www.jconline.com Jour nal Courier D3 DELPHI Since the third grade, Avery Denhart and Ben Tharp have developed a super glue-type bond as quarterback and receiver. In season opener at elphi, that connection con- inued to thrive. Denhart threw hree touchdown passes all to Tharp as the Class 2A second- anked Knights cruised to a 47-0 victory at Berto Field. been best friends since before aid Tharp, who caught five of passes for 122 yards. We started playing out in the backyard and two-hand touch to now.
great to have him out TD passes covered 54, 17 and 36 yards as Cent ral Catholic built a 26-0 lead after one quarter. Denhart estimated thrown nearly 40 touchdowns to Tharp, starting in Little Gridiron and through- ut middle school. Tharp caught 17 passes last year, but none were touchdowns. Since both sopho- ores, expect more big plays in the future. In eighth grade we had a whole said Denhart, who was 11of 18 for 170 yards.
hitch and go was our go-to route, and ever since, een hooking up on It was just simple fade routes against the Oracles, who also ad to pay attention to Jackson Anthrop. The junior scored a air of touchdowns, including a 74-yard gallop on second play from scrimmage. one thing learned over the last couple of ears is that having that guy in the backfield they have to honor makes the passing game that much Knights coach evin said. have to honor an Anthrop. If you ou saw what happened on the second The Oracles saw too many big plays from the Knights.
Coach Josh offense find any room against stingy defense, despite running more plays in the first quarter. Delphi exits the opener looking for more leadership, and Strasser knows there. one thing we came into camp looking for and till looking for Strasser aid. have some young guys hat are waiting for somebody to step up. a lot of great layers and some winners on this team, but waiting on omebody to step up and lead eanwhile, the Knights produced nearly 200 yards in the irst quarter on nine plays and punt until late in the first half.
CC also scored a defensive touchdown when Jacob Page ret urned an interception 52 yards. Prior to kickoff, Delphi hon- red former coach Tony Berto with a moment of silence. Berto, 93, guided the program for 33 years. He died Thursday. CENTRAL CATHOLIC 47, DELPHI 0 Denhart-Tharp duo leads Knights MICHAEL COURIER Central Catholic running back Jackson Anthrop looks to get past Treavor Cox.
Sophom*ores link up on three touchdown passes in easy win By Mike Carmin AT JCONLINE.COM Look for a photo gallery from Mike Heinz. The outcome was the same, but there was something differ- nt about this one. or the fourth straight year, Westfield opened its season with a victory over Harrison, his one a 35-14 win Friday night at A.J. Rickard Field. The difference between this game and the last couple openers? Harrison was excited about the football season pening under new head coach Terry Peebles.
The kids played hard, but hey just played against a very good Peebles said. When you make mistakes against a very good team, they are going to capitalize on it and they did tonight. kids fought hard and were still fighting at the end of the game. They stuck to it and played hard. That is what I am appy with.
I am not happy with the execution and the he game did not look like the No. 2 ranked team in Class 5A against a team with the long- st losing streak (37) in the state. After Westfield took a 7-0 lead in the first quarter on 24- yard scoring pass from Ryan epiot to Milo Beam, the Harris on offense got untracked in the second quarter. The first touch- own was set up by a 45-yard pass completion from JDan Sturgeon to Jeep Morehouse to he Westfield 5. Two plays later, Sturgeon found Daniel Land in the back of the end zone for the arrison score.
Silas Jensen added the extra point to tie it at 7 -7 with 9:10 left in the half. arrison had an opportunity to score late in the quarter hen Seth Meyer picked off a Pepiot pass and returned it to the Westfield 24. After two sacks, the Raiders faced a third-and-21from the 35. Sturgeon found Dan Wright on a screen pass and he picked his way through the defense to core what looked like the go- ahead touchdown. But, a penalty nullified the touchdown and he Jensen missed a 23-yard field goal.
Westfield responded by riving the length of the field and scoring on a 43-yard pass from Pepiot to Nick Henderson. That gave the Shamrocks a 1 4-7 halftime lead. We had our opportunities in the first Peebles said. should have been winning a halftime. When you go in winning at halftime, it changes the momentum.
The tide hanged after they Westfield built a 35-7 lead before Harrison got on the coreboard with 1:45 left. Morehouse hauled in a 17-yard coring pass from Sturgeon. I think we did a lot better job than we used to do against said Mike Kern, who plays offensive tackle and nose guard. should have lost 35-28. We got into the red zone twice and score.
feel like we are a lot better than last epiot threw for 237 yards and two touchdowns. Sturgeon threw for 155 yards and orehouse had eight receptions for 114 yards. WESTFIELD 35, HARRISON 13 Same result, better effort for Harrison By Dana McBratney For the Journal Courier Moffett and a fumble recovery Lukas Robinson that set up he final touchdown. I told the kids at halftime, the team that wins this is the eam not going to rauhiger said. I really thought our kids did a nice job not giving up, not dropping their heads when bad things happened.
Because there were several bad things that happened tonight and they other us. We just kept play- i Elming carried 33 times for 163 yards, including a 70-yard un to set up irst touchdown. Zionsville quarterbacks Drew Bertram and Trevor Liechty combined or 211passing yards on 40 attempts, but the Mavericks held Eagle runners to 97 yards on 29 carries. I look at us as trickery I look at us as trying to find a ay to move the football and core Echeverria said. a big, physical football team over there; a very well- oached team.
They were stuff- i ng the run on us a little bit, so we had to try to get some stuff going in the passing game. I felt like they did a great job on us, but we left a lot of opportunities out there on the ionsville quarterback Trev or Liechty hooked up with Eddie Mattingly on a 58-yard touchdown play to take a 13-7 ead in the third quarter, but the agles went for the two-point conversion and were denied. On the second play of the en- uing McCutcheon series, Loveless took a short pass from Aaron Phillips and raced 62 yards for the touchdown. Robi nson recovered a fumble on he next Zionsville series, and hillips found Cole Jarrard for a 8-yard touchdown pass on hird-and-goal to cap a 10-play scoring drive. A fter taking the 21-13 lead, he Mavericks allow Zionsville inside their 30-yard line.
defense was really focused on running against that McCutcheon senior defensive lineman James opkins said. was talking to a couple of the other D-linemen, and we said that was probably the toughest no-huddle hat run against. That as our main goal coming in, and I think we executed it pretty MAVS Continued from Page D1 when he was in the end Kennedy said, still ready to de- ate the point after the game. that was up to interpretation and put us in a tough spot on the half-yard ennedy said the Bronchos did not respond well after the safety. If we come out and get a stop, it would have affected the shifting Kennedy aid.
kind of fell apart at the end. If able to march down and score to make it 2 7-21, things are different and your body language and charis- a is different. We just have to et mentally The contest was ended with a little more than three minutes left to play when Jeff senior Austin McGreevy suffered what appeared to be a neck injury. He laid on the field for about 20 minutes until trainers and emergency personnel stabilized him and loaded him onto a ambulance. Kennedy said because of privacy rules he could only say hat McGreevy will be receiving further evaluation.
Jeff stunned Whiteland on i ts first drive of the game when Ricksy wiggled free and raced for a 51-yard touchdown on the seventh play from scrimmage to take a quick 7-0 lead. It was the first of two ouchdowns for Ricksy. I was a tale of two halves or Jeff quarterback Brandon awlik, who completed his irst eight passes but ended up throwing four interceptions. finished the night 13 for 26 or 120 yards. The Warriors responded to first score by going 89 yards on nine plays, sparked by a22-yard pass from Jace Carpenter to Isaiah Calaway and a Cloud 27-yard run.
Carpenter inished off the drive with a 1- ard run with 4:04 left in the first quarter to knot the score at 7-all. hiteland took the lead for ood on its next possession when Anthony Schanz scored from 9 yards out. I was a highlight-film inter- eption, but Daniel one-handed pickoff seemed to work against the Lafayette Jeff ronchos in their 43-14 loss to Whiteland in the season opener at Scheumann Stadium Friday ight. The Warriors, who were 9-3 a year ago, came in as the No. 5 -ranked team in Class 5A.
But Jeff had its chances for the ups et before things unraveled in the third quarter. With Jeff down 27-14, Rick- sy made a circus catch of Jace pass with less than a minute left in the third quarter at the goal line that carried him into the nd zone, denying Whiteland a score. The referees ruled his orward progress was at the 1-yard line. Jeff coach Andy Kennedy bitterly disagreed. lost the argument.
Whiteland defenders tackled Ricksy in the end zone for a safety two plays later, and after receiving the free kick from the Bronchos, the Warriors cored again on a 63-yard ouchdown run by Shaw Cloud put the game out of reach. Their guy just made one eck of a acknowledged Whiteland coach Darrin Fishe r. the old days, actually, hat would have been a safety catching the ball at the 1-yard line, so at least that gave them the ball at the one, but being able to get the safety a couple of plays later was a big momentum-changing ennedy agreed that the ser ies of events was momentum- changing, but disagreed with the way it was interpreted. He caught the ball above is head, so he have full possession of it until he pulled it into his stomach, and WHITELAND 43, LAFAYETTE JEFF 14 Bronchos fall short in opener Upset bid loses its momentum on odd turn ofevents By Clyde Hughes For the Journal Courier.
