High School Sports

JACKSONVILLE — Homewood outscored Huffman in each of the first three quarter to cruise to a first-round victory on Tuesday at the Class 6A Northeast Regional at Jacksonville State University.

The Patriots will take on the winner of Gadsden City-Minor on Friday at 10:40 a.m.

Homewood (29-4) put three players in double figures to lead the charge. Ronald Nored led the way with 16 points, Griffin Peterson added 13 and Jo Moore chipped in 12. Griffin added a game-high seven rebounds.

Huffman had only one player to reach double figures, Jeremy Freeman, who contributed a team-high 16 points off the bench. Ten of his points came via the charity stripe. No starter from Huffman (18-14) made more than two shots from the floor.

Homewood raced out to its 24-16 first-half lead via strong shooting from the floor. The Patriots shot 53.8 percent from the floor and connected on 10 of 16 free throws.

Huffman made only five shots in the first half and attempted only a quarter of the free throws that Homewood did, connecting on all four.