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Game Played 10/12/2007 7:30PM
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Jackets slam Phoenix
It didn’t take long for the tone of Friday night’s football game between Calhoun and Sonoraville to be set.
The Phoenix fumbled at their own 15 on the first play, and the Jackets’ Adam Urbano raced into the endzone on the next play for a quick touchdown 15 seconds into the game for a quick 7-0 lead.
“We played a very good football team,” Sonoraville Coach Chuck King said. “They can get you out of your rhythm, and they set the tempo.”
Calhoun wound up scoring five more times in the first half, en route to a 42-0 lead that could have been bigger if the Jackets had not had four TDs called back because of penalties.
“We were a little bit rusty – had some trouble with controlling the ball and penalties, but the defense played great – especially Carter Harrison and Eric McDaniel played his best game of the year,” Calhoun Coach Hal Lamb said after his team had gone on to win its Region 7-AA opener, 49-7, to go 5-1 overall. Sonoraville dropped to 0-6 overall, 0-1 in region,
After the quick strike in the opening seconds, the Jackets upped their lead to 14-0 with 4:10 left in the first quarter on a 35-yard pass from Tre Lamb to Canaan Dixon.
Calhoun threatened again on its next possession, but Sonoraville’s Rob Wofford intercepted a pass at the Phoenix 2 to stop the Jackets.
However, in the last 7 1/2 minutes of the second quarter, the Jackets erupted for 28 points to ice the game.
Lamb – after a brilliant play fake to Urbano – had to beat only one defender on his way to a 17-yard TD run with 7:19 left.
Lamb connected with Rhett McGowan for a 44-yard touchdown at the 3:40 mark.
Another pass by Lamb – this time to Jimmie Broomfield – resulted in a 12-yard score with 1:08 left, with Broomfield breaking three tackles on the run after the catch and doing a nice tightrope walk down the sideline to avoid going out of bounds.
Late in the half, Sonoraville faced a third and 40 on its own 3 and fumbled in the end zone, with Calhoun’s Josh White recovering for the score as time ran out.
Andy Elakman’s foot was responsible for all seven extra points, by the way.
Calhoun turned it over to many subs in the second half, scoring just one more time – that on a 72-yard pass from Michael Johnson to Riley Way with 7:40 left in the third quarter.
Sonoraville came up with a big-play touchdown with 7:34 left in the game – set up by a nice 60-yard run by Nic Cordell to the 10. Two plays later, Robert McAfee ran 10 yards for the score, and Wofford kicked the extra point for the final margin.
Phoenix Coach King praised the defensive play of Trent Payne, who kept Calhoun from making big pass plays in the second half.
Cordell had 102 yards rushing on 10 carries to lead Sonoraville. Urbano had 89 yards on 10 attempts – all in the first half.
(Story from The Calhoun Times)
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