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Clarksburg senior running back Avery Graham is one of the fastest guys in the state. Once the defending 55 and 100 meter dash state champion gets going, there's really no hope of catching him.

Graham taught the Wootton football team that very lesson Friday, scoring three touchdowns in the Coyotes' 49-7 home win over their Class 4A opponent.

Friday's win marked third-year Clarksburg coach Larry Hurd's 50th win. He was 31-4 in three years at Poolesville (2003-05). The Coyotes stay undefeated at 4-0; Wootton dropped to 2-2.

"We knew Wootton was a very good team so all week long we've just been 100 percent focused," Graham said. "We knew what we were going up against. Our intensity was up all week at practice. Wootton is not a bad team at all; [Friday] was just our day."

Friday's matchup was a highly anticipated one. Clarksburg won last year's duel in a close, 13-7 battle. Both teams have continued to improve since then.

But Clarksburg jumped to an early lead — it scored more points (21) in the first quarter of Friday's contest than it did in last year's entire game — and never relinquished it.

The crowd had barely settled into their seats when Graham put the Coyotes ahead 7-0 on an 80-yard scamper on the game's opening play. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound speedster finished with 193 yards on 11 carries.

Graham increased Clarksburg's lead to 13-0 with a 2-yard run set up by senior running back Mark Small's 26-yard run on the previous play. The Coyotes took a 21-0 lead on Graham's 57-yard touchdown run and senior quarterback Cody Martin's pass to Myles Daughtry for the two-point conversion.