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Wirt County extensive receiver Andrew Lemley manages to haul in a landing move in double protection supplied by Eastern’s Parker Durst (14) and Trace Barnett (12) throughout the Tigers 47-13 setback to the Eagles on Friday evening at Wilson-Eismon Field. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

ELIZABETH — Wirt County jumped out to a 13-0 lead versus Eastern right here Friday evening at Wilson-Eismon Field, however the Tigers suffered accidents to beginning quarterback Tyler Smith and backup Jake Moore because the Eagles left city with a 47-13 victory.

“Only if we were up or down by 40,” Tiger head coach Jason Hickman stated of the plans of getting to make use of freshman Luke Hickman at signal-caller, which got here early within the third quarter.

Things couldn’t have began off higher for the Tigers, who welcome in Magnolia subsequent Friday, as Smith hit 8 of 9 passes for 86 yards on the opening drive that culminated with a 19-yard over the shoulder TD strike to Andrew Lemley.

Following Easton Wyer’s further level, the Eagles of head man Jason Jackson fumbled after Ethan Edwards had a 26-yard achieve to get the ball to the Tiger 15. Frankie Bolek pounced on it and the Tigers marched down the sector, however confronted a fourth-and-11 on the 21 after Mason Shepherd registered the primary of his three-and-a-half sacks.

However, Smith managed to attach with Lemley in double protection within the nook of the top zone to provide the hosts a 13-0 lead at 10:06 of the second.

Wirt County’s Easton Wyer is tackled by Eastern’s Blaise Gilmore throughout the Eagles’ 47-13 victory versus the Tigers on Friday evening at Wilson-Eismon Field. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

Eastern, now 2-0 with a street recreation subsequent Friday at South Gallia, responded when Edwards, who completed with 9 totes for 206 stripes, broke free for a 48-yard scoring gallop. Hayden Wilcoxen’s PAT reduce the deficit to 6.

Wirt County marched again down the sector and had it first-and-goal on the 6, however Smith ended up getting damage and Moore’s move on fourth down was incomplete.

The momentum then switched as Edwards darted 94 yards for a landing to provide the guests the lead for good with 4:41 left within the half.

Parker Durst returned the following punt for a 60-yard landing, but it surely was referred to as again on a penalty. Eastern was flagged 12 occasions for 130 yards and the Tigers had 9 for 80.

Lemley managed to intercept a Braxton Yonker move to maintain it a one-point recreation at intermission.

Eastern’s Ethan Edwards will get some lead blocking from teammates Braxton Yonker (4) and Ronnie Golden (25) en path to a 94-yard landing run throughout the Eagles’ 47-13 victory Friday evening towards Wirt County at Wilson-Eismon Field. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
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“I give all the credit to coach Hickman and coach (Ben) Moore,” stated coach Jackson, who watched freshman Broghan Short have his first two profession fumble recoveries. “They have an superior gameplan they usually did an impressive job.

“It’s unfortunate that injuries happen and if their quarterback, who is a great athlete, doesn’t go down it could’ve ended up the other way. I give them all the credit. I respect that team. I respect those coaches and those boys and our boys respect them. I love those guys. I love those coaches.”

The Tigers fumbled the primary play of the third quarter, which was recovered by Durst.

Yonker had a 43-yard TD strike to Edwards and the freshman QB Hickman was picked off by Ronnie Golden, who housed it from 60 yards away, which made it 27-13 at 7:12 of the third.

A nasty snap to the punter Wyer resulted in a 4-yard loss because the Eagles solely wanted to go 18 yards for the rating, which Edwards took care of by way of an 11-yard TD burst.

Wirt County quarterback Tyler Smith, who accomplished 14 of 17 passes for 180 yards earlier than leaving with an damage late within the second quarter, rolls out on the lookout for a receiver throughout the Tigers’ 47-13 setback to Eastern on Friday evening at Wilson-Eismon Field. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

Eastern tacked on a 10-yard TD run from Kyler Bashman and the two-point conversion run from Matt Marcum early within the fourth previous to Andrew Young closing issues out with a 24-yard TD jaunt.

Smith completed 14 of 17 for 180 yards in a contest the place the Tigers held a 25-12 benefit in first downs, however had simply 82 whole yards after the break with Dylan Hutchinson going for 79 grounds yards on seven rushes versus the EHS reserves.

“I told our boys in an NFL game when you’re down to the third string quarterback the NFL team loses and they are getting paid millions of dollars to do that job,” coach Hickman stated. “That’s the hand we had been dealt tonight. I feel each of these youngsters will likely be wonderful. It’s precautionary for each they usually might’ve come again in, however we’re not going to do this. Hopefully wanting down the street they’ll be OK. As far as tonight goes I assumed our youngsters within the first half, we had been outmanned, and I assumed we performed rather well. Our gameplan, they executed it to perfection.

“They really did and then we just had guys start dropping. The physicality of them upfront is hard to deal with. We dealt with it for a half, but then that second half it just started showing up. I told our kids I don’t know except for the defending state champion (Wahama) that comes in here in four weeks, I’m not sure we’re going to see anybody better than those guys. They are legit. I told our boys if we keep fighting and keep staying together and keep playing hard like we did tonight, I think there’s some good things that can happen to us down the road.”

The Tigers, who held a 240-204 edge in whole yards at halftime, ended up with 322 in comparison with the Eagles’ 374.

Wyer (5-72), Lemley (5-68) and Moore (5-44) led the Tigers in receiving on an evening when the hosts gave up 319 yards speeding on 32 makes an attempt.

“They are very kind and very generous coaches and that’s a great football program that’s going to win a lot of games,” pressured coach Jackson. “Honestly, enjoying on a Saturday evening that was an epic battle with Meigs, I hate to make use of the phrase hangover, however we had been nonetheless dinged up on Wednesday.

“We had some guys we didn’t think were going to play tonight. They came through and played, but it showed in the first quarter. Our feet were in concrete, but I give all the credit to Wirt and their coaching staff and their kids. They played tough and I have the utmost respect for them.”

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