Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Dadeville). They took their contest on Friday with ease, bagging a 54-16 victory over the Childersburg Tigers. Dadeville pushed the score to 35-0 by the end of the third, a deficit Childersburg had no chance of recovering from.
This one was won in the trenches and the lion's share of the credit has to go to Brandez Eason and Jay Burns. Eason rushed for 112 yards and two touchdowns on only seven carries while Burns rushed for 56 yards and two touchdowns. Eason is becoming a predictor of Dadeville's success: when he posts at least two rushing touchdowns the team is 3-1 (and 0-5 when he doesn't). Cale Hanks did his part to keep the secondary busy, picking up 86 receiving yards.
Dadeville was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 247 rushing yards. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 80.5 rushing yards per game earlier this season, but in their last five matches they've averaged 185.
Dadeville has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 3-6 record this season. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 27.3 points per game. As for Childersburg, they are on a seven-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 1-8.
Dadeville wasted no time getting back out on the field and has already played their next matchup, a 23-3 defeat against Valley on the 31st. As for Childersburg, they also didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next contest, a 46-14 loss against Winterboro on the 1st.
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