OAK PARK – Two second-half touchdowns got Oak Park back within reach, but the Knights inability to score a third allowed Farmington to escape with a 17-12 victory in Friday night’s season opener.

“I think it was 10-0 at half, and I told them (then) that’s what we were up last year with them and that they’re gonna come back,” Farmington head coach Jason Albrecht said. “They’re a dangerous team, they’re well-coached, and I just said that we’ve got to stay up. A lot of these kids haven’t been in a varsity second half like that before, so we battled through some adversity caused by ourselves, but it worked out for us in the end.”

Only an official’s discretion was the difference between that adversity potentially costing the Falcons. Senior defensive end Aaron Paymon gave Oak Park prime field

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