It took two big plays for Wetumpka to seal a 14-3 win over visiting Eufaula.
Indian coach Bear Woods believes his team could have had more points on the board and possibly shut out the visiting Tigers.
“We had drives, we had big yardage and we had penalties against us,” Woods said. “That was hard to overcome.”
Eufaula was first to score with a 37-yard field goal by Thomas Wingate. But the homesteading Indians made some mistakes to allow the try. Wetumpka held the Tigers at midfield forcing a punt.
“The three points came off of us giving up a first down due to an infraction on a punt that lengthened the drive,” Woods said.
Otherwise the Wetumpka coach was pleased with the defensive effort keeping Eufaula from the endzone.
“They pitched a shutout the rest of the way,” Woods said. “It was tremendous.”
The Indians held the Tigers to 215 yards of offense. It was an effort Eufaula coach Jerrel Jernigan wasn’t pleased with.
“We stunk it up tonight,” Jernigan said. “We didn't capitalize on our defense; our defensive turnovers.”
The Indians blocked a Tiger field goal and Wetumpka’s Cleangelo Peake returned an interception from the endzone 26 yards.
“We got inside the red zone a couple times and we didn't we didn't capitalize on it,” Jernigan said.
It was the wildcat formation with Wetumpka’s Justin Godwin under center that opened the game up for the Indians. He took the direct snap 69 yards for the score.
An interception by Wetumpka’s Kelby Walker and returning it to the Indians’ 12-yard line allowed Godwin to score again.
Godwin finished the night with 110 yards on six carries with two touchdowns on the night.
Indian running back Jimmy King had the bulk of the carries with 20 carries for 39 yards.
The penalties took the yards off the board for Wetumpka. Offensively it finished with only 167 yards.
“Defense played pretty well tonight, for the most part,” Jernigan said. “They only gave up in two big plays.”
The Tigers went with Ty'Keyvious Mccoy and Jaylin Wright taking the snaps. Combined they threw the ball 24 times with 13 completions for 80 yards. They also had three interceptions.
McCoy’s and Wright’s favorite target was Zachai Steele who pulled in 7 receptions for 40 yards.
Woods believes Wetumpka has got to find a way to consistently move the ball to be successful.
“We have to be better all around on offense,” Woods said. “This is the same offensive line that rushed for 600 yards in two games. Hats off to them for playing well on defense.”
