The Cannon County Lions football team played in their second homecoming game in a row Friday night. This time it was their own. Before the game started Kendra Maynard was announced as the 2014 homecoming queen. Then it was off to start the football game. For the third game in a row, Macon County took the opening kick and 7 plays 58 yards later Macon County freshman quarterback Seth Carlisle scored the first of his four touchdowns of the night. Cannon threatened to tie the game midway in the second half after a 61 yard pass from quarterback Josh Walkup to Wilder Mankin helped get the ball in scoring position at the six yard line. Cannon would get as close as the one yard line before a holding penalty backed them up to the 11. On the next play the Lions fumbled the ball. Macon County recovered the fumble and took advantage of the turnover putting together another 6 play 89 yard drive capped off by Carlisle breaking a 30 yard sprint to the end zone to make it 14-0. Macon would add more points on their first offensive possession in the second half with almost a 6 minute 76 yard drive that saw Carlisle walk into the end zone putting a 21-0 lead up on the scoreboard. Macon County finished up their end of the scoring in the game with Carlisle stepping in the end zone after a 2 yard run to make it 28-0. It looked like Cannon would end up getting shut out in the scoring column with about 20 seconds left after getting the ball back from an interception, Walkup again hooked up with Mankin this time for a 71 yard touchdown strike and even though the two point conversion failed Cannon got on the scoreboard 28-6. In addition to the 133 yards passing on the 2 completions Cannon overall gained 235 yards of total offense. They gave up 375 yards to Macon County including 264 on the ground. Cannon will see another homecoming queen crowned Friday when they travel to District leading Livingston to participate in Livingston’s homecoming Friday night.
