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Show j Redmem get a breather., take 42-0 ro vit I.JJL i ' ' - , It was bound to happen sooner or later. Tired of that twisting-in-the-gut feeling during those fight games, not to mention the ulcers they've given their faithful fans thusfar, the Cedar Red-men Red-men decided to finally make a game at least look easy. The Carbon Dinos were the 42-0 victims. Leading the way for the Redmen were some J familiar and some new faces. Quarterback David Carter connected for four touchdown passes. Gary Alger rushed for 102 yards and caught two of those four scoring passes. Shane Baggs came up with a nifty interception in-terception and an 18-yard return for a TD. Backup quarterback Kevin Garrett saw his fist action at the signalcaller's position this year, and responed with a 38-yard run for a score. He also nabbed a 4-yard scoring toss from Carter. The Redmen piled up 261 yards on the ground and 370 total yards while allowing the Dinos just 112 for the night. They dominated from the beginning to end, though in varying degrees. The Redmen led 7-0 after one quarter, after Carter's 40-yard screen pass to Alger, who was sprung free thanks to a crushing I bolck by Dave Lopour. One more score was put up in the second period, with Carter connecting with Neil Bladen from the 7-yard line. In most Cedar games thi's year, that would have been the extent of the scoring, but the Redmen had only begun to put arrows in Car bon's fort. Though they only scored once in the third period, the Redmen st epped up thier physical domination of the Dinos. Once more, it was a screen pass that went for a Cedar score, once more that pass went to Alger, and once more Lopour threw the deciding block. After three, it was 22-0 Redmen. The game was essentially over at that point, but CHS scoring wasn't. Carter hit Garrett early in the fourth quarter to make it 29-0, then hanided over the reins to the junior. Garrett, and fellow backup players, came up with a score of their own on Garrett's long run, and the defense threw one in for good measure on Baggs' interception return. Head Coach Dave Jenson was naturally elated with his team's performance. per-formance. "We played good ball in the first half , but just super in th e second. Things just went right for us, or rather we made them go right." The defense, which earned its first shoutout of the year, was giv en the biggest bouquet of Jenson roses . "What can I say about them? Giving up just 112 total yards says it all. We pi ayed a lot of different kids in t he fourth quarter, and that's probably when they got half of their yards." High praise was also direct to the offensive line. "In the second i 4r line completely destroyed their defense." Jenson mentioned several play ers as being outstanding, but had the m .st to say about Garrett. "Kevin's a t Hiper athlete who just needs to gain a b it of experience. He's an excellent qi iar-terback, iar-terback, and he'll be abla to do giwd' things for us next year." Strong on defense were KyJe Kingsford, as always, with 14 tackles', and Shane Baggs and Deinny Harris, , both of whom logged interceptions. This game marked a couple of seasonal milestones for the Redmen. Not only did they get their first shutout, but it was the first time the offense had scored more than 20 points. But more, importantly, Cedar was 6-0, guaranteeing guaran-teeing the most victories ever in a season by a Cedar team since gaining their 3-A status. Cedar tried to make it seven Wednesday Wed-nesday night against the Sprinville Red Devils, the only obstacles that stood between Cedar and a conference championship, which would be another first. Cedar High's Don Adams is all alone as he pulls in a pass from David Carter during the Redmen's 42-0 win over Carbon. With Adams are Neil Bladen (21) and Dirk Lopour (48). |