September 12, 2020 at 5:18 a.m.
Surge in the second
Jets capitalize on Jay miscues to score 28 points in second quarter
Surge in the second
MONROE — A couple miscues compounded quickly.
And the Jets, who were able to move the ball at will, turned the Patriot mistakes into points just as fast.
The Jay County High School football team failed to recover a squib kick and later fumbled on another kickoff return which led to a 28-point second quarter in a 48-7 loss to the Class A No. 8 Adams Central Jets on Friday at The Landing Strip at Minnich Field in the Allen County Athletic Conference opener for both teams.
“We’ve got to stop compounding things,” said JCHS coach Tim Millspaugh, whose team allowed 28 points in the second quarter last season as well in a 46-6 loss to the Jets in Portland. “It just seems like when we start to have some mistakes, they compound and all the sudden … it just unravels.”
“Our special teams, that was very disappointing with the fumble. On the onside kick, I don’t know if that was an intended onside. It couldn’t have been placed any better. But our kids have to react to that and they didn’t. We have to get those things corrected.”
The Patriots (0-4, 0-1 ACAC) have now allowed 41 or more points in each game this season.
Adams Central (3-1, 1-0 ACAC), scored twice in the first quarter, once on a Mason DeRoo 6-yard touchdown following the first of two Jay County turnovers.
The Patriots then drove down to the Jets’ 35, but a fourth-and-11 pass attempt fell incomplete. Adams Central scored seven plays later on a Blake Heyerly 23-yard scamper to go up 14-0 with 11.1 seconds to play in the frame.
The Jets squibbed the ensuing kick toward the left side of the field and Gavin Cook jumped on the loose ball at the JCHS 35.
Five plays later, ACHS sophomore quarterback Ryan Black connected with Nick Neuenschwander for a 16-yard score, the first of four TDs in the frame.
Alex Currie found the end zone from 28 yards out, Heyerly crossed the goal line for a 6-yard TD.
DeRoo broke loose at the JCHS 35 yard line for a 50-yard touchdown with 10.6 seconds before halftime as the Jets treated their sparse homecoming crowd because of COVID to a 42-0 lead at intermission.
“We lost two starters early in the game,” Millspaugh said. “When we lose starters, those guys that are coming in, they are really young, really inexperienced or both. When you’re playing a really, really good football team that’s big, strong (and) physical … that’s a tall order to ask of those kids.”
Cook capped Adams Central’s scoring for the night with an 11-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter as the Jets put up 48 points to begin the game.
Adams Central finished with 303 rushing yards, marking the third straight game opponents have rushed for 300 or more yards against Jay County — Norwell rushed for 298 yards back on Aug. 21, a 41-0 win in Ossian.
Jay County broke the shutout early in the fourth quarter by catching the Adams Central defense a bit off guard. The Patriots, who had noticed by then the Jet defensive line was spreading out, ran six straight plays up the middle to start a drive which began at their own 35. Bailey Cox covered 36 yards on those plays, then ran it once more for a 2-yard gain.
The drive was kept alive by a defensive pass interference call on fourth-and-10, and after two more plays up the middle the Patriots were on the 5 yard line.
With the Adams Central defensive line packed tightly, JCHS quarterback Sam Dunlavy pulled a potential handoff and kept it himself on a bootleg, reaching the end zone for the touchdown before drawing contact.
“I think it’s big simply because we have not been in the end zone,” Millspaugh said of the morale boost in scoring even though the Patriots trailed 48-0 at that point. “The big thing, you have to establish a line of scrimmage. It doesn’t matter what offense we’re in, if we can’t win the line of scrimmage it’s going to be tough.
“I do think the kids rallied around that.”
It was just the second touchdown this season for the Patriots, who also reached the end zone in a 47-8 loss to Huntington North two weeks ago.
Cox carried the ball 19 times for 55 hard-earned yards.
Heyerly was Adams Central’s leading rusher with 86 yards and two touchdowns on just eight carries, as eight Jets registered at least three carries.
