By Ryan Davenport, WSON Sports Correspondent
The Henderson County Colonels faced off against the South Warren Spartans on the road in Bowling Green.
The Spartans would be the first to strike as junior quarterback Bryce Button would throw a 69 yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Bailey Shoemaker on the first play of the drive for the Spartans and after the made PAT, the Spartans would take a early 7-0 lead over the Colonels with 10:07 to play in the first quarter. The Colonels couldn’t get anything going offensively early as the Spartans would capitalize on a 5 play 23 yard drive with a 35 yard field goal by senior kicker Eli McIntosh to extend their lead to 10-0 over the Colonels with 4:31 to play in the first quarter. Right before the end of the first half the Spartans would strike again on a 8 play, 87 yard drive that would end with a 9 yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Bryce Button to senior wide receiver Isaiah Rigsby, as after the made PAT, the Spartans would go up 17-0 over the Colonels heading into the halftime break.
The Colonels would get a big defensive stop to start the second half and the Colonels would capitalize on the stop with a 8 play, 54 yard drive that would end with a 2 yard touchdown by junior quarterback Trajdon Davis, as after the made PAT, the Colonels would narrow the deficit to 17-7 with 7:11 to play 7:11 to play in the third quarter. The Colonels would get another defensive stop and execute with a 6 yard touchdown run by junior quarterback Trajdon Davis, as after the made PAT, the Colonels would trail the Spartans 17-14 with 4:27 to play in the third quarter. The Colonels would kick an onside kick that looked like they might recover the football only for it to fall short of a Colonels player’s hands and go out of bounds and give the football to the Spartans around midfield. The Spartans would take advantage as the momentum swung back in the Spartans as they would score two times off the onside kick, one score in thirty seconds on a 61 yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Bryce Button to senior wide receiver DeShawn Bridges, and the other score and other in 10 seconds on a 63 yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Bryce Button to senior wide receiver Bailey Shoemaker, as after both made PATs, the Spartans would take a 31-14 lead over the Colonels with 3:47 to play in the third quarter. The Spartans would score again on a 7 play, 80 yard drive that would result in a 46 yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Bryce Button to senior wide receiver Bailey Shoemaker, as after the made PAT, the Spartans would extend their lead to 38-14 with 7:37 to play in the game. The Spartans defense would hold the Colonels to nothing else offensively the rest of the way and the Colonels would suffer a 38-14 loss in the first road game of the season to the Spartans. The Colonels fall to (1-1) on the season while the Spartans improve to (2-0).
Colonel junior quarterback Trajdon Davis was 10 for 31 with 138 yards passing on the night. Junior running back Tony Burrus rushed 13 times for 38 rushing yards while junior quarterback back Trajdon Davis rushed 21 times with 11 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns on the night.
The Colonels as a team, had 17 yards rushing and 138 yards passing for a total of 155 yards of offense on the night. The Colonel’s defense allowed the Spartans 56 yards rushing and 405 passing yards on the night, as the Colonels forced 2 fumbles, 2 punts, and allowed the Spartans 14 first downs. The Colonels had 4 penalties for 35 yards while the Spartans had 9 penalties for 76 yards on the night.
Head Coach of the Colonels Josh Boston talked about his observations on the game during the Post Game and Boston said this, “It’s like I said in the pregame show, for us to win tonight we had to survive the surge and we didn’t do that. We knew how good they were, we knew how big they were, we had to survive the initial surge and if we did that we were going to be able to play. So we didn’t survive the surge in the first half, got down 17-0 and then came out after halftime, got refocused and just had to understand you can play with these guys. Then we come out and five minutes to go in the third quarter, its 17-14 and the emotions changed, they understood what we talked about at halftime but then it’s almost like (we) (showed) a little (bit) of immaturity and then we just didn’t make the plays when the emotions hit. That’s just a part of being inexperienced, part of being young and we don’t want us to make excuses on it but it’s just like I told the kids, every single one of us, there’s no pointing fingers. Every single one of us has something we’ve got to own tonight and we’ve got to make sure we go on film and we’ve got to learn from it. You’ve got to own your part, every single receiver dropped a ball that was a crucial ball tonight, every single (defensive back) busted a coverage tonight that was a crucial play, every single guy in the box missed a tackle that was a crucial play to stop the chains from moving. When you are playing a good football team it’s every single play that you’ve got to play. We had some breaks tonight and we took advantage of those breaks when we had those breaks, you know getting the turnover and then blocking the punt. We did some things that we showed that we can do, we just got to make sure that we handle the emotional curve and don’t get so high whenever, all of a sudden we make that surge back in the third quarter, we don’t get so high that all of a sudden we go back to dropping the balls and doing the things that we were doing in the first half when we didn’t survive that surge.”
The Colonels will take on the Central Hardin Bruins next Friday night, September 1st, on the road in Elizabethtown with the kickoff time at 7:00 P.M.
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