Trigg County and Fulton County spent Friday testing the scoreboard lights and the patience of its defensive coordinators. In the end, the Wildcats claimed a 55-34 win to move to 6-0.
Trigg scored the final 21 points of the first half to take a 55-34 lead. At Fulton County’s request, the second half was played with a running clock and neither team scored. Pilots Coach James Bridges saw a couple of his players go down with injuries in the first half and requested the running clock.
Fulton County has a district showdown with Russellville looming next week with home-field advantage in the playoffs on the line. The move to a running clock also enabled Trigg County to get out of town with minimal injuries ahead of next week’s district opener at Paducah Tilghman.
Trigg County needed just 25 plays to ring up 314 first-half yards and scored on a pair of returns — a 20-yard interception by Anthony Hall and a 77-yard kickoff return by Kelsey Parham.
Jacob Wease threw three first-half touchdowns. The first went to Jhaden Vaughn for 33 yards. Hall’s pick-six on Fulton’s next drive put the Wildcats up 14-0.
Fulton County answered with a 2-yard scoring run by JShon Jones. The big back had 21 rushing yards and caught seven passes for 93 yards.
Trigg’s next two touchdowns came on a 65-yard pass from Wease to Dillon Skinner, who broke several tackles on his way to the end zone. Skinner finished with three catches for 106 yards and passed 1,000 career receiving yards, becoming the ninth Trigg player to reach the milestone.
The Wildcats went ahead 34-20 on the final play of the first quarter when Davaree Gude scored on a 57-yard run.
Fulton County quarterback Max Gibbs misfired on nine of his first 11 attempts but started hitting on short passes that moved the football down the field for the Pilots. Fulton County tied the game when Gibbs connected with Kalon McCauley on a 20-yard scoring pass.
Trigg County retook the lead when Wease hit Ivey Redd on a 7-yard scoring strike with 5:55 left in the half. The touchdown throw was the 57th of Wease’s career and moved him past Dan Moser on Trigg County’s all-time list.
Parham closed out the scoring with touchdown runs of 10 and 4 yards. Parham finished with 120 rushing yards on 12 carries and moved past 1,000 yards for the season.
Wease finished 13-of-23 passing for 206 yards and surpassed the 5,000-yard mark for his career.
Gibbs was 15-of-36 for 192 yards for Fulton County. Trigg’s defense, which was allowing 228 rushing yards, gave up 35 to Fulton County on 21 carries.
Trigg County (6-0) now leads the all-time series with Fulton County 8-7 and will play at Paducah Tilghman next Friday.
