Hahnville teammates Landon Teague and Bennett Naquin have a quarterback-receiver connection that’s been vital to the team’s run to the second round of the state playoffs.

But go back to the summer before last season, and the two close friends were competing for the same starting quarterback job.

The duel lasted into August, when coach Greg Boyne decided to go with the younger Teague, then a sophomore.

“The conversation I had with Bennett was probably the hardest one I’ve had in 25 years of coaching,” Boyne said. “Just to tell a kid, ‘Look, I know you gave it everything you could, and as a junior, you lost out to a 10th grader.’”

That decision made Teague the starting quarterback and kept Naquin on the sideline — until about midway through the season, when Naquin asked if there was a wa

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