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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Crawfordsville senior Jordan Boykin gets brought down by a Southmont’s Scott Paris and Dennie Brown.
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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Southmont assistant coach Jon Sparks and junior quarterback Logan Petry celebrate the Mounties’ win. |
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Friday
At Crawfordsville
Southmont 21, Crawfordsville 14
Southmont 7 0 7 7 – 21
Crawfordsville 7 0 7 0 – 14
Scoring
First quarter: S – Logan Petry 27 run (Curtis Rose kick), 10:40; C – Craig Fairley 4 run (Matt Mummert kick), 3:51
Third
quarter: C – Brett McKinney 11 pass to Jordan Boykin (Matt Mummert
kick), 8:17; S – Micah Hatch 1 run (Curtis Rose kick), 1:37
Fourth quarter: S – Logan Petry 1 run (Curtis Rose kick), 3:14
Team statistics S C
First downs 13 15
Rushes (yds.) 47-177 32-73
Passing 6-9-62-0-1 17-23-173-0-2
Total yards 239 246
Fumbles (lost) 1-0 0-0
Penalties (yds.) 7-56 4-37
Records: Southmont 4-5 (3-4 SAC), Crawfordsville 4-5 (4-3 SAC)
Individual statistics
Rushing:
Southmont – Logan Petry 19-71, Tanner Hill 9-45, Micah Hatch 11-40,
Jordan Burkett 8-21. Crawfordsville – Craig Fairley 20-70, Adrian
Rankin 7-26, Jordan Boykin 1-4, Brett McKinney 4-(-27).
Passing: Southmont – Logan Petry 6-9-62-0-1. Crawfordsville – Brett McKinney 17-23-162-0-2.
Receiving:
Southmont – Micah Hatch 3-46, Jordan Burkett 2-10, Scott Paris 1-6.
Crawfordsville – Brett Linn 6-89, Jordan Boykin 10-80, Adrian Rankin
1-4.
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Reprinted Courtesy of:
The Paper of Montgomery County
www.thepaper24-7.com
By John Groth
Sports Editor
Desson Hannum’s guiding Southmont High School football program on a history-making run.
They’re running all over Sagamore Athletic Conference opponents, making ****** defensive stops and earning plenty of respect.
After
Friday night’s Montgomery County and conference clash against
Crawfordsville, they sent a message. They’re not the doormat anymore.
Southmont
junior quarterback Logan Petry scored on a one-yard quarterback sneak
with under four minutes remaining and junior Jordan Burkett had two
late fourth-quarter interceptions to seal the Mounties’ 21-14 win over
county- and conference rival Crawfordsville.
“We’re trying to
change some of our history here,” said Hannum, the Mounties’
second-year coach who won his first county game in four tries. “People
used to look at us in the past and said ‘we’re going to come in here
and beat Southmont.’ We’re not like that anymore.”
Southmont
(4-5, 3-4 SAC) closed its regular season on a three-game winning streak
– defeating conference rivals Frankfort, Western Boone and
Crawfordsville – and now has tons of momentum heading into next
Friday’s Indiana High School Athletic Association sectional game
against Greencastle. It’s the most wins for the Mounties since they had
six in 2003.
They’ve knocked off the Athenians two of the past three years.
In 2006, Southmont upset Crawfordsville to earn its lone victory that year. In 2008, it’s turned into a different story.
It’s
the Mounties looking like the headstrong time heading IHSAA sectional
play and the Athenians (4-5, 4-3 SAC) are the ones on the slide –
losing their final three regular-season games and four out of their
last five.
Southmont controlled the ground game – rushing for 177 yards on 47 carries – and limited Crawfordsville’s rushing attack.
The
Mounties slowed down junior running back Craig Fairley (20 rushes, 70
yards) and held him to his lowest yardage total all season.
Although
senior quarterback Brett McKinney completed 17-of-23 passes for 162
yards and a touchdown against Southmont’s defense, they put pressure
and blitzed him up the middle all night long – forcing him to throw
mainly short passes and two costly interceptions in the final three
minutes.
“Their middle blitzes affected our running game and
passing protection,” Crawfordsville coach Rex Ryker said. “Simple
inside blitzes won the game for Southmont.”
Petry scored two touchdowns – including on a 27-yard run on the third play of the game – and rushed for 71 yards.
But his most important play came on the final drive.
Tied
at 14-14 midway through the fourth quarter, he along with junior
running backs Tanner Hill and Burkett and sophomore running back Micah
Hatch, led the Mounties on an 11-play, 70-yard scoring drive. They ate
up rushing yards, picking up five to six a carry, and clock.
Petry
capped it with a one-yard plunge up the middle and Southmont had a
21-14 lead with 3:14 to play. Then, the Mounties’ defense created
havoc. They pressured McKinney on a third-and-five at the
Crawfordsville 38 and he lofted a pass into Burkett’s hands.
After Southmont was forced to punt, Crawfordsville had one last chance with under 50 seconds remaining.
Two
plays later, senior wide receiver Jordan Boykin tipped up McKinney’s
pass and it ended up flying into a waiting Burkett to close out the win.
“I
was in the right spot at the right time,” Burkett said. “Before the
second half I was nervous. I couldn’t get [the nerves] out. You figure
your nerves would be gone after the first half. It’s extremely awesome
to beat a county rival like that. Winning our past three games, we feel
real confident going into sectionals.”
Hannum agreed – and he finally has the Mounties believing, too.
“We
need the confidence more than anything,” he said. “Winning three weeks
in a row gives us confidence and validity to what we’re doing. I
thought we were the aggressive team.”
As for Crawfordsville, Ryker hopes he can fix the Athenians’ woes before their sectional game at West Vigo next week.
“We’ve
had two emotional weeks and come out on the bottom of the bottom,” he
said. “We have to make sure we pull together and not get the loser
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