Loris unable to slow down perennial power Dillon in loss

Loris coach Jamie Snider hadn’t yet looked at the stats from Friday night’s 52-0 loss to perennial power Dillon before he was able to sum it up pretty quickly.

“All I know is they had a lot and we had a little,” the Lions coach said.

Not that he was surprised. A game against the Wildcats – and even more so a trip to Dillon – hasn’t boded well for area teams in recent years.

“They’re a great football team and they’re well coached,” Snider said. “I told somebody earlier this week, ‘Dillon doesn’t beat Dillon. You’ve got to beat them.’ ”

Loris did catch Dillon with a miscue early in the game. Up 14-0, the Wildcats fumbled a Loris punt that the Lions recovered around Dillon’s 30-yard line. However, Loris was unable to capitalize.

“That was probably the only miscue they had all evening,” Snider said.

And while the Lions – like everyone else on the Wildcats’ schedule so far this year – were unable to find the answer, they are very much alive in a competitive Region VIII-AA.

Loris (3-5) fell to 1-2 in region play to sit in a tie for third place with Marion and Waccamaw.

“All I know is this: Loris and Aynor play next week and that will be a dogfight; it always is,” Snider said.

Aynor, which lost a heartbreaker 16-14 to Mullins (2-1 Region VIII-AA) on Friday, has played one more region game than the others and sits at 1-3 in league play.

“The thing that I know is Aynor will come to us fired up and ready to go; they always do,” Snider said. “We’ll have our hands full next Friday. We’ve just got to focus and get ready for the Blue Jackets.”

This story was originally published October 23, 2015 at 11:50 PM with the headline "Loris unable to slow down perennial power Dillon in loss."