P.K. Yonge started the football season with seven losses in eight games. But the Blue Wave finished strong by winning back-to-back games to finish the season Friday.

The Blue Wave commanded a 20-0 win against True Institute (1-6) for their third win. 

P.K. Yonge’s defense kept the team from Brunswick, Georgia scoreless, an outcome defensive teams across the country dream of. 

Deandre Jackson opened the game with a touchdown, running in a short, outside pass by Willie Spain IV from the 20-yard line. The Blue Wave missed the extra point, but still took the lead 6-0. 

True Institute’s quarterback Savion Norman completed a long pass to the Blue Wave’s 45-yard line on fourth-and-15. P.K. Yonge ended the drive when the pass was picked off at the 15-yard line by Keishawn Chatman.

Montae Wilcox scored P.K. Yonge’s second touchdown on a drive that featured completions by Spain.

The Blue Wave went for the two-point conversion and got exactly that in a dog pile. P.K. Yonge led 14-0 with 3:30 remaining in the first half.

Norman ended the first half with a second interception, throwing a long pass right into Chatman’s hands, again, with no time remaining.

But the Blue Wave’s defense forced the drive to stall for a scoreless third quarter.

“We were just trying some new things, trying to get some other guys some touches,” P.K. Yonge first-year coach Israel Wilcox said. “The team really wanted to fight back, so they were more competitive the second half.”

The Blue Wave were able to clean things up to score one last time in the fourth quarter.

P.K. Yonge called a “tush push” for the first down at the Eagles’ 10-yard line.

At second-and-6, Spain passed the ball to Alonzo Wright III in the end zone for a 20-0 lead after the extra-point try was blocked.

“Four games ago, I think, we made a pact that we weren’t going to take no steps back,” Wilcox said. “And we didn’t take no steps back. They came out here and proved that they wanted to compete, and that’s going to follow on into next year.”