High school football’s opening weekend in Tennessee finishes up on Saturday.
One game to watch on Saturday evening is Shelbyville Central taking on Tullahoma. It will be a rematch of a thriller that ended the regular season in 2024, with Shelbyville Central pulling off a 28-27 win.
It will also be the 98th time these teams have faced off, with the Golden Eagles leading the series, 49-45-3.
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TULLAHOMA 35, SHELBYVILLE CENTRAL 14 FINAL
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POSTGAME
- A big night from senior tailback Marvancy Johnson helps power Tullahoma to the season-opening win. Johnson scored four total TDs, three of those on the ground. The win by the Wildcats also avenged a tough 28-27 loss to the Golden Eagles last season.
FOURTH QUARTER
- FIELD GOAL TULLAHOMA. Wildcats putting it away now, as Chase Dodson kicks his second field goal on the night, the latest covering 27 yards. (Tullahoma, 35-14 | 4:02, 4th)
- TOUCHDOWN TULLAHOMA. It's the fourth TD on the night for Marvancy Johnson, who goes in from 5 yards out to finish off a 50-yard drive. PAT gives the Wildcats an 18-point lead. (Tullahoma, 32-14 | 8:23, 4th)
- Shelbyville attempts an onside kick, but it goes out of bounds. Tullahoma takes over at midfield.
- TOUCHDOWN SHELBYVILLE. Golden Eagles get back in the game by converting on a fourth-down play, as Stephen Bobo fires a 16-yard TD pass. Robert Bailey adds a two-point run. (Tullahoma, 25-14 | 11:16, 4th)
- Fourth quarter begins with Shelbyville driving deep in Tullahoma territory, but facing a third-and-long.
THIRD QUARTER
- TOUCHDOWN TULLAHOMA. Marvancy Johnson putting on a show in the second half. He just broke off a 54-yard catch-and-run after getting a screen pass from Lucas Reed, stiff-arming a defender at the very end walking into the end zone. Three TDs now for Johnson. Wildcats add a two-point conversion on a keeper from Patrick Riddle. (Tullahoma, 25-6 | 5:56, 3rd)
- TOUCHDOWN TULLAHOMA. Wildcats put together a drive that covered 61 yards to start the second half, capped by a Marvancy Johnson 23-yard run to the house on a third-and-1. Johnson now over 100 yards on the night. PAT is good. (Tullahoma, 17-6 | 8:01, 3rd)
- Tullahoma receives the second-half kick, and we have resumed play.
HALFTIME
- Tullahoma takes a knee to end the first half, and the Wildcats will take a narrow lead into the locker room with them.
SECOND QUARTER
- TOUCHDOWN SHELBYVILLE. Golden Eagles strike quickly, thanks in large part to a 58-yard pass. Robert Bailey ends it with a 10-yard TD run inside the last minute of the half. The PAT is blocked. (Tullahoma, 10-6 | :25, 2nd)
- Tullahoma got a huge break when there was a high snap on a Shelbyville punt attempt, and the punter was brought down inside the Golden Eagle 15. But moments later, a Wildcat pass gets intercepted with 1:44 left in the half.
- Shelbyville faces a fourth-and-goal at the 4 and go for it. They give it to Robert Bailey once more, but this time, he gets stood up by a host of Tullahoma defenders. Wildcats hold and still lead by 10 five minutes into the quarter.
- Another long run from Robert Bailey, covering 15 yards, and Shelbyville has a first-and-goal at the 9.
- Shelbyville is driving as tailback Robert Bailey breaks off a 29-yard run for a first down at the Tullahoma 24.
- TOUCHDOWN TULLAHOMA. On the opening play of the quarter, tailback Marvancy Johnson plows forward and in from 4 yards out. PAT is good, and the Wildcats are now up 10. That was an 11-play, 78-yard scoring drive. (Tullahoma, 10-0 | 11:57, 2nd)
- Tullahoma has a first-and-goal at the Shelbyville 4 as the second quarter gets under way.
FIRST QUARTER
- Tullahoma facing a fourth-and-7 at the Shelbyville 35 and the Wildcats go for it. They get it, as running back Marvancy Johnson darts 14 yards down to the 21.
- INTERCEPTION TULLAHOMA. Shelbyville faces a fourth down inside the Tullahoma 40 and decides to go for it. Golden Eagles attempt a long pass, but the Wildcats' Sam Bobo comes up with the pick inside his own 10 with nearly four minutes left in the quarter.
- FIELD GOAL TULLAHOMA. Wildcats get inside the 25 before the drive stalls. But Chase Dodson comes out to kick a 40-yard field goal attempt, and he's able to send one over the uprights. (Tullahoma, 3-0 | 5:42, 1st)
- A 23-yard pass play gets Tullahoma a first down in Shelbyville territory, near the Golden Eagle 40.
- Three-and-out for Shelbyville on the opening series, and the Golden Eagles will punt it away. Tullahoma starts its first offensive series near its own 35.
- Tullahoma wins the toss and defers. Shelbyville Central will receive the opening kick.
PREGAME
- Live from Tullahoma, as Shelbyville Central gets set to take on Tullahoma on a Tennessee Saturday night.
ABOUT SHELBYVILLE CENTRAL
The Golden Eagles are coming off a strong 2024 season, in which they finished 12-2 and reached the third round of the Class 5A playoffs. They also went a perfect 6-0 in 5A Region 5 competition. Last season, senior tailback Robert Bailey rushed for 1,860 yards and scored 23 TDs.
ABOUT TULLAHOMA
As for the Wildcats, they went 6-5 a season ago, falling to Nolensville in the first round of the 5A playoffs. Tullahoma also has a superb tailback to watch in senior Marvancy Johnson, who rushed for nearly 1,500 yards and scored 17 TDs in 2024.
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