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CLAREMONT — Quarterback Dillan Davis came up big for West Iredell High on Friday night, leading the Warriors to a 36-28 road victory over Bunker Hill in Northwestern Foothills 2A football.
WEST IREDELL 36
BUNKER HILL 28
Davis scored a go-ahead touchdown on a 6-yard run, putting the Warriors (5-4, 2-1) up for good at 22-21, as West Iredell reached five wins in a season for the first time since 2011.
The Bears (1-9, 1-4), coming off a victory at East Burke, had an early 7-0 lead.
Davis ran 21 yards and added a two-point conversion to put West Iredell ahead 8-7 but the Bears answered with a 47-yard scoring run by Raheem Carson to lead 14-8.
After Davis ran 3 yards for a TD and tied it at 14, Carson put the Bears back in front, 21-14, with a 12-yard TD run.
Davis’ 6-yard TD run came next and he added a two-point conversion run for a 22-21 lead
West Iredell was up 30-21 when it scored on a 27-yard pass from Davis to Chase Gallyon.
The Bears got within eight points with a minute to play when Aaron Prince threw a TD pass.
West Iredell won its fourth straight visit to Claremont in the schools’ 20th meeting since 1981. Bunker Hill leads the series 11-9.
The Warriors are in third place, one game back to Patton and Hibriten, in the conference race with two league games to go.
West Iredell, which has had five straight losing seasons, has a key conference game next Friday when it plays host to Hibriten for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff. The Warriors’ regular-season finale is Nov. 2 at Fred T. Foard.
Bunker Hill’s final game of the season is next Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Patton, as the Bears open date is Nov. 2.
Without a win in Morganton, the Bears will have two or fewer wins for the 15th time in school history, and they’ll finish with one or fewer wins for the eighth time (the others were in 1986, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2016).