CLAY – Once the Clay-Chalkville High School football team settled in and grabbed the lead, the Cougars never relinquished control of the game.

The Cougars earned a commanding 35-17 win over Homewood on Friday night in the Class 6A quarterfinals.

The game had multiple pillars of significance. Clay-Chalkville improves to 13-0 on the year and now gets a chance to exact a measure of revenge on Muscle Shoals next Friday in the semifinals. A trip to the same spot a year ago marked a premature end to the Cougars’ season.

“It’s poetic that you come up short up there,” Clay-Chalkville head coach Stuart Floyd said. “We didn’t play our best and they played well [last year]. To go up there and have a chance to win that game and be the North champion, we’ll be looking forward to it.”

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