CARROLLTON, Texas -- In its Class 5A debut, Denton Guyer demolished an elite Class 4A team.

Guyer looked like a well-oiled machine on both sides of the ball against Waxahachie on Saturday, crushing the Indians, 45-7, at Standridge Stadium.

Guyer (1-0) spent the offseason dominating the 7-on-7 circuit in preparation for its jump to 5A, losing to Miami Northwestern in the Nike 7On championship game in triple overtime.

The benefits of that experience were obvious against Waxahachie, as the Wildcats avoided the rust and miscues that often plague teams in Zero Week. All but two Guyer drives ended in scores, and they reached third down just four times the entire game.

"I think it's a mixture of what we do 7-on-7 in the summer and a mixture of a lot of senior leadership out there," said Guyer head coach John Walsh.

Quarterback J.W. Walsh, widely considered the best signal-caller in the state, was a model of efficiency, going 15-for-20 for 340 yards and four touchdowns. Quintavia Gardener caught three of those touchdowns on six receptions for 183 yards.

"I think 7-on-7 is good because you get to connect with the quarterback," Gardener said. "You get that trust. It's a big thing. He trusts me to catch it and go score with it. I trust him to throw the ball on the money."

Conversely, Waxahachie (0-1) looked very much like a team that's breaking in a bevy of new starters on both sides of the ball. Poor tackling doomed the Indians defensively, and the quarterback rotation of Brooks Teeter and Don King never got in a rhythm.

Teeter and King combined to go 10-for-21 for 146 yards, and the running game garnered just 61 yards on 35 carries.

Waxahachie's LaDarius Brown, one of the top recruits in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, had four receptions for 56 yards and suffered from the lack of production at quarterback.

"I like where we are defensively," John Walsh said.

Nursing a 7-0 lead, Walsh came alive midway through the first, hitting Gardener for a 59-yard touchdown. On Guyer's next possession, Walsh hit Conner Crane from 10 yards to give Guyer a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter.

Waxahachie found its footing a bit in the second half when King found Ray Tunson in the end zone from 30 yards out to cut Guyer's lead to 35-7, but nothing consistent ever developed for the Indians.