DELHI – One key block, one key catch, that is all that separated an Oxford varsity football win from a loss this past Saturday, Sept. 3.

Oxford would travel to Delhi to take on the Bulldogs for their season opener for the 2016 high school football season, losing 20-14 in overtime.

“I give all the credit to Delhi, they made their mistakes too but they were a very physical team and they just wanted it,” said Oxford head coach Jeff Newton. “Delhi is a physical team and they did what they needed to do to win that game.”

After heading into the halftime break down 6-0, Oxford would reemerge with a vengeance in the second half, driving down the field on the first drive in the second half for a score. The 75 yard drive was capped by a solid pass from quarterback, Chris Marin to Isaiah Peterson for the touchdown, which was followed by an Xavier Cruz two-point conversion run, drawing the score to 8-6.

A score and a two-point conversion for Delhi and a touchdown with no extra point or conversion had the game tied in waning moments of the fourth quarter.

“We tied it up in the fourth, a key block would have won us the game. A lineman missed a key block so the running back only got to the one yard line. We were driving right toward the end of the game and the quarterback through an interception (different drive), if he through it long it was a touchdown, but he threw it 10 yards short so that hurts,” said Newton. “We had a lot of mistakes. They are very credible mistakes, we're young, we just have to fix them.”