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Monday, November 09, 2009

Division VI Football: Carey dominates
Diamond Mine Direct
By MARK HEIMAN

STAFF WRITER

CAREY -- High school football has gone wild over the past decade.

Coaches all over are lining up in the spread and firing the pigskin all around the field.

That wide-open attack helps Carey, which prefers to line up in the wishbone and play option football.

Saturday night at C.D. Wentling Field the option took on a spread-offense personality as the Blue Devils needed just seven plays to score 21 first-quarter points on the way to an easy 34-0 Division VI, Region 22 quarterfinal win over Columbus Grove.

Carey (10-1) will move on to play Ada (11-0), a 51-14 winner over Cory-Rawson, next Saturday at Donnell Stadium.

"When the option works, it works," Carey coach Todd Worst said. "Sometimes you have what we did last week (3-0 overtime loss to Fremont St. Joseph) when we didn't get it blocked and didn't get the reads. This week we got blocks and we got reads.

"The fun part is when you call a play and you don't know who is going to get the ball. If I don't know who is going to get it, it makes it a little tougher on a defense."

That was evident right from the start when Trevor Phoenix took a pitch on an option left from Tyler Brodman. Phoenix got the corner and headed down the sideline. He got great downfield blocks from Cy Strahm and Jordan Stock around the 10 and went into the end zone on a 59-yard run.

Just 24 seconds had run off the clock.

"All season we have been practicing downfield blocking," said Phoenix, who finished with 212 yards on 14 carries and scored another TD. "The seniors realized that this was our last game on our field."

Brodman made the play work, though, as he was wrapped up by three Columbus Grove defenders before he pitched the ball.

"The option is tricky to stop. I love it," Phoenix said.

He loved it again just over seven minutes later when he broke off a 56-yard run for another TD. Sandwiched between those scores was Justin Jacoby's 36-yard TD scamper. Jacoby's score came on another late pitch from Brodman on the option.

"They controlled the line both offensively and defensively. They were bigger, stronger and faster than us," said Columbus Grove (7-4) coach Scott Palte, whose team had a six-game winning streak snapped.

"We don't see a lot of wishbone, double-tight (offenses). I think we just got out-executed and didn't tackle well. It's hard to simulate a true option team in practice."

It showed as Carey racked up 469 yards rushing. Logan Norden had 118 yards, including a 36-yard TD run, on 17 carries. Jacoby just missed the century mark with 97 yards on five runs. Brodman finished with 36 yards, including an 8-yard touchdown rush. Phoenix and Norden unofficially reached the 1,000-yard marks for the season.

"Our line came out and blocked tonight," Phoenix said. "All the seniors said we needed to watch more film and break everybody down the way they break us down. We all watched film for at least an hour a day after practice."

The film work helped defensively also as Carey limited Columbus Grove's offense to 74 total yards. Rayce Risser, who came in with 1,022 yards rushing, finished with 49 yards on 11 carries.

The Bulldogs' Jordan Travis was just 1-of-8 passing and was picked off four times. Cy Strahm had two of the picks, Phoenix made one and Dustin Massie had the other. Strahm had another interception that he returned for a touchdown, but it was waved off after a roughing-the-passer penalty on Carey.

The Blue Devils, who lost 21-12 to Columbus Grove in the 2000 regional quarterfinals, also had a Norden 43-yard touchdown run called back for holding. If there was a black mark for Carey, it was that the Blue Devils were called for eight penalties and 80 yards.

But that first-quarter offensive barrage was more than enough to overcome those mistakes.

"I wasn't sure how we were going to come out after last week," Worst said. "Our guys were a little more motivated than I thought they were."

And a little more quick-strike than the Blue Devils normally are.



Columbus Grove 0 0 0 0 -- 0

Carey 21 0 13 0 -- 34

First Quarter

CAR -- Phoenix 59 run (Strahm kick)

CAR -- Jacoby 36 run (Strahm kick)

CAR -- Phoenix 56 run (Strahm kick)

Third Quarter

CAR -- Brodman 8 run (Strahm kick)

CAR -- Norden 36 run (kick failed)

CG Carey

First Downs 6 17

Rushes-yards 30-68 47-469

Passing Yards 6 4

Comp-Att-Int 1-9-4 1-6-1

Punts-Avg. 8-32.1 4-42.3

Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0

Penalties-Yards 2-15 8-80

individual statistics

Rushing -- Columbus Grove, Risser 11-49, Heffner 10-21, Travis 4-(minus-20), Miller 5-18. Carey, Norden 17-118, Phoenix 14-212, Brodman 7-36, Jacoby 5-97, Bra. Orians 2-6, Team 2-0.

Passing -- Columbus Grove, Travis 1-8-4, 6; Miller 0-1-0, 0. Carey, Brodman 1-6-1, 4.

RECEIVING -- Columbus Grove, Meuleman 1-6. Carey, Strahm 1-4.

Heiman: 419-422-5151,

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