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Benge-To-Eder Abuses Freedom In First Round
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| Davie running back Kenneth Brown stretches inside the 5-yard line in a 29-3 first-round win. - Photo by Mike Barnhardt |
The 5-9, 160-pound senior continued to emerge as one of the most impressive stories of the football season when he collected eight catches for 107 yards to lead a 29-3 win over Morganton Freedom in the first round of the 4-AA playoffs here Friday.
While tackle Chantz Grannaman and linebacker Mark Huggins continued their awesome play on defense, quarterback Garrett Benge and Eder played pitch-and-catch all night as the War Eagles extinguished Freedom’s four-game winning streak. Eder had eight catches in the first seven games. In the last six games he’s been a TD machine - 24 catches for 412 yards, including five straight games with a TD.
“I watched film real well this week, I tried to figure them out, and it paid off,” Eder said. “They like to come up and make the plays. They don’t like to backpedal much. Whenever that happens, you can blow right by them.”
On Davie’s third series, the Benge-to-Eder connection scorched Freedom four times in eight plays. They weren’t finished hooking up. In a third-quarter drive that put Freedom away at 29-3, Eder snared spirals for 20, 13 and 25 yards. It’s like passes get sucked in by his hands.
On the 25-yarder, his seventh TD in five games, Eder made a spin move at the Freedom 5 that left a jock strap on the field ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksvile, N.C. 27028.