Hillcrest Academy and Tensas Academy joined Adams County Christian School at a controlled football scrimmage Friday at ACCS.

Hillcrest scored a total of five touchdowns while ACCS and Tensas each ended up with two touchdowns.

The Rebels drove down to the Cougars’s 20-yard-line in its first offensive possession, but were unable to score.

ACCS would not score until the 11th game of the scrimmage when freshman quarterback Eric Anders connected on a 34-yard pass to Hunter Cook.

The Rebels’s other touchdown came on a three-yard run by Jason Rollins.

Both touchdowns came against the Cougars’s defense.

&uot;We have nine potential starters on the football team playing baseball,&uot; said ACCS head coach Bo Swilley. &uot;The young guys stepped up and played hard. Anders did a super job. The backs (Rollins, Chase Bradford, Russell Skates) ran the ball real well.

&uot;The coaching staff did a super job bringing the kids along. Overall, I was pleased.&uot;

The Cougars’s first touchdown of the scrimmage when soon-to-be-senior left-handed quarterback Seth Smith threw a 43-yard pass to Michael McDonald against Tensas’s defense

Smith would later connect on two touchdown passes against ACCS’s defense in the 10th game of the scrimmage, an 11-yard strike to McDonald and a 20-yarder to David Thaggard.

Thaggard also scored on a 17-yard run in the 12 game of the scrimmage and John Paul Love scored on a 10-yard run, also against the Rebels.

Both of Tensas’s touchdowns came on passes from quarterback David Crigler to wide receiver Scott Crigler, the first one a 13-yard pass against Hillcrest in the fifth game and the second one a 33-yard bomb against ACCS in the ninth game.

Skates had back-to-back quarterback sacks during Tensas’s second touchdown drive. Hunter Parker and Justin Bussett also had a sack and Barry McCormick had a fumble recovery.

&uot;I’ve had kids who have never played a snap in high school football play in this scrimmage,&uot; Swilley said. &uot;It was a real good team defense and a good effort on offense.&uot;

Tucker Kifer and Daniel Mascagni of Tensas each had an interception.

One of the teams that was expected to play, Chamberlain-Hunt Academy, dropped out on Thursday because it didn’t have any coaches to be at the scrimmage.

Bowling Green Academy was also expected to compete in the scrimmage, but pulled out earlier in the week.

AC begins fall practice July 26.