Saks Makes Oakman See Red - High School Football

November 13, 2021
By Al Muskewitz
East Alabama Sports Today

Wildcats quarterback Parnell has big game, leads Saks to Round 2 victory after a quick jersey change

Jalen McCants (6) stretches out along the sideline to pull in a 25-yard completion from Sean Parnell to keep Saks’ last touchdown drive alive. (Photos by Bo Hudgins/Saks Sports Photography)

The Saks players had a lot of fun this week calling Jalen McCants “Superman” after his five-touchdown game in the Wildcats’ playoff opener with Plainview. Quarterback Sean Parnell took part in all that and he wanted an MCU character.

You can just call him Iron Man this week.

**Saks quarterback Sean Parnell leaps into the arms of one of his lineman to celebrate one of his touchdowns. (Photo by Bo Hudgins)**

It was Parnell’s turn to do superhero stuff for the Wildcats Friday night in the second round of the Class 3A playoffs. He rushed for 108 yards, passed for 183 and accounted for all five touchdowns to carry Saks past Oakman 36-22 at Jack Stewart Field.

The Wildcats (11-1) will play at Fyffe (10-1) next week in Round 3.

Parnell had touchdown runs for 2, 5 and 6 yards and threw touchdown passes of 57 yards to Shon Elston and 51 yards to McCants against the Region 6 runner-ups. He touched the ball on every snap, but his number was called 32 times.

“Y’all called Jalen Superman last week, so we’ve been calling him Superman all week,” Parnell said. “So, if you’ve got 100 soldiers with regular ARs and you’ve got Superman, everybody’s going to be staring at Superman. All eyes were on Jalen tonight and it just opened everything up for me.” [**read more]

Here are the before and after jerseys Saks wore in Friday night’s game after being told by officials their grays were too close in color to the visitors’ road jerseys.

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