The Aggies Do It Again: Four In A Row With Pine Forest Shutout

September 28, 2013

The Tate Aggies cruised to a 35-0 win over the Pine Forest Eagles Friday night at Pete Gindl Stadium in Cantonment.

The Tate Aggies came into Friday night’s game riding high on a three game winning streak.  Tate had not beat Pine Forest in a decade. Tate make it four wins in a row for this season, their best start since the early 90’s.  Crosstown rivals Pine Forest, however, were looking to put a stop to that winning streak.

The first quarter ended with the score still 0-0.  It wasn’t until late in the second quarter  before Tate scored on three-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Sawyer Smith to De-Vekyo Lewis to make the score 7-0 Tate with 3:34 remaining in the half.

Pine Forest was threatening with time running out, but the Eagles drew a penalty as they snapped the ball with 0.9 seconds remaining.  The clock started on the snap, but the play was whistled dead for the penalty but not before time expired for the half with Pine Forest standing behind on Tate’s three-yard line.

In the second half, Tate punted the football, but Pine Forest  fumbled the catch and Tate recovered the ball on Pine Forest 11. On what would have been fourth down, a roughing the quarterback penalty against the Eagles gave the Aggies a first down and they capitalized on a three-yard touchdown pass from Smith to Stephen Pederson, making the score 14-0 Tate.

Quarterback Sawyer Smith found Pederson again on a 30-yard touchdown pass.  Tate lead 21-0 with 3:18 remaining in the third.  Then, with just 12 seconds remaining in the third quarter, Tate’s Rashan Johnson intercepted an Eagles’ pass and returned the ball 77 yards for another Tate touchdown, 28-0.

Tate wasn’t done yet. Smith found Reginald Payne in the end zone for another touchdown pass for Tate’s last score.  Tate made it  two shutouts in a row holding the Eagles scoreless.

Tate’s Coach Ronny Douglas stated the he was “very pleased with the way the team played.  The players played well, the coaches did their jobs and the defense played excellent to get two shutouts in a row.  No one expected to stop the split back for 48 minutes.  We preached to the players all week to do your job and do your assignment.  It is a big, big win for us and any time you can get a shutout that is great.”

Tate moves to 4-1 for the season.  Tate starts district play next week at 7:30  when they host Niceville for their final home game of the regular season.

by Darryl Singleton

Pictured: The Tate Aggies beat the Pine Forest Eagles 35-0 Friday night in Cantonment. Photos by Kaleigh Blackmon for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.



Comments

7 Responses to “The Aggies Do It Again: Four In A Row With Pine Forest Shutout”

  1. proud aggie on September 28th, 2013 7:22 pm

    Good job boys! Very proud of all of you and the coaching staff as well. This has been long awaited! Keep it up and know your community is as pumped as you are. Your bringing back the excitement to Friday nights.

  2. JSCS on September 28th, 2013 2:16 pm

    GOOD JOB AGGIES! Looks like the Aggies of the old golden days.
    You are making the grads of years past very happy, happy, happy.
    Class of “58″ Keep up the good work. Congrats to Coach Douglas also.

  3. class of 87 on September 28th, 2013 1:48 pm

    Tate High Class of “88″ on September 28th, 2013 6:39 am

    Good to see the Football team doing well. Only won 8 games in 4 years when I played Football there. The Baseball team got all the kudos, with a State Championship and National Championship and all that !!!

    Tate actually went 6-4 in 1985 and 5-4 in 1986, so I think they won more than 8 games the four years you were there.

  4. jeff on September 28th, 2013 1:06 pm

    glad to see tate doing well after all these years…..i havent been to a game in a few years but they must have a coach who does something besides run up the middle 45 out of 50 plays a game…..good luck and keep it going…

  5. Geneva Stacey on September 28th, 2013 8:23 am

    Go Aggies Go, Young men you are doing the job, Now just keep listening to your coachs and work those muscles. So proud of all of you, now keep this winning streak going, this is your year. Yea, Yea, Yea!!!!!!!

  6. well on September 28th, 2013 8:17 am

    Way to go taters.

  7. Tate High Class of "88" on September 28th, 2013 6:39 am

    Good to see the Football team doing well. Only won 8 games in 4 years when I played Football there. The Baseball team got all the kudos, with a State Championship and National Championship and all that !!!

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