ROCKY POINT - The East Columbus Gators scored a second-quarter safety that stood up for a 2-0 halftime lead Friday night, but the host Heide Trask Titans came back out to dominate the final two quarters and post a 25-2 Waccamaw 1A-2A Conference football victory.

The win snapped a three-game Trask losing streak and put its final regular-season record at 4-7. The Titans and Gators tied for sixth place in the conference standings with 1-5 records.

The loss dashed East Columbus’ hopes of gaining homefield advantage in the first-round of the state 1AA playoffs that open Friday. The Gator season record slipped to 5-6 as its offense failed to score a touchdown for the fourth consecutive week. It was East Columbus’ fifth loss in its last six outings.

Quarterback Josh Wiggins led Trask’s second-half surge, throwing a pair of 12-yard touchdown passes to Kelvin Smith and Emory Dorn and running two yards for another TD.

Dominique Lisane added the other Titan touchdown on a six-yard run and kicked an extra point. It was Trask’s first conference victory since the 2005 season.

Coach Travis Conner’s Gators will travel to Pitt County Friday to take on the Ayden-Grifton Chargers, the Carolina 1A Confernece runnerup in opening round play. Ayden-Grifton has a 9-2 record following their 28-7 victory over North Johnston on Friday.

Trask will open the 1AA playoffs Friday against Southeastern 1A-2A Conference tri-champion East Bladen at Elizabethtown.

The Gators’ 5-6 record is their best mark since the 2002 season.