The blue devils fell Friday night to a strong Eastside team on the road in Covington.  Eastside who was the 8-AAA co-champion last year and lost in the state semifinals to eventual state champion Cairo again returned a strong team with tremendous speed and size.  The blue devils started out strong on the road forcing a turnover on Eastside’s first possession.  The offense then put together a 10 play drive but was denied on 4^th down and the Eagles took over at their own 2 yard line.  Eastside then put together a drive but Hunter Blackmon intercepted a pass at the blue devils 44 yard line.   The stiff defense of Eastside forced the blue devils to punt on their next possession.  The Eagles eventually got on the scoreboard with 3:44 left in the 2^nd quarter but the extra point failed and they led 6-0. This appeared to be the only scoring that would happen for either squad before half; however, with less than 40 seconds in the half the blue devils Trez Haley blocked an Eastside punt and the blue devils recovered the ball at 21 yard line.   The blue devils then scored on an 11 yard pass from QB Robert Huff to WR Valdon Cooper with just seconds left on the clock.  Omar Vargas then added the extra point to put the blue devils up 7-6 going into half.  However, the second half proved to be all Eastside as they stopped the blue devils on their first possession and then drove down the field and scored on an 18 yard run to go ahead with 5 minutes to play in the 3^rd Quarter. The blue devils hung with the Eagles but then Eastside put together a 90 yard drive in the 4^th quarter to pull ahead 19-7 before adding a final TD late in the 4^th quarter to end the blue devils 3 game winning streak.