LR PARKVIEW 55, LR FAIR 0
There were a few things the Little Rock Parkview Patriots did wrong against the Fair War Eagles Friday night in their 5A-Central game.
But after a 55-0 victory, Parkview Coach Brad Bolding saw no reason to nitpick.
"We got a whole of people different reps and we tried to do a whole lot of different things,'' Bolding said. "You do things in practice, but it is hard to simulate like it is in a game, you know the onside kicks, the two-point conversions. It is always good to work on it in a game setting."
The Patriots (3-2, 2-0), behind the play of senior running back Trevon Hadley and junior quarterback Geary Almond, rolled as expected over the winless War Eagles
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A couple of passes were intercepted, a couple of extra-point attempts were missed, but nothing that was even close to keeping the Patriots from winning their second conference game.
Hadley rushed 11 times for 147 yards and 2 touchdowns, all in the first half
Almond ran 5 times for 51 yards, completed 5 of 8 passes for 59 yards and 1 touchdown and added a 70-yard touchdown on a kickoff return.
Senior Zachary Smith rushed 7 times for 63 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Smith started the scoring with a 7-yard scoring run, set up by a Joe Howard interception.
Hadley scored from 25 yards out in the first quarter. Smith's second TD came on a 10-yard run and Hadley capped that with a 15-yard score that made it 27-0 after Tyrell Hadley caught the two-point conversion pass.
Almond threw two interceptions, on the Patriots' first play by Fair's Mikalen Hawkins and another by Kalik Brazle in the end zone.
It was 34-0 after Almond hit freshman tight end Erin Outley for a 13-yard score.
Brennan Hamilton recovered a fumble that set up Smith's third touchdown, a 9-yard run that made it 41-0 at halftime.
The War Eagles had two scoring chances: They reached the Parkview 30 late in the first half but were stopped on downs; they had first-and-goal opportunity at the 2 that went backwards and a 42-yard field goal attempt was missed.
Almond returned the second-half kickoff 70 yards for a score.
Chris Scoggins, who gained 93 yards in the second half, added final score on a 7-yard run.
"It's a tough deal, the situation here at Fair and they do their best with what they've got,'' Bolding said. "Our opponents are about to get really good here in the next few weeks, starting with Beebe next week. We are about to get into the meat of a really tough schedule so we will find out what we are all about."
Sports on 09/30/2017