Not a lot you can say about this one as a Trigg County fan. They were simply taken to the woodshed by Caldwell County.
Caldwell won this one in the first four minutes of the game. The Tigers win the coin toss. On a 3rd-and-14 play, Michael Lipson gains nine yards on a pass play but is speared by a Trigg player on the ground, resulting in a 15-yard penalty. On the very next play, Will Barnes hits Eric Faughn on a short middle screen that turns into a 60-yard touchdown.
Caldwell 7 Trigg 0
Trigg stumbles on their first drive, with a bad punt snap on fourth down resulting in a 21-yard loss and gives Caldwell the ball at the Trigg 15-yard line. Two plays later, Barnes hits Brandon Sigler with another middle screen for a 7-yard touchdown pass with 8:07 left in the first quarter.
Caldwell 14 Trigg 0
Game over.
Trigg County rushed for a season-low 90 yards on 38 carries. Caldwell County rolled up 361 yards of offense.
"We didn't respond well to last week's loss," Wildcat head coach Shannon Burcham said on the WKDZ postgame show. "We're not making plays on either side of the football, and we're not where we need to be. We're just going to keep on working."
Caldwell is the top seed in the playoffs and will host playoff games as long as they win. Trigg County is the #2 seed and will host Murray in the first round. Trigg would travel to Caldwell County in the second round if they won. Past that, Trigg County would travel, although if they advance past the third round, they would host the semi-state game regardless of the seed. That would be Danville, Bardstown, Fort Campbell, or Owensboro Catholic coming to Perdue Field.
If Trigg's defense doesn't improve, Trigg won't make it past the second round of the playoffs.
Other stats from the game:
- Caldwell outagined Trigg 361-194 in total yards.
- Scotty Mayes rushed for 116 yards on seven carries and caught two passes for 68 yards. He scored on a 77 yard run and a 43-yard pass from Donald Bush. Trigg gained minus 26 yards on their other 31 carries.
- Donald Bush was sacked nine times, equaling the number of sacks Trigg had allowed in their previous seven games. Trigg gave up 17 sacks all of last year and just nine in the 2005 season.
- Caldwell County quarterback Will Barnes was 15-of-23 passing for 195 yards. He completed passes to seven different receivers.
- Caldwell County has held Trigg to less than 100 yards for the third straight game dating back to last year.
Trigg County (6-2) will host Fort Campbell next Friday at Perdue Field. Fort Campbell beat Owensboro Catholic 29-6 Friday night.
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