Ringgold’s D.I. Goins (5) picks up a big Tiger gain as he follows the block of Bryan Derben (73).RINGGOLD, Ga. – A 49-12 win over your oldest rival is always a tonic for what ails you, and what bothered Ringgold Friday night as Catoosa County neighbor Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe came calling was a serious bad taste in the Tigers’ collective mouth.
After a Region 6-AAA loss against Calhoun two weeks ago in which Ringgold outplayed the second-ranked Yellow Jackets for most of the game, the Tigers had to suffer through a bye week in which two players quit the team and its best playmaker, Kile Sholl, was sidelined with a broken foot. So after scoring on five of six first-half possessions, Ringgold (4-2, 2-2) took no mercy on an LFO team that also was missing several starters.
“It was nice. We thought we played real well against Calhoun and gave ourselves a chance to win, but that one stuck with us a bit,” Ringgold coach Robert Akins said. “When our offense is clicking like tonight, we’re hard to stop. Defensively we played kind of soft, but we did what we had to do to win.
“It was nice to get back in the win column, and now we can hopefully go take care of business against a fine Sonoraville team next week.”
Quarterback Devin Lancaster passed for 224 yards on 11 completions for one touchdown while also adding a short scoring run as the Tigers amassed 514 total yards. Senior running back D.L. Goins, expecting a greater workload with Sholl out, had just eight carries but made them count for 138 yards and three touchdowns.