WEIMAR — The Weimar High School football team showed out and protected their home turf on homecoming night with a smashing 51-20 win against Snook High School Sept. 15 at Wildcats Field. Weimar put their foot on the gas from the very start and didn’t let go for the game’s entirety, taking advantage on both sides of the ball and not allowing much of anything from Snook until the last few minutes in garbage time.
“The good news is everybody got to play,” said Weimar head football coach Wade Griffin.
“We were pretty sharp in the first half and did a lot of good things, but really what I take from it is we got lots of work to do too.
There’s never a time where you let up. We don’t ever try to let up, so we’re just gonna continue to try to improve. Everybody got to play, we’re 4-0, everybody’s healthy, and we’ll see if we can’t go make a run at this district.”
Wildcats junior running back Zach Norrell had himself a game with a number of good runs to go along with a 47-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. “Just a team player,” Norrell said regarding his role on the team. “It’s not just one person, it’s the whole team. I can’t just be the only one.
The line, they’re the reason I make those runs.”
Weimar had a 23-0 advantage after a 81-yard touchdown run at the two and a half minute mark in the first quarter by senior run ning back and newest football beau Wyatt Lacina. Lacina put up another 17-yard score in the final seconds of the quarter, then another run that was followed by a catch from Wildcats senior Marcus Castillo for nine yards made it 44-0 midway through the second quarter.
Snook responded with a touchdown catch of their own for 30 yards towards the end of the half to put it at 44-7 going into halftime.
A running clock for the rest of the game led way for not a lot of action, but Snook did tally a 57-yard run to the house and a 10-yard score on a botched snap from Weimar with about eight and a half minutes to play in the fourth quarter, which happened shortly after Norrell’s big run.
Weimar continued to run out the clock and soar to victory at 51-20.
