High school football got under way Thursday night in Tennessee with a game between two high-powered offenses.
Knoxville Halls travels to take on Oak Ridge in a game featuring two teams that combined to win 17 ballgames last season. Both teams also feature returning quarterbacks (Halls’ Amari Lethgo and Oak Ridge’s Blaine Stansberry) who combined for nearly 4,900 yards passing.
It will be the first game between the Red Devils and the Wildcats since 2014, when Oak Ridge prevailed, 42-0.
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KNOXVILLE HALLS 0, OAK RIDGE 0 1ST QTR.
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PREGAME
– Coming to you from Oak Ridge as the Wildcats welcome in Knoxville Halls as part of a Thursday night season opening game in eastern Tennessee.
ABOUT KNOXVILLE HALLS
Lethgo passed for 2,602 yards on 200 completions and 24 TDs last season. He returns his leading receiver in Brody Rogers, who caught 73 passes for 1,002 yards and eight TDs.
The Red Devils finished 8-4 last season.
ABOUT OAK RIDGE
The Wildcats finished 9-5 in ’24 but made it all the way to the Class 5A semifinals.
Stansberry is back after a junior season in which he passed for nearly 2,300 yards and 19 TDs. He also brings back one of his main receiving targets in Will Pressley, who had 900 yards and 10 scores.
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