Battle of the Patriots Goes Winston's Way; 38-10

Winston came into Columbus with the heads held high thinking that another win would easily be in the books. But after 10 min. of the first quarter was gone it looked like they would be in for an upset. Heritage came out on the opening drive and on three plays was forced to punt after a few penalties put them back to a 4th and 19. Sweedenburg the punter mis-handled a punt and picked it up to begin to run. With the Patriots rushing towards him he lofted the ball up in the air to find a wide open receiver downfield for a first down. Luck continued to play into the hands of Heritage as on third down at the Winston 30 yard line, Mac Thatcher got a toss, avoided Caleb Kelly's rush, and threw the ball into the endzone for the touchdown. That gave the Heritage Pats an early lead at 7-0. Winston stalled on their opening drive and was forced to punt. On the next Heritage drive, they caught a screen and raced down the sideline for over 50 yards. But Winston held the homestanding team and forced a 35 yard field goal and trailed 10-0 with 5 min. remaining in the first quarter. Thats when Coach Rogers and the Patriot offense said that was enough. Winston marched down the field and scored with two seconds left in the first on a Tyler Dalton 3 yard rush. From then on Winston would score on every possession and they had the halftime lead 21-10. Eventually Winston would put up 38 unanswered points and T.D. had another stellar performance on offense and Winston proved finally why they are the number 1 team in the state. Corey Vernon came up big in this one also putting three big ones into the endzone. The defense was this weeks Temptco Steel Player(s) of the Game though because of the way they answered the call after going down early in this one. Winston had their best game of the season by far and continued their winning ways to improve to 7-0 on the season and are one conference win away from clinching the division. Their next oppenent is the Tri-County Rebels a team at the cellar of the conference.