On nearly every team in southwest Missouri, you can identify the standouts who lead their teams to victory and keep games close in defeat.
But what's better than having one standout? Having two, of course.
We've been all around southwest Missouri watching athletes excel on a weekly basis, and the best teams always seem to have a duo leading their teams to victory.
Here are those who have been our favorite duos this high school football season:
Ramone Green and Austin McCracken, Nixa
There were multiple combinations we could have gone with considering Nixa, but we went with the two sophomores that should have the Eagles looking like a threat to win state for the next several years.