“It’s a well-oiled machine,” Millspaugh said of the Jet offense.
And the Jets, who were able to move the ball at will, turned the Patriot mistakes into points just as fast.
The Jay County High School football team failed to recover a squib kick and later fumbled on another kickoff return which led to a 28-point second quarter in a 48-7 loss to the Class A No. 8 Adams Central Jets on Friday at The Landing Strip at Minnich Field in the Allen County Athletic Conference opener for both teams.
“We’ve got to stop compounding things,” said JCHS coach Tim Millspaugh, whose team allowed 28 points in the second quarter last season as well in a 46-6 loss to the Jets in Portland. “It just seems like when we start to have some mistakes, they compound and all the sudden … it just unravels.”
“Our special teams, that was very disappointing with the fumble. On the onside kick, I don’t know if that was an intended onside. It couldn’t have been placed any better. But our kids have to react to that and they didn’t. We have to get those things corrected.”
The Patriots (0-4, 0-1 ACAC) have now allowed 41 or more points in each game this season.
Adams Central (3-1, 1-0 ACAC), scored twice in the first quarter, once on a Mason DeRoo 6-yard touchdown following the first of two Jay County turnovers.
The Patriots then drove down to the Jets’ 35, but a fourth-and-11 pass attempt fell incomplete. Adams Central scored seven plays later on a Blake Heyerly 23-yard scamper to go up 14-0 with 11.1 seconds to play in the frame.
The Jets squibbed the ensuing kick toward the left side of the field and Gavin Cook jumped on the loose ball at the JCHS 35.
Five plays later, ACHS sophomore quarterback Ryan Black connected with Nick Neuenschwander for a 16-yard score, the first of four TDs in the frame.
Alex Currie found the end zone from 28 yards out, Heyerly crossed the goal line for a 6-yard TD.
DeRoo broke loose at the JCHS 35 yard line for a 50-yard touchdown with 10.6 seconds before halftime as the Jets treated their sparse homecoming crowd because of COVID to a 42-0 lead at intermission.
“We lost two starters early in the game,” Millspaugh said. “When we lose starters, those guys that are coming in, they are really young, really inexperienced or both. When you’re playing a really, really good football team that’s big, strong (and) physical … that’s a tall order to ask of those kids.”
Cook capped Adams Central’s scoring for the night with an 11-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter as the Jets put up 48 points to begin the game.
Adams Central finished with 303 rushing yards, marking the third straight game opponents have rushed for 300 or more yards against Jay County — Norwell rushed for 298 yards back on Aug. 21, a 41-0 win in Ossian.
Jay County broke the shutout early in the fourth quarter by catching the Adams Central defense a bit off guard. The Patriots, who had noticed by then the Jet defensive line was spreading out, ran six straight plays up the middle to start a drive which began at their own 35. Bailey Cox covered 36 yards on those plays, then ran it once more for a 2-yard gain.
The drive was kept alive by a defensive pass interference call on fourth-and-10, and after two more plays up the middle the Patriots were on the 5 yard line.
With the Adams Central defensive line packed tightly, JCHS quarterback Sam Dunlavy pulled a potential handoff and kept it himself on a bootleg, reaching the end zone for the touchdown before drawing contact.
“I think it’s big simply because we have not been in the end zone,” Millspaugh said of the morale boost in scoring even though the Patriots trailed 48-0 at that point. “The big thing, you have to establish a line of scrimmage. It doesn’t matter what offense we’re in, if we can’t win the line of scrimmage it’s going to be tough.
“I do think the kids rallied around that.”
It was just the second touchdown this season for the Patriots, who also reached the end zone in a 47-8 loss to Huntington North two weeks ago.
Cox carried the ball 19 times for 55 hard-earned yards.
Heyerly was Adams Central’s leading rusher with 86 yards and two touchdowns on just eight carries, as eight Jets registered at least three carries.
“It’s a well-oiled machine,” Millspaugh said of the Jet offense.
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