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BOONE – Watauga High ran for nearly 450 yards — with three players clearing 100 yards — en route to a 50-26 home victory over Wilkes Central on Friday night.
WATAUGA 50
WILKES CENTRAL 26
The Pioneers (4-0) scored 21 points in a span of five minutes, 12 seconds to subdue the Eagles (2-2).
After Wilkes Central had closed within 22-12, Watauga scored on three straight possessions.
“We had a really good surge in the second half,” Watauga head coach Ryan Habich told WATA Radio after the game.”
Bryce Satterfield rushed 23 times for 109 yards, quarterback Anderson Castle ran for 168 yards and Jaden Bond added 101, and the Pioneers withstood 118 passing yards by the Eagles’ Durham Banks to win.
Watauga is headed into its bye week and then opens Northwestern 3A-4A play on Sept. 22 with a home game against South Caldwell.
Habich told WATA he plans to get back to the basics and fine tune things during the bye week.
“We gotta clean a lot of things up,” he said in the postgame interview. “We didn’t play great and there are a lot of things we gotta do better.”
Watauga won for the 37th time in 53 games with Habich as head coach. He’s in his sixth season in Boone.