Heavily favored Palmetto had no trouble with a Southwest team playing its second game of the week, beating the Eagles, 42-6, Thursday afternoon at Tropical Park. The Panthers (4-1) scored on four of their first five possessions to take a 28-0 lead with 5:16 left in the second quarter. TeDerrius Strowbridge then took the ensuing kickoff 84 yards for Southwest's only points of the game. The Eagles (1-3) offense did not record a first down until 1:10 remained in the half when Owen Gomez picked up 11 yards on two consecutive runs. The defensive highlight for Southwest was an interception by Brandon Smith at the Eagles 25-yard line in the first quarter. The Panthers scored once more to lead, 35-6, at the half. Southwest's only sustained drive of the game came in the third quarter when the Eagles used over seven-and-a-half minutes of game clock to drive from their own 24 to the Palmetto 16 before losses of 6 yards and 10 yards turned the ball over on downs. Palmetto then went 68 yards in four plays for the final points of the game. The stats are here.
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