Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask West Springfield). They blew past the West Potomac Wolverines 42-12 at home on Friday. The team's explosion on offense also rewarded the Spartans with their most commanding win of the season.
Mark-Anthony Whyte was his usual excellent self, rushing for 143 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 8.9 yards per carry, and also picking up 76 receiving yards and a touchdown.all of that, receiving production came thanks to one massive catch Another player making a difference was Scott Lewis, who threw for 187 yards and two touchdowns while completing 75% of his passes.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, West Springfield was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 242 rushing yards. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 66.5 rushing yards per game earlier this season, but in their last three contests they've averaged 254.
Although West Potomac took the loss, they still got scores from Dominic Sanchez and Marshall Locascio.
West Springfield has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five games, which provided a massive bump to their 4-3 record this season. As for West Potomac, they are on a five-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 1-5.
West Springfield will take on Lake Braddock at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both might be coming in a bit winded given these two teams combined for 964 yards in their previous games. As for West Potomac, they will square off against Alexandria City at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
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