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Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 6:38 am
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It wasn’t that South Fulton didn’t know what was coming.
It was that the Red Devils couldn’t stop it.
West Carroll manhandled SF up front and with a physical rushing attack, scoring 34 unanswered points and on six consecutive possessions after falling behind 7-0 in pounding the Big Red 40-29 Friday night in the Devils’ home opener.
Bruising fullback Jacob Wynn ran for 176 yards and two touchdowns, and shifty quarterback Jamal Glenn rushed for three second-half touchdowns to lead the War Eagles, who bullied South Fulton for 436 total yards — 342 of that on the ground.
“No excuses, we just got physically whipped,” SF head coach Kelly Spivey said of the loss that dropped his team to 1-1.
“It was nothing new; we didn’t tackle well again, and they just lined up and came right us. We couldn’t stop them.”
The Redmen took a 7-0 first-quarter lead on a seven-yard pass from JaQuay Garmon to J.P. Fowler but missed out on two more chances to expand that advantage, according to their coach.
“We got down there with opportunities to score three times, but only got in once. That was huge,” Spivey continued.
“It’s really important against teams like West Carroll to get them out of their comfort zone. We held them and did a good job on their first three possessions, but we couldn’t put a second touchdown on them and maybe get them in a panic mode. We didn’t capitalize when we had the chance to.”
Letrell Huff’s 29-yard scoring run was the first of three second-quarter TDs for the visitors who then got two scores by Wyne on runs of four and 20 yards.
The second of those touchdowns was especially critical, coming in the last minute of the first half to give West Carroll (1-1) a 21-7 intermission advantage.
Glenn, who ended up with 89 yards on 14 carries, found paydirt on a pair of three-quarter keepers, then scored his final touchdown with 7:42 to play.
SF scored 22 points in the final stanza to make the final score respectable, the last of their three TDs coming with just seven seconds showing and against the War Eagle reserves.
Garmon had a one-yard keeper for one TD, then threw 34 yards to Hunter Wade for the game’s final tally.
Ryan Moore ran nine yards for a touchdown and Garmon hit Skylar Britt for the ensuing two-point conversion halfway through the fourth period.
Defensively for the Redmen, linebacker Willie Kneuppel had a team-best 11 tackles, while Fowler recorded nine from his secondary post. Ryan Prince had a fumble recovery.
South Fulton opens District 14A play this week, hosting Humboldt 0-2, while WC battles Gleason in the 13A opener for both of those teams.
Published in The Messenger 8.27.12 |
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