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Page 12 Raider Football The Lone Tree Reporter, October 4, 2001 Raiders blast L&M Friday59-6 By Ron Rife Staff Writer The Highland (Ainsworth - Riverside) - Lone Tree Raiders started slowly against Louisa - Muscatine Friday night, but picked up steam as the game progressed. The result was a happy Homecoming at Highland with a 59-6 victory for the Raiders. The Raiders were in a battle early in the game as L&M took the opening kickoff and drove deeply into H-LT territory. The defense finally stiffened and the Raiders took over the ball on their own seven yard line. From there Highland - Lone Tree mounted a 15 play drive to put the first points on the board. Mike Poch picked up the score with a 10 yard run. Larry Jones kicked the extra point and it was 7-0 with 3:07 left in the first quarter. Louisa - Muscatine came right back with another good drive, start- ing from its 29. This time the Falcons found the end zone, the touchdown coming on the 8th play of the drive, a 26 yard pass from Hernandez to Riggan. The extra point try failed and it was 7-6 with 0:15 left in the quarter. That was as good as it was going to get for the Falcons. The Raiders returned the kickoff to their 34 and started a five play drive. The big play was a 47 yard pass from Josh Zaruba to Poch that put the Raiders on the 13. After a penalty set them back Zaruba passed to Poch tor 19 yards and the touchdown. Jones kicked the extra point and it was/4-6 with 10:38 left in the half. The Raiders got a short field for their next drive. On L&M's first play Zaruba intercepted a Hemandez pass and H-LT had the ball at the L&M 21. That was one of five turnovers suffered by the Falcons. It was three play drive. Zaruba started it with a 16 yard run and a face mask penalty put the ball at the three. Poch picked up two and then Zaruba went the final yard for the score. The kick failed and it was 20-6 with 9:29 left in the half and stayed at way. The Raiders got the ball for the second time in the second half on another interception, this one by Dustin Lenz pass. Again, the con- version failed and it was 26-6 with 6:56 left in the quarter. The Raiders started their next scoring drive late in the third quarter after stopping L&M at the Raiders 38. Again, it was a five play drive, the big one being a 28 yard "Zaruba to Poch pass. "Zaruba passed for six yard to Adam Rees for the touch- down. A pass for the conversion was incomplete and it was 32-6 with 11:29 left in the game. The Falcons drove into Raiders territory again, but a fumble shut them down. Andrew Varney pounced on the ball at the Raiders 37. On the sixth play Zamba got around end and raced the final 35 yards for the touchdown. Jones kicked the extra point to make the score 39-6 with 6:48 left. The Raiders struck again quickly. On the Falcons first play Rees jumped on a fumble, giving H-LT the ball at the L&M 24. On the second play James Musack rumbled 16 yards for the score. Jones kick made the score 46- 6 with 6:37 remaining. Again, Raider lightning struck quickly. On second and four Scott Klemp inter- cepted a pass and dashed 25 yards to score. John Hansen kicked the extra point making it 53-6 with 5:07 left. In 1:41 the Raiders had put 21 points on the board. Highland - Lone Tree's last possession started at the 50. Once again it took five plays. Justin Neuzil scored on a 17 yard to to end the game with ! :27 Icft. There was no conveion try. "We scored 33 points in the tburth quarter'?" said Raiders coach Dan Dickel. It wasn't as if they were trying to run up the score. Reserves played most of the quarter. It was just one of those snowballs that started downhill and kept rolling. "This was another team victory. Now comes October and the four most important games are ahead. Seniors, you are over halfway through your senior year. We did a lot of good things tonight, but we need .to get better. Mediapolis is next and they are a good passing team," Dickel told the team after the game. Alter the team had filed to the locker room he said " This was a good night to get through. We have a good offense, but the detnse still ha a ways to go." The Raiders racked up 21 first downs. They had a net of 338 yards on 54 rushes, threw 12 passes, com- pleted eight with no interceptions and gained 138 yards. They were penalized five times for 65 yards. Zaruba was the leading ball carrier with 97 yards in 12 carries. Poch was the leading receiver with three catches for 94 yards. "You know," Dickel said, "neither of our tail- backs scored tonight, but others took up the slack." Louisa - Muscatine had 15 first downs, a net of 103 yards on 24 rushes, threw 31 passes, completed 12, had three intercepted, and gained 120 yards. They were penal- ized five times for 43 yards and lost two of three fumbles. 2A o,=.mc, 8 ] | Highland - Lone Tree 2-1 4-1 I | New London - Danville 2-1 4-1 I | Sigourney- Keota 3-0 5-0 I I W.Burl. -Notre Dame 2-1 4-1 | | Davis County 2-1 4-1 | I Louisa-Muscatine 0-3, 1-4 | I Eddyville - Blakesburg I-2 1-4 | | Mediapolis 0-3 0-5 | I La, st Week's Results| I Highland (Ainsworth- I I Riverside) - Lone Tree 59, I | Louisa- Muscatine 6 | | * New London - Danville 14. J | Mediapolis 8 I I • Sigouruey - Keota 49. Davis | I County 6 I I ° West Burlington - Notre | | Dame 25, Eddyville - | I Blakesburg 18 | Ii T__his Week's Game I I | • Highland- Lone Tree at I I Mediapolis I " L & M at Eddyville - Blakes. : I " Sig. - Keota at N.L - Dan. I LW_. 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