Winter(boro) is coming
- Updated: October 5, 2023
A year after Donoho’s goal-line stand, Winterboro crosses the goal line plenty in 47-6 victory over the Falcons
Scoreboard
THURSDAY, Oct. 5
Winterboro 47, Donoho 6
FRIDAY, Oct. 6
St. Clair County at Alexandria
Anniston at Handley
Valley at Central-Clay
Cleburne County at Jacksonville
Sylvania at Glencoe
Hokes Bluff at Plainview
Success Academy at Jax Christian
Munford at Lincoln
Geraldine at Ohatchee
Pell City at Oxford
Westbrook Christian at Piedmont
Pleasant Valley at Locust Fork
Ranburne at Vincent
Randolph County at Saks
Leeds at Southside
Spring Garden at Talladega County Central
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Open: Cherokee County, Wadley, Weaver
By Joe Medley
East Alabama Sports Today
A lot has changed since Donoho made a goal-line stand at Winterboro to key the Falcons’ 2022 football playoff berth.
Donoho lost a strong class of athletes to graduation, and Winterboro got a year older, bigger and better.
Deonte Smoot scored three touchdowns and Dequarious Truss two touchdowns, and Winterboro avenged last year’s loss at home with a 47-6 victory on Donoho’s Lentz Field on Thursday.
The Bulldogs improved to 3-3, 2-1 in Class 1A, Region 6 with region games against Ragland, Wadley and Victory Christian over the next three weeks.
“We can still possibly get the top seed,” Winterboro coach Skylar Mansfield said. “We just have to do what we have to do with the remainder of the schedule. …
“We’re still in the hunt to win this region.”
Donoho, which won 28-20 at Winterboro in 2022 to all but clinch the Falcons’ first playoff berth since 2019, fell to 0-6, 0-4.
They suffered key losses from last season, including Logan Melton and Lucas Elliott. Quarterback Will Folsom plays for Ohatchee this season.
Donoho has 13 varsity players.
“It’s still no excuse, though,” second-year Donoho coach Jeremy Satcher said. “We just didn’t do our job. They did it.
“I knew they were just going to line it up and run it at us. We just didn’t do our job.”
The story of Donoho’s season so far has been “life lessons,” Satcher said.
“How do you respond?” Satcher said. “Everything’s not going to go your way. It’s not going to be like it was back in the past. You’ve just got to respond and go after it.”
Donoho responded early Thursday. Down 14-0, the Falcons drove 65 yards in seven plays, with quarterback Kai CLeckler keeping for a 2-yard touchdown run to bring them within 14-6 at 9:13 of the second quarter.
Winterboro kept responding and responding.
Truss’ bulled through the middle for his second touchdown run to make it 22-6, and Smoot’s 47-yard run made it 28-6 at 2:11.
Brandon Hunter’s 22-yard touchdown pass to JeMarreo Clegg extended, 9-yard touchdown pass to Smoot and 7-yard touchdown run made it 47-6 by the end of the third quarter.
“Between last year and this year, last year, it was more everybody was independent instead of everybody depending on each other,” Smoot said. “People are doing their jobs and giving 110 percent on the field.”
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