Washington scored early and often last Friday night at Reed Field when the No. 1 ranked Warriors pulverized the Dickson Comets, 53-6.

Kade Babcock stepped in front of an errant Comet pass and took it to the house to open the scoring for the Warriors.

Washington’s offense would score four times in the opening quarter alone, twice via a Creed Barrett pass and twice on the ground.

Javen Hall punched one in from a yard out and Case Alexander also had a one-yard touchdown run.

Barrett found Alexander twice for scores on pass plays of 31 yards and 21 yards.

Babcock, who had been handling the point after touchdown kicking, needed a break since he plays both ways, so Kelby Beller toed one PAT and Charlie Mann hit four others for the Warriors.

The scoring barrage continued in the second period when Josiah Dickerson took off on a cross country jaunt of 92 yards to pay dirt and Hall scampered in from 16 yards out.

Junior Landon Heatley closed out the Warrior scoring toting the rock to the end zone from the seven yard line.

Washington gained 242 yards on 21 rushes and the five spot of TDs and was 11-15 passing for 191 yards and the two scores.

“I felt like we had not clicked on offense through the first three games,” head coach Brad Beller said. “But with the bye week and the days leading up to Dickson we got some things fixed and got our timing down. Who we are as a group and the way we played, proved that two good weeks of practice allowed us to play a way more complete game.”

Beller said his quarterbacks were efficient.

Barrett completed 10 of his pass attempts while Kinser Scott also had a completion.

“We had eight different guys rush the ball and still averaged 11 1/2 yards a carry. That’s really good production,” Beller said. “And, that’s good line play.”

Those big eaters up front included Sam Cantrell, Kingston Stringer, Chance Phillips, Evan Painter, Kai Palaco and Trip Wilson.

The Warrior defenders were just as dominating.

Washington’s down linemen Hunter Sanders, Ricky Rameriz and Lane Taylor were like a brick wall.

“They controlled the whole game,” Beller said. “Any time you hold a team to minus eight yards rushing you’ve done some things right. We didn’t have a lot of solo tackles. We just had a lot of people making plays.”

Dickson had been averaging between 275 and 300 yards passing per game. Against the Washington’s first team, they completed only six passes and finished a passing total of 16-25 for 175 yards.

“But a lot of that came later in the game when were already substituting.

Babcock’s pick six came off a deflection by Dawson Thomas. On his first play on defense of high school football at cornerback, Barrett proved he was more than just a quarterback by intercepting a Comet pass.

The Warriors travel to Marietta Friday night for a 7 p.m. kick off with the Indians, who are 2-2 on the season.

Beller reports junior lineman Joseph Oakley, who transferred from Marietta to Washington this summer, is pretty excited to go to Marietta.

The Indians operate out of the flex bone on offense and run a 3-3-5 stack defense.

“Any time you play against a flex bone offense you have to make sure you play disciplined football,” the coach confirmed.

“The are going to try to keep the ball on the ground, making you crowd the box and then try to throw over the top. It’s going to take all 11 guys to defend that type of offense.”

Beller said any time you play a stack defense you can expect a lot of pressure.

“They’’ try to create havoc. We need to do a way better job of moving the football on the ground over what we did last year and be effective through the air.”

Warrior notes:

Head coach Brad Beller nominated Kingston Stringer as the Offensive Lineman of the Week. He graded out at 81 percent against Dickson.

The Defensive Lineman of the Week nomination went to Hunter Sanders, who had two tackles for loss against the Comets.

The nominee for Defensive Player of the Week went to Kade Babcock who had a tackle and a pick six.

Case Alexander was the nominee for Offensive Player of the Week. He hauled in four balls for 121 yards and a pair of touchdowns.