September 2, 2017 at 5:17 a.m.
'Easy' does it
Southern Wells no problem for Jay County
'Easy' does it
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PONETO — The Patriots walked off the field in rural Muncie a week ago with a sour taste in their mouths.
On Friday, they took out their aggression on the Raiders.
Twins Ryan and Michael Schlechty totaled more than 200 yards of total offense and accounted for four touchdowns, the Patriots scored on all but one drive and limited Southern Wells to just 16 yards during the second half as the Jay County High School football team clubbed the host Raiders at Carnes Field, 49-0.
“It was really easy,” Ryan Schlechty, who had 114 rushing yards and a touchdown, said of finding room to run. “Our line does a great job this year.
“They know (the offense) like the back of their hand now. The holes are open and we just hit them hard.”
Jay County coach Tim Millspaugh, whose team pitched its first shutout since 2015 and just the second since 2011, said the Raiders (1-2, 0-1 ACAC) could have been a trap game coming off a loss to Delta last week and a matchup looming with Adams Central.
“I thought the kids did a really nice job of focusing on the task at hand,” said Millspaugh, whose team moves to 2-1 (1-0 ACAC). “Obviously we love big plays, but when you can move the chain … to be able to chew up the clock and methodically go down and consistently put two touchdowns on the board every quarter, that is real exciting.”
Ryan and twin brother Michael offer quite a contrast in running styles. Michael, listed at 6 feet, 2 inches and 235 pounds, is the bruiser. He runs between the tackles. Southern Wells often needed two or more defenders to bring him down, something it didn’t figure out until after the first drive when he put the Patriots on the board with a 5-yard touchdown run.
He had a 1-yard TD in the second quarter and finished with 92 rushing yards on 12 carries, the longest of which covered 19 yards.
As the Raiders packed the box in an attempt to stop Michael, it was Ryan’s turn to shake things up. Ryan’s listed at 6 feet, 1 inch, and 180 pounds. He does his work on the perimeter outside the tackles. His rushing yards came in chunks, especially a 45-yard scamper in the first quarter that set up a Gaven Hare touchdown run.
Ryan broke through the offensive line and hustled down the right sideline before being dragged down from behind at the Southern Wells 23. Four plays later, Hare barreled through the line of scrimmage for a 3-yard score and a 14-0 Jay County advantage.
“Ryan is definitely more slashy,” Millspaugh said. Ryan finished with 114 rushing yards on just nine carries, including a second-quarter touchdown run that put JCHS ahead 27-0. “Michael is more of a bruising back. He runs the trap really well.
“When people start coming down because they have to address the trap and the belly, it opens up the sweep and Ryan is quick. He’ll get through there.”
Michael Schlechty also caught three Holton Hill passes for 38 yards, including a 12-yard touchdown in the third quarter on a swing route.
Hill completed nine of his 13 pass attempts for 135 yards. All four incompletions were dropped by his receivers. Caleb Webster hauled in three catches for 51 yards, and Ryan Schlechty had one catch for 24 yards.
Collectively, the twins had 270 of the Patriots’ 493 yards of total offense. More than 360 of that came on the ground.
“We were executing pretty good,” Michael Schlechty said. “(The Raiders) going both ways helps wear them down and lets us used a fast-paced offense. We were able to run it down their throat.”
Jay County’s only real blemishes defensively came on the first play from scrimmage for Southern Wells, a 64-yard run by Mason Stevens, and a Mason Huffman strike to Jed Perry in the second quarter.
Stevens broke through the middle of the Jay County defense before Trey Castillo tracked him down at the JCHS 14-yard line. The Raiders got as close as the 8-yard line, but turned it over on downs.
Then late in the second quarter facing third-and-6 from the Jay County 40, Huffman found a streaking Perry down the right side of the field and hit him in stride for a 32-yard reception.
Jay County’s defense buckled down, though, by getting a goal-line stand as time expired before halftime. The Raiders went into the locker room with 141 yards of total offense, and six of their 14 offensive plays in the final 28 minutes went for negative yardage.
“The thing I was probably most proud of tonight, unfortunately we did give up a couple big plays and got ourselves in bad situations,” Millspaugh said. “But sometimes your back’s against the wall defensively. How you respond to that says a lot about what’s going to happen further down the road in the season against good teams.
