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Saturday, October 10, 2009
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BELLEVUE Fostoria High School literally had its chance for a Northern Ohio League win slip through its hands Friday night when Bellevue recovered FHS’ fifth fumble of the game to kill the Redmen’s last oppurtunity.
At that time FHS wasacing a fourth down and one at the BHS 28 with 6:32 left in the fourth period and down only 20-13. Bellevue went on to score after the Redmen’s misfortune to lock down a 28-13 NOL win and improve to 4-3 overall and 3-1 in the league.FHS slid to 3-4 and 2-2.
Antoine Williams started his first game at quarterback on this very wet night, and kept FHS in the game with his outstanding rushing.
Williams pounded out 236 yards on 21 carries including a 32 yard touchdown run in the second quarter to pull the Redmen to within 14-13.
Five total fumbles with three lost and numerous crucial penalties quashed FHS.
Bellevue, who did not fumble during the game, scored twice in the first period on passes from Curtis Watson; to Ed Haynes (8-yards) and Miles Foos (41 yards). Watson went 10-for-25 passing for 200 yards on the night.
Williams set up FHS late in the opening period with a 46-yard burst down to the Bellevue 11. Four plays later Trevon Tucker punched it in from four yards out. Brad Ferguson’s PAT boot made it 14-7 at the 1:39 mark.
Watson scored from a yard out in the final second of the third period to make it Bellevue 20-13. Jeff Roth finished the scoring with a 32-yard run with 5:52 left in the game.
FHS coach Beau Carmon said Williams volunteered to fill in at quarterback, the Redmen’s fifth of this campaign.
“Antoine approached us,” Carmon said. “He said ’I want to play quarterback this week, give me the ball’. And I think Antoine at quarterback this week gave us the best chance to win. And that’s the direction we took.”
“Weather or not, we weren’t able to throw the ball,” Carmon said. “Bellevue took advantage of that. They played sound defense, especially in the second half, they really locked us down.
“It’s no secret when we have Antoine Williams back there what we are trying to do,” the coach said. “We were trying to use his athleticism to the best of our ability but still when you look at the numbers he put up and you have a team that’s built to stop the run like they were. They know we are going run the ball (FHS gained 304 yards on the ground) and we still put up pretty good numbers. We just didn’t win the game because we beat ourselves.”
Carmon was not critical of his club. “We played hard,” Carmon said. “We had a chance to beat them. We just have to learn to finish. We came out and put up a goose egg in the second half and that’s not finishing. We had too many penalties in the second half,” he said.“That changed the field position in the second half. When you have an offense that can’t throw the ball and are starting back on your side of the field (because of the flags), you’re putting yourself in a tough position.”
The Redmen completed 6-of-12 passes for 46 yards.
Bellevue entered this game coming on the heels of a 69-7 shellacking by Tiffin Columbian. BHS coach Ed Nasonti got his club to refocus during practice this past week.
“We got back to old-school basics,” Nasonti said. “It was a tough week for our kids because we didn’t think that last week was a very good representation of our program. That’s what we preached to our kids all week, we wanted to represent our program. I think our kids responded, in this type of weather and with our passing offense we may have been stifled but I thought the kids stepped up a little bit and got the job done.”
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