{"id":169358,"date":"2025-08-23T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169358\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:38:18","slug":"houston-county-pulls-away-from-effingham-in-56-42-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169358\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston County Pulls Away from Effingham in 56-42 Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>SPRINGFIELD, Ga.<\/b> \u2013 Led by reserve quarterback Kris Swinney, Effingham County stayed close to Houston County for a half, but the Bears pulled away in the second half for a 56-42 win in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.effinghamherald.net\/sports\/high-school-football\/rebels-kick-off-season-with-big-energy-and-spirit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Rebels\u2019 season opener<\/a> Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Swinney stepped in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.effinghamherald.net\/sports\/effingham-county-qb-tucker-perkins-looks-to-lead-rebels-past-houston-county-in-2025-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starter Tucker Perkins<\/a>, who suffered an ankle injury on the Rebels\u2019 fourth possession.<\/p>\n<p>Swinney directed three straight touchdown drives and finished with three rushing scores and a touchdown pass to Trayvis Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>With the score tied at 35 at halftime, Houston regrouped and outgained Effingham 168 yards to minus-4 in the third quarter, scoring twice to take control.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter, Perkins threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to Isaiah Brown and added an 8-yard scoring run.<\/p>\n<p>Effingham County will be back in action next Friday against New Hampstead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD, Ga. \u2013 Led by reserve quarterback Kris Swinney, Effingham County stayed close to Houston County for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-169358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115078594967428021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}