By Kevin Price For GCS Athletics The Glynn Academy Red Terrors kicked off their 2025 season in successful fashion Friday night as they rolled to a 38-14 victory over Wayne County at Glynn County Stadium. The win was the fourth in a row in a season opener for the Terrors who got past these same Yellow Jackets 16-9 last season in Jesup. That game was the start of a winless season for the Jackets who appear headed for another long year on the football field if they don’t find more offense than they had Friday between the bricks. Last fall, Wayne scored only 41 points in 10 games, and on Friday night, their lone offensive score came late in the game against Glynn backup players. The Jacket defense returned a fumble by the Terrors for the team’s first touchdown of the night in the first quarter. The GA defense stymied the Wayne offense for the better part of the game, checking the Jackets to only 80 total net yards for the night. Wayne didn’t get pick up its first first down until the third quarter and managed only six for the game. The Jackets had minus-5 yards offensively in the first half as Glynn opened up a 24-7 advantage before halftime. “Defensively, we were physical and ran to the ball. I thought we played good football defensively,” said GA head coach Rocky Hidalgo. “We hit ‘em in the mouth, and played pretty well defensively.” The Terrors, debuting their new flexbone offense, took a bit to get going, but they would start running away from the Jackets in the second period. Glynn finished the first half with 172 rushing yards and went on to gain all but 2 of their 268 yards in the game on the ground. Junior play-maker Sean Wallace turned the opening game into a personal highlight film. He lines up at receiver in the Glynn offense, but he carried the ball seven times for 145 yards and four touchdowns in the win. Wallace scored on runs of 22, 59 and 21 yards in the first half before punctuating the GA win with a 33-yard scamper in the fourth quarter. His second and fourth scores of the night were the true highlights. When Wallace scored from 59 yards, he spun out of a tackle while staying on his feet and parading to paydirt. On his last touchdown run, Wallace went around left end, and once he got outside the hash marks, he used some fancy footwork to reverse field, elude defenders and dash into the end zone. He was flagged for spinning the ball on the turf while celebrating with teammates following that last score, but no one in Red and White seemed to care. Glynn, coming off a 6-5 season a year ago which included a playoff berth, was on its way to a decisive win as a new season got under way on a sticky August night. “Sean played well. We talked about moving him into the slot from wide receiver, and he was hesitant about it,” Hidalgo said. “We knew we could get the ball to him easier, and when he got it, it could be big plays. And, that’s what it was tonight.” Also for Glynn, DJ Creighton ran eight times for 31 yards, Da’Sean Howard carried 11 times for 30 yards and Cooper Reiss added 26 yards on four carries including a 13-yard touchdown run. Sophomore quarterback Max Noonan, making his first varsity start, threw only four times on the night and completed one pass for 2 yards. Noonan, who started as a freshman in the spring for the Glynn baseball team, carried three times for 18 yards. “Max is gonna be really good. He did a good job of distributing the ball and will just get better every week,” Hidalgo said. Coach Rock, beginning his 12th season with the Terrors, is confident the Terrors will get better offensively as they go, too. They played Friday night without T.Y. Chisolm and Tristan Tootle, a pair of seniors who should factor heavily into the offense this season as two of the team’s top skill players. Glynn turned the ball over twice on errant pitches in the backfield. “I think it’s gonna be a dynamic offense for us, “ Hidalgo noted as he talked about the flexbone. “We’ll continue to get better, our execution will improve. When the pitch-game gets better, that’ll make our play-action stuff better. “We also had some things we didn’t do tonight that we’re still working on as well.” Glynn also got a nice night from junior Patrick Coyle who kicks and punts for the Terrors. It was his punt in the second quarter with game tied at 7-all that turned the contest in Glynn’s favor for good. The Terrors elected to punt on fourth-and-7 from the Wayne 38 early in the period. Coyle pinned the Jackets deep when he nailed a punt toward the corner and saw it roll out of bounds at the 3-yard line. On Wayne’s first snap on its ensuing possession, Glynn scored on a safety when junior linebacker Anson Galland tackled the Jacket quarterback in the end zone for the two points and a 9-7 lead. The Terrors went back on offense following a kick return to their own 40. Following a short gain on first down, GA called for Wallace to get the ball on the next play. That’s when he broke loose from a tackle after gaining about nine yards, spinning away and staying upright around midfield before sprinting the rest of the way for the touchdown. Coyle punted four times on the night for a 36.2-yard average. He also pinned the Jackets inside their own 5 later in the game with a punt that bounced high off the turf and was downed by one of his teammates. “Patrick Coyle had about as good a game as a special-teams guy can,” Hidalgo said. “I can’t say enough about him. His kickoffs were also phenomenal. “But, I can’t say enough about his two coffin-corners. On that one, that’s what you wanna do. That’s Red Terror football right there. You wanna pin ‘em deep, play great defense, flip the field and go bloody their nose with the running game. That’s what we wanna do.” The Terrors will go on the road next Friday to take on Richmond Hill. That non-region game will be the opening game for the Wildcats. Glynn will take the following week off before beginning its region schedule in early September.