It was already well established that Honaker High School owned the highest-scoring and most explosive offense among high school football teams in far Southwest Virginia.
They took it to a whole different level on Friday night.
Boy, did they ever.
Peyton Musick threw for 370 yards and six touchdowns as the Tigers outlasted homestanding Narrows for an entertaining and unbelievable 74-51 non-district triumph on Friday night.
Honaker (7-0) set a single-game program record for points, eclipsing the previous mark of 69 points scored in a 2012 playoff win over Patrick Henry.
The Tigers led 22-0 after one quarter and 52-28 at halftime. It was the fourth game this season Honaker had scored 50 or more points in the first half.
Making the high-scoring affair even more notable is that neither team scored in the third quarter.
The teams also combined for 19 penalties covering 164 yards.
Musick threw his first interception of the year, but that can be overlooked as he now has 55 career TD passes in what is yet another school record. He also caught a 26-yard pass from Aidan Lowe on a trick play on Friday.
Parker Bandy had himself quite the night as well as he caught eight passes for 156 yards and a touchdown, returned a kickoff 68 yards for a score, made six tackles, intercepted two passes and forced a fumble. Bandy holds Honaker’s career record for receiving yards.
Austin Clayburne returned an interception for a score, as did Tyler Stephens.
Aidan Lowe (nine carries, 71 yards, one TD; six catches, 61 yards, two TDs), Malachi Lowe (three catches, 76 yards, two TDs) and Tyler Stephens (four catches, 64 yards, one TD) deserve mention too in a game where the contributors were countless.
Narrows (5-2) was intercepted six times.
The game took its place among high-scoring games played by local squads.
Among those have been Tazewell 69, Rural Retreat 62 (2016), Rye Cove 72, Holston 62 (2014), Science Hill 76, Tennessee High 48 (2012), Lebanon 69, Rural Retreat 56 (2006), Northwood 66, John Battle 58 (2005) and Dobyns-Bennett 193, Norton 0 (1925) to name just a few.
Honaker 22 30 0 22—74
Narrows 0 28 0 23—51
H – A. Lowe 7 run (A. Lowe run)
H – T. Stephens 15 pass from P. Musick (pass failed)
H – M. Lowe 2 pass from P. Musick (A. Lowe run)
N – M. McGlothlin 15 pass from Pruett (kick good)
H – Clayburne 18 INT return (pass failed)
N – Pruett 50 run (kick good)
H – A. Lowe 32 pass from P. Musick (M. Lowe pass from P. Musick)
H – Stephens 39 INT return (A. Lowe pass from P. Musick)
N – Pruett 19 run (kick good)
H – Bandy 68 kickoff return (B. Marsh run)
N – Knoetze 56 pass from Pruett (kick good)
H – M. Lowe 74 pass from P. Musick (Bandy pass from P. Musick)
H – A. Lowe 11 pass from P. Musick (run failed)
N – Helvey 10 pass from Pruett (kick good)
N – Pruett 14 run (Pruett pass from Helvey)
H – Bandy 45 pass from P. Musick (J. Dye run)
N – L. Smith 35 pass from Pruett (L. Smith pass from Pruett)