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Orange County football blows past Charlottesville

In their last game, Orange County football took a lead to the half against Louisa, but weren’t able to finish things in the second half.  

 

After leading at the half against Charlottesville tonight, they weren’t about to go down that same road. 

 

The Hornets were firing on all cylinders, and were able to beat the Black Knights 36-6.

 

“After Saturday’s heartbreaking loss, we came to practice this week, practiced hard, executed hard on defense today and ran the ball well and got the W tonight,” said Orange’s Markell Jackson, who led the Hornets with 144 rushing yards on 15 carries with a touchdown.  

 

The Orange offense got on the board first and never slowed down and for a time, it was the Paul Poirer and Doug Newsome show. All five of Poirer’s completions were to Newsome, totaling 124 yards and three touchdowns. Poirer also had a rushing score, giving him four touchdowns on the night.

 

The Hornets’ defense had a huge night as well. They were swarming all over the place, making life difficult for the Black Knights. 

 

“That’s one thing that we take pride in, and these kids do a pretty good job of it,” said Orange coach Jesse Lohr.  “We try to get 11 hats to the football and be resilient, we’re gonna bend a little bit, but coach Ferguson’s unit didn’t break and I’m proud of how we found a way two or three times when they got in the red zone.”

 

The Hornets had several sacks and forced four turnovers, including three interceptions, with William Lewis notching two of those picks himself while Rebel Fretwell had the third.  The Hornets only gave up one touchdown, a run by Charlottesville’s Eddison Duolo.

 

As for the Black Knights, they fought hard, but just were never able to get anything going consistently in the game. Duolo was the Black Knights’ leading rusher with 30 yards on seven carries and a score, Caldwell Boyles completed nine passes for 92 yards and Quincy Edwards caught two passes for 58 yards.

 

After tonight, the Black Knights will try to regroup before hosting Western Albemarle on Friday.

 

Orange will be looking forward to hitting the road Friday, and get ready to face a tough Monticello squad.  

 

“They have a really good athlete there at quarterback, and their coach is coming in and starting a new program,” Lohr said. “We just have to be able to play our football and have a good week of practice, go there Friday night and give it our best.”

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