St. Augustine- It was a good old fashioned shoot-out between two of the oldest ad most historic high schools in Florida. The Riverside Generals and St. Augustine Yellow Jackets traded blows for four quarters, combining for furious 55 first half points.
The frenzied pace saw scores from St. Augustine’s Trendell Anderson, who found a hole and darted through it for a 10-yard touchdown in the first quarter. Anderson would score twice on the ground in the contest. Riverside’s Shermon Davis would plunge in from 3-yards out to cap an 80-yard,16 play drive to notch the score at 7-7 a piece in the first quarter.
After Anderson’s second score, Locklan Hewlett found Trenton Jones on a hitch. Jones did the rest for a 45-yard touchdown on the last play of the first quarter as St. Augustine went up 21-7 over Riverside.
Riverside would respond, as Zavier Hilliard caught an 8-yard touchdown pass to halve the deficit 21-14 in the second. It wouldn’t take long for more points to be scored. Wide receiver Carl Jenkins shook a defender who was in man coverage. He went the distance for a 50-yard touchdown to increase St. Augustine’s lead to 28-14.
The first half deluge of scoring kept coming when a 14-play, 91-yard drive was punctuated by Glenn Foreman III’s 2-yard touchdown run to keep Riverside close for a single drive. That’s because Dexter Baker, would score one of the Yellow Jackets’ three rushing touchdowns. St. Augustine scored five touchdowns on its first five drives to score 34-points in the first half.
An opening drive of 60-yards on 13 plays was capped by a Shermon Davis touchdown. General Shermon scored two touchdowns on the ground against St. Augustine, fresh off a 167-yard 2 touchdown performance against Orange Park last week. The score cut the lead to 34-28.
Riverside running back Shermon Davis leans into the end zone for his second rushing touchdown of the evening. St. Augustine defeated Riverside 47-35 at Foots Brumley Stadium to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Yellow Jackets earned their fifth win in the series that dates back to 1927. | Photo by Will Brown 
Myles Kendrick is a senior wide receiver for the Riverside Generals who is committed to Indiana. St. Augustine defeated Riverside 47-35 at Foots Brumley Stadium to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Yellow Jackets earned their fifth win in the series that dates back to 1927. | Photo by Will Brown 
St. Augustine defensive assistant Max Manin, right, watches alongside Yellow Jackets head coach Brian Braddock as the Yellow Jackets won their 19th straight regular season game. St. Augustine defeated Riverside 47-35 at Foots Brumley Stadium to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Yellow Jackets earned their fifth win in the series that dates back to 1927. | Photo by Will Brown 
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Riverside wide receiver Zavier Hilliard dives for the football in the fourth quarter of a road contest against St. Augustine. The Yellow Jackets defeated Riverside 47-35 at Foots Brumley Stadium to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Yellow Jackets earned their fifth win in the series that dates back to 1927. | Photo by Will Brown 
Joshua Singleton is a junior guard for St. Augustine. The Yellow Jackets defeated Riverside 47-35 at Foots Brumley Stadium to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Yellow Jackets earned their fifth win in the series that dates back to 1927. | Photo by Will Brown 
Riverside’s Tae’shaun Gelsey (2) and Richard Pooler (6) chat with St. Augustine quarterback Locklan Hewlett after St. Augustine’s 2024 home opener. St. Augustine defeated Riverside 47-35 at Foots Brumley Stadium to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Yellow Jackets earned their fifth win in 20 meetings in the series that dates back to 1927. | Photo by Will Brown 
St. Augustine’s Bubba Gardner recites the school’s alma mater after the Yellow Jackets won their 2024 home opener. St. Augustine defeated Riverside 47-35 at Foots Brumley Stadium to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Yellow Jackets earned their fifth win in the series that dates back to 1927. | Photo by Will Brown 
St. Augustine quarterback Locklan Hewlett celebrates his third touchdown pass of the night in the fourth quarter of a win over Riverside. St. Augustine defeated Riverside 47-35 at Foots Brumley Stadium to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Yellow Jackets earned their fifth win in the series that dates back to 1927. | Photo by Will Brown
Surprisingly, St. Augustine was not affected by their impromptu off week last week. As their game against Bolles was canceled due to bad weather and field conditions. It wasn’t the best field conditions this Friday against Riverside, but St. Augustine turned the contest into a track meet.
A Nate Preston 1-yard touchdown run, and a Locklan Hewlett to Trenton Jones 39-yard touchdown saw that St. Augustine would keep their distance from Riverside and get the 47-35 victory Friday night.
It was predicted that the contest would be high scoring and it was. The game featured Riverside’s Tae’Shaun Gelsey (4-star Florida commit), Carl Jenkins Jr (3-star UCF commit) of St. Augustine along with his quarterback, Locklan Hewlett (3-star USF commit),and teammate Somourian Wingo (4-star WR).
Myles Kendrick (3-star WR), and Zavier Hilliard (USC offer) of Riverside and not to mention wide receiver Trenton Jones (14 D-1 offers) of St. Augustine. Just a few of the notable highly recruited players in the matchup, that combined their talents with several other talented players like Ronald Williams (kickoff return TD) of Riverside who displayed why they deserved college recruitment attention.
