Things had been going so well for the area football teams in terms of injuries, but that came to a crashing halt Friday night when three starting quarterbacks either went down or were held out completely due to injuries.

Benjamin Russell’s Carter Smith suffered his second concussion of the year and did not play the entire second half; Central Coosa’s Donta Daniel, who pretty much makes the Cougars go, also went down with a concussion midway through the second quarter; and Dadeville’s Lane Smith was held out completely with a knee injury.

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