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Hazard
430+ yards total offense
244 yards rushing
Corey Smith 142 yards Blair 85 yards

190 yards passing. Johnson 90+ yards

Hazard was able to run Smith inside even with Pikeville stacking the box to stop it. . Bodes well for the future.

Yes no problem moving the chains on Pikeville. Turnovers, penalties, and defensive mistakes made difference.

Turnovers are inevitable but must be kept to a minimum. Defensive mistakes will be corrected..... if Hazard is to make a run.

Pikeville 406 yards of offense, out rushed Hazard 270-244, passing yardage was 190-136 to Hazards advantage (most of which came on final two TDs in 4th qtr when Pikeville went to a prevent D). Pikeville was up 29-7 heading into the 4th qtr. Stats don't always tell the whole story. Smith was held over 30 yards below his per game average. Smith is an outstanding back, he's going to get his yards every time. He's averaging 21 carries a game, so that's a given, against Pikeville he had 21 carries for 33 yards less than his avg per game. So actually, he had a harder time getting his yards against Pikeville than he has in other games.

All in all, as someone else said, it was two heavyweights slugging it out in the end. Pikeville made fewer mistakes and took advantage of turnovers, which good teams do, as well as limiting their own mistakes/turnovers. Have a feeling these two will see each other again down the road.