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Well folks, there’s not much to say except that the Shoremen suffered an old-fashioned 38-7 butt-whoopin’ courtesy of the Avon Eagles.  Avon Lake could not come up with an answer to Avon’s passing attack, as senior wideout Matt Eckhardt time & again outfought the Shoremen DB’s for jump balls.  On offense, the running game looked good at times, but some untimely holding penalties negated first downs and put them in third & long situations, leading to a couple interceptions.  Three Shoremen turnovers set up Avon in short field situations, and the Eagles capitalized every time.  Even when the Shoremen made a big play, it backfired.  After Avon got the ball on the Avon Lake 13 following a third quarter interception, the Shoremen defense held them to no gain on three plays.  Mickey Steiner blocked the field goal attempt, Brett Bass grabbed the ball, and looked to have clear sailing to the end zone.  But the ref had a brain fart, thinking it was an extra point and therefore the ball was dead, so he blew his whistle.  By rule, when there’s an inadvertent whistle on a loose ball play, the down has to be replayed.  Avon gave up on the field goal idea and threw a 13 yard TD pass to Eckhardt.  Instead of 24-7, it was 31-0 Avon. 

On the bright side, our guys never quit fighting & put together a 65 yard fourth quarter scoring drive, capped off by Chris Jedlicka’s 14 yard TD run.  Sophomore fullback/linebacker Colin Lucas made some big plays, including a tackle for a three yard loss to force Avon to settle for a field goal in the early going.  Colin also burst up the middle for a 35 yard run that set up Jedlicka’s TD.

 

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Avon Lake

0

0

0

7

7

Avon

10

14

7

7

38

 

 

 

A

 

A.L.

First downs

 

20

 

8

Rush Yds

 

151

 

169

Pass Yds

 

225

 

0

Passes att-comp-int

 

24-14-0

 

4-0-2

Fumbles-lost

 

1-1

 

2-1

Penalties

 

2-20

 

8-70


A –  Eckhardt 35 pass from O’Rourke (Young kick)
A –  Young  FG 20
A –  Douglas 1 run (Young kick)
A –  Mullins 6 pass from O’Rourke (Young kick)
A –  Eckhardt 13 pass from O’Rourke (Young kick)
A –  Eckhardt 25 pass from O’Rourke (Young kick)
AL – Jedlicka 14 run (Kovach kick)