{"id":9111,"date":"2025-11-08T17:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:12:01","slug":"raiders-return-to-state-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=9111","title":{"rendered":"Raiders return to state championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>Senior athlete Lorenzo Arce recorded five catches for 42 yards, and he carried the ball for a two-point conversion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>\u201cHunter Bell \u2026 kind of had a breakout game,\u201d Heiderich said, referencing another senior athlete on the team. \u201cIt was his first night really running the ball at the tailback position.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>Bell had three carries for 21 yards and a touchdown while also finishing with four catches for 70 yards and a touchdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>\u201cThe whole defense, I\u2019ll shout them out,\u201d Heiderich said, \u201cbecause like I said, any time you put a goose egg on the scoreboard, it\u2019s a good night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>Whitehead, also a linebacker, led the team with 11 total tackles, including nine solo; Webb, also a defensive back, had seven total tackles, including five solo; and Bell, also a defensive back, had six tackles, all solo, including one for a loss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>Senior linebacker Grant Applewhite recovered two fumbles, and sophomore defensive tackle Ethan Hatch caught an interception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>Reflecting Thursday night on having played his last game on Pillow Field, Webb said he was \u201cjust so lucky and blessed, honestly, to play on this field with all my buddies, but I tried not to let it get me down too much. I\u2019ve got next week, trying to get ready, trying to stay focused for the state championship, and yes, sir, just trying to keep my mind focused, but I\u2019d say it had a pretty good impact on me, just playing here one last time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>As they turned their focus to the rematch with Brunswick Academy in the state title game, both Heiderich and Webb expressed a shared perspective that their victory over the Vikings on Oct. 24 should not have been so close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>\u201cLast week, we had a lot of opportunities where we had the game in the bag, and we really gave it up,\u201d Webb said. \u201cThat\u2019s where our head just came off, we just lost sight of what we were doing, we lost focus. So we\u2019ve got to stay focused next week, really tie everything down and just play as a team, no individualism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>Heiderich said, \u201cWe, last week, gave up a lot of big plays, defensively, and that was really what kept them in the game, and that\u2019s kind of the goal moving forward is to stop the big plays and execute well on offense. We had a lot of mental errors on offense last week, and we\u2019re just trying to cut those down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>\u201cIt\u2019s an emotional game for our guys, it\u2019s a rivalry game,\u201d the coach added, \u201cand sometimes when high schoolers get emotional, you see those things kind of come out, so we\u2019ve just got to get all of that stuff straight, and I think we\u2019ll have fun next Saturday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>He reiterated that while they have played their last game of the season at home, the Raiders are not finished yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\"><span>\u201cOur job\u2019s not done,\u201d Heiderich said. \u201cSo I\u2019m trying to keep the eyes on the prize, and then a year or 20 years from now, we can look back at it and smile and enjoy all the memories that we made along the way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetidewaternews.com\/news\/raiders-return-to-state-championship-game-43b39c47\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior athlete Lorenzo Arce recorded five catches for 42 yards, and he carried the ball for a two-point conversion. \u201cHunter Bell \u2026 kind of had a breakout game,\u201d Heiderich said, referencing another senior athlete on the team. \u201cIt was his first night really running the ball at the tailback position.\u201d Bell had three carries for &#8230; <a title=\"Raiders return to state championship game\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=9111\" aria-label=\"Read more about Raiders return to state championship game\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Raiders-return-to-state-championship-game.JPG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}