The East Central Trojans picked up their fifth win of the season with a 42-7 victory over South Dearborn on Homecoming Night in St. Leon.
According to this report filed by Rob Moorhead, the Trojan’s Eli Aston took the opening kickoff all the way for a touchdown for the second week in a row, this one covering 90 yards, and Sophie Browndyke’s extra point gave EC a 7-0 lead.
South Dearborn answered early in the second quarter on a beautiful 37-yard connection from Adam Kunkel to Reese Willoughby. Taytum Barker added the extra point to tie the game at 7-7.
East Central’s Cole Burton scored on a 1-yard sneak and then later hit Ryan Brotherton with a 9-yard pass to give EC two more touchdowns in the second quarter. Both Sophie Browndyke extra points helped up the Trojans to a 21-7 lead at the half.
The second half was all East Central as the hosts scored three touchdowns including another 1-yard Brotherton sneak following a beautifully executed fake punt by Sam Ringer. Later, Burton found Aston over the middle for a 68-yard strike, and then Brotherton finished the scoring with a 27-yard scamper into the end zone to start the running clock. Browndyke stayed perfect on extra points to give the Trojans the final victory margin of 42-7.
East Central is 5-1 and will host Connersville October 1 while South Dearborn falls to 4-2 and will take on Franklin County in Aurora the same night.
Stat summary follows.
East Central 42 (home), South Dearborn 7
SD 0 07 0 00
EC 7 14 7 14
Team stats for SD, EC from East Central coach Jake Meiners and South Dearborn coach Rand Ballart:
- Pass yds 122, 228
- Rush yds 35, 188
- Total yds 157, 416
- 1st downs 12, 15
- 3rd down eff 2/12, 3/8
- 4th down eff 3/4, 2/2
- Turnovers 1 (int), 0
- Penalties/yds 8/68, 8/61
- Punts/avg yds 6/30, 1/24
Stat leaders from both coaches:
- Pass comp/att/yds/TD- (EC) Burton 10/13/228/2; (SD) Kunkel 13/25/110/1, Thies 1/3/12
- Rushes/yds/TD- (EC) Brotherton 6/80/1, Ohmer 10/39, Ringer 1/21, Ernst 4/19, Bellman 1/17; (SD) Rogers 15/37
- Receptions/yds/TD- (EC) Brotherton 3/85/1, Buesing 3/45, Wheat 1/12; (SD) Willoughby 6/74/1, Ballart 4/26, Rogers 2/12
- Total tackles- (EC) Rinear 5, Rosemeyer 4, Sohns 4, Mergenthal 4; (SD) Sohmer 11, Herzner 8, Probst 6, Willoughby 5
- TFLs- (EC) Rosemeyer 2, Nash, Bovard, Gray, Cook, Ringer, Smith; (SD) Barker
- Sacks- (EC) none; (SD) Barker
- Def. Interceptions- (CE) Rosemeyer; (SD) none
We thank Rob Moorhead and coach Rand Ballart for the information.