Halifax

Football roundup: Creek rolls, Matanzas wins again, Halifax makes school history Spruce Creek's Demarcus Creecy threw for three touchdowns in his first varsity start under center as the Hawks (4-3) routed the Cobras, 34-7, on the road.   Creecy connected on scoring strikes with three different receivers — 28 yards to Demarko Evans, 35 yards to Kevin Minckler and 33 yards to Austin Freeze. Minckler also added a rushing touchdown.

More than half of the Volusia-Flagler area's football teams will spend this Friday night away from the football field, most as a direct or indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nancy Wait, a spokeswoman for the Volusia County school district, said Monday that COVID-19 related incidents would force Atlantic, Deltona and Pine Ridge to enter 14-day quarantine periods. Father Lopez, which hosted Atlantic last week, is also in quarantine though it reported no positive cases, according to assistant principal Scott Drabczyk.

There will be two regional play-in games pitting Volusia-Flagler opponents head-to-head, University at DeLand and New Smyrna Beach at Matanzas. This year's high school football playoffs are quite literally about the luck of the draw. The Florida High School Athletic Association released its computer-generated regional bracket results Wednesday morning, granting four Volusia-Flagler teams a first-round bye while also creating a pair of intriguing, all-local play-in games.

Key takeaways 1. Acebal exits The area's leading passer in 2019, Father Lopez senior Andrew Acebal left in the third quarter of Friday's 32-12 win over Pine Ridge and did not return. Green Wave coach Daniel Fish told The News-Journal early Saturday it is a potentially season-ending leg injury.