Junior Keyon Thomas was 7-of-9 passing for 202 yards, and the Westover Patriots rolled to a 40-7 win over Bradwell Institute on August 23.

Bradwell fell to 1-1 with the loss.

Dominique Ball ran for 107 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries for the Patriots, who improved to 2-0. Saylor Edwards added 32 yards on five carries.

Tight end Montavis Jones added 87 yards and a touchdown on four receptions. Destin Bell had two catches for 65 yards.

The Patriots also picked off two Tigers passes, and Jemarcus White added a defensive score on a fumble return.

Wade Cobb’s 42-yard burst in the third quarter accounted for the Tigers’ lone touchdown.

The Patriots scored on four of five first-half possessions, and went 70 yards for the first touchdown drive. Thomas capped it with a 13-yard strike to Jones. The Tigers stopped the two-point conversion, but an illegal substitution infraction gave Westover another chance and Ball powered his way in for an 8-0 lead.

Bradwell averted disaster after the Patriots recovered the ensuing squib kick at the Tigers 27-yard line. The Tigers defense pressured Thomas into an incompletion on third down and sacked him on fourth down at the Bradwell 19.

But two plays later, a snap sailed past Tigers quarterback Carlito Savea, and White pounced on it in the endzone for a touchdown. Another Ball two-point run gave the Patriots a 16-0 lead.

Thomas and Jones hooked up for a 38-yard gain on third down on Westover’s next possession, and Ball scored from 4 yards out. His two-point run stretched the advantage to 24-0.

After an interception, the Patriots moved 62 yards in four plays, with Thomas’ 35-yard completion getting the Patriots out of a hole. Ball’s TD and resulting two-point run put Westover in front 32-0.

Bradwell threatened to score right before the half. The Tigers reached the Patriots 2, but after a penalty pushed the Tigers back five yards, Savea’s last-second pass was picked off in the end zone, ending the half and the threat.

The Patriots scored on their first possession of the second half, with Thomas hitting Bell for 51 yards on third and 19 to set up Ball’s final touchdown, a 16-yard run where he avoided two tacklers in the backfield and sprinted around the left side.

The Tigers are off until September 6, when they open Region 1-AAAAA play at Glynn Academy. The Tigers’ next home game is September 13 against Effingham County.