Ever since Jeff Reents stepped in as the head football coach at Wilmington , the Wildcats’ philosophy has been quite simple – eat up clock and yardage out of the double-wing offense and give a stout, physical defensive effort.

The Wildcats were textbook defensively in Saturday night’s IHSA Class 2A home quarterfinal against Tri-Valley while the offense was anything but, trading in their ground-and-pound style for a handful of electric, big-play touchdowns on their way to a commanding 49-7 win that has the Wildcats in the semifinals for the ninth time in program history and third time in the last three years.

“We thought it was going to be a good game,” said senior RB/DB Ryan Kettman, who had a hat trick of touchdowns. “We knew we needed to come out and if we played our best ball, we’d

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