The Red Devils offense put on a show at Rash Stadium under the Friday night lights, bouncing back from a tough week four loss by defeating Breckinridge County 58-8.
Having recovered an onside kick to start the game, it only took Owensboro two plays to get on the board. The first pass was from senior quarterback to senior Ethan Pendleton for 20 yards, before senior Khalil Rogers caught the next ball towards the sideline and took it to the endzone for a 28-yard touchdown and a 7-0 lead in the first 30 seconds of the game.
After a short drive for the Fighting Tigers, Boone quickly led the Red Devils downfield again. This time it was Pendleton who got the touchdown, catching it and taking it 10 yards to earn a 14-0 lead with 6:35 left in the first.
Following a pick by junior Javion Robinson on the ensuing drive, the Red Devils kept piling it on with a 34-yard rushing touchdown from senior Kenyatta Carbon to take a 21-0 lead with 4:23 left in the first quarter. Carbon got another rushing touchdown less than a minute later, taking one 47 yards to build Owensboro’s lead to 28-0.
The Red Devils didn’t stop there either, getting a 42-yard touchdown reception from Pendleton on the following drive. After the two-point conversion, Owensboro led 36-0 with 1:47 left in the first quarter and kickstarted the running clock.
After silencing Breckinridge County’s offense once again in the second quarter, Carbon got back to work. Following a nice punt return from Rogers, Carbon took the handoff 19 yards for his third touchdown and a 43-0 lead with 7:32 left in the first half.
Running clock took the game to halftime, but the Red Devils wasted no time getting right back to work offensively. After Robinson’s second pick of the game on the Fighting Tigers first play of the second half, it was sophomore Deion Winstead who took a handoff 55 yards to give them a 50-0 lead with 10:16 left in the third quarter.
Sophomore quarterback Trevor DeLacey got in on the action during the next drive, taking it himself two yards and pairing it with a two-point conversion to grab a 58-0 lead going into the fourth. Breckinridge County did get a touchdown and a two-point conversion late in the fourth quarter to get on the board, but it was too little too late as Owensboro wrapped up a 58-8 home win to move to 3-2 overall.
“I thought we came out and did what we needed to do tonight,” Fallin said. “We knew that this was going to be kind of a situation where we were probably going to be in a running clock at some point during the game and that if everything went well that it might be by halftime. We needed to come out and execute and take care of business.”
Boone was perfect on the night passing, going 5-5 for 90 yards and two touchdowns with Pendleton grabbing the two touchdowns and 52 total yards. Carbon led the way out of the backfield with 102 rushing yards and three touchdowns on four carries, while Winstead and DeLacey both had rushing touchdowns as well.
Fallin was pleased with his team’s ability to execute offensively, not giving up turnovers, limiting penalties and putting the game out of reach when the opportunity arose.
“We felt like we were going to have some athletic mismatches that we were going to be able to expose as well as some things that we could do with our scheme,” Fallin said. “Kasey got the ball where it needed to be when it needed to be there early and Kenyatta was running well and the offensive line was blocking. We executed and that was the result.”
The Red Devils felt like they had a great week of practice following last week’s loss to Owensboro Catholic, as Fallin said last week was very sobering for everyone. However, Fallin knows that they need another great week to continue to improve, as they’ll take a look at the film and fine tune some things before hosting Ohio County at 7 p.m.
“Just gotta come to work hard everyday and come to play hard every Friday night,” Fallin said. “There’s a million little things that go into it. They gotta care enough to do it all the right way and that’s everything from practice, to film, to taking care of their bodies, to class, to school, the decisions they make when they’re not with us. It all matters if you want to play at the level we want to play.”
