VESTAVIA HILLS – Vestavia Hills High School took an important step in Class 7A, Region 3 play with a 54-28 win over visiting Prattville on Friday night. Don’t let the final score fool you, though, this one was far from easy for the Rebels.

“Well, I mean, we took a bunch of punches in the first half and that's football,” said Vestavia Hills head coach Robert Evans. “They had a great plan, changed their offense over the off week, changed quarterbacks and did completely new stuff. And I was scrambling. We were scrambling. And so you credit them. They had a great plan. But we responded in the second half. We were aggressive and kind of got back to what we do.”

One of the prime ingredients was putting the ball in the hands of Charlie Taaffe, who had a sensational evening from the start. The

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