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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Panthers pound Mohawks
Fairbanks built a 42-0 lead by halftime as it improved to 4-2 overall and 3-0 in the NWCC. St. Wendelin fell to 0-6 and 0-4.
Jon Hackney opened the scoring for Fairbanks with a 54-yard run just two plays and 33 seconds into the game. Ryan Rausch kicked the first of six extra points for a 7-0 lead.
Max Burnside added to the Panthers’ lead 3 minutes later when he ran 75 yards for a score, and the lead grew to 21-0 when Levi Morris picked off a Chase Beam pass and raced 22 yards for a touchdown at the 7:10 mark. Tyler Smith tacked on a 9-yard scoring run with 29 seconds left in the quarter for a 28-0 bulge.
“They had 28 (points) on us pretty quick,” St. Wendelin coach Bill Hrabak said. “It’s a recurring thing with us. Plus, it was a lack of team speed. They had a back (Tyler Smith) who, when he got outside, we just couldn’t catch him and (when) they ran him up the middle and we got our hands on him we couldn’t hold on to him.
“But from looking at the films that’s what he’s been doing all year, so it looks like we’ve got some company in that.”
Fairbanks coach Morgan Cotter said the game went according to plan.
“We came out and did what we wanted to do,” Cotter said. “We set the tempo in the first quarter.”
Fairbanks continued its scoring march in the second quarter as Nick Gibson punched in a touchdown from 4 yards out and Paul Gibson grabbed a 9-yard scoring strike from Nick Gibson to give the Panthers a 42-0 lock on the game by the end of the first half.
Despite the scoreless first half for the Mohawks, Hrabak said he saw some positives from the St. Wendelin offense.
“We didn’t score in the first half,” Hrabak said. “But we had several good drives. We couldn’t convert, but we moved the ball (a little bit). We started the third quarter with a 9-minute drive, but we couldn’t punch it in and we missed a field goal and the in the fourth quarter we finally punched one in.”
Fairbanks put up another score in the third period as Smith raced 63 yards. The Panthers scored in the fourth quarter on a 5-yard run by Caleb Eickoff.
St. Wendelin finally got on the board with 3:34 left in the game when Beam tossed a 12-yard scoring pass to George Iannantuono. Clare Berry kicked the extra point.
The Marysville Journal-Tribune contributed to this story.
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