Salt Bowl: Live updates from the Benton/Bryant football game

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LITTLE ROCK - The annual rivalry football opener between Benton High School and Bryant High School will be a little more special Friday night. The schools are celebrating the 50th year of the game and the 25th anniversary of the Salt Bowl.

At its inception, Benton ruled the series, but Bryant hasn't lost a game now since 2005. The two teams tiedin in 2014. Bryant won last year's contest 35-6 ater only leding 7-6 at halftime. Benton running back Braylen Russell, who signed with the University of Arkansas, was injured didnt play in the second half.

"We've been conditioning so much this summer just for this one game right here and for the whole season, really," said Benton senior star receiver Elias Payne, who was injured and didn’t play in last season’s season opener. "I think if we compete with those guys for four quarters, then we'll have a really good chance."

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Bryant quarterback Jordan Walker was the only Hornets sophomroe to start a Salt Bowl and now tries to sweep all three games in his high school career.

“It would be very special [to win all three years}, said Walker, a Ouachita Baptist University commit. “Like I said at the podium, I was one of those kids tailgating and watching the game for all of those years, and then playing in the game when I was 15 was a big deal. It will be a big deal for me winning it if I could do that for all three years in high school.”

See live updates below.

BRYANT 52, BENTON 42 ,FINAL

4TH QTR DAVIS hits Maddox Davis on a TD as time runs out. (0:00)

4TH QTR Walker hits a wide-open Jonathan Frost on a 45-yard TD toss. (5:06)

BRYANT 52, BENTON 35

4TH QTR Benton not giving up as Davis hits Maddox Davis on a 17-yard TD. (6:57)

BRYANT 45, BENTON 35

4TH QTR Walker connects with Karter Ratliff on a 32-yard TD. (9:36)

BRYANT 45, BENTON 28

4TH QTR: Benton fumbles on its own 36 for its sixth turnover of the game. (10:34)

4TH QTR Walker hits Austin on a wide-open 28-yard TD pass. (10:58)

BRYANT 38, BENTON 28

4TH QTR Davis throws his fourth interception of the game. Bryant takeas over on the Benton 30. (11:04)

4TH QTR Walker hits Kamauri Austin on a 27 yard TD to give Bryant the lead back. (11:55)

BRYANT 31, BENTON 28

BENTON 28, BRYANT 24 END OF 3RD

Elias Payne scoes on a short TD after hurdling a defnder to give Benton its first lead of the game. (:46)

Benton 28, Bryant 24

3RD QTR Bryant stops Benton on 4th down to take over on its own 34. (3:05)

3RD QTR Davis hits Nathan Tucker on a 26-yard TD pasas after connection on a long pass earlier in the drive. (7:25)

BRYANT 24, BENTON 21

We are back in action after the extended halftime.

HALFTIME: BRYANT 24, BENTON 14

2ND QTR: Cook drills a 25-yafd FG. (:5)

BRYANT 7, BENTON 0 (1:50)

2ND QTR Maddox Davis takes the inside handoff 24 yards for the TD. Garrett Honeycutt adds the PAT. (1:57)

BRYANT 21, BENTON 14

2ND QTR Walker fumbles trying to pass on his own 34 and Walter Hicks recovers. (2:52)

2nd QTR Benton stops Bryant on 4th-and-2 to take over at the Benton 42.

2ND QTR Davis is picked off again by Jonaathan Frost. Bryant takes over on the Benton 44. (8:36)

2ND QTR Walker hits Karter Ratliff on a 5-yard TD. Cook adds the PAT. (9:00)

BRYANT 21, BENTON 7

2nd QTR Luther Tucker plunges in from two yards out. (10:19)

BRYANT 14, BENTON 7

2ND QTR Benton gets the ball right back when Jordan Walker throws and interception and Benton takes over at the Bryabt 1 (10:23)

2ND QTR Benton's drive ends on Bryant's 15-yard line as Davis is sacked and fumbled and J.T. Allen recovers. (10:27)

BRYANT 14, BENTON 0 (END OF 1ST)

BRYANT 14, BENTON 0

1ST QTR Brynt's Daniel Anderson runbles in from two yards out for the score. (:23)

1ST QTR Benton fumbles the kickoff and recovered by Jaylin Brewster on the Benton 15-yard lilne. (1:16)

BRYANT 7, BENTON 0 (1:50)

1st QTR Myron thrash plunges in from two yards out for the TD. Jackson Cook hits the PAT.

1st QTR Bryant has moveda the ball to the Benton 2-yard line and Benton calls a timeout.

1st QTR After a Bryant punt, the Hornets get another interception - this time it's Matthew Ferguson returning it to midfield. (4:00)

1st QTR Bryant linebacker Nick Miller picks off a Drew Davis pass in Benton territory and returns it to the Panthers' 40. (6:20)

1st QTR Bryant punts and Benton takes over at their own 15. (8:58)

1st QTR Benton qulck punts into the end zone. Bryant takes over on its own 20.

1st QTR Benton is facing a fourth-and-10 play on the Bryant 38. (10:29)

Bryant won the toss and will defer to the second half .

Good evening from War Memorial Stadium. We are less than 10 minutes away from kickoff.