Corbin, Johnson Central football square off Friday night

The Corbin High School Football Team ran their overall season record to 12-0 with a victory Friday night over district foe Lincoln County, and now are making plans for a rematch against Johnson Central, which was the team that eliminated them from the playoffs last season.

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Friday night’s Corbin vs. Lincoln County High School football game essentially turned into the Seth Huff show as the Corbin running back scored four touchdowns to lead Corbin to a 42-21 victory and another district title.

Overall Huff carried the ball 16 times garnering 168 net rushing yards.

Cameron Combs added six

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rushes for 73 yards. Seth Mills also had six rushes for 18 total yards and one touchdown in the victory.

“I am tickled to death. Our guys played a very focused football team, and played aggressive and very physical,” said Corbin Head Coach Tom Greer.

“Lincoln County had a heck of a football team. They have a couple of really good skill guys. They

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had a big offensive and defensive line. We were very pleased with the effort our guys played with and how they executed our game plan.

Lincoln County got the ball to start the game, but had to punt on its fourth play of the drive. Corbin blocked the punt then scored a scored a touchdown on its opening possession driving 39 yards. They found the

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endzone on a Huff 20-yard run with 6:45 to go

in the first quarter, and converted the extra point to go up 7-0.

Lincoln County responded scoring a touchdown on its next drive with a 36-yard touchdown pass with 2:29 to go in the first quarter, but missed the extra point kick leaving Corbin up 7-6.

Huff ran in a second touchdown with 9:21 to go in the second quarter and a third touchdown with 4:59 to go in the second quarter that put resulted in a 21-6 Hounds lead.

On a drive right before the end of the half, which was aided by a big pass interference call, Lincoln County scored its second touchdown of the game on a short run with one second to go in the half. Lincoln County then converted the two-point conversion to make the score 21-14 at the half.

The Redhounds got the ball to start the third quarter and scored their fourth touchdown of the night on a six-yard touchdown run by Mills with 10:14 to go in the third quarter to go up 28-14.

The Patriots responded scoring a touchdown on their next possession with 8:12 go to in the third making the score 28-21.

Redhounds defender Seth Mills intercepted a third and 17 pass attempt and ran the ball back about 20 yards for the Hounds fifth touchdown of the game with 2:59 to go in the third quarter making the score 35-21.

Redhounds defender Evan Poore grabbed another interception with 7:09 remaining in the fourth quarter, which lead to Huff’s fourth touchdown of the night with 6:16 left in the fourth quarter. This put the Hounds up 42-21, which was the final score of the game.

Overall, the Redhounds had 265 yards of rushing, and 63 passing yards on the night.

Dakota Patterson led the team in receiving garnering 30 yards on four pass receptions. Zander Curry and Colton Creekmore each contributed one catch.

Cameron Combs was five for nine in the air with 57 passing yards. Kade Elam completed one pass on one attempt for six yards.

The Redhounds now turn their attention to Johnson Central, which beat Corbin by a score of 14-28 in a class 4A quarter final match-up played at Johnson Central in 2020.

Greer noted that one plus is the game is being played at Corbin this year.

Johnson Central leads all 4A teams in the state in scoring with 44.4 points per game. Corbin is ranked second in the state with 43.8 points scored per game. In terms of team defense, Corbin is ranked first in 4A only allowing an average of 10.3 points per game. Johnson Central ranks eighth in 4A with 15.2 points allowed per game, according to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

Johnson Central is averaging 345 yards rushing per game while Corbin is averaging 250 yards this season. The Redhounds also average 160 yards passing per game.

“It will be two evenly matched teams. They are about 95 percent run. We will have to do a really good job taking the run away from them, if possible. It will be a good physical football game,” Greer said.

He said one of the keys to the game will be Corbin continuing to execute offensively, which it has been doing at a high rate this season.

“Defensively, we just have to be sound and not have missed tackles. They are going to run it, and with missed tackles they can get a score. We just have to executive on both sides of the football,” Greer added.