Knights win season opener; Scots and Indians suffer losses

By ROB HAMILTON

An offen­sive explo­sion in the mid­dle two quar­ters led the North­mor Knights to a 49–35 win over Crest­line in their sea­son opener Friday.

In the first quar­ter, the Knights took a 6–0 lead after a Mitchell Whisler inter­cep­tion led to a 13-yard scor­ing run by Tyler Beck.

Crest­line responded with a scor­ing drive to take a one-point lead, but North­mor didn’t waste any time in going down the field and get­ting a nine-yard scor­ing run by Zach Car­roll to regain the lead.

Both teams would trade scores to give North­mor an 18–14 lead, but before the half, the Knights got an 85-yard pass from Car­roll to Whisler to go up 26–14 at the half.

North­mor broke the game open in the third quar­ter. Beck scored on a short run and Car­roll added a two-point con­ver­sion pass to Jamie Baldridge to make the score 34–14.

A 19-yard touch­down run by Beck was fol­lowed by a pass from Car­roll to Gar­rett Rowan for another two-point con­ver­sion and then, North­mor got another touch­down late in the period to take a 49–14 lead into the final period.

While the Bull­dogs put three touch­downs on the board in the final 12 min­utes, they were unable to get closer than a two-score mar­gin as the Knights opened the year with a win.

Mount Gilead Indians

Mount Gilead strug­gled to keep Colonel Craw­ford off the score­board on Fri­day in suf­fer­ing a 42–12 loss.

The Eagles tal­lied two touch­downs in the first inning and one more in the sec­ond to take a 21–0 lead into the half. Nei­ther team scored in the third, but there were plenty of touch­downs light­ing up the score­board in the fourth stanza.

Mount Gilead’s Bran­don Young started the period with a one-yard run. After a Colonel Craw­ford touch­down, the Indi­ans responded with a 20-yard scor­ing pass from Pay­ton Van­derkooi to Michael Bland to make the score 28–14 in favor of the Eagles.

How­ever, Colonel Craw­ford added two late scores on long run­ning plays to pull away for the 30-point win.

Pay­ton Van­derkooi threw for 172 yards and also ran for 87 in the game, while Kolby Fisher caught three passes for 76 yards.

High­land Scots

High­land dropped a wild one at home against Fred­er­ick­town on Fri­day, as a late touch­down gave the Fred­dies a 36–32 win.

The Scots scored first on a two-yard run by Kyle Minyo fol­lowed by a point-after kick by Quen­ton Miller to take a 7–0 lead. After Fred­er­ick­town responded to tie the game, High­land got a 15-yard scor­ing run from Andrew Still­well to take a 14–7 lead after the first period.

Both teams scored eight points in the sec­ond quar­ter, with Highland’s com­ing on a two-yard Minyo run fol­lowed by a Gar­rett Mentzer two-point conversion.

The Fred­dies tied the game at 22 in the third quar­ter, but High­land regained the lead on a field goal by Miller in the third quarter.

Austin Hath­away hit Chris Hoar for a touch­down pass in the fourth quar­ter to give Fred­er­ick­town a 29–25 lead, but the Scots rebounded with Minyo’s third touch­down of the game.

How­ever, their 32–29 lead would not hold up, as Hath­away scored with his legs to give the Fred­dies the win.

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