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September 5, 2012

JV Vikings win big 48-12

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TARBORO — The Tarboro JV Vikings had to start its season on the road with two road trips. They carried a 2-0 record into their home opener Thursday night squaring off against the Northern Nash JV Knights, who were the only JV team to defeat the Vikings last season.

The Vikings defense did not waste any time forcing two fumbles which were recovered by Shamar Pippen and Carrington Davis. M'Kevian Caldwell and Tay Battle scored consecutive touchdowns to give the Vikings a 14-0 after the 1st quarter. The Viking offense continued to click with an 6 yard TD run by Damian Johnson and a 31 yard TD run by Loody Hinton to carry a 26-0 lead into halftime.

It took the Viking offense no time to score in the 2nd half covering 60 yards in 5 plays capped off with a Tay Battle 3 yard TD run and with Loody Hinton's two-point conversion they led 34-0 after 3 quarters. Loody Hinton added his second TD of the night and Daniel Lewis capped off the scoring with a 62 yard TD to close out the Viking scoring 48-6 at that time.

The Knights scored on the final play of scrimmage for a more respectable 48-12 Viking win.

Loody Hinton led all rushers with 10 carries for 95 yards scoring 2 TDs and a two-point conversion. Loody Hinton has also been named Tarboro JV Viking Football Player of the Week following Deshan Farmer (Week 1 Player of the Week) and Tay Battle (Week 2 Player of the Week).

Defensively the Vikings defense was anchored behing Josh Harris 9 solo tackles and 4 assists night, while DeArrius Payne added 4 solo tackles and 5 Assists.

Head Coach Ricky Babb stated, "I am extremely proud of how well our team prepared and practice this week and it really showed on the field, but we still have alot of improvement to get done. Next week's task will be a very tall order playing against a good county rival like North Edgecombe." 

The Vikings improved to 3-0 on the season and will travel to cross-county rival North Edgecombe next Thursday. Kickoff is at 7pm.

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