It was highlight week for Warner Robins. First and foremost, said Head Coach Mike Chastain, it was highlights – in practice – of Dameon Pierce, Bainbridge’s Florida-commit. Highlights of this year with “some impressive runs on there,” Chastain said – Pierce did come into the game with 1,709 of the team’s 2,625 rushing yards.
Highlights from last year, Chastain added, a 24-21 win for the Bearcats.
By the time it was all said and done, said Chastain: “The guys were tired of seeing him do good right now.”
Just one more highlight to go: Pierce, on Friday when the two met again, taking the ball on the first play from scrimmage and running it 55 yards for a score.
That would do it for his highlights. The rest were all Demons.
For starters, they held Pierce to just 12 yards rushing on 14 carries for the rest of the half, while at the same time scoring six touchdowns on six straight possessions.
Highlight two: A 35-6 win.
Three: A 10-0 regular season (the first since 2004).
Four: Region 1-AAAAA champions (the first since 2013).
Five: They will host Effingham County when the first round of the state tournament begins next Friday.
More highlights: A 13-play, 95-yard drive to answer Pierce’s score. That was finished off with a 10-yard pass from Dylan Fromm to Juwight Hutchison and Eli Mashburn’s point after to ensure Warner Robins would never trail again.
Jarius Burnette scored next. He went in from the 1 to finish off a six-play 56-yard drive. That made it 14-6 with Mashburn’s point after.
It was also one of two scores for him. After Dylan found his brother, Tyler, for a 13-yard score – that still in the first quarter – Burnette took the ball on a fourth-and-one from the 10 and powered his way in.
Bainbridge punted on three of its possessions during that span and turned it over on downs on another.
Finally, Fromm found Marcayll Jones on a 35-yard pass for the final score.
There weren’t many highlights for either side in the second half. The Demons punted five times – a mix of players from the bench later in the game contributed to some of that – whereas the Bearcats threw three interceptions and turned it over on downs on their opportunities.
MCDONALD’S OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE GAME TYLER FROMM. PAPA JOHN’S DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE GAME DILLON BRAUNSTEIN.
