East Lincoln 28 Lincolnton 14 Would have posted occasional updates but forgot and left my phone in the car. Overall, EL is better than us. They have a good running and passing game but their forte is defense, especially their front. They definitely hit hard and we had trouble with the run, they have speed and they had some depth that we didn't.
We were aggravating to them and made some progress ourselves with the run and through the air. Last week, I didn't feel like we played and entire game. There are those who would take issue with this but tonight, I thought we did. Also, we hit them every bit as hard as they hit us.
Twice we were in the red zone and didn't score because of mistakes (an interception and a snap that went over the quarterback's head. Had we scored on one of those it would have been an actually close game, not that we would have won but momentum wise rather than numbers.
Congratulations to East on their win.
Side note: Kudos to East Lincoln's sophomore quarterback G. Lawless, who got blindsided deep in his own territory to the sound of a deep thud. He is a tall slender guy and I thought he might stay down for a moment but he did not. He hopped back up and casually flipped the ball to the official as if nothing happened.
Thanks for the effort Wolves. Way to stand up to them. Keep trying !