Kosy ends season with 42-22 loss

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November 5, 2008

By Austin Bishop The Star Herald Wed Nov 05, 2008, 10:07 AM CST

Sometimes football can be a simple game of mathematics.

The Kosciusko-West Lauderdale game on Friday night was one of those times.

When a team puts up 531 yards of total offense and never has to punt, that team is usually going to win.

"They ran the speed sweep over and over and over," Kosciusko head coach Trey Rolison said of West Lauderdale's brutal rushing attack that saw the Knights defeated his Whippets 42-22. "And when we finally put enough guys over there to slow that down, they countered it with something else.

"They have a good football team and are a very sound, disciplined football team."

The game was tied 14-14 at the end of the first quarter, but from there the West Lauderdale offense just took control.

"Overall, we played decent," Rolison said of the play of his Whippets. "But we were singing the same song we've sung all year. We will move the ball and then start to sputter."

And while the Kosy offense was sputtering, the West Lauderdale attack just kept on clicking.

The win pushed the visiting Knights to 7-3 on the year and sets them up to host Clarksdale in the first round of the MHSAA Class 4A Playoffs on Friday night.

The season is over for Kosciusko, which ends the year at 3-7.

"We got the two scores early, then picked up one late," Rolison said. "I wasn't going to take my starters out. Most of them were seniors and I wanted them to play as long as they could."

It didn't take West Lauderdale long to get into the endzone, as it used a five-play drive following the opening kickoff to go up 7-0 on a 23-yard run by Darren Farmer, who finished the night with 122 of the Knights' 436 rushing yards. Micah McKee kicked all six of WL's extra points.

Kosy responded quickly, scoring on its first possession with John Kern scoring on a 22-yard run. Chris Duncan's kick tied the game at 7-7.

WL quickly retook the lead at 14-7 on a 6-yard pass from Nate Hodges to Jordan Linton.

Rolison then used a little trickery to help his Whippets tie the game.

On fourth down the Whippets faked a field goal, with Tommy Lewis scoring on a 14-yard run. "He actually fumbled the ball," Rolison. "But he was able to pick it up and run it in."

From there, West took over, scoring two second-quarter touchdowns — a 6-yard run by Joseph Grubb and a 9-yard pass from Hodges to Darius Wren — to take a 28-14 halftime lead.

Grubb scored on a 5-yard run in the third quarter for the winners, while Wren scored from 16 yards out in the fourth to help WL build a 42-14 advantage.

The last Kosy touchdown of the season came on a 27-yard run by Corvan Greer.

Greer finished the night with 11 rushing yards on 21 carries, while Kern had 12 attempts for 56 yards. Greer hit on 5-of-11 passes for 63 yards,while Lewis had two catches for 41 yards and Dylan Parker, Chris Duncan and Chris Kern had one catch each.

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