The Lipscomb Academy football team won Thursday night’s non-conference home game against Rossview High School 35-0.
In their first shutout of the season, the Mustangs (5-2) scored early and tallied 28 in the first half against the Hawks (4-4). In the second half the clock stayed running after the fifth touchdown.
The Arcadian Wild and Ashlyn Grayce played the pre-game show at the Mustang Stampede. Both acts have Lipscomb roots. The Arcadian Wild is led by songwriters and Lipscomb alumni Isaac Horn (guitar) and Lincoln Mick (mandolin). Ashlyn Cranford was a strategic communication major at Lipscomb and graduated in 2018.
Players and students decked out in pink for the game in support of breast cancer awareness month. The team also ran out to the field through a tunnel of Lipscomb community undergoing or having gone through the battle with breast cancer.
The Mustangs will play Franklin County on Oct. 18 in Winchester.