AHSAA TV Network’s WOTM cable availability, go to the following link:
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The complete AHSAA schedule of events set to be livestreamed over the NFHS Network tonight through October 17 can be found at:
https://www.ahsaa.com/Portals/0/11-11%20events.pdf