Virgin Valley routs Western

Virgin Valley coach Matt Woods said he was looking for a complete game from his team on Friday.

He got it.

The Bulldogs, the top-ranked team in Class 3A, looked the part at Western, scoring 28 points in the first quarter en route to a 60-6 road win over the Warriors.

“We’ve played a lot of good quarters, we’re young,” Woods said. “But we’ve made a lot of mental mistakes. We just wanted a game where penalties weren’t bad. We got that complete game.”

Wyatt Delano rushed for 136 yards and two touchdowns, and teammates Koden Tietjen and Cameron Noel also scored twice for the Bulldogs (4-0).

Jake Hampsten opened the scoring with a 41-yard reception from Meb Hollingshead. Delano quickly followed with a 4-yard TD run following an interception.

Another interception on the next possession led to Noel’s 4-yard touchdown run. Things went from bad to worse for the Warriors (0-3), who fumbled the ensuing kickoff, leading to a Shawn Rodriguez 1-yard scoring run.

Tietjen hauled in a 27-yard touchdown pass from Hollingshead for the Bulldogs, before the Warriors finally got on the board with Jeremiah Towns rushing 66 yards for a score.

Noel quickly got the touchdown back, however, scoring from 90 yards on the kickoff. A number of Bulldog backups then were inserted, including Will Barnum, who scored on a 41-yard run to round out the first half.

Delano came back in the game to start the second half, and scored on a 17-yard run on the Bulldogs’ opening drive. Tietjen then recovered a dropped lateral in the next possession to round out the game’s scoring.