Annawan-Wethersfield quarterback Dillon Horrie looks for yardage behind the blocking of Nic Thurston. (Photos by Michael Berry)

With junior tailback Zeb Rashid scoring five of their six touchdowns, the Annawan-Wethersfield Titans rolled to a 41-6 win Saturday over Deer Creek-Mackinaw in their first-round game of the IHSA Class 1A playoffs.

The Titans will face Morrison, which defeated Fulton Saturday, in the second round. Both teams are 9-1 on the season.

The game will be in Wethersfield Memorial Stadium, but the date and time had not been announced Saturday afternoon.

After stopping Dee-Mack on three plays on the first possesion of the game, the Titans drove in nine plays from their 20-yard line to score on Rashid’s 8-yard run.

The Annawan-Wethersfield defense again forced a Chiefs punt to the Titans’ 16. Rashid and quarterback Dillon Horrie shared the ball-carrying duties, driving to the Chiefs’ 21 with Rashid running it in from there.

Early in the second quarter the Titans again started a drive at their 16. On the eighth play of that drive, Horrie connected with Landon Sauer on a 17-yard touchdown pass that made it 21-0.

Zeb Rashid of the Titans makes his way around Deer Creek-Mackinaw’s Shane Correll on his way to his third touchdown of the day.

The Chiefs started at their 16 and had moved to the 30 in three plays. But there, Sauer intercepted a Carson Cassady pass, giving the Titans the ball at the Annawan-Wethersfield 40.

On the fifth play of that possession, Rashid scored from 31 yards out, giving the Titans a 28-0 lead that held up until halftime.

Rashid wasted little time in the second half. The Titans took possession at their 35 after Dee-Mack’s kickoff and on the second play Rashid ran 58 yards through the Chiefs’ defense for his fourth TD of the game.

It didn’t take long for him to get his fifth one. After a three-and-out the Chiefs punted, giving the Titans the ball at the Dee-Mack 49. Rashid again outran the Chiefs to the end zone for a 49-yard score — which made it 41-0 Annawan-Wethersfield and started the continuous clock.

That was the last play for the Annawan-Wethersfield starters. Going against the Titans’ reserves, the Chiefs finally managed to score on a one-yard run by Tyce Albritton with just five minutes left in the game.