Choctawhatchee is ranked highly in their home state and on Thursday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Enterprise. The Indians took a 20-16 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Wildcats. Despite 123 more yards than the Wildcats, the Indians couldn't convert that extra yardage to scores.
Tamen Zabetakis and Zion Legree certainly did their best on Thursday to avoid the loss. Zabetakis threw for 276 yards and one TD while picking up 11.0 yards per attempt, while Legree picked up 157 receiving yards and one score. Legree showed off some serious burst, lighting up the secondary with a catch for 52 yards.
While Choctawhatchee came up short, they sure didn't make it easy for Enterprise: they limited their QB to completion percentage of just 50%. That dominant aerial defense primarily came from two players: Alante Reese and Amir Reese, who each logged two passes deflected. Choctawhatchee hasn't an opponent to post a completion percentage of 0.47 or higher in four consecutive matchups.
Most of the squad's points came courtesy of special teams, who contributed ten in total. All came from Kyler Galkowski: he went 3-for-3 kicking field goals for nine points and added another on an extra point kick.
Enterprise can attribute much of their success to Mason Burkhardt, who rushed for 36 yards and three touchdowns, and also threw for 115 yards on ten of 20 attempts. That's the most rushing touchdowns Burkhardt has posted since back in August. 95 of Burkhardt's passing yards were hauled in by Cates Blackmon.
Having lost for the first time this season, Choctawhatchee fell to 9-1. As for Enterprise, the victory was the fourth in a row for them, bringing their record up to 6-4.
As of now, neither Choctawhatchee nor the Wildcats have any future games scheduled.
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