After a week off, the Copper Basin Cougar football team regrouped to break a three game losing streak by defeating the Marion County Warriors 41-18 at Cougar Stadium.
COUGARS GET BACK ON WINNING TRACK
By Danny Rogers
After a week off, the Copper Basin Cougar football team regrouped to
break a three game losing streak by defeating the Marion County Warriors 41-18
at Cougar Stadium. The Basin offense, which had been almost dormant in its last
three outings, returned to its early season form. The Cougars rushed for 349 yards on 39 carries and passed for
another 114 in defeating a young Warrior team which started 6 freshmen.
Denzel Brown had his finest
performance of the season, rushing for 135 yards on just 11 carries and scoring
4 touchdowns. Senior Blake Satterfield also turned in a sterling performance,
rushing for 88 yards on 6 carries and snagging 5 passes for 78 yards and a
score. Dylan Boggs got the other Basin score on the receiving end of a
touchdown pass. Senior quarterback Matt Ray completed six of 11 attempts with 2
touchdowns and rushed for 65 yards on 12 carries.
The Basin defense was very opportunistic recovering 5 Warrior fumbles
and making several tackles for losses in key situations. Justin Vazquez pounced
on two loose balls while Levi Franklin, Daniel Brooks, and Britton Kennedy also
recovered fumbles.
Marion’s Blake Zeman led the Warriors with 158 yards rushing on 15
attempts and scored one of the two Warrior touchdowns. Quarterback Hamilton
Shoemaker scored the other Warrior touchdown on a 7 yard run.
With the win, the Cougars lifted their 2011 record to 3-5. They can
close out the season with a .500 record but face tough challenges at home
against Lookout Valley and state ranked Boyd Buchanan in the remaining two
weeks.
The Warriors received the opening kickoff and drove to the Basin 24 yard
line where they coughed up the football with Franklin falling on it for Basin.
Brown opened Basin’s first scoring drive with a 15-yard run. Satterfield gained
21 on the next play putting the ball at the Warrior 48. Ray gained 8 and then Satterfield
broke loose for a 43-yard jaunt to the Marion 1. Brown scored on the next play
and with the PAT the score was 7-0 Basin with 7:09 remaining in the first
quarter. Marion could not sustain a drive on their next possession and after
losing the ball on downs at their own 49, they saw the Cougars sustain their
second scoring drive. Brown gained 5, Boggs gained 4 and Boggs ran for 4 more
giving Basin a first down at the Warrior 36. A penalty put the ball back on the
42 and Ray hit Stephen Spargo for 6 to the 36. On the next play Ray spotted
Satterfield open down the field and hit him with a 36 yard scoring pass. The
PAT made the score 14-0 in the waning seconds of the first quarter.
Marion County returned the ensuing kickoff to the 47 and drove the ball
all the way to the Basin 2 yard line. But the Cougar defense stiffened and held
the Warriors out of the end zone on fourth down. Basin took over at that point
but two false starts the ball inside the 1 and the Warrior defense came up with
a safety to make the score 14-2 with 5:14 left in the first half. After
receiving the free kick, the Warriors were forced to punt from their own 32 and
Basin took possession at its 27. Brown ran for 4 and Ray hit Satterfield for 7
more and a first down. After a 3-yard loss, Ray hit Satterfield on a 35 yard
pass down to the warrior 30. Spargo caught a pass for 3 yards and on second
down from the 27 Ray spotted Boggs downfield and the result was a touchdown.
With the PAT the score became 21-2 Basin as the first half ended.
Neither team could do anything with the football on their first two
possessions of the second half, and Basin took possession on the Marion 43
after Vazquez pounced on a Warrior fumble. Brown gained 5 on first down and
then broke loose on the next play, outracing the Marion secondary to the end
zone for a 38-yard touchdown. The PAT made it 28-2 with 3:58 left in the third
quarter. The Warriors scored on their next possession, driving 67 yards in 5
plays, with the help of an excellent kickoff return and a personal foul penalty
against the Cougars. Shoemaker gained 10 for a first down at the Basin 24. A
holding penalty put the ball back to the 34, but Shoemaker gained 7 and then
hit Eric Qualls for a 19-yard gain to the Cougar 8. Zeman went the final 8
yards for the Warrior touchdown and with the 2 point PAT the score was 28-10
with 1:43 left in the third quarter.
After a Cougar drive ended with an interception, the Warriors coughed up
still another fumble on their own 34 with Kennedy falling on it as the third
quarter ended. On Basin’s first play, Brown again outraced the Warrior
secondary to the end zone and with the PAT Basin’s lead was 35-10 with 10:48
left in the game. After an exchange of punts Basin took possession on their own
32, but was unable to move the ball. A bad snap on the punt attempt on fourth
down gave the Warriors the ball on the Basin 9, and Shoemaker scored two plays
later from the 7. With the 2 point PAT the score was 35-18 Basin with 5:15 left
in the game.
The
Cougars scored on their next possession after recovering an onside kickoff
attempt by Marion at the Warrior 48. Boggs gained 6 and Ray ran for 8 and 14
and a first down at the Marion 24. Boggs gained 5 and Ray 1. Satterfield gained
10 to the 13, and Brown scored his fourth TD of the night from that point with
1:44 left in the game. The PAT was no good and the score was Basin 41, Marion
County 18. Brooks ended Marion’s final drive of the night as he recovered still
another Warrior bobble.
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