Greyhounds dominate CMU 70-0

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Fort Scott Community College scored eight touchdowns in the first half alone at Frary Field Monday night as the Greyhounds crushed the Central Methodist University junior varsity 70-0.

Fort Scott's defense held the Eagles to exactly zero yards of total offense. CMU (0-2) gained just 23 yards on 15 pass plays and lost 23 yards on 29 rushing attempts. Two of CMU's three first downs on the game came by penalty on the same drive in the fourth quarter.

The Greyhounds (2-2) defeated a four-year school's sub-varsity team for the 13th consecutive time. This was the most points Fort Scott has ever scored against a JV team and it's 13th consecutive victory over a JV team.

The 'Hounds gained 523 yards in total offense. The ground game, led by three 100-yard rushers, produced 418 of those, the best day for Fort Scott running the ball since gaining 415 against Highland in a 2011 victory.

Fort Scott scored all but one time that it had the ball in the first half. The Greyhounds only needed four plays to score on its first, when quarterback Nathan Rourke hit Chris Claybooks in the end zone from 15 yards out with 11:43 on the clock.

Just a bit over two minutes later, Harry Trotter rushed over from 11 yards out. The 'Hounds needed just 53 seconds to score in five plays.

Then just a bit over two minutes after that, Edward Aldred jumped over his defender to haul in Rourke's pass from 3 yards out to make it 21-0.

Claybrooks zig-zagged all across the field to score on a 62-yard punt return with 4:46 to go to cap the first-quarter scoring at 28-0.

Chris Rivers scored on a 12-yard run with 14:11 left in the second quarter, making it 35-0.

Rourke's third and final scoring pass of the night came on a 15-yard pass to tight end Marcus George, wide open as he was running down the left hash mark, to make it 42-0 with 12:14 on the clock.

Johnnie Hankins scored on a 3-yard run with 7:56 left in the half. Trotter scored his second TD from one yard out with 3:31 to go, a drive set up when Central Methodist, seemingly so desperate to get some offense going, went for it on fourth-and-20 from its own 19-yard line.

With Fort Scott ahead 56-0 at halftime, the schools agreed to cut the third and fourth quarters down from 15 minutes each to 12.

Backup quarterback Christian Bates scored his first touchdown as a Greyhound on a draw play up the middle with 2:26 left in the third to make it 63-0. That was set up when Fort Scott recovered a muffed punt return at the CMU 49.

Trotter scored for the third time 38 seconds into the fourth quarter. He ran up the middle on a play from his own 48-yard line, fumbled inside the five as he was being chased down, then followed a bounce into the end zone and fell on the ball.

There were only two more possessions after that as the officials decided not to have the clock stop in certain situations when it normally would.

Rourke did not play in the second half after completing 6 of 8 passes for 91 yards. Bates was 2 of 3 for 14 yards. Eight receivers caught one pass each.

Trotter finished the night with 160 yards on 19 carries. Hankins gained 159 yards on 23 totes and Rivers finished with 103 yards on 16 rushes.

The Greyhounds have nearly two weeks off as they do not play again until October 1, when they go to Coffeyville for a Jayhawk Conference contest.

NOTES -- This was Fort Scott's best defensive night since holding Highland to 7 first downs, 14 rushing yards and 35 yards in total offense in a 21-7 victory on Aug. 25, 2012. Highland's only score that day was a defensive one....

This was the most points scored by a Fort Scott team since beating Dodge City at Frary Field, 71-19, on Oct. 16, 2010....

Central Methodist only had 39 players on its roster. Five quarterbacks were listed and the Eagles only used one running back....

Earlier Monday, the NJCAA released this week's Top 20 football poll. Garden City moved up to No. 5 after beating Hutchinson, 16-14, Saturday at Hutch. The Blue Dragons fell to No. 13. Butler dropped from No. 2 to No. 12 after losing at Iowa Western, which moved back into the poll at No. 20. Dodge City moved up one spot to No. 18.

The new No. 1 is Arizona Western. The Matadors moved up from No. 4 after all these things happened:

1) No. 1 Snow lost to unranked Mesa,

2) No. 2 Butler lost at Iowa Western,

3) No. 3 Copiah-Lincoln lost to unranked Mississippi Gulf Coast and had to forfeit its season opener to Mississippi Delta.

There has been a different No. 1 team every week this season....


C.M.U. JV................ 0 0 0 0 -- 0

FORT SCOTT........ 28 28 7 7 -- 70

Team statsCMU JVFort Scott
First downs329
Rushes-yards29-(-23)61-418
Passing yards23105
Total offense0523
Passing (a-c-i)8-15-08-11-0
Sacked-yards lost4-280-0
Punt returns-yards1-15-125
Kickoff returns-yards6-621-39
Int. returns-yards0-00-0
Punts-avg.10-36.91-40.0
Fumbles-lost3-25-1
Penalties-yards2-205-45

Scoring plays

First quarter

FS -- Claybrooks 15 pass from Rourke (Southwell kick), 11:43 [4, 48, 1:04]

FS -- Trotter 11 run (Southwell kick), 9:20 [5, 52, :53]

FS -- Aldred 3 pass from Rourke (Southwell kick), 7:11 [5, 18, 1:20]

FS -- Claybrooks 62 punt return (Southwell kick), 4:46

Second quarter

FS -- Rivers 12 run (Southwell kick), 14:11 [8, 58, 2:02]

FS -- George 15 pass from Rourke (Southwell kick), 12:14 [1, 15, :04]

FS -- Hankins 3 run (Southwell kick), 7:56 [8, 83, 2:36]

FS --Trotter 1 run (Southwell kick), 3:31 [7, 23, 2:12]

Third quarter

FS -- Bates 1 run (Southwell kick), 2:26 [9, 49, 3:25]

Fourth quarter

FS -- Trotter 52 run (Southwell kick), 11:22 [4, 60, :42]

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING: CMU JV -- Beasley 20-17, Hampton 4-minus 15, Lippert 5-minus 25. Fort Scott -- Trotter 19-160, Hankins 23-159, Rivers 16-103, Bates 2-3, team 1-minus 7.

PASSING: CMU JV -- Lippert 4-6-0-14, Hampton 4-9-0-9. Fort Scott -- Rourke 6-8-0-91, Bates 2-3-0-14.

RECEIVING: CMU JV -- Shumard 5-18, Million 2-1, Pyles 1-4. Fort Scott -- Love 1-32, George 1-15, Claybrooks 1-15, Green 1-13, Trotter 1-13, Daughtry 1-8, Walker Jr. 1-6, Aldred 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS: None.