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Biggersville running back Zae Davis looks for running room in the state playoff victory over South Delta on Nov. 12, 2021.
Photo by Randy J. Williams
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Biggersville’s Jathan Hatch celebrates a touchdown vs. South Delta in the state playoffs.
Photo by Randy J. Williams
The Lions’ pride: Gridiron edition
Biggersville football finishes 9-3 and advances in state playoffs
By TANNER MARLAR
For Crossroads Magazine
Biggersville High School is not just a basketball school. These Lions can also bring it on the gridiron.
BHS has been on cutting edge of excellence in 1A basketball, but what many may not realize is that they’ve been on the cusp of that same status in football as well for the past few seasons, and this year (2021) they were closer than ever.
The Lions finished the season with a 9-3 record and advanced to the second round of the playoffs, ultimately losing to Simmons in a road contest.
Coming into the year, first-season head coach Case Ingram had high hopes.
“We had a lot of skill guys coming back that could really do a lot of stuff,” said Ingram. “We knew they could be special if we were able to give them the ball and things like that.”
They were indeed successful, but the season didn’t come without its trials and tribulations.
“Obviously (the) offensive line, we knew that was going to be our biggest hurdle to get over because we lost four of our five starters from the state championship runnerup team (2020),” Ingram said, “and so we knew if we could kind of develop them and get them going we had a good shot.”
The Lions struggled in the early part of the season, starting off their 2021 campaign 3-2. Ingram said that at that point, he thought some teams wrote the Lions off as an average team on the schedule, and that wasn’t going to work for Ingram and company.
“I knew that if we could ever get things rolling and get some confidence up, that we could be pretty good,” Ingram added.
That confidence came soon thereafter, as the Lions went on to Continued on page 42
