TIGERS TRAMPLE WARRIORS IN L&C OPENER
The Clatskanie Tigers were pretty much unstoppable Friday, rushing for 491 yards in a 48-32 victory over the Warrenton Warriors, a team that had shut out its previous two opponents.
With leading running back Brandon Faulkner sidelined by a knee injury, the Tigers were still good for about half a grand on the ground as the double wing didn't just double up the Warriors, but accounted for ten times Warrenton's rushing total. Luke Meyer led the way with 260 yards and scored four of Clatskanie's seven touchdowns.
Despite the dominating offensive performance, the Tigers were having trouble stopping Warrenton's quick-strike aerial attack, keeping the Warriors right in the game until late in the fourth period. Eric Gantenbein threw four touchdown passes as the teams alternated scores until the fourth quarter, when the Tigers' dominating offensive line finally wore down the Warriors.
"I cant remember a night when we gave up 48 points," said Warriors coach John Mattila, "much less 480 yards on the ground.
"Its been 15 or 20 years since we gave up that many points in a ballgame," said Mattila, recalling a 49-0 playoff loss to Vale in the 1993 2A state quarterfinals.
For Clatskanie head coach Jon Routh, the win was a relief after a fusillade of adversities this season. Routh has already missed a pair of games this season for family reasons. Faulkner went down in a 40-15 loss to Colton last Friday and the subsequent week leading up to the game had its share of roadblocks.
"We had a bomb threat yesterday that cancelled school," said Routh, "so we had no practice. And our starting center cut his pinkie off."
Well, Calder Karber didn't exactly perform an autopinkiectomy, but his pinkie was sliced off above the joint in an auto shop mishap.
"They sewed it back on and he played today," said Routh, with the assumption being that the sewing was done by a doctor and not in an afternoon home-ec class. Routh also added that Karber seemed upset that he wasn't getting enough playing time Friday night. His toughness rather epitomized Clatskanie's smashmouth approach.
"The whole game we dominated and we wore them down," said Routh. "To stay in the game, they started passing the ball in the second half. Gantenbein was awesome."
After a short touchdown run by sophomore Trevor Marioni gave Clatskanie a 14-6 lead in the second quarter, Eric Gantenbein found Dan Wolfe for a 17-yard touchdown pass. A failed conversion left Clatskanie in front 14-12 at halftime, with the Tigers accumulating 187 yards on the ground in the first two quarters.
Meyer scored the first and the longest of his touchdowns on the first Clatskanie drive of the second half, racing 59 yards to the end zone. He would score again on a 35-yard run, but each time Warrenton answered with Gantenbein hooking up with Dallas Moses for a pair of short touchdown tosses.
Moses and Dan Wolfe each had big contributions on both ends, with each catching a pair of touchdown passes and coming up with big defensive plays to set up scores. Moses, who caught four passes for 55 yards, got the Warriors on the board in the first period after scooping up a Tiger fumble at the goal line and racing 100 yards for a touchdown. Wolfe's 55-yard interception return set up Moses' second TD catch of the third quarter, making it a 28-26 ballgame going into the final 12 minutes.
It was a long fourth quarter for Warrenton, as the Tigers controlled the ball for 26 plays to their six and scored three more touchdowns to put the game out of reach.
"They couldn't keep throwing the ball on us," said Routh. "They were getting big plays on passes, but you can only go so far on that when the other team is pounding the ball at you."
Meyer and Cody Pesio scored back-to-back touchdowns in the fourth period as Conrad Ritche's interception of a Gantenbein pass allowed Clatskanie to take a critical two touchdown lead.
Pesio finished with 78 yards on 19 carries and Trevor Marioni amassed 89 yards on 14 totes with a touchdown and three successful conversion runs. The highly touted sophomore has become something of a utility man for the Tigers, switching between tight end and running back, while playing the kind of defense at linebacker that saw him get an all-N.W. League nod as a frosh in 2005. Marioni will likely assume quarterback duties for the Tigers next year. Not a lot of heavy lifting required there as senior Adam Kallio completed one pass to Marioni for 17 yards and his other pass ended up in Dan Wolfe's hands in the first half.
"We just could not get them stopped," said Mattila. "We traded touchdowns back and forth into the fourth quarter then they got two in a row and got us down."
"I think offensively we could move the ball. We could throw the ball, but we couldn't run the ball very much because we weren't in a position to do that."
The Warriors, now 3-2 overall, host Vernonia next Friday in a crucial game with major playoff implications in a league where four teams may be fighting for three playoff spots. The Loggers defeated Riverdale 36-8 and Rainier trounced Neah-Kah-Nie 44-6 in other Lewis & Clark League games.
WARRENTON 0-12-14-6-32
CLATSKANIE 8-6-14-20-48
1stQ-CLA: Chris Reynolds 12 run (Marioni run)
2ndQ-WAR: Moses 100 fumble return (run failed)
2ndQ-CLA: Marioni 1 run (run failed)
2ndQ-WAR: Wolfe 17 pass from Gantenbein (pass failed)
3rdQ-CLA: Meyer 59 run (Marioni run)
3rdQ-WAR: Moses 9 pass from Gantenbein (pass failed
3rdQ-CLA: Meyer 35 run (run failed)
3rdQ-WAR: Moses 10 pass from Gantenbein (Gantenbein to Moses)
4thQ-CLA: Meyer 15 run (run failed)
4thQ-CLA: Pesio 11 run (Marioni run)
4thQ-WAR: Wolfe 52 pass from Gantenbein (pass failed)
4thQ-CLA: Meyer 7 run (run failed)
RUSHING-WAR: 17-46 (Jorge Campos 12-49), CLA: 73-491 (Meyer 26-260-4td)
PASSING-WAR: Gantenbein 8-15-1-171-4td, CLA: Adam Kallio 1-2-1-17
RECEIVING-WAR: Wolfe 4-105-2td, CLA: Marioni 1-17
TURNOVERS-WAR: 3, CLA: 2
PENALTIES-WAR: 3-20, CLA: 2-20
With leading running back Brandon Faulkner sidelined by a knee injury, the Tigers were still good for about half a grand on the ground as the double wing didn't just double up the Warriors, but accounted for ten times Warrenton's rushing total. Luke Meyer led the way with 260 yards and scored four of Clatskanie's seven touchdowns.
Despite the dominating offensive performance, the Tigers were having trouble stopping Warrenton's quick-strike aerial attack, keeping the Warriors right in the game until late in the fourth period. Eric Gantenbein threw four touchdown passes as the teams alternated scores until the fourth quarter, when the Tigers' dominating offensive line finally wore down the Warriors.
"I cant remember a night when we gave up 48 points," said Warriors coach John Mattila, "much less 480 yards on the ground.
"Its been 15 or 20 years since we gave up that many points in a ballgame," said