Lexington, KY – The University of Kentucky JV team took advantage of seven Hargrave turnovers on their way to a 49-14 victory over the visiting Tigers on Friday afternoon in Commonwealth Stadium. On a day when the temperature was in the high 30’s it was the Hargrave production that was ice cold. The Tigers fumbled the ball six times, losing all but one of them to the Wildcats. Kentucky was able to turn those miscues into points, scoring thirty-five off of the turnovers.
Hargrave was able to tie the game up in the first quarter when Emanuel Francis found Chris Slaughter on a touchdown pass to knot the game up at seven points a piece. Kentucky would take the ball down the field and put the ball in the end zone on the ensuing drive to go ahead 14-7.
Hargrave threatened in the second quarter, but a pair of fumbles in Kentucky territory thwarted any chance to slow down the Wildcats.
Kentucky would again take advantage of the mistakes and produced fourteen points off of the two fumbles to take a 28-7 lead going into the half.
The second half would prove to be much of the same as Hargrave could not put anything together. In the third quarter the Tigers cut the Wildcat lead in half after Jamie Childers found Quentin McCree from ten yards out, but the scoring would end there for Hargrave.
Kentucky stayed in control and took advantage of an additional pair of fumbles inside the Hargrave twenty yard line, both leading to touchdowns late in the fourth quarter.
The Tigers will take a week off before hosting prep school rival Fork Union Military Academy in what will be the last game of the season for Hargrave. The game will be played on November 4th in Chatham, Virginia.
