Smyrna won the game 21-0, which was the score at halftime. The Eagles with a decent team that can run the football completed the season 2-8 while Cape completed the campaign 1-9. The Viking football program has not produced a wining season since the year 2000.

“We lose only a few and the kids who hung tough all year I am very proud of, ” coach Tom Ott said after the game.

The Vikings took the opening kickoff - not far only to the eight yard line-but then put together a 92-yard drive as Jack McPike hit multiple receivers including big third-down catches from Andrew Fonville and Kyle McCoy and some electric runs from sophomore Jerome Johnson.

McPike actually scored on a one-yard quarterback sneak but the Vikings were penalized five yards as Johnson was called for pushing his quarterback into the end zone.

“I don’t know,” said Ott after the game. “How many times do you see that called in high school?”

Smyrna took over and unleashed some weaponry with running backs Carlton Nash and Terrant Morrison and quarterback Chris Oscar. And the Eagles had a jumbo left side of the line featuring tight end Demetrius Williams and left tackle Matt Nelson at 6-4, 310 pounds.

Morrison scored for Smyrna on a 39-yard touchdown completing a 69-yard scoring drive with 9:50 left in the second quarter.
Carlton Nash scored from two yards out at the end of an 85-yard drive giving the Eagles a 13-0 advantage.

The six-minute second-quarter scoring blitz ended with 3:31 a two-yard touchdown reception from Demetrius Williams set up by an interception of Jack McPike by Tim Moss of Smyrna.

“We should have been maybe 4-6 but not 2-8,” said Coach Clay Lloyd.

“We faced all the problems that a team does by not winning including having a few key kids quit the team. Chris Oscar is a one-year player as a senior quarterback and just had a big heart all year long. Matt Nelson also came out of his shell and became a leader and a heck of a football player.”