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Clintwood powers past Indians
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| By:H William smith, Sports writer |
October 28, 2003 |
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CLINTWOOD - Glyn R. Phillips rushed for 117 yards and four touchdowns to lead Clintwood past Lonesome Pine District rival J.J. Kelly by a 50-9 margin Friday on homecoming night at Ralph Cummins Stadium.
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The win raised Clintwood's LPD record to 3-2 and its overall ledger to 6-2. With the win, Rick Mullins' Clintwood squad remained in fourth place in the LPD.
"Its good for the seniors, I'm glad to see these guys get a big win on homecoming night," Mullins said. "Kelly has kind of been a thorn in these guys' side. A couple of times I think they should have been able to play with them and never could win it, so it is nice to beat Kelly."
Kelly's loss dropped the Indians to 2-3 in the LPD and 3-5 overall, a record that is identical to the Pound Wildcats.
Kelly, under interim head coach Bryan Crutchfield, found the Clintwood attack to be more than it could handle on both sides of the ball.
"We weren't very sharp and had some chances to make some plays and didn't," Crutchfield said. "Coach (Rick) Mullins' bunch is a real good team and we had to play perfect to beat someone like that and we didn't. He has got a real talented team and I hope he makes the playoffs."
Phillips exploited the holes blasted by a big, veteran offensive line as he and quarterback Brian Blevins combined efforts to dominate a struggling Kelly club.
"He is a real good cutback runner," Crutchfield said of Phillips. "We were stacked up inside trying to stop him and then he bounces it (outside)."
PHILLIPS SCORES AFTER TURNOVER
Kelly took the opening kickoff and was unable to get on track, but Clintwood was able to do little better on its first possession.
The Wave worked the ball out to its 44-yard line before punting the ball back to Kelly which started the game with a patchwork backfield due to the absence of starting quarterback Garrett Amburgey.
While his replacement Clay Christian filled in admirably at quarterback, Christian's absence at running back limited the Kelly rushing attack.
"Clay (Christian) does everything for us," Crutchfield said. "He will do anything we ask. They are a good bunch of boys. I just wish they would have played a whole lot better."
Kelly was limited to 79 yards on 37 carries. Christian led the Indian rushing attack with 34 yards on seven tries.
Kelly set up to punt after three ineffective rushes and disaster struck when the snap went over punter Justin Freeman's head and was recovered at the Kelly 4-yard line.
Clintwood scored one play later when Phillips went across the goal line with 6:09 showing on the clock. Blevins kicked the first of his six successful extra-point tries and the Wave was up 7-0.
Kelly's most sustained effort came on its next possession when the Indians took the kickoff at their own 5-yard line and drove the ball to the Clintwood 21.
During the drive Christian hit Wes Parton on a 12-yard pass play and the drive was kept alive when Christian was roughed for a 15-yard penalty on another attempt to hit Parton. Parton led all Kelly receivers with four catches for 35 yards.
When the drive stalled, Christian kicked a 38-yard field goal to bring the Indians to within four at 7-3 with 59 seconds left in the first frame.
CLINTWOOD BREAKS IT OPEN
As the second quarter opened Kelly found itself in the game and still hopeful of getting out of town with a win.
Then the dam broke.
Clintwood went to work and began to churn out yardage and collecting scores.
In the second quarter Clintwood scored four times to effectively put the game out of reach. Phillips scored on runs of 14 and 18 yards with 9:46 and 5:49 showing on the clock respectively.
There was little Kelly could do to stop the attack as nine Greenwave runners teamed up to score five touchdowns while rushing for 289 yards on 42 carries during the game.
"We didn't make a lot of mistakes," Mullins said. "I think we had a face mask penalty or two but overall I thought we played well offensively, defensively and on special teams."
Clintwood went to the air for its next score when Jon Michael Fleming hit Kelly Fleming on a 20-yard halfback pass to make the score 28-3 with 4:25 remaining in the half.
Blevins got in a TD strike of his own with a 7-yard pass to tight end Travis Hicks with 1:27 left in the half and added the kick to make the score 35-3.
Kelly was able to get on the board a final time with a 3-yard run by Brad Collins to make it 35-9 after the kick was blocked with 10:44 remaining in the third quarter.
Phillips scored one last time for the Greenwave on an 11-yard run with 6:08 left in the third quarter. Blevins nailed his final extra point to make it 42-9.
From that point on the game was an effort on the part of Mullins to get his entire squad into the game. The tactic worked with the second unit scoring on a 4-yard run by Kenny Dotson with 2:53 left in the game. John Skinner ran the ball in for the two-point conversion.
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