The game was a tale of two halves as the teams jockeyed for momentum in the first half.

A week after needing last-second heroics to secure a win, the Arkadelphia Badgers took care of things much earlier Friday night in a 49-6 win over the Arkansas High Razorbacks at Carpenter-Haygood Stadium.

Trailing 28-21 with four seconds left and the ball on the Trojans 5 yard-line, Badger WR LaTonnieo Hughes hauled in a pass from QB Donovan Whitten for a touchdown as time expired.

In a matchup of two teams ranked among the top teams of their respective classifications in the preseason, Friday night’s game looked for one half that it would be a back-and-forth battle resembling the overtime game between the two in 2020.

Where high schools are allowed to play 10 regular season games over an 11-week period, only two of the 4A-7 schools have 10 games this season.