“I thought they did a nice job, backs against the wall, and making a stop and not letting them punch it in.”
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PONETO — The Patriots walked off the field in rural Muncie a week ago with a sour taste in their mouths.
On Friday, they took out their aggression on the Raiders.
Twins Ryan and Michael Schlechty totaled more than 200 yards of total offense and accounted for four touchdowns, the Patriots scored on all but one drive and limited Southern Wells to just 16 yards during the second half as the Jay County High School football team clubbed the host Raiders at Carnes Field, 49-0.
“It was really easy,” Ryan Schlechty, who had 114 rushing yards and a touchdown, said of finding room to run. “Our line does a great job this year.
“They know (the offense) like the back of their hand now. The holes are open and we just hit them hard.”
Jay County coach Tim Millspaugh, whose team pitched its first shutout since 2015 and just the second since 2011, said the Raiders (1-2, 0-1 ACAC) could have been a trap game coming off a loss to Delta last week and a matchup looming with Adams Central.
“I thought the kids did a really nice job of focusing on the task at hand,” said Millspaugh, whose team moves to 2-1 (1-0 ACAC). “Obviously we love big plays, but when you can move the chain … to be able to chew up the clock and methodically go down and consistently put two touchdowns on the board every quarter, that is real exciting.”
Ryan and twin brother Michael offer quite a contrast in running styles. Michael, listed at 6 feet, 2 inches and 235 pounds, is the bruiser. He runs between the tackles. Southern Wells often needed two or more defenders to bring him down, something it didn’t figure out until after the first drive when he put the Patriots on the board with a 5-yard touchdown run.
He had a 1-yard TD in the second quarter and finished with 92 rushing yards on 12 carries, the longest of which covered 19 yards.
As the Raiders packed the box in an attempt to stop Michael, it was Ryan’s turn to shake things up. Ryan’s listed at 6 feet, 1 inch, and 180 pounds. He does his work on the perimeter outside the tackles. His rushing yards came in chunks, especially a 45-yard scamper in the first quarter that set up a Gaven Hare touchdown run.
Ryan broke through the offensive line and hustled down the right sideline before being dragged down from behind at the Southern Wells 23. Four plays later, Hare barreled through the line of scrimmage for a 3-yard score and a 14-0 Jay County advantage.
“Ryan is definitely more slashy,” Millspaugh said. Ryan finished with 114 rushing yards on just nine carries, including a second-quarter touchdown run that put JCHS ahead 27-0. “Michael is more of a bruising back. He runs the trap really well.
“When people start coming down because they have to address the trap and the belly, it opens up the sweep and Ryan is quick. He’ll get through there.”
Michael Schlechty also caught three Holton Hill passes for 38 yards, including a 12-yard touchdown in the third quarter on a swing route.
Hill completed nine of his 13 pass attempts for 135 yards. All four incompletions were dropped by his receivers. Caleb Webster hauled in three catches for 51 yards, and Ryan Schlechty had one catch for 24 yards.
Collectively, the twins had 270 of the Patriots’ 493 yards of total offense. More than 360 of that came on the ground.
“We were executing pretty good,” Michael Schlechty said. “(The Raiders) going both ways helps wear them down and lets us used a fast-paced offense. We were able to run it down their throat.”
Jay County’s only real blemishes defensively came on the first play from scrimmage for Southern Wells, a 64-yard run by Mason Stevens, and a Mason Huffman strike to Jed Perry in the second quarter.
Stevens broke through the middle of the Jay County defense before Trey Castillo tracked him down at the JCHS 14-yard line. The Raiders got as close as the 8-yard line, but turned it over on downs.
Then late in the second quarter facing third-and-6 from the Jay County 40, Huffman found a streaking Perry down the right side of the field and hit him in stride for a 32-yard reception.
Jay County’s defense buckled down, though, by getting a goal-line stand as time expired before halftime. The Raiders went into the locker room with 141 yards of total offense, and six of their 14 offensive plays in the final 28 minutes went for negative yardage.
“The thing I was probably most proud of tonight, unfortunately we did give up a couple big plays and got ourselves in bad situations,” Millspaugh said. “But sometimes your back’s against the wall defensively. How you respond to that says a lot about what’s going to happen further down the road in the season against good teams.
“I thought they did a nice job, backs against the wall, and making a stop and not letting them punch it in.”
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