DECATUR, Tenn. – Quarterback Aaron Swafford accounted for all five of Meigs County’s touchdowns Friday night, and the Tigers rolled to a 36-8 high school football victory over visiting Polk County.
The undefeated Tigers marched 65 yards on the game’s first possession. Seven runs moved the ball 40 yards, and then Swafford went to the air for a 25-yard touchdown to Jon Jon Beeler.
Swafford threw only nine passes but completed six, to three receivers, for 148 yards and two touchdowns.
“Seven different guys have caught the football this year, so teams that play us can’t get locked in on one receiver,” Meigs coach Jason Fitzgerald said. “I think we had three or four different guys make catches tonight. We can do it at any time.”
But the ground game is Meigs’ staple with Swafford leading the way in that area, too. He ran for 117 yards on 17 carries and scored the Tigers’ next three TDs. They were on runs of 10, 11 and 11 yards – the first around left end, the second around the right and the third through the middle. Dalton Baker’s conversion run after the third one made the score 28-8 with 10:38 to go in the third quarter.