Beaufort continues dominance over rival Battery Creek
By Justin Jarrett
LowcoSports.com
The trends were pointing in the right direction for this time to be different.
It was more of the same.
Beaufort High set the tone early with a blocked punt for a touchdown, and the Eagles’ offense found a rhythm en route to a 48-0 rout of Battery Creek for their 17th straight win in the series dating to the Dolphins’ last triumph in 2003.
After an early defensive stop, Brown charged up the middle and smothered a Battery Creek punt, which Raymond Middleton pounced on for a touchdown to ignite a raucous crowd in The Nest.
“Chaz did a great job of getting in there,” Beaufort coach Bryce Lybrand said. “That’s a tough play because you know you’re gonna get a ball to the chest, and he did, but he made a great hustle play, which is what Chaz does.”
Enter Braydon Moyd-Smalls.
The Eagles’ junior quarterback threw touchdown passes to Keaudre Jenkins and Qualeek Isnar and added a rushing touchdown of his own, and the rout was on. Moyd-Smalls has brought life to the offense since taking over for the injured Anthony Kahler, providing a dual-threat and an improvisational spark.
“He did a lot of good things,” Lybrand said. “He’s getting a little better every week, and that’s all we’re asking him to do. As long as he does that, we’ll have a chance to be all right.”
Beaufort’s ground game took over from there, as K’Mari Mizzell punched in a 9-yard touchdown run, and Bryson Broadwater added a pair of rushing scores to cap off the night.
After an 0-3 start against a challenging schedule, the Eagles have won two straight and have a week off to prepare for their Region 6-4A opener at Bluffton on Oct. 3.
“It’ll be a big one,” Lybrand said. “We’ve got a lot of work to do before then to try to clean up some things from these last couple weeks and go play a really good football team.”
