Making some noise in 8-player is what the WACO Warrior football team has accomplished in the first couple weeks of the season when they followed up a 52-0 week zero victory over Twin Cedars with a 56-24 thrashing of Springville on Friday.

The Orioles (0-1) were a 6-3 ball club in 2020, but they got a rude awakening from the visiting Warriors with three early scores to take a 19-6 lead after one headlined by a pair of rushing scores from Simeon Reichenbach. The tally was 27-14 at the break when WACO broke down the door in the third with 21 unanswered points to pull away for the convincing win. The ground game did a bulk of the damage with 286 rushing yards led by Reichenbach carrying the rock 10 times for 155 yards and four touchdowns. Isaac Oswald, Reece Oswald, Jonah Clark, and John Rice all added rushing scores. Zach Schmitz led the defense with five tackles, Mason Miller recorded an interception, and Tyler Sutton had a fumble recovery.

Head Coach Chad Edeker tells KCII Sports the third quarter was the best 12 minutes he has seen out of his team. “They were running a unique defense with a 2-5 and usually had three or four linebackers blitzing. It was tougher for our linemen in the first half to determine who was coming and who wasn’t. We decided at half we would run our wedge play and cover every gap. It went for 16 yards on the first play and that set the tone for the rest of the game. We scored three times in that quarter, our defense only gave up 40 total yards, and we were very physical. We did a very nice job in the second half and it allowed our JV players to finish it out.”

WACO is now 2-0 and they travel to face HLV (1-1) on Friday.