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P;»ir«‘ 6 Thr iKtily Jrffersoman Sal. Or!. '27. 1973Benedictine Bengals Maul Cambridge Bobcats 45-0By STEVE WATT i* ff Sports EditorCambridge fans got a look at and the Cambridge football players got a taste of big time football last night as powerful Cleveland Benedictine handed the Bobcats a 45-0 whitewashing before their hometown fans.Benedictine’s Bengals rolled up 393 yards rushing and 66 passing for a staggering 459 total that summed up the game in fine statistical fashion. Meanwhile, their sizeable and stubborn defense limited the Bobcat passing attack to 135 yards while putting the rushing attack in mothballs with minus 33 on the night.than four minutes to reach the scoreboard again as Cambridge’s i/ou Park was forced to run the ball following a bad snap from center on a punting situation and was dropped for a five yard loss deep in the Cats’ end of the field.Five plays later it was OtisWithout even mentioning the ground gains of the Bengals’ backfield, the whole situation can be summarized in the front offensive and defensive lines of the visitors. They showed big time caliber play as they beat the Cats off the ball and blew open holes along the line that enabled the backs to gain substantial yardage on just about every play.KICKOFF RETURN — Cambridge’s Tom Oliver (32) breaks loose for a 14 yard kickuff return in the first half of last night’s game against Cleveland Benedictine. Oliver had two returns for a total of 30 yards and one pass reception for 16.Cadets Win 7th; Rip Lancers 36-0STEWART Fort Frye’s Coach Bob Hill cited his whole Cadets rolled to their seventh defensive unit for fine play, with wm in eight starts here last PoRnieyei, Vic Whiting,night with an impressive 36-0 Klinger, and Jeff I,angwhitewashing of the host eac^ Peking errant l^ancer Federal Hocking Lancers. passes.Total yardage and defense Federal Hockln*droPP«d to 2-were the big story for the Cadets as they rolled up 200 yards rushing and 129 passing for a 329 total while the defense was the bit story for the Cadets as they rolled up 200 yards rushing and 129 passing for a 329 total while the defense never permitted the Lancers to cross the midfield stripe.Scoring in each quarter, Fort Frye got started with 5:584 on the year, while Fort Frye, 7-1, will host Shenandoah next Friday in a critical Pioneer Valley league contest for both clubs.seven completions in 15 attempts for 106 yards. Ixiper, who started the game, was three of nine for 29 yards. Both suffered an interception.Senior end Van Behrendt had a fine night with four receptions for 68 yards while Fred Hollins had two for 23 yards butScore By Quarters • Fort Frye 7 7 14 1—34Federal Hocking 0 0 0 0 0hirst Quarter FF- Barrett, 3 pass fromStottleyemer (Mincks kick'Second Quarter. F* Adams, 5 run (Mincks kick)Third Quarter FF Adams, 7 run (Mmcks kick! FF Medley, 35 pass from Stottiemeyer (Mincks kick)Benedictine’s defensive line was just unbeatable along the front as the Bobcats could not find running room inside or outside and were forced to throw the ball, which was the area in which the Bengals’ showed their only weakness of the night.The Bengals wasted little time during the first quarter as they took their first possession 60 yards to paydirt with quarterback A1 Kellery sweeping his right end for 14 yards and the score with 6:31 remaining in the initial canto. Tom Seres sidewheeled the conversion through the uprights for a 7-0 lead.Cambridge was still unable to move the ball and gave it over to the visitors on a punt which began their second scoring drive After moving deep into Bobcat territory, Benedictine came up with a fourth down situation and Seres entered the game to boot a 15 yard field goal with 11:16 left in the second quarter. It took the Bengals lessMerrill going over from the dropped a potential touchdown three for the six-pointer and a pass in the second half when 16-0 lead with 7:47 showing on Howard under-three the ball the clock. Seres added the 17th after Hollins had beat the point on the conversion. secondary on the play.The second half proved no Dave Kesig, Park, Tom better for the Bobcats as the Oliver and Bill Cowgill each had Bengals completely dominated one reception, play and allowed the Cats seven But along the lines and rushing yards while losing 49 for throughout the ranks the a net loss of 42 yards. Bobcats were physically beatenGreg Rufus started the 28- by the huge Bengals. The point second half parade with a players were visiblytirediuring 43 yard interception return of a the second half and were beaten Chuck Howard pass for a six- off the ball on the snaps by the pointer with 8:00 remaining in punishing Benedictine linemen, the third quarter. Seres again While the Bengals are now 5-converted for a 24-0 lead. 2-1 on the year and may gainBenedictine next scored on a ground in the computer ratings 24 yard run by Keller with 19 in their pursuit of a possible seconds left in the quarter with playoff berth, the Bobcats are Seres again adding the extra faced with a much more dif-point. ficult situation.Late in the fourth stanza the Cambridge is now 3-5 on the Bobcats went to the reserves on year and can only salvage a .500 defense and Benedictine season by beating Barnesville responded with two scoring next week and Martins Ferry in runs of 40 and 36 yards. Merrill the finale. Barnesville will added his second score of the prove to be a difficult adversary night on the first run and as this game marks the final Charles Washington broke loose meeting between the two for the final tally with Seres schools and will be played in kicking both bonus markers. Barnesville next Friday night.Seres, a 5’6”, 119 pound The Bobcats must find the soccer-style kicker, was six-for- will power to rebound from last six in extra points, had one field night’s shoelacing in order to goal and saw a 39 yard attempt stop Barnesville, who ripped St. just before the end of the half Clairsville last night, bounce off the cross bar and fallback into the end zone.Merrill led all ball carriers with 142 yards in 18 carries, Washington had 42 in two totes, Keller 73 in six carries; Krakora 55 in 11 tries and Gerald Modzelewski 73 in 10 tries.Cambridge’s Ixw Park found the going impossible and ended up with just three yards in nine attempts while Kim Carnes had five yards in three tries.First Downs Yards Rushing Yards Passing Total Yardage Passes A tt Passes Comp. HadIntFumbles (lost)PuntingPenalties5 33 07 755 35 2 7 10Scoring By QuartersBenedictine 7 10 14 14 45Cambridge 0 0 0 0—0First Quarter B Keller, 4 yd run PAT Seres, kick.Second Quarter B Seres, 15 yd field goal. B Merrill, 3 yd. run PAT Seres, kick TC . . . . . 1J u r J Third Quaker B Rufus, 43 yd pass inIf a bright spot could be found terception PAT seres, kick B Keller, 24for the Bobcats it would have to run PAT Seres-, . . . Fourth Quarter B Merrill, 40 yd runbe in the passing department pat seres, kick a Washington 3* yd where sophomore Howard had run pat seres, kick.CRUNCH - One unidentified Bobcat and Kevin Ely (51) applv a crunch to Benedictine fullback Otis Merrill (50) during first half action last night in Cambridge. Behind the play is Cambridge linebacker Dan Mobley (25) while Harold Hollins (84) and Bob Green (24) zero in on the action. Benedictine won 45-0. (Jeff Photos by Dave Sechler)Shamrocks Rip St. C;Capture Sixth StraightJohn Glenn Tops Sheridan;By BILL DAVIESST. CLAIRSVILLE - Bar-nesville’s rampaging Shamrocks blended a versatile offense and rugged defense here Friday night to blast long-time tormentor and archi-rival St. Clairsville, 42-6. The victory was the sixth in the row for rookie coach John Hutchison’s charges and put their mark at 6-2. The loss, the worst St. C has suffered in this long series, left Coach George Strager’s club with a 3-5 record.The Red Devils, who made too many mistakes against the charged up invaders, drove to a TD from the opening kickoff to score the first six-pointer in 23 quarters against the Shamrocks, but that was to be it for the hosts. Barnesville came right back with an equalizing paydirt thrust, and then took Mrivantaee of two St. C fumblesleading a Barnesville ground game that churned out 234 yards was senior tailback Roger Milhoan with 124 yards in 20 carries.Toohey and Milhoan each had a TD for the winners while end Dan Stewart caught two scoring spirals; end Bob Greenwood grabbed another and fullback Sam Hunkier plunged one across.The Saints staged an impressive drive from the opening kickoff that covered 74 yards in 12 plays. Junior halfback Dave Cattane was the big man with 47 yards in eight carries, including the final yard. Senior halfback Bob Antolak also added a 21-yard dash along the way. The score came at the 6:41 mark of the opening frame. On the conversion play Antolak was decked short.Thp visitors pnnntprpd im-Midway through the third frame, Barnesville moved from its 32 to the St. C 11 before giving the ball up on downs, but the Saints fumbled at their 13 and Smith came up with recovery for the visitors. Toohey immediately went to Stewart for the touchdown. Arick’s bonus play jaunt around left end made it 26-6 with 36 seconds showing in the quarter.The final Barnesville tally came at the 3:55 stop of the final go-round and was the result of an eight-play 73-yard drive. Toohey spirals to Arick and Bishop accounted for 20 yards, and then came some razzle-dazzle. Toohey lateraled to Bishop at the sideline and his toss was taken by Greenwood for 38 yards to the St. C 10. Toohey kept to the two from where Hunkier bulled over. A pass for the extra points was
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Sat, Oct 27, 1973
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