No. 9 Milton opens with solid win over No. 26 Buford in Georgia

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Milton opens with 13-10 win over Buford.

Posted By: Jeff Fisher August 17, 2024

It took Milton until early Saturday morning to lock up its season opening win over Buford. After a two hour weather delay, the No. 9 Eagles beat No. 26 Buford 13-10 in a battle of highly-ranked High School Football America 300 teams. The ended after midnight.

Milton jumped out to a 13-0 lead on a first quarter touchdown run by TJ Lester and a second half touchdown pass from Luke Nickel to CJ Wiley.

TOUCHDOWN Eagles 🏈@CJWIley_4 grabs the 17 yard touchdown reception to put the Eagles up 13-0 over the Wolves in the 3rd. #GPBSports pic.twitter.com/onnoi1rXxg
— GPB Sports (@GPBsports) August 17, 2024

.@tjlester_ takes it to the HOUSE for the Eagles 🏈

1Q: @MiltonEagles_FB 7 @buford_football 0 #GPBSports pic.twitter.com/eSErCXLLYp
— GPB Sports (@GPBsports) August 16, 2024

Next week, Milton heads to South Florida to square-off with No. 24 American Heritage (Plantation, Florida) in the Broward County National Football Showcase.

Buford tries to get into the win column against No. 176 Benedictine.

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.