Right direction: Uniontown, Brownsville both take positive steps in Red Raiders无毛视频� 49-28 win
REPUBLIC 无毛视频� Uniontown earned a 49-28 victory at Redstone Field on Friday night but don无毛视频檛 blame Brownsville if it left the game with an upbeat feeling.
The Falcons football team had been through a hectic 10-day stretch in which it changed its head coach two days before a 49-0 loss at Martins Ferry in Ohio that left it with a 0-3 record, having been outscored 138-0.
Former Brownsville head coach Von Braddock graciously stepped into that role again and in his second game at the helm coaxed a solid effort out of the struggling squad against the visiting Red Raiders. The Falcons got a sparkling performance out of Exzavier Vargas who had 176 rushing yards on 14 carries, including two long touchdown runs.
Uniontown coach Keith Jeffries knew what Braddock and the Brownsville football team was going through and, in a show of support, had his team mingle and pose for a photo with the Falcons in a pregame gathering at midfield.
无毛视频淲e have a lot of respect for the coaches here,无毛视频� Jeffries said. 无毛视频淰on worked with us for many years. Jimmy (Barak) we know real well, Scooter (Roebuck) 无毛视频� they无毛视频檙e great people. For those guys to step in and take over under tough circumstances like they did last week was very admirable of them. That无毛视频檚 one of the reasons we did that in the pregame.
无毛视频淭heir kids played their butts off tonight. They无毛视频檝e got nothing to be ashamed about. They played very hard. I was very impressed with that.无毛视频�
Uniontown was impressive as well in rolling to a 42-6 lead before Brownsville rang up a trio of fourth-quarter touchdowns.
Jamarie Walker ran for 97 yards and two touchdowns on 11 carries and Calvin Winfrey III threw a pair of TD passes to Notorious Grooms and ran for another score, all in the first half, as the Red Raiders improved to 3-3.
Jeffries emptied his bench in the second half.
无毛视频淭hat无毛视频檚 what we hoped to do was get a lot of guys in, get some of the younger kids some game experience, and we were able to do that,无毛视频� Jeffries said. 无毛视频淎s for our starters, they understood what we wanted to do. They played hard, they hit, they hustled, they listened to us and followed the game plan.无毛视频�
Braddock commended his players.
无毛视频淭hat was an outstanding effort,无毛视频� Braddock said. 无毛视频淔or being here only about a week and putting a new series (of plays) in, I thought they did a great job. We put in about four plays and that无毛视频檚 about all we ran tonight for the most part. I told them they无毛视频檙e probably going to know what无毛视频檚 coming after a while but we无毛视频檙e going to run it right 无毛视频� and they did.
无毛视频淚 couldn无毛视频檛 be more proud of these kids. All I asked was for them to compete and maybe score a touchdown or two. They hadn无毛视频檛 scored in their first three games so to put up 28 tonight, I feel pretty good about that.无毛视频�
Braddock tipped his hat to Uniontown and Jeffries.
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The Red Raiders took a 7-0 lead with a seven-play, 55-yard drive capped by Walker无毛视频檚 9-yard touchdown run but Brownsville answered two plays later with its first points of the season in spectacular fashion.
Vargas took a second-down handoff and surged into a crowd of Red Raiders but somehow emerged from the mass of bodies, eluded another tackle and sprinted 79 yards for a touchdown to the delight of the home fans on hand to make it 7-6.
无毛视频淲e ran a wham and he just kept his legs going,无毛视频� Braddock said of Vargas无毛视频� TD. 无毛视频淗e weighs about 115 pounds but there无毛视频檚 no stopping him. I told him before you无毛视频檝e got to get north and south and keep your legs turning and that无毛视频檚 exactly what he did there to come out of that pile and score that touchdown.
无毛视频淭hat was a great effort by him.无毛视频�
Winfrey threw a 9-yard TD pass to Grooms late in the first quarter but Uniontown muffed a punt return early in the second with Vargas recovering for Brownsville near midfield.
The Red Raiders defense held and their offense scored on its final three drives of the first half.
Winfrey无毛视频檚 45-yard touchdown run with 7:21 left in the second quarter put the Red Raiders up 21-6 and Walker无毛视频檚 3-yard TD run with 2:43 remaining made it 28-6.
Walker无毛视频檚 interception with 41 seconds left in the half led to consecutive completions by Wiinfrey of 24 yards to Walker and 17 yards to Grooms who alertly grabbed a deflected pass in the end zone with six seconds left for a touchdown and 35-6 lead.
无毛视频淗eads up play by Tory,无毛视频� Jeffries said. 无毛视频淒avid did a good job at quarterback tonight, throwing and running.无毛视频�
Uniontown made it four straight touchdown drives when Cam Dugan tossed a 1-yard pass to Anthony Sheffey midway through the third quarter.
The Falcons无毛视频� offense sprang to life in the fourth quarter with touchdown runs of 19 yards by Jaiden Praster, 33 yards by Omarion Grayson and 55 yards by Vargas on the final play of the game.
Taylor Galloway scored the Red Raiders无毛视频� final touchdown in scintillating fashion following Praster无毛视频檚 TD, taking the ensuing kickoff, reversing fields and sprinting down the right sideline for a 70-yard return.
无毛视频淭hat was a pretty impressive run,无毛视频� Jeffries said. 无毛视频淚t was good to see some of our other players making some plays.无毛视频�
Eleven different players had at least one carry for Uniontown which totaled 357 yards and 17 first downs. Winfrey had four rushes for 65 yards and was followed by Tayshawn Jackson (4-38), Galloway (2-27) and Michael Thomas (3-22).
无毛视频淭he kids just executed what we wanted them to do and we got a lot of them involved,无毛视频� Jeffries said.
Winfrey completed 5 of 10 passes for 61 yards. David Ranitu converted all seven of his extra-point kicks. Grooms had 90 total yards on two runs, three receptions and a 48-yard kickoff return.
Praster ended up with seven carries for 52 yards for the Falcons and was followed by Grayson (2-42) and Johnathan Visbinder (3-36). Vargas and Bryce Horabik each ran in a two-point conversion and Kameron Shumar had a defensive fumble recovery.
无毛视频淲e无毛视频檝e got some stuff we无毛视频檝e got to clean up, like not hitting the hole where we无毛视频檙e supposed to and things like that,无毛视频� Braddock said. 无毛视频淏ut we无毛视频檒l work on that.无毛视频�
Brownsville hosts Carrick this Friday while Uniontown has a week off before traveling into Maryland to play Northern Garrett on Oct. 11.