Mountain Brook 24, Hewitt-Trussville 0
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Mountain Brook quarterback Will Brewster (14) gets ready to throw a pass against Hewitt-Trussville during the Spartans' victory Friday night. (Frank Couch/fcouch@al.com)
MOUNTAIN BROOK, Alabama -- Sixth-ranked Mountain Brook used a suffocating defense and the long ball to remain unbeaten with a 24-0 victory over Hewitt-Trussville in Class 6A, Region 6 action.
But the win could have been a costly one as junior quarterback Will Brewster went out in the second quarter with a thumb injury and didn’t return. Brewster completed 12-of-15 passes for 222 yards and threw touchdown passes of 53 and 69 yards to stake the Spartans (7-0, 4-0) to a 14-0 halftime advantage.
“He kind of dinged his thumb,” said Spartans coach Chris Yeager. “We had a 14-0 lead at the time so it was kind of a precautionary thing. We did send him to get it x-rayed so we’ll have to wait and see.”
The Mountain Brook defense did the rest.
Hewitt Trussville managed only three first downs (two by penalty) and 55 total yards in the first half, with 22 of those coming on the first play on a 22-yard pass from Sam Miller to DeMarcus Kelly.
Adam Harvey had three sacks and two other tackles behind the line and Hunter Holcomb also had a pair of sacks.
“The defense was dominant,” Yeager said. “They were like crazed dogs out there. They gave second, third and fourth effort all night.”
The Huskies (3-4, 2-3) finished with only 45 yards rushing on 29 attempts and 174 total yards.
“It was a lot of fun out there,” Harvey said. “The key for us was every single player was doing his job out there. We don’t have the one great athlete, but we have everybody out there playing to the best of their ability on every single snap.”
Brewster threw a 53-yard touchdown to Reagan Alexander with 2:30 left in the first quarter and a 69-yard touchdown to Patrick Sullivan with 3:58 left in the half.
Sullivan finished with nine catches for 151 yards while Alexander had five catches for 115 yards.
Running back Gene Bromberg added 115 yards of his game-high 145 yards in the second half, including a seven-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.
