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By Brian Pitts
Enterprise Record

East Forsyth, Reagan and Mt. Tabor – teams with a combined record of 18-5 – bullied Davie’s football in consecutive weeks. Friday was West Forsyth’s turn to add to Davie’s misery.
The Titans ran visiting Davie off the field, 48-10, in Davie’s worst setback in the 43-game history of the rivalry.
West (6-2, 4-1 CPC) extended its winning streak to four. The four-game tailspin dropped Davie to 2-6, 1-4.
West capitalized on a Davie turnover in the opening minutes, a fumble recovered at the Davie 33. West scored four plays later and got the 2-point try to take an 8-0 lead.
Despite being a huge underdog, Davie did come up with some early answers. A 35-yard connection between quarterback Draeton Nance and Leon Bradshaw moved the ball to the West 15 and Max McCall drilled a 28-yard field goal.
On the next play from scrimmage, though, West covered 80 yards in one play thanks to a friendly bounce. Running back CJ Blevins picked up 36 yards but fumbled the ball. Teammate Hunter Cruise scooped a Sunday hop and rambled the remaining 44 yards to the end zone.
Davie was down 15-3 but recovered an onside kick at the West 47 and took advantage of the positive field position. Nance dumped a pass to running back Braxton Bowling, who sped 29 yards to the West 13. Bowling scored three plays later to draw Davie within 15-10.
“We stick together and do things the right way,” Davie coach Tim Devericks told the Clemmons Courier. “And to see these kids’ effort, that encourages me.”
The rest of the game, though, looked exasperatingly familiar. The Titans scored 33 unanswered points to beat Davie for the fourth straight year.
On a 75-yard drive, they overcame fourth-and-6 and a 7-yard sack.
On a 68-yard drive, they shrugged off second-and-32 and scored on a 44-yard bomb.
The next time they got the ball, Blevins rolled 63 yards to the Davie 23 to set up a TD that made the halftime margin 35-10.
West added insult to injury by faking a punt in the third quarter. On fourth-and-10 from the West 38, the punter completed a 37-yard pass and the Titans drove the remaining 25 yards to widen the gap to 41-10. They scored their seventh and final TD with two minutes left in the third.
Even though it’s been a freefall since Sept. 26, Devericks said his boys are giving him everything they’ve got.
“We battled some injuries right before halftime and the second half,” he told the Courier. “But our kids battled, man. We battled. I’m super-proud of them tonight.”
Here are the chilling stats: West scored on seven of 10 possessions not counting the end of halves. Davie came up empty on its last eight possessions and committed three turnovers. West outgained Davie 643-265 as Blevins (15 carries, 177 yards) and Riley Horton (12-107 rushing) averaged 11.8 and 8.9 yards per carry, respectively. Horton misfired on 17 pass attempts but made up for it by averaging 14 yards a completion and tossing three TDs.
Two teams in dire need of a win will meet Friday night in Winston-Salem at 7. Parkland (3-5, 1-4) is also stuck in a four-game losing streak, getting outscored 113-6 the past two weeks by East Forsyth and Reagan.
Last year the War Eagles outscored Parkland 40-33, and they’re seeking their seventh straight win in the series.