Final from Death Valley
West Jessamine 38
Lincoln County 0
Summary
It was a hot and humid night in Death Valley with mostly sunny skies, 90 degree temperature, 58% humidity, and wind out of the southwest at 5 miles per hour at the 7:30 PM kickoff.
The out-manned and mostly young Patriots put up a strong fight tonight but were shut out by one of the strongest West Jessamine teams in several years.
Our InterCounty Energy Lineman of the Game is freshman lineman Zaiden “Big Z” Halcomb who stepped up big tonight. After the game, when asked the difference in playing varsity football now and middle school football last season, he told WPBK-FM, “Its a big difference.”
Our Guardian Exterminating and Bee Green Lawn Care Player of the Game is Dalton Brock who had 4 catches for 54 yards. After the game, Dalton told WPBK-FM, “We just have to catch the ball. We’re open and Tucker is getting the ball to us.”
Next week Lincoln County will be on the road at Danville.
Scoring
-WJ 5:12 1Q Drew Hardin 57-yard pass from Caleb Spann, Easton Erhardt kick (WJ 7-0)
-WJ 1:31 2Q Caleb Spann 1-yard run, Erhardt kick (WJ 14-0)
-WJ 0:00 2Q Easton Erhardt 20-yard Field Goal (WJ 17-0)
-WJ 0:06.3 3Q Eli Scott 40-yard pass from Spann, Erhardt kick (WJ 24-0)
-WJ 8:42 4Q Aiden Blanton 15-yard run, Erhardt kick (WJ 31-0)
-WJ 8:15 4Q Connon Mastin 17-yard run, Erhardt kick (WJ 38-0)
Series-By-Series
Trey Burkhart, Levi Grubbs, Brody Baker, and Tucker Foster were the senior captains for the coin toss, which they won and deferred their choice to the second half and kicked off to start the game.
WJ started at the Lincoln County 45-yard line after a 45-yard kick return. On first down, they ran for four yards to the 41. On the next play a false start moved it back to the 46. A pass moved the ball to the 44-yard line. On third down, West Jessamine had an incomplete pass.
WJ punted to the Lincoln County 3-yard line. On first down, the Patriots lost a yard to the two. Malik Hill ran it out to the five-yard line. On third down and seven from their own five-yard line, Tucker Foster connected with Dalton Brock on a 36-yard pass to the forty-one-yard line with a first down. On the next play, Malik Hill was tackled for a 5-yard loss to the thirty-six-yard line. Then, Tucker Foster scrambled fifteen yards to the West Jessamine 49-yard line. There was no gain on the next play. On second down and ten, Hill was stopped for a one-yard loss to midfield. On third down and eleven, a pass to Hunter Ralson was broken up.
Lincoln County punted and West Jessamine started from their own 23-yard line. On first down, WJ connected a pass to the 32-yard-line. On the next play WJ got the first down at the 43-yard-line. On the next play Caleb Spann connected on a 57-yard pass to Drew Hardin for a touchdown. Easton Erhardt kicked the PAT and WJ led 7-0.
Malik Hill fielded the ensuing kickoff at the two-yard line and returned it to the 24-yard line. On the next play, Tucker Foster ran for two yards. Then Dalton Brock caught a pass for five yards to the 29-yard line. On third down, Foster hit Levi Grubbs on a 14-yard pass to the forty-three-yard line. On first down, Malik Hill ran three yards to the 45-yard line. On second and seven, Malik Hill ran into a solid wall and lost a yard to the 44. On third and eight, Foster threw incomplete to Trey Burkhart.
The Patriots punted from their own 44-yard-line. WJ had no return and took over at their own 35-yard-line. On the next play Brantley Middleton sacked the quarterback Caleb Spann for a five-yard loss to the 30-yard line. On the next play, WJ completed a pass to the 38-yard-line. On third-down-and-seven, Spann missed on a long pass, leaving them with a fourth and long.
WJ punted to the LC six-yard-line. On first down from there, Malik Hill lost a yard on an inside run. On second and eleven, Foster tried a long pass to Trey Burkhart but it was broken up by a WJ defender. On third down and eleven from their own five-yard line, Foster found freshman Hunter Ralston in the middle of the field for an 18-yard completion to the 23-yard line. On the next play, Foster ran for six yards to the 29-yard line. At this point, Coach Levi Rogers called Lincoln County’s first timeout of the game with 9:32 to play in the fist half. Back to action, facing a second down and four, a counter trap to Malik Hill gained two yards to the 31-yard line. On third down and two, Tucker Foster seemed to be stopped twice, kept fighting, and was finally tackled by the facemask, which moved the ball to Lincoln’s own 35-yard line with a first down.
Then, Foster connected with Trey Burkhart for eight yards to the 43-yard line. Then, Adyn Phillips ran to the 44-yard line. On third down, Tucker Foster quarterback-sneaked the ball to the 45-yard line and a first down. Then a loss to the 44-yard line gave Lincoln County a second down and eleven. On the next play, Foster was tackled for no gain. With 4:19 left in the half, Lincoln County took their second timeout.
Back to action, on third down and eleven, a wheel route to Malik Hill went for ten yards to the WJ 44-yard line, leaving Lincoln County with a 4th down and one yard to go. Foster ran another quarterback sneak, got enough for the first down, but fumbled the football with 3:25 left in the half.
WJ took over at their own 45-yard-line. Then ran to the Lincoln County 46, followed with a tackle for a loss by Lincoln County’s Will Peek. Then a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty moved the ball to the Lincoln County 31-yard line. On first down there, Dalton Rowland threw the WJ running back for a two-yard loss, then Zaiden Halcomb had a tackle for a seven-yard loss. Then, WJ’s Blanton ran to the 1-yard line. From there quarterback Caleb Spann went in for the one-yard touchdown run with 1:31 left in the 2nd quarter. Easton Erhardt kicked his second PAT and WJ led 14-0
On the ensuing kickoff, Lincoln County mishandled the kick and got pinned down at their own 12-yard-line.
One first down, Tucker Foster ran up the middle for two yards to the 14-yard line. On the next play, Foster went to a knee to pick up a low shotgun snap, and the ball was marked on the ten-yard line. West Jessamine took their first timeout of the game at that point with 29.5 seconds left in the half and Lincoln County facing a third down and twelve. On the next play, Malik Hill caught a 8-yard pass, getting the ball out to the 18-yard line.
A short punt out of bounds, gave West Jessamine the football at the Lincoln County 35-yard line with 16 seconds left in the half. On first down, Spann passed to the 5-yard line with 8.9 seconds left in the half. On the next play, they ran to the three-yard line and called a timeout with 0.8 seconds left.
Halftime
Lincoln County received the second half kickoff and started at their own 24-yard line after a fifteen yard return by Malik Hill. On first down, Dalton Brock turned a short pass into a one-yard gain after being hit behind the line of scrimmage. On second down, Malik Hill gained a yard to the 26-yard line. On third down, Tucker Foster was tackled by the facemask again and the ball was moved up to the Lincoln County 41-yard line. On first down, Malik Hill ran for two yards to the 43-yard line. Then a six yard pass to freshman Woodson Adams. On third down and two, Tucker Foster connected with Levi Grubbs for a forty yard pass to the 11-yard line. Malik Hill ran for one yard to the ten-yard line. On second down, Malik Hill lost three yards to the 13-yard line. On third down and twelve, Foster’s pass to the end zone fell incomplete leaving a fourth down and twelve at the 13-yard line. The pass intended for Dalton Brock was broken up but a pass interference penalty against West Jessamine moved the ball half the distance to the goal to the 6 ½ yard line. On the fourth down replay, Trey Burkhart was unable to hold onto the touchdown pass and the Patriots gave it up on downs at the 6 yard line.
After holding the ball for the first six minutes and fourteen seconds of the first quarter, the Patriots came up just short.
On first down from the six-yard line, WJ moved it out to the 30-yard line on a twenty-six yard run. Then a 14-yard run moved it out to the 44-yard line followed by a seven yard run to the 49-yard line. All of those runs by Caleb Jones of WJ. Then quarterback Caleb Spann ran for nine yards to the 40-yard line. Jones ran again down to the 15-yard line where Colton Shepperson made a touchdown saving tackle. On the next play, Woodson Adams intercepted a pass at the goal line and returned it to the 19-yard line.
From there, Tucker Foster threw incomplete to Levi Grubbs on first down. On second and ten, a screen pass to Malik Hill lost two yards to the 17-yard line. Lincoln County took a timeout with 2:33 to play in the third quarter. On third down and twelve, Dalton Brock caught a pass off a deflection at the 32-yard line, giving Lincoln County a first down. Then, a middle run by Malik Hill went for no gain. One second down, Foster’s pass down the middle was incomplete. On third down and ten, Foster connected with Woodson Adams for 9 yards to the 41-yard line. One fourth and one, Tucker Foster was tackled for a one-yard loss on a quarterback draw.
On the next play, Caleb Spann threw 40 yards to Eli Scott for a touchdown. Easton Erhardt added his third PAT and WJ led 24-0.
The ensuing kickoff went into the end zone for a touchback and the Patriots started from their own 20-yard line. An incomplete pass and a run for no gain brought up 3rd down and ten as the fourth quarter started. An incomplete pass on third down brought up a punting situation. From his own 13-yard line after a delay of game penalty, Tucker Foster punted the ball to the 40-yard line where Eli Scott fielded it and Dalton Brock made a good open field tackle.
WJ started from the Lincoln 37-yard line. Each took a timeout between the punt and the first down play. Finally, on first down, Spann threw an incomplete pass. On second down, freshman Kraven Murphy tackled WJ’s Caleb Jones behind the line of scrimmage. On third down, WJ made it to the 29-yard line, leaving them with a fourth down and two yards to go. From there, Caleb Spann kept the ball and ran to the twenty-six-yard line for the first down. There, Caleb Jones ran for five yards before being tackled by Will Peek. On second down and six, Caleb Jones ran to the 15-yard line for another first down. From there, Spann threw incomplete. On second down, Aiden Blanton scored with great second effort moving the pile into the end zone with 8:42 left in the game. Easton Erhardt kicked his fourth PAT and WJ led 31-0.
Lincoln started first and ten after the kickoff from their own 21-yard line. On the first play, a bad snap hit the motion man and West Jessamine recovered the football at the 17-yard line.
On first down, Connor Mastin ran 17 yards for the touchdown with 8:15 remaining in the game. Easton Erhardt again kicked the PAT and WJ led 38-0 and the mercy-rule running clock was initiated.
On the ensuring kickoff, Malik Hill ran the ball to the 30-yard line. On first down, Hill ran for six yards to the 36-yard line. On second down, Foster hit Trey Burkhart for seven yards to the 45-yard line for the first down. On the next play, Malik Hill ran into a wall and lost two yards. On second down and twelve, Malik Hill ran 15 yards to the WJ 42-yard line. On first down, Malik Hill ran again and gained four yards to the 38-yard line. Then Foster had two incomplete passes. On fourth down and seven with under two minutes left on the running clock, Foster’s deep pass was intercepted by West Jessamine at the ten yard line.
West Jessamine ran one running play and the game was over.
