LEBO—Thanks to two turnovers, Lebo needed just 27 yards of offense and five offensive plays to score its first two touchdowns Thursday night. The Wolves didn’t stop, putting up a 50-0 win over Marais des Cygnes Valley at Lebo to close out the regular season.
Blake Davies recovered a fumble at the Trojan 23-yard line after Marais des Cygnes Valley got the ball to start the game. His fumble recovery led to a four-yard touchdown run by Austin Holmes. Austin Weiss recovered the MdCV fumble on the next series, this time on the Trojan four-yard line. Wolves quarterback Trevor White ran the ball in on the next play.
“I don’t even have any idea what we are on turnover ratio for the season, but I know we’re up, we’ve got two turnovers all season long that we have committed,” Lebo coach Troy McArthur said. “That’s always big if you can go through a game with very few turnovers. If you can go through an entire season with very few turnovers, that’s amazing.”
The Wolves got three more touchdowns in the second quarter to go into halftime with a 38-0 lead. Holmes had his second touchdown run of the game, and Walker Davies had a six-yard TD run. Thadd Barker scored the quarter’s opening touchdown on a five-yard pass from White.
The scoring slowed down somewhat in the second half. Holmes scored his third touchdown of the game with a 74-yard run in the third quarter, and a 25-yard run by Michael Cathcard ended the game by mercy rule with 9:13 to go in the fourth quarter.
Lebo had three rushers with at least 64 yards. Holmes led with 123 yards, Cathcard ran for 86, and White ran for 64 yards. Cathcard had nine carries, with Holmes running the ball five times and White getting four carries. Eight different Lebo players attempted at least one rush.
“We usually do (get a variety of players involved,)” McArthur said. “It might not be as many as tonight, but we’ve run multiple fullbacks in there, multiple tailbacks, when we throw the ball we generally try to move that around as well.”
White attempted seven passes, completing four for 44 yards and a touchdown.
Lebo had one turnover, a lost fumble in the first quarter. It led to a 12-play Marais des Cygnes Valley drive, thought it ended at the Lebo 14-yard line with a turnover on downs.
The Trojans converted eight first downs and ran 50 offensive plays. But the Wolves limited them to 105 yards of total offense and kept them out of the end zone. Marais des Cygnes Valley got to the Lebo six-yard line in the third quarter before a turnover on downs. It was the closest the Trojans got to scoring during the game. Blake Davies led Lebo with 27 tackles for the game.
“(We) watched a lot of film, we kind of knew what was coming the whole time,” Cathcard said. “So it was fairly easy to stop them.”
The Wolves finished the regular season with an 8-1 record. They will open postseason play Tuesday, with the opponent and site to be determined.
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