GRAYSON —
Raceland got a fight, but it only lasted for one round.
Ahead only 12-6 at halftime, Raceland went on a
26-0 second-half run to defeat East Carter 38-6 at East Carter High School on Friday night.
Rams’ coach T.J. Maynard watched as his team shot themselves in the foot during the first half.
“Seems like every time we would make a big play, a momentum-changing play, we would get some type of penalty or we would turn the ball over,” Maynard said.
“East Carter was a feisty team, and in the first half they gave us everything we wanted.”
Raceland had passes of 91 and 31 yards called back in the first half, but capitalized on two big touchdown runs by Daylin Beach.
Beach added another score in the second half, and finished with 97 rushing yards and 32 receiving yards.
“He’s played receiver for us for two years so he knows how to run routes and catch the football,” Maynard said of Beach. “But growing up he always played running back, so we want to get his hands on the ball. But we want to take advantage of him in space, too, running routes.
“He’s a kid who can make big plays for us.”
Zack Litteral added 85 yards rushing for the Rams.
While Raceland didn’t have trouble moving the ball in the first half, the Rams were stalled by penalities and two turnovers.
East Carter got good field position several times in the first half, starting on the Raceland 25-, 13-, 32- and 24-yard line.
All the Raiders could muster was two Quinn Huddle field goals.
With such a short field to work with, Maynard really credited his team’s defensive play to limit East Carter to the field goals.
“Luckily in the first half I thought our defense played outstanding,” Maynard said. “They were on our 13, and I challenged the defense to hold them to three. We were put in a bad situation and it was good to see them step up.”
When the second half started it was all Raceland, starting with a seven-play, 64 yard drive, capped off by a Beach 6-yard run.
On the next East Carter possession, Raceland’s Connor Messer intercepted a pass. That was followed by a 40-yard touchdown pass from Adam Elkins to Rodney Vance.
Elkins and Vance connected again in the third quarter, this time going 86 yards down the field, in what was the backbreaker.
Elkins finished out the scoring with a 16-yard quarterback keeper in the fourth quarter.
The junior quarterback finished 11-of-17 for 223 yards with two touchdowns along with 80 rushing yards.
But while his numbers were good, penalties and mistakes cost him some big yards.
“He did a lot of good things and made some really nice throws,” Maynard said. “In the first half he had A.J. Joseph on a nice go-route and he dropped it. Then we had a guy wide open and he throws it out of bounds.
“Those were the things in the first half that we corrected in the second half and got some big plays.”
East Carter struggled to move the ball with last year’s leading rusher Conner Staton on the sidelines in a leg cast.
The Raiders’ Blake Mayo wore Staton’s No. 23 jersey in his honor, but couldn’t help the Raiders pick up big yards. East Carter managed just two yards rushing, while some late passes gave them 100 yards through the air.
Cade Stidham had a fumble recovery and an interception for the Raiders, while the biggest play from scrimmage was a Donovan Roe 58-yard pass to Cole Boggs in the fourth quarter.
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