The St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets (JV) football team improve to 2-0 with an impressive win.

On Thursday, September 11th, the St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets Junior Varsity football team traveled into Clay County to face the Ridgeview High School Panthers Junior Varsity football team from Orange Park.  Coming into the game, both teams were undefeated with the Panthers averaging 36 points per game on offense and allowing only 9 points per game on defense.  The Jackets scored touchdowns on their first two drives due to a strong running game from Martrell Storey and Varius Woodard and a very efficient passing game lead by quarterback Austin Reed, #7, to take a 14-0 lead.  The Jackets defense had to overcome several second quarter penalties and make a strong defensive stand on a Panthers 1st and goal from the Jackets 3 yard line to hold the Panthers to only a field goal in the first half.

The Ridgeview Panthers made the game close after a Jackets turnover resulted in a long Panthers drive for a touchdown to cut the Jackets lead to 14-10.  On the Jackets next possession, quarterback Austin Reed, #7, engineered a long, time consuming drive that ended in a 10 yard touchdown pass from Reed to Varius Woodard, #4, that increased the Jackets lead to 20-10.  The St. Augustine defense continued to perform well holding the Panthers on their last offensive drive.  Needing first downs to finish the game, the Jackets established a long drive, kept alive by two 20 yard passes to pick up first downs and run out the clock in the game for a St. Augustine Jackets 20-10 road win to improve to 2-0 on the season.

Quarterback Austin Reed, #7, performed very well managing the offensive game and completing 72% of his passes (13-18) for 150 yards, 1 touchdown/1 interception .  Austin completed passes to 7 different receivers during the game including: Emerson Kabus, Varius Woodard, Deven Gray, Karim Brown, Martrell Storey, Tyrek Russ, and Daniel Peterson.  The next game for the St. Augustine High School Yellow Jackets JV football team is Thursday, September 18th at St. Augustine High School Brumley Stadium for the JV Jackets 2014 home opener against the Bartram Trail High School Bears JV football team at 7:00 p.m.