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Deja Vu For Davie In Playoff Loss
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| Randal Foote, Jesse Crotts and Demetrius Williams look on glumly. - Photo by Jim Barringer |
Davie was no match for the Patriots, who extended the longest current prep-football winnings streak in the country to 106 games by lighting up the War Eagles 33-0 en route to a 40-19 decision.
While a six-game winning streak went up in smoke for Davie, seeded fifth in the West Region, the top-seeded Patriots ran their record to 14-0. It was deja vu for the War Eagles, who lost in the same round at the same venue last year, 52-21.
“That’s why they’ve won 106 in a row,” Davie coach Doug Illing said.
“They played a great game,” said junior safety Matt Oswell, who tied a Davie record with his ninth and 10th interceptions of the year. “We tried. We had a great week of practice. I don’t know. I guess they had a better one. It got out of hand because there was so much frustration.”
“We watched film all week and saw that they were going to play man,” senior receiver Josh Eder said. “They just stopped us every time. Nothing was going our way.”
Indy quarterback Darryl McFadden’s pass on the game’s first play from scrimmage was picked off when Oswell glided over from center field to steal the ball with his arms stretched high. That was just what the doctor ordered: 0-0, first down at the Big I 34 and early momentum within Davie’s grasp.
But Davie squandered the chance, with two Garrett Benge incompletions sandwiching the first of six Indy sacks. Illing went for it on fourth-and-12, and Benge found daylight, only to come up two yards short of the stick ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.