Benedictine football coach Danny Britt knew his team would be facing the toughest of challenges in a non-region matchup with Class 6A powerhouse Buford as the Wolves came to Savannah’s Memorial Stadium ranked ninth in the nation by the USA Today Network on Friday night.
Mother Nature threw in a wrench into one of the most anticipated Week 2 games in Georgia as lightning storms delayed the kickoff until 9:21 p.m., with another lightning delay pushing things back midway through the first quarter.
The Cadets, ranked No. 2 among Class 4A teams in the state by the AJC, hung tough for a quarter, but Buford, ranked No. 2 in Class 6A, just had too much talent and depth to overcome — as the Wolves rolled to a dominating 42-14 victory in a game that ended at 12:19 a.m.
The BC Sports game crew of Christian Goeckel and Kevin Thomas reported that the Wolves have 33 players holding scholarship offers, and Buford won the battle up front on both sides of the ball behind a wealth of talent in the trenches.
“That’s what I told the guys, when you play a team like that, there are things you have to correct, but you have to also realize we won’t see anything like that again,” Britt said of Buford’s stacked roster. “The sheer depth, the different tight ends they were running out — it was ridiculous. But that’s part of it when your playing a team like that. We’ve got to figure out a way to get healthy and certainly a 4A school playing a team like that when you’re not healthy, that’s what’s going to happen.”
Defensive lineman Bryce Perry-Wright, a senior committed to Texas A&M and Dre Quinn, a senior edge headed to Clemson, caused havoc all night as they helped lead a defense that shut down the Cadet run game, while keeping the pressure on Benedictine quarterback Stephen Cannon, the senior headed to Texas Tech.
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