{"id":19059,"date":"2018-10-22T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/?p=19059"},"modified":"2018-11-29T00:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:11:55","slug":"hoover-clinches-playoff-birth-with-win-over-vestavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/2018\/10\/22\/hoover-clinches-playoff-birth-with-win-over-vestavia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoover clinches playoff birth with win over Vestavia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Vestavia Hills, AL – The Hoover Bucs<\/strong><\/a> (6-2, 5-1) secured their 18th consecutive playoff birth with their 31-14 victory over arch rival Vestavia Hills<\/strong><\/a> (4-4, 2-4) Friday night at Thompson Reynolds Stadium. <\/p>\n The win gave Hoover head coach Josh Niblett his 200th career victory. Niblett, 200-50 over 19 years as a head coach, currently ranks 15th in wins among the state’s active head coaches. <\/p>\n \n\n After the break, Alabama commit Will Reichard nailed a 21 yard fielgoal to extend the Hoover lead to 24-7. The Rebels pulled back within a pair of scores early in the fourth on a Cooper Bishop 22 yard touchdown until Ashford dashed hopes of a Rebel comeback on the Bucs next possession, bolting into the endzone from 80 yards out. <\/p>\n Hoover signal caller Robbie Ashford completed 12 of 21 passes for 163 yards and a touchdown through the air, he added another 130 yards and a pair of scores on the ground. Auburn commit George Pickens hauled in eight receptions for for 83 yards and a score. Running back Larry McCammon ran for 112 yards on 11 carries and second quarter touchdown run. <\/p>\n Vestavia running back Cooper Bishop lead the Rebels on the ground with 145 yards and a score on 26 carries. <\/p>\n Hoover currently sits in a four way tie in the 7A region 3 race with Hewitt-Trussville <\/strong><\/a>(7-2, 5-1), Mountain Brook<\/strong><\/a> (7-1, 5-1), and Thompson <\/strong><\/a>(7-1, 5-1). <\/p>\n Hoover returns home to the Hoover Met next week to host region rival Mountain Brook<\/strong><\/a> (7-1, 5-1). Vestavia travels to Shelby County to take on the Oak Mountain Eagles<\/strong><\/a> (1-7, 0-6) at Herdmont Park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vestavia Hills, AL – The Hoover Bucs (6-2, 5-1) secured their 18th consecutive playoff birth with their 31-14 victory over arch rival Vestavia Hills (4-4, 2-4) Friday night at Thompson Reynolds Stadium. The win gave Hoover head coach Josh Niblett his 200th career victory. Niblett, 200-50 over 19 years as a head coach, currently…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[124,119,6,494,68],"tags":[19,7,10,11,57],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19063,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059\/revisions\/19063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepsnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}