Roundup: Falcons win big
- Updated: October 4, 2014
Donoho gives up first points of season, but lights up scoreboard with school record
BONUS: Chart of all County schools’ points record
By East Alabama Sports Today
PELL CITY — All season long the Donoho defense has been dominating the headlines, but Friday night the Falcons’ offense got a chance to shine.
On a night when their defense gave up its first points of the season, the Falcons scored a school-record amount of points in a 79-6 rout of Victory Christian.
The Falcons, 6-0 overall, 4-0 in their region and ranked No. 5 in Class 1A, erupted for 445 yards and scored 11 touchdowns. Chandler Collins scored four touchdowns and passed for two others. Justin Foster scored three touchdowns, one on a kickoff return. Even the defense got in on the act by supplying a safety and touchdowns on fumble and interception returns.
Collins rushed for 203 yards on 17 carries and completed 4 of 6 passes for 77 yards.
The 79 points were the most Victory Christian (4-2, 2-2) had given up in a game in its history. In fact, four of the 13 current Calhoun County football-playing schools have recorded their single-game point records against the Lions – Donoho, Ohatchee, Pleasant Valley and Wellborn.
They were not, however, the most points scored in a game by a county team. Anniston (89) and Oxford (81) both have scored more, but both of those eruptions came before World War II. See the chart below.
The Falcons gave up their first points of the season with 4:35 left in the third quarter. A trick play and two broken tackles produced a 70-yard touchdown. The Falcons were so upset about the score, they blocked the extra point.
Don VC
First downs 17 1
Rushes-yds 29-302 21-(-13)
C-A-I 8-13-1 13-22-1
Passing yds 143 90
Fumbles-lost 2-2 3-2
Punts-avg 0-0 9-20.2
Penalties-yds 6-55 3-13
Donoho 7 30 21 21 — 79
Victory Christian 0 0 6 0 — 6
D – Chandler Collins 8 run (Mitchell Baker kick)
D – Justin Foster 41 run (Baker kick)
D – Collins 28 run (Baker kick)
D – Safety
D – Foster 65 kickoff return (Baker kick)
D – Collins 8 run (Baker kick)
D – Baker 17 pass from Collins (Baker kick)
VC – Shawn Traywick 70 pass from Harrison Cheatwood (kick blocked)
D – Collins 53 run (Baker kick)
D – Foster 7 run (Baker kick)
D – Reaves Nelson 20 fumble return (PAT kick)
D – Baker 23 pass from Collins (Baker kick)
D – Baker 23 interception return (Baker kick)
SINGLE-GAME SCORING RECORDS
(Calhoun County schools only)
Team – Points
Alexandria – 74 (74-37 vs. Locust Fork, Oct. 14, 2011)
Anniston – 89 (89-0 vs. Springville, Oct. 19, 1934)
Donoho — 79 (79-6 at Victory Chr., Friday)
JCA – 62 (62-48 vs. Coosa Chr., Oct. 18, 2013)
Jacksonville – 71 (71-0 vs. Cedar Bluff, Nov. 15, 1930)
Ohatchee – 67 (67-6 vs. Victory Chr., Oct. 26, 2012)
Oxford – 81 (81-6 vs. Cleburne County, Oct. 25, 1924)
Piedmont – 68 (68-0 vs. Lincoln, Sept. 22, 1944)
Pleasant Valley – 55 (55-0 vs. Victory Chr., Sept. 21, 2012)
Saks – 63 (63-28 at Calera, Nov. 6, 2009-x)
Weaver – 63 (63-6 vs. Munford, Sept. 3, 2004)
Wellborn – 78 (78-0 vs. Victory Chr., Sept. 13, 2013)
White Plains – 54 (54-8 vs. ASD, Sept. 26, 1980)
x-playoff game
Benjamin Russell 40, Oxford 21
ALEXANDER CITY – Oxford outgained its hosts by more than 100 yards, but Benjamin Russell intercepted quarterback Ty Webber four times and scored three touchdowns on big plays.
The Yellow Jackets (3-4, 1-3) racked up 376 total yards, mostly on Webber’s 13-of-31 passing for 218, but the turnovers proved costly. Webber did throw touchdown passes to Jake Cook and Ryan Stovall.
The Wildcats’ (6-1, 2-1) big-play touchdowns came on a 65-yard pass to Quin Johnson, D.J. Jackson’s 80-yard kickoff return to open the second half and a 58-yard Tyre Gray run.
Oxford’s other touchdown came on Tre Gamble’s 1-yard run. Gamble rushed for 134 yards on 22 carries and caught two passes for 27 yards. Cook caught six passes for 72 yards.
The four losses are the most Oxford has had this early in a season since it went 3-4 in 2006. That team won its last three games to make the Class 6A playoffs.
Oxf BR
First downs 16 9
Rushing-yds 28-158 32-164
C-A-I 13-31-4 6-7-0
Passing yds 218 106
Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0
Punts-avg 3-36.0 1-38.0
Penalties-yds 8-65 4-35
Oxford 0 7 7 7 — 21
Benjamin Russell 13 6 21 0 — 40
BR — Quin Johnson 65 pass from Tyre Gray (PAT good)
BR – Carter Lloyd 17 pass from Gray (kick failed)
O – Jake Cook 23 pass from Ty Webber (Keaton Borrelli kick)
BR – Pac Man Norris 23 run (kick failed)
BR – D.J. Jackson 80 kickoff return (kick good)
O – Tre Gamble 1 run (Borrelli kick)
BR – Gray 58 run (kick good)
BR – Norris 13 run (kick good)
O – Ryan Stovall 27 pass from Webber (Borrelli kick)
JCA 35, Gaylesville 20
GAYLESVILLE – Daylon Brackett rushed for 182 yards – half of it on a 91-yard touchdown run in the second quarter – and accounted for all five of his team’s touchdowns as the Thunder (3-3, 2-2) won its second game in a row.
Brackett ran for two scores and threw three touchdown passes to Kris Armprester. The runs covered 91 and 10 yards, the passes 14, 9 and 87. The senior quarterback was 10-of-20 for 205 yards passing. Armprester caught five passes for 168 yards.
The Trojans (0-6, 0-3) scored first on the final play of the first quarter. The game was tied twice in the second quarter before JCA took the lead for good on the final play of the half. Gaylesville has lost seven in a row going back to last season and has lost nine of its last 10 games.
Jacksonville Chr. 0 21 7 7 — 35
Gaylesville 7 7 6 0 — 20
G – Gordon Walters 13 run (C.J. Williamson kick)
J – Kris Armprester 14 pass from Daylon Brackett (kick failed)
J — Brackett 91 yards (Jaden Mitchell pass from Brackett)
G – Walters 5 run (Williamson kick)
J – Armprester 9 pass from Brackett (Brackett kick)
J – Armprester 87 pass from Brackett (Brackett kick)
G – 30 blocked punt return (kick failed)
J — Brackett 10 run (Brackett kick)
Weaver 35, Ohatchee 20
WEAVER – Delo Forbes rushed for 155 yards, scored two touchdowns and intercepted two passes, and Tyrik Hall scored three touchdowns as the Bearcats (2-4, 2-2) snapped a two-game losing streak.
Forbes scored on runs of 5 and 34 yards, while Hall scored on runs of 1, 7 and 8 yards.
Ohatchee (1-5, 0-4) scored on the opening drive of the game on Austin Tucker’s 3-yard run, but missed the extra point. The Bearcats scored on their first possession, hit the extra point to take the lead, stopped the Indians and scored again to extend their lead.
“It was big because we’re a young team,” Weaver coach Daryl Hamby said of answering the opening score. “A lot of times it sets the tone and it has to give them more confidence.”
The win moved the Bearcats into a tie for fourth in Class 3A, Region 6.
“This is second half of the season for us, we are in control of our own destiny,” Hamby said.
Piedmont 48, Pleasant Valley 8
PIEDMONT – The 10th-ranked Bulldogs got back on the winning track in a big way.
After losing two straight games to state-ranked opponents, they racked up 409 yards of offense and scored the first 48 points of the game. Two of their touchdowns came on an 76-yard return of a blocked field goal and a 60-yard punt return.
Ethan Borders scored Pleasant Valley’s touchdown on a 47-yard run in the fourth quarter. Drew Lewiski was the leading rusher for the Raiders (1-5, 1-3) with 123 yards on 13 carries.
In winning, the Bulldogs (4-2, 3-1) avoided their first three-game losing streak since 2004.
Pleasant Valley 0 0 0 8 — 8
Piedmont 14 20 14 0 — 48
PV Pied
First downs 12 19
Rushing yds 248 229
C-A-I 1-13-1 14-23-0
Passing yds 35 180
Fumbles-lost 3-1 2-1
Punts-avg 5-28.2 2-29.5
Penalties-yds 2-12 5-41
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