The Edinburgh Lancers have finished regular-season play winless, dropping to 0-8 with a 56-0 defeat at the hands of visiting Wes-Del on Friday night.
“We have some individuals that are getting better,” Edinburgh head coach Jason Burton said. “Overall, as a team, we haven’t quite taken the next step. We’re making the same mistakes in Week 8 that we did in Week 1.”
Edinburgh didn’t convert a first down until the tail end of the first quarter. By then, the Lancers found themselves down eight, having punted three times already.
Edinburgh’s first four first downs of the game came at the start of a 10-play drive. The Lancers got as far as Wes-Del’s 11-yard line before turning the ball over on downs.
Quarterback Tyson Sackman threw for 61 yards on the drive.
“Tyson Sackman has gotten better every single week,” Burton said. “His numbers could be so much more than what they are. He could’ve thrown for 2,000 yards at this point in the year if other kids could do the little things.”
Edinburgh’s best chance of the half came on their next drive, where a fourth-down shot to the end zone, a near perfect throw, was met by equally perfect pass defense.
Two Wes-Del touchdowns sandwiched that drive, giving the Warriors a 24-0 halftime lead.
The second half didn’t go any better for the Lancers. It took Wes-Del only four plays to get back into the end zone and Edinburgh only one to turn it back over.
Three more Warrior touchdowns finished it off.
Throughout the game, the Lancers primarily moved the ball through short passes.
Burton says this was part of his team’s game plan.
“My philosophy is to kind of run the ball through the air if you can’t run the ball,” he said. “For the most part we attacked their weakness spot, which was the under 8-yard range on the sideline.”
Burton is looking ahead to the sectional to break the Lancers’ losing streak. The last team on Edinburgh’s regular-season slate, Trinity Lutheran, canceled the remainder of its season last month.
“There are a few teams in our sectional that are kind of similar to us that maybe we can compete with,” he said. “Maybe we can get somebody like that, maybe get a win and see some positive things at the end of the year.”
