Defense ruled the last 41 minutes of Saturday night’s Wabash Valley Football Coaches Association All-Star Game at Rose-Hulman’s Cook Stadium, after spectators spent half of the first quarter wondering about its all-time points record.
The Gold Division, coached by Linton’s Brian Oliver, won the game 34-14 over the Black Division, getting a field goal in both the second quarter and the third quarter for the only points scored after six touchdowns went on the scoreboard in less than seven minutes.
“We only gave up two big plays,” Oliver said after the game. “It was a complete game for us.”
“The first quarter was explosive, but the difference was the couple of times we put the ball on the ground,” said coach Andy Olson of Monrovia and the Black Division. “That took us out of a few things we wanted to do on offense.”
Black scored on the first play from scrimmage, a 77-yard bomb from Monrovia quarterback Eli Welch to North Vermillion’s Cody Tryon.
Gold drove 65 yards in seven plays — the only real scoring drive of the game as it turned out — and tied the score when Eastern Greene’s James Lewis took a reverse 32 yards for a touchdown, which sparked the explosive part of the game. In the next 34 seconds of clock time, Black turned the ball over twice and gave up another touchdown.
The first turnover was a fumble on Black’s second offensive play of the game, recovered by Marshall’s Luis Lopez. Quarterback Kyle Cottee scored two plays later, and a surprise kickoff — Casey’s Brian Wright lined up on the kickoff team and kicked instead of South Putnam’s Wyatt Kendall, who set up as if he were the kicker — wound up with Kalvin Rigdon of Paris having the football for the Gold team.
It took nearly three minutes before Cottee converted that turnover into a touchdown, but the explosions weren’t over. Tanner Waller of…
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Author : The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind.
Publish date : 2024-06-23 23:16:00
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