Saturday, October 22, 2016

Forestview Forces Five Turnovers, Tops Ashbrook 27-13

                If you wondered how Forestview would respond after a devastating loss from last week, their 27-13 win over Ashbrook on Friday probably answered your question in a positive way. He Jaguars used their ground and pound running game, an opportunistic defense that had five takeaways and a blocked punt for a touchdown to down their cross-town rival.

                After a scoreless first quarter, the Jaguars finally broke through. Chapperal Smith got them on the board with a 25-yard run. Dylan Disarro’s extra point kick made it 7-0. Special teams got in on the action for the Jaguars when Tremayne Booker blocked a Green Wave punt and Tramone Duncan recovered it in the end zone for a touchdown. The Green Wave special teams would respond by blocking the PAT kick. The score would remain 13-0 going into half-time.

                Ashbrook got the ball to start the second half and they would score on their first drive. Under pressure from a Forestview blitz, Chabien Rodriguez hit British Brooks for a screen pass at the 23-yard line. Brooks was able to take it the distance for the Green Wave’s first touchdown of the night. The PAT was good.

                But the Jaguars would respond later in the third with a six-yard touchdown run by Jayveon Love and 28-yard touchdown run Chapperal Smith. Both PATs were good and Forestview took a 27-7 lead going into the final quarter. The Green Wave would get a drive going early in the fourth quarter. They made it all the way to the Forestview one-yard line, but a procedure penalty backed them up and Chabien Rodriguez was intercepted by Tramone Duncan on the next play.

Ashbrook was able to get another touchdown later in the fourth quarter when Rodriguez hit Cameron June for a 53-yard touchdown pass. The extra point kick bounced off the upright however. That would be all the highlights for Ashbrook as Forestview recovered the onside kick and ran the clock out.

Forestview’s defense forced three fumbles and two interceptions, one by Duncan and the other by Jared Carter. Forestview only lost one fumble and had no interceptions. The Jaguars also registered five sacks. Xavier Worthy led the Jaguars with three. Nate Whitaker and Jacob Ash each had one. For Ashbrook, Antwan McClee led the way with two sacks and Josh Long had one.

Rodriguez led Ashbrook with 155 yards passing, 65 yards rushing and two passing touchdowns. Chapperal Smith led Forestview with 82 yards and two touchdowns.

“I thought we played as a complete team in all three phases and did some great things and that’s what you have to do against a great team. I couldn’t be more proud.” said Forestview head coach Chris Medlin “(The blocked punt for touchdown) gave us some momentum. Our defense as a whole is playing great. We have a lot of senior leadership over there. Tramone (Duncan) is one of them. He’s doing well and had a big night for us in some key plays.”

Medlin said when asked about involving more players on offense “We threw one to the tight-end there. It was a big play that got us a first down early in the game. We got to add some stuff. We can’t just run the base plays. You got to add some wrinkles to it when teams are overloading you.”

“We got to win two more. It’s simple as that. If we do, there is nothing less we can have than a conference championship. That’s our goal. We got to take it one at a time.”

“When you have a special teams situation where they get points out of it, that’s hard to overcome.” said Ashbrook head coach Greg Hill “Turnovers, I don’t know how many we had but it’s hard to win a game when you have that many turnovers.”

“That drive (early in the second half) was our best drive of the night. We made some plays there and got in the end zone. We felt like we got it going again and then I think the thing that really hurt us after that is that we played half the field the majority of the third quarter and we weren’t able to flip the field at all and you can’t do that especially when you got a team that’s going to power the ball down at you.”

Hill said about the next two games against Lake Norman Charter and Hunter Huss “There’s no ifs, ands and buts about it. These next two weeks are going to define what happens to the rest of the season. Our kids got to come to work Monday and find a way to get ourselves back on track.”

Forestview (6-3)(4-1) travels to take on Hunter Huss (6-3)(5-0). Ashbrook (3-6)(2-3) will host Lake Norman Charter (4-5)(0-5).

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