NEWS
STEVE HEMMELGARN
Parkersburg News and Sentinel | 10/8/2018
Parkersburg News and Sentinel | 10/8/2018
Photo Credit: Steve Hemmelgarn
PATRIOTS ABSOLUTELY TORCH VISITING BROOKE, 70-0
PARKERSBURG — Five touchdowns in a quarter and eight seconds was all Parkersburg South really needed en route to blistering the Brooke Bruins 70-0 Friday night at the Erickson All-Sports Facility for the 9th-ranked Class AA Patriots.
South, now 4-2 on a theee-game winning streak, dominated right from the start and never let up in the first half that concluded with the host Patriots up by a commanding bundle, 42-0.
Two plays was all South took on its initial possesion to score on a 39-yard pass to Levi Rice from Brayden Mooney just 2:08 into the game. The Patriots’ third possession produced another TD as a 28-yard aerial from Mooney to Dylan Day to the Brooke 9 preceded a sweept left to paydirt by Brandon Penn at the 6:34 mark for a 14-0 advantage.
Then less than a minute later at 5:42, Devin Gaines picked off a Bruin pass at the Brooke 32 and returned it for six points, first going right before cutting back left across the field to take it in at the front corner of the end zone. Mooney’s two-point conversion run upped South’s lead to 22-0.
In succession, Penn blocked a punt, picked it up and went in from 24 yards out to push his team up by 29-0 at 3:59 of the still first quarter.
From the Brooke 19 to open the second stanza, Nick Yoho gathered in a pass from Mooney for a TD at 11:52 to widen the Partiots’ widening margin to 35-0.
And before the intermission came, Yoho raced 80 yards for a TD, breaking free past the 30 and was off on a straight-ahead middle-of-the-field scoring scamper at 7:06.
South, though, almost had another touchdown prior to halftime, but on 2nd-and-goal at the 2, Brooke’s Kolton Yarling jumped up to snare a pass with three minutes left to thwart another Patriot score.
The second half was more of the first with three more third-quarrer TDs for South and a final one in the fourth. Dylan Day hauled in a 24-yard scoring strike from Mooney, Yoho netted a 4-yard TD run and Penn went 15 yards for a 6-spot in the third, and Brent Parkhouse ran 14 yards to paydirt in the fourth.
In all, the Patriots piled up 255 yards rushing and 257 passing to 0-6 Brooke that gained only 48 passing and minus-7 rushing.
Yoho gained 139 yards and three TDs on just nine carries while Mooney passed for 209 and three six-pointers.
“The way this game started, we felt like we could come out, play hard and win the football game,” said South head coach Mike Eddy, whose team will have a tough schedule to finish out its regular season in Morgantown, Greenbrier East, Wheeling Park and Parkersburg.
Steve Hemmelgarn
Parkersburg News and Sentinel | 10/8/2018
Parkersburg News and Sentinel | 10/8/2018
