Unbeaten Pioneers (13-0) home vs.
Weddington in next postseason game
WATAUGA’S BEST YEARS
A look at Watauga High’s best football seasons since 1978:
Year Record
1978 13-0-1
2018 13-0
2006 12-3
2007 11-4
2017 10-3
2016 9-4
1981 8-3
1928 8-2
2013 8-4
2014 8-4
2015 8-4
Notes: Watauga’s 23 wins since last season match the previous best of 23 in over two seasons (2006-07, 23-7)…This season’s Northwestern 3A-4A title was the fourth in the last 41 years for the Pioneers, whose previous crowns were in 1978 (Northwestern 3A, 1980 Northwestern 3A and 2003 share of Northwestern 3A-4A)…Watauga is making its eighth straight postseason appearance and 12th in 13 seasons.
SOURCE: HobbsDailyReport.com research and files.
HobbsDailyReport.com
BOONE – Running back Bryce Satterfield exploded for 322 rushing yards on 26 carries and scored six times as Watauga High rolled into the third round of the state 3AA football playoffs on Friday night.
The top-seeded Pioneers raced away from No. 8 Winston-Salem Parkland, winning 49-26 to move on to play No. 5 Weddington (12-1) in the third round on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. in Boone.
Weddington advanced by winning 33-6 at fourth-seeded South Iredell on Friday night.
Watauga (13-0) collected career win No. 106 for head coach Ryan Habich, who is 56-19 in his sixth season at Watauga.
With 13 wins, the Pioneers have tied their 1978 team (13-0-1) for most single-season wins. That team won a state 3A title.
On Friday night, Watauga survived a sleet storm that started in the second half, temperatures of 31 degrees and a soggy field to win big.
Satterfield had scoring runs of 4 and 13 yards in the second quarter and added TDs on runs of 35 and 97 yards in the third quarter.
“The line was blocking really well tonight,” Satterfield told The Watauga Democrat after the game. “We ran pretty much only two plays with the veer and the line opened it up well the entire game. I was hitting it pretty hard.”
Watauga had a 28-26 lead as the final quarter began, boosting that edge to 42-26 when Satterfield scored on runs of 1 and 53 yards.
Watauga scored more than 40 points for the 10th time this season and had 513 yards of offense, 463 of that on the ground.
Jaiden Bond added 77 rushing yards and Anderson Castle had eight carries for 56 yards for the Pioneers.
Winston-Salem Parkland, finishing 11-2, ran for 446 yards.
The Mustangs grabbed an early 14-0 lead when, The Democrat reported, they ran 23 plays to four by Watauga.
Quarterback Camian Shell threw for 221 yards on 16 completions and threw for two scores for the Mustangs.
Friday night’s winner in Boone gets No. 3 Mount Tabor (9-4) or No. 2 A.C. Reynolds (12-1) in the West 3AA final on Dec. 7.
Watauga will be at home if it advances and Weddington would travel to Mount Tabor or A.C. Reynolds.
The state 3AA title game, set for the following weekend at North Carolina, will include one of these Eastern N.C. teams – No. 9 Durham Hillside (9-3), No. 4 Cleveland (11-2), No. 14 Greensboro Dudley (10-3) or No. 2 Southeast Guilford (12-1).
