Trailing 16-0 at the half, Benjamin Russell came out on the field with a zero-zero scoreboard mindset that nearly propelled it to a victory over Huffman.
“We told them to forget the score,” Wildcat coach Kevin Smith said. “We knew if we could just settle down we could fight our way back into the ballgame.”
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