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Prep football roundup: Waterford wins big over Shenandoah

SARAHSVILLE — Six different players found the end zone for Waterford as the Wildcats left Shenandoah with a convincing 49-0 win Friday night.

Trevin Zimmer was the only Wildcat to find paydirt twice, including a 5-yard touchdown run to open the scoring. Gavin Hiener also caught a 1-yard touchdown pass from Hayden Jones to make 14-0 after one.

In the second, Ryder Wolfe (1 yard) and Kameron Johnson (5 yards) both had rushing TDs to make it 28-0 at halftime.

After Zimmer’s second TD of the game — a 2-yarder — Avery Pottmeyer, who moved to quarterback late in the game, rushed for a 22-yard touchdown to stretch the lead to 42 going into the final period.

Maddox Antill closed it out with a 25-yard scoring jaunt as Waterford improved to 3-0 with the big one set for next week — Fort Frye at Waterford.

Jones led the Wildcats with 72 yards on six carries. Johnson added 53 yards on 11 rushes. Jones also was 10 for 13 passing for 154 yards. His favorite receiver was Weston Fairchild, who had 74 yards on four catches.

Athens 33, Marietta 21

The Marietta Tigers put together a 21-point third quarter to get themselves back into Friday’s game against Athens at Don Drumm Stadium, but the Bulldogs held on for a 33-21 win.

A 53-yard touchdown run by Anthony Sutton got the scoring started and put Athens (3-0) up 7-0 at the 8:01 mark in the first quarter.

Marietta’s defense settled in from there, forcing a punt, picking up a fourth down stop and getting an interception from Trenton McVey to halt a potential Bulldogs scoring drive right before halftime. However, Athens did make it a two-score game on Sutton’s 13-yard TD jaunt with 4:07 left in the second.

Conversely, the Tiger offense struggled to get something going. Their first five drives resulted in four punts and an interception by Blake Taylor.

The Tigers got on the board in the third period when Owen Riley ripped the ball out of the hands of David Sharp and took it 53 yards to the house.

The Tiger defense then got a big tackle for loss by Will Tornes to force a punt as the momentum appeared to be swinging in Marietta’s favor.

On the first play of the ensuing drive, Tornes took a handoff 35 yards to put the ball on Athens’ 26-yard line. After a Braydon Frye 16-yard run pushed the ball to the 6, Kobe Alexander punched it in from 4 yards out and Kingston McMahon’s cut it to 20-14 late in the third.

On fourth-and-9 from the Marietta 36, Athens came up with a huge response in the form of a touchdown pass from Briar Thomas to Tyriq Cunningham to stretch the lead back to 13.

However, the Tigers punched back again as Tornes took a handoff 58 yards for a touchdown to cut it to 27-21.

With the Bulldogs facing third-and-12 from the Marietta 40, Frye blitzed off the edge and sacked Thomas for a seven-yard loss to force a punt.

Disaster struck, though, for the Tigers when they went three-and-out and botched the punt, giving Athens the ball inside Marietta’s 5. Sharp found the end zone from 4 yards out, and though the Tigers stuffed the two-point try, they found themselves down 12 with 5:26 left in the game.

An interception by Wheatley on the next drive all but sealed it, as the Tigers dropped to 0-3 with a trip to Claymont set for next week.

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