Gators beat W-M in battle of winless teams
Published 1:00 pm Friday, October 28, 2022
LaGrange broke into the win column and earned crosstown bragging rights with a 30-14 win over winless Washington-Marion Thursday night in a District 3-4A game at Robert Lavergne Memorial Stadium.
The win ended a 19-game LaGrange losing streak.
The Gators (1-8, 1-3) built a 16-0 halftime lead, scoring in the first quarter on a 10-play, 56-yard drive capped by a 10-yard pass from Jason Wilson to Kalyb Mitchell.
Wilson scored on a 38-yard scramble down the left sideline late in the second quarter to double the Gators’ lead.
The Gators ran for 100 yards in the first half but had one drive end on downs and another on a lost fumble.
W-M (0-8, 0-4) moved the ball but had four of five first-half possessions end in LaGrange territory. The Charging Indians lost fumbles at the Gators 3- and 35-yard lines, had a turnover on downs at the 27-yard line and reached the Gators 24 before time expired in the half.
W-M quarterback DeKhoury Flagg ran for 73 yards and threw for 49 in the first half.
Gators receiver Omarion Randolph scored a pair of 2-point conversions, one rushing and one receiving, in the half.
Christopher Dixon ran for 44 yards on 11 carries in the half.
Randolph scored on a 5-yard run in the third quarter to extend the Gators lead to 22-0.
W-M stormed back, getting touchdown runs of 10 yards by Flagg and 5 yards by Josh Smith to narrow the deficit to 22-14 with 10 minutes left.
The comeback ended with another turnover as a bad snap resulted in LaGrange’s Anthony Bellamy recovering a fumble in the end zone for a touchdown.
Wilson finished with 109 pass yards and 47 rushing yards. Dixon ran for 87 yards and Keshaun Doucet added 72.
Flagg had 109 rushing yards and 86 passing yards.
LaGrange’s most recent win was also over W-M, a 28-6 win in Week 9 of the 2019 season.