{"id":171278,"date":"2025-08-24T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171278\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:33:09","slug":"germantown-sends-a-message-to-houston-winning-44-23-in-heated-rivalry-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171278\/","title":{"rendered":"Germantown sends a message to Houston, winning 44-23 in heated rivalry matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; One of the biggest rivalries in Memphis went down on a Saturday night as the Houston Mustangs faced off against the Germantown Red Devils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The action took place on Germantown\u2019s home turf as the defending state champion, Houston Mustangs, were led by quarterback Canon Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston would enter the second quarter with a 3-0 lead when Germantown would answer as quarterback Jourdin Shelton located Tre\u2019von McGory for a 20-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a two-point conversation, the Red Devils took their first lead of the season, 8-3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just a few minutes later, Shelton launched a 52-yard bomb to Laquan Higginbottom to increase the lead to 16-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Day would get his team back in the game, finding Ean Chester for a 17-yard score to bring the deficit to 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Germantown would continue to pour it on as tacked on another 6 points for the Red Devils with a 35-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston would not be able to get back in the game as Germantown served the Mustangs a 20-piece on the opening night of football and threw in an extra, winning the Battle for Germantown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Final Score = Germantown, 44, Houston 23 <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; One of the biggest rivalries in Memphis went down on a Saturday night as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[57106,104,57105,57102,37211,4345,57100,3577,57099,57104,57103,57107,97866,5313,57108,62,358,3187,57109,57101,57096,57098,57097],"class_list":{"0":"post-171278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bartlett","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-collierville","11":"tag-east-arkansas","12":"tag-germantown","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-i-40","15":"tag-memphis","16":"tag-mid-south","17":"tag-missouri-boothill","18":"tag-north-mississippi","19":"tag-olive-branch","20":"tag-saturday-night-football","21":"tag-severe-weather","22":"tag-southaven","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-tx","26":"tag-west-memphis","27":"tag-west-tennessee","28":"tag-wmc-action-news-5","29":"tag-wmc5","30":"tag-wmctv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115082822017241954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171278","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=171278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}