Riverheads/Bruton

[CMONVT]

Gladiators roll 49-0. It's hard to get excited about play a 16 seed team and sending them back home for a long bus ride. No disrespect to those teams, but does anyone else have a problem with playIng these type game or is VHSL out to make money?

 

[ShenValleyGuy]

Waynesboro was a 16 seed in d 3 and went to #1 Hidden Valley and won. Better to take too many than not enough.

 

[CMONVT]

Wow, eat my words but great for Waynesboro and Coach McDaniel. However the majority of games are blowouts. Waynesboro has done a 180 this season,

 

[longtimerhsfan]

With so many important games played tonight, I am not going to spend my usual amount of time on ours. So I will just hit the highlights.

The story tonight was that the Big Red won this one by scoring in a variety of ways instead of relying just on their running game as they usually do. For example, the first five touchdowns were scored by the dependable trio of Ben Agnor, Landon Diehl, and Cole Smiley, but only Smiley's two TD's came from scrimmage runs. Agnor scored his only TD through the air and in fact caught a number of key passes to keep drives alive, and Diehl's two scores came from returning the opening kickoff 90 yards and on a 29 yard TD pass.

Quarterback Kendall Casto of course tossed the two TD passes but also proved hard to bring down on the half dozen times that he called his own number. After those five TDs put the game out of reach, the Gladiators subbed heavily and the final two scores came within 30 seconds of each other in the fourth quarter. First reserve running back Harrison Schaefer faked out about half the defense on a 25-yard TD run and on Bruton's very next play, Garrett Campbell returned a pick six for about 40 yards to account for the final Riverheads score. Place kicker Tristan Robson continued his excellent year with a perfect 7 for 7 night.

The Gladiator defense bottled Bruton up all night, to the point that the Panthers didn't have more than three or four plays that went for more than 10 yards, and their deepest penetration of the night was just inside the RHS 30. If they completed a pass all night, I don't remember it as Riverheads rolled to its second shutout of the season.

RHS will be at home again next week to take on # 9 seed King William and from the forecast, it sadly doesn't look like it will be much warmer then. While waiting for that big event, Big Red fans will turn their attention to their also undefeated Lady Gladiators volleyball team, which is hosting Luray for the regional title Saturday night, with both teams already having earned a berth in next week's State Final Four. If they can knock off the Lady Bulldogs Saturday, Riverheads will host a state semi-final on Tuesday.