{"id":29528,"date":"2015-12-04T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T22:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=29528"},"modified":"2015-12-05T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T19:48:38","slug":"ohs-chargers-to-play-for-championship-in-vaught-hemingway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ohs-chargers-to-play-for-championship-in-vaught-hemingway\/","title":{"rendered":"OHS Chargers to Play for Championship in Vaught-Hemingway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">For the first time ever, the <strong>MHSAA<\/strong> 5A championship game will be played in <strong>Vaught-Hemingway<\/strong> stadium, and the hometown <strong>Oxford Chargers<\/strong> will be looking to lock up the state title in their own backyard on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7 PM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">After defeating <strong>West Point<\/strong> by a score of 35-7, the Chargers will face <strong>Wayne County<\/strong> in the championship bout. They will look to send out Oxford head coach <strong>Johnny Hill<\/strong> with a state title in his final game on the sidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Oxford has not won a state title in three years, but thanks to some stellar defensive play and an efficient game from quarterback <strong>Jack Abraham<\/strong> last week (26-35, 332 yds, 3 TD), they are in prime position to capitalize on what should be a considerable home-field advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Also of note for local football fans will be the chance to see future Rebel WR <strong>D.K. Metcalf<\/strong> (son of former Ole Miss OL <strong>Terrence Metcalf<\/strong>) in his final high school football game before signing on with the Red and Blue. Metcalf is rated the 9th-best \u00a0high school player in Mississippi by <strong>ESPN<\/strong>, and 41st nationally among wide receivers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Tickets for Saturday&#8217;s title game are $12. Oxford High School will keep half of the cost of tickets sold before the game.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TLV-243-HighSchoolFootball1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1212\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29553\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TLV-243-HighSchoolFootball1.jpg?resize=640%2C1212\" alt=\"TLV-243-HighSchoolFootball\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TLV-243-HighSchoolFootball1.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TLV-243-HighSchoolFootball1.jpg?resize=158%2C300&amp;ssl=1 158w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TLV-243-HighSchoolFootball1.jpg?resize=541%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 541w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, the MHSAA 5A championship game will be played in Vaught-Hemingway stadium, and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":29533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2704,2495,4032,40,4034,1135,699],"class_list":["post-29528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-championship","tag-chargers","tag-dk-metcalf","tag-football","tag-johnny-hill","tag-oxford-high-school","tag-vaught-hemingway"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/VHS-FEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}