When Booneville and Hackett played a year ago they set a Booneville school record for most combined points in a game with 121 and the two offenses gained 1089 yards in doing so, just nine yards off of a combined team school record for the Bearcats.
Dax Goff was one of two 200-yard rushers for the Bearcats in that game – there was a third rusher with more than 100 yards – and Hackett quarterback Cole Ketchum threw for 436 yards and five touchdowns giving him 553 in two career games against the Bearcats. Ketchum played quarterback as a freshman in the playoff game.
• Mascots: Booneville Bearcats; Hackett Hornets
• When: 7 pm, September 22, at Doug Scheel Field at Bearcat Stadium
• Series: Booneville leads 2-0-0 (1.000)
• Last Meeting: Bearcats 75 Hackett 46 on September 23, 2022
• Streak: Booneville has won last 2
• First Meeting: Bearcats 41 Hackett 12 on November 20, 2020
• Conference Affiliations: Both are 3A-1
TODAY IN BEARCAT FOOTBALL HISTORY: The Bearcats are 7-3-1 all time in games documented to have been played on September 22. On September 22, 1978 Michael Johnson returned a fumble 44 yards for a touchdown and Ronnie Littleton ran for 220 yards in a 40-25 win over Danville. On September 22, 2000 Brad West had a 76-yard run and a 69-yard touchdown pass to Will Swint, who had 103 receiving yards, in a 41-8 win over Mansfield.
ELSEWHERE CONFERENCE 3A-1: Cedarville (0-3) at Lavaca (3-0), West Fork (1-2) at Mansfield (3-0), and Greenland (1-2) at Charleston (0-3).
NOTES: Cumulative, the 3A-1 was a combined 11-13 with the following breakdown: 0-1 vs Class 5A, 4-8 vs Cass 4A, 3-2 vs other Class 3A, 3-1 vs Class 2A, and 1-1 vs Okla., Class 1A. After cutting their penalties from 15 to 5 between weeks one and two, the Bearcats were penalized 10 times in week 3. The combined yardage is 254, or almost 85 per game. Hackett is one of the four Conference 3A-1 teams to have a new head coach this season. Now in charge is Mason Wann.
MORE HISTORY: The 1973 Bearcat team is having a 50-year reunion tonight. Under Gene Bradley the 1973 Bearcats were the first team to win two playoff games and they started the season with six straight shutouts, a consecutive shutout game record that still stands. The 1973 Bearcats finished 10-2, marking the first 10-win campaign by Booneville since the 11-0 1953 team. Included was a 6-0 win over Van Buren with a flea flicker from Ricky Holcomb to Eddie Steele being the only points in the game. Two other games are of note. In the season finale against Paris, both teams were 8-1 and had clinched conference titles as Paris was in AA and the Bearcats in A. It was 14-12 at the half and stayed that way through the final. The other was the opening round playoff game against Atkins and Donnie Bobo. A double reverse pass, in a sudden death overtime won it, 22-14.
