Good defense, a time-consuming offense and special teams that came up big when needed were the key components as Covington ran away with a 56-6 victory over Booker T. Washington at Jack Salter Stadium on Sept. 19.

Covington turned on the pressure from the outset and never looked back. After BTW received the opening kickoff and started from its own 18, quarterback Lionel Jordan threw an interception on the first play from scrimmage to Covington’s Steele Rogers, who returned it 25 yards to put the Lions up 7-0 just 17 seconds into the game.

The Covington defense kept the clamps down for the rest of the game, and Rogers said that’s just how the Lions like it.

“We deserve it,” Rogers said. “We worked hard all week to do what we needed to do to get pressure on the QB.

“We’ve been working on

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