The first win of the season was a record-setter for the Flint Hill Huskies.
By defeating the visiting Catholic Crusaders (0-7) from Virginia Beach by a 63-7 score Oct. 12 in non-conference high-school football action, the Huskies (1-5) set a team-high scoring total. The previous mark was 62 points, accomplished four different times over the past 14 years.
“It was a good day at the office,” Flint Hill coach Kirk Peterson said. “On film, Catholic looked pretty good. They helped us out with making mistakes.”
Flint Hill’s scoring started very early against Catholic when Rudy Ernst recovered a fumble in the end zone on the Crusaders’ first offensive play. Caleb West booted his first of many extra points and Flint Hill led 7-0 just nine seconds into the game.
The Huskies led 57-0 at halftime.
Flint Hill’s Kariq Waters returned an interception 32 yards for a touchdown, and Bryce Stewart and Ty Harris each had punt returns for scores. Harris broke multiple tackles on his return.
West threw three touchdown passes of 30 yards to Stewart, 10 to Harris and six to Kendall Jones. Damian Snell, Elan Jones, Victor McNeal and Kobe Davis had touchdown runs to lead the running attack. Flint Hill also was awarded a safety when the snap on a Catholic punt sailed high and out of the end zone.
Jeffrey Wells recovered a fumble on defense for Flint Hill. Ernst had two fumble recoveries. McNeal added a long second-half kickoff return.
Catholic scored its lone touchdown late in the third quarter.
Peterson believes the dominating performance will give Flint Hill confidence for its final three games. Four of the Huskies’ losses have been by close scores, when mistakes and turnovers hurt the team.
“Now we have to continue playing like this and not give our opponents opportunities, like we have before this game,” Peterson said.
Flint Hill has three games remaining against teams with winning records. It likely has to win all of those contests to have any chance of earning a berth into the four-team Division I Virginia private-school state playoffs.
