Benjamin Russell has roller coaster of a season
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Lizi Arbogast / The Outlook Benjamin Russell's Landon Jacobs (39) came on strong this year after being thrown into the fire when Lane Rigsby suffered a season-ending injury during preseason practice.

When a team finishes with a .500 record, it’s hard to say it had a bad season. But Benjamin Russell certainly didn’t have the season it wanted or expected, and the Wildcats aren’t often sitting at home during the first round of the postseason.

However, it’s tough to quantify Benjamin Russell’s season as “bad” because it really wasn’t. There were a lot of highs — knocking off Demopolis, which was ranked at the time; shutting out Beauregard and Valley; exploding for 55 points against Chilton County; having a defensive showdown with Stanhope Elmore — and regardless of what happened on the scoreboard, it seemed evident the Wildcats got better and better at what they wanted to do throughout the year.

Lizi Arbogast is the sports editor at Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc.