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Northview Chiefs Sink South Walton’s Seahawks 34-7 (With Photo Gallery)
September 22, 2012
The Northview Chiefs beat the South Walton Seahawks 34-7 Friday night in Bratt.
Northview took the lead with 8:21 on the clock in the first with a 67-yard punt return for a touchdown from junior Neino Robinson, 6-0 Chiefs. Northview struck again in the second with a touchdown and a good two point conversion from Brannon Freeman, 14-0.
In the third, quarterback Kevin Vaughan completed a 20-yard touchdown pass in the end zone to Cameron Newsome, 21-0. Vaughan was back at the QB spot for the first time Friday night since breaking his wrist on his throwing arm.
Vaughan, a senior, threw for 184 yards and two touchdowns for NHS.
With 1:07 to go in the third quarter of play, Robinson scored again on a 10 yard pass from Vaughan. A missed kick, and Northview increase their advantage to 27-0.
South Walton scored their lone touchdown with 5:11 to go in the game, 27-7. Northview answered with a 40-yard run Freeman TD with 2:59 to play, 34-7.
Robinson totaled 86 yards on eight carries on the night. Defensively, Chad Smith had a couple of interceptions for the Chiefs.
For a NorthEscambia.com photo gallery, click here.
Even with the win, Northview Head Coach Sid Wheatley said there is room for improvement from his Chiefs, currently ranked No. 4 in the state in Class 1A.
“It’s always good to get wins, and we are proud of that win,” he said. “But I think we are smart enough to know that we have to play at a higher level, and we’ve got to get a lot better during the course of practice next week.”
“It just looked like we never had any cohesiveness offensively,” Wheatley said. “We were not executing like we needed to…just little things that add up during the course of a game that kind of take you off what you are trying to do, what you are trying to establish.”
“I think our defense overall played better. We gave up a couple of passes…but I thought we played a little harder on that side,” he said.
The Northview Chiefs will travel to Gulf Breeze next Friday night to take on the 5A Gulf Breeze Dolphins.
It will be the first regular season game of the year for Penn State recruit Neiko Robinson after the Florida High School Sports Association reduced his suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct from six games to four. [Read more...]
For a NorthEscambia.com photo gallery, click here. (Band, cheerleader, dance team and NJROTC photos will be published Sunday.)
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6 Responses to “Northview Chiefs Sink South Walton’s Seahawks 34-7 (With Photo Gallery)”
I agree with nhs player a win is a win. And let’s keep things in perspective. Northview only has 3 paid coaches. I really don’t know how many the big schools in Pensacola have, but I bet there are more to go around. We are very fortunate that we have talented volunteers who donate their time to make Northview a better team.
I don’t always agree with the Coaches, but am very proud of the boys on both teams. They play their hearts out every game!
Enough complaining. Come out and support the boys win or lose. That is what a real CHIEF fan does!
1.) jv has there chance to get in and practice but they choose not to. you cant make anybody somebody do something if they dont want to, and the ones that do get in are the ones that do exceptionally well. 2.) to the supoosely “fans” i cant tell weather your a south walton fan or northview. who are you to criticize teenage boys, thats real mature. By all means come try to work as hard as are coaches do, dedicaate yourself like they do. oh and south waltons record 2 years ago was 7-3.
# an ugly win is better than a pretty loss
; not other p have layers to practice punting/kicking field goals? Are we not planning or training for our future football seasons???? Oh wait…its my understanding that the JV doesn’t even practice,,,, sure they stay for “practice” but I’m told by many parents that JV practices consist of them sitting on their hamlets and watching varsity practice! Does anyone else see anything wrong with that??? How does one learn something new if not taught?? Just saying……
A real game is not the time to practice kicking. Extra points and field goals can win or lose a game.
Fan, I agree with you. That was one of the worst games I’ve seen us play. Last week we put up 50 against Chipley and this week we struggled with a team that hasn’t had a winning season in years! Our offense looked terrible
A win is good, but this was the sloppiest game I have seen coached and played. What are we thinking by trying 30-40 yard field goals when we haven’t mastered the extra point? You bring a kid in who just got his cast off to be able to throw for 30 yards and they intercept it. If we plan to beat Gulf Breeze coaches you better have a different plan.