Fast start leads Whitworth to blowout win against Puget Sound 68-14

Whitworth seemingly stepped off the bus and into the end zone Saturday.

The Pirates scored touchdowns on their first five possessions of the opening quarter, setting the tone early in a 68-14 drubbing of Puget Sound in a Northwest Conference football game in Tacoma.

Quarterback Jaedyn Prewitt passed for 371 yards and four touchdowns to power the Pirates (7-1, 4-1 NWC). The point total was Whitworth’s highest since a 68-30 win over Lewis & Clark on Oct. 12, 2019.

The Pirates scored on their fourth play from scrimmage when Prewitt connected with Matthew Fiesta for a 49-yard touchdown pass.

Following a defensive stand on the goal line, Prewitt found Kanen Ables for an 87-yard pass to set up Solomon Hines’ 10-yard TD scamper for a 14-0 lead with just over 8½ minutes left in the quarter.

The Loggers (0-8, 0-5) halved their deficit with Murdock Rutledge’s 30-yard TD pass to Austin Knight, but the Pirates answered less than 2 minutes later with a 30-yard strike from Prewitt to Hines for a 21-7 advantage.

Jarvis Natividad and Prewitt put the Pirates ahead 28-7 with a 33-yard TD pass, and Isaiah Jones scored on a 15-yard run with 43 seconds left in the quarter for a 35-7 lead.

Prewitt added a 30-yard TD run in the second quarter that extended the margin to 41-7 at halftime.

Whitworth piled up 625 yards of total offense and averaged 9.8 yards per play.

Rutledge was limited to 10-for-30 passing for 148 yards for the Loggers, who generated 335 yards of offense.