The DCHS football Tigers took their border rival, the Cannon County Lions, down hard in a 42-0 game in Woodbury Friday night.
The two teams fought without scoring for most of the first quarter of the game, until a pick by Bradley Miller spurred the Tigers to drive to the four-yard line, where Miller ran it into the end zone for six with 1:39 left in the first. Poss booted a good extra-point kick, and DeKalb went up 7-0.
With seconds left on the clock in the first, and the Lions backed up against their own goal line in a fourth and long situation, a high snap to the kicker, wound up in the end zone, where it was DeKalb County’s Devin Bain for six more points. Poss put another one through the uprights, and the second quarter began with a 14-0 Tiger lead.
A 14-yard touchdown run by Colton Seifert with 2:23 on the clock in the second put six more points on the board for DeKalb. Poss added another extra point to put the Tigers up 21-0
The game remained on auto pilot until Tiger Quarterback Tyler Cantrell hit Isaiah Jones with a 24-yard touchdown pass with 5:14 left in the third quarter. Yet another good kick from Poss gave DeKalb a 28-0 lead.
The Tigers scored again on an 18-yard pass from Cantrell to Poss with 11:09 left in the fourth. The EP from Poss extended the DeKalb lead to 35-0.
Seifert put the final nail in the Lions coffin with an 18-yard touchdown run with 39 seconds on the clock. Andrew Fuson put up the EP, and DeKalb went home with a 42-0 win.
The Tigers wind up the regular season at 7-3 overall, and a 5-1 record in region play, finishing second in the region.
A win against Upperman on Oct. 21 clinched second place in the region for DeKalb, and the Tigers earned a home-field advantage for the first round of play-offs. Undefeated Sequatchie County, at first place in the region, will face third-place Upperman Friday night.
Fourth-place York Institute, 4-6 overall and 3-3 in district play; fifth place Smith County, 2-3 in the region and 4-5 overall; sixth-place Grundy county, at 2-4 in region play and 2-9 overall; and seventh-place Cannon County round out the region.
DeKalb will host East Ridge High School in the first round Class 3A playoff game in Smithville Friday night. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
East Ridge finished their regular season with a 5-5 overall record, and 3-2 in their region. East Ridge took Brainerd down 34-6, beat Signal Mountain 35-28, defeated Chattanooga Central 13-6, routed Howard 13-7, and won 39-28 against Chattanooga Christian. The team lost to Polk County 35-28, Red Bank 22-10, Hixson 7-0, Notre Dame 50-26, and Loudon 16-13.
