The Sequatchie County Indians made sure the Cannon County Lions were in no position for an upset victory in Dunlap Friday night during their high school football game. The Indians recovered the opening kick to start the game and in one play from the line of scrimmage connected on a 38 yard pass to put the score 8-0 within 7 seconds of the game’s start. The Lions answered as they moved the ball but stalled at the Indians 31 yard line. This set up a Jake Walkup 48 yard field goal in which he hit with no problem cutting the lead 8-3. From there Sequatchie rattled off 29 unanswered points including a pick on defense for a touchdown and led 37-3. The Lions put together an impressive drive after recovering a fumble on a Lion punt. After a Indian personal foul converted a fourth down to a first down the Lions had the ball on the four yard line. Another 4 downs later they convert with a pass to Jake Walkup to make the score 37-9 missing the two point conversion. The second half saw the mercy rule invoked when Sequatchie scored to go up 44-9. The fourth quarter Cannon scored again on a big pass play to Qwentin McMackins to finish scoring as Sequatchie County claimed sole possession of first place in the region with a 50-15 win. Sequatchie County collected 456 yards of total offense while the Lions managed only 169 yards 106 of those in the air. Cort Litchford was the leading ground gainer for Cannon County with 51 yards as he replaced the injured Jaydon Coon. Cannon will have a bye week this week before returning to the football field for one final game of the season taking on Dekalb County October 28.
