Warner Robins Football Earns Ring After 3 Heartbreaks

Finally. They did it. Warner Robins football won the big one.

This past December the Demons took on Cartersville in the GHSA 5A State Championship and won in convincing fashion, prevailing over the Hurricanes 62-28 at Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta.

The win snapped a three consecutive state championship losing streak as the Demons have been making it to Atlanta since the 17-18 season but left with the runner-up trophy.

Their championship losses came against Rome, Bainbridge, and Buford before turning the unusual COVID-19 stricken 2020 into their year that they would break through and change the narrative of that Demon football could not win on the big stage.

The Demons did it under the leadership of second year Head Coach Marquis Westbrook.

Westbrook, a Cordele native along with a Crisp County and Florida Gators football alumni took over head coaching duties after former Demons Head Coach Mike Chastain left Warner Robins to take another head position with Jones County in 2019.

Previously the defensive coordinator under Chastain, Westbrook was promoted to the top guy on the staff after three years with the school.

Before coming to Warner Robins, Westbrook worked at Veterans High and Macon County.

And it only took two.

Losing in the championship in the 2019 season to Buford in his first year at the helm, Westbrook decided that losing was not an option anymore.

They went and dominated 5A football in 2020 on the way to getting to hoist the trophy and getting sized for rings.

Since Westbrook took over, he has put up a 26-3 record for the Demons, including a nine game winning streak after suffering their sole loss of the season against Lee County in October.

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