Tennessee high school football scores, TSSAA live updates for Week 5 in Nashville area

Tom Kreager and Nick Gray, Nashville Tennessean
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It's Battle of the Woods night.

Brentwood travels to Ravenwood for their annual rivalry game. It marks the top Nashville area high school football game in Week 5 of the Tennessee high school football season.

This marks the second big week of region games. Both Brentwood (3-1) and Ravenwood (2-2) are 1-0 in Region 7-6A along with Independence.

Mississippi State quarterback commitment Chris Parson leads Ravenwood's offense. Parson has thrown for 696 yards, ran for 361 yards and has three passing and five rushing touchdowns. He faces a Brentwood defense that is giving up just nine points a game.

While the Battle of the Woods highlights the week, there are other prime meetings.

That includes Baylor at Pope John Paul II, White County at Mt. Juliet and Riverdale at Rockvale.

Follow our live updates throughout the night.

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Week 5 scores

A few more final scores....

  • Blackman 35, Stewarts Creek 28

  • CPA 28, Goodpasture 14

  • Hendersonville 22, Gallatin 9

  • Independence 27, Franklin 17

  • Rockvale 20, Riverdale 7

  • Waverly 32, White House 21

  • Lipscomb Academy 41, FRA 12

The full scoreboard can be found here.

Mt. Juliet walks it off with a field goal!

What a game.. Mt. Juliet uses a hook-and-ladder play to get close to field goal range, then walks it off with a game-winning field goal from 27 yards out with no time remaining. Mt. Juliet 45, White County 43.

White County scores, goes for 2 and makes it!

White County gets another touchdown run from Malaki Dowell to claw within one at 42-41 with 17 seconds left.

The Warriors go for the two-point conversion....and get it! Tripp Pinion on the keeper for the two points and the lead!

Mt. Juliet and White County dueling in the fourth quarter

Malaki Dowell is so, so good. His 62-yard touchdown run tied the game at 35-all between the Golden Bears and Warriors.

Mt. Juliet's Dearrius Morton responded with a 24-yard touchdown run, and Mt. Juliet leads 42-35 with three minutes left in regulation.

9:20 p.m.: It's getting late in the midstate

White County's defense gets a big stop, down 35-28 in the fourth quarter to Mt. Juliet. Can Malaki Dowell help the Warriors tie it up?

Rockvale leads Riverdale 13-7 in the fourth quarter after a 56-yard touchdown run by Robbie Daniel.

Meanwhile, Ravenwood wins 28-10 over Brentwood.

More finals....

  • Davidson Academy 38, BGA 7

  • MBA 45, Father Ryan 7

  • Rossview 20, West Creek 17

  • Green Hill 17, Hillsboro 7

  • Smyrna 34, Antioch 7

Ravenwood in control of Battle of the Woods

Ravenwood's Carter Pace scores in the third quarter as Ravenwood builds a 21-10 lead in the rivalry game.

Hadn't mentioned MBA-Father Ryan yet tonight, but the Big Red lead 38-0 in the second half.

Halftime look across the midstate

  • Lipscomb Academy leads 34-10 over FRA at the half.

  • Hendersonville scores a touchdown out of halftime to increase its lead to 16-6 over Gallatin.

  • Page leads Franklin County 21-14 at the half

  • Independence leads 21-7 over Franklin nearing halftime.

  • Mt. Juliet 28, White County 28 at the half.

Baylor's Whitt Muschamp is having a day

Whitt Muschamp, the son of former Florida and South Carolina coach Will Muschamp, has three touchdown passes in the first half for Baylor, who leads Pope John Paul II 42-0.

White County's Malaki Dowell is really, really good

The Tennessean's Tom Kreager called White County's Malaki Dowell the best running back in the state you've never heard of last week. That's going to change.

Dowell's second TD of the game, a 21-yard run, cuts Mt. Juliet's lead in half.

Quick first-half lookaround

Some first-half scores and observations of note:

  • Baylor is up 28-0 on Pope John Paul II in the second quarter as the Knights play without Kenny Minchey.

  • Hendersonville and Gallatin are locked in a 9-6 battle.

  • Mt. Juliet leads 28-14 over White County in the second quarter, though Malaki Dowell has a touchdown run for the Warriors.

  • Ravenwood leads 14-10 over Brentwood in the Battle of the Woods.

Kenny Minchey out for JPII against Baylor

JPII quarterback Kenny Minchey, a Pitt commit, is out for the Knights' game against Baylor on Friday, according to the Tennessean's George Robinson.

Minchey suffered a shoulder injury last week in a win over Independence.

Pregame: It's already Week 5?!

It doesn't feel like we should be in midseason, but that's the case for the TSSAA high school football season. Despite next week's forecast of 90 degree days, it should be a cool Friday night by the fourth quarter across the midstate.

We have our usual crew covering games this Friday, including:

  • Tom Kreager at Ravenwood-Brentwood

  • Joe Spears at Mt. Juliet-White County

  • George Robinson at Baylor-Pope John Paul II

  • The Daily News Journal's Cecil Joyce at Riverdale-Rockvale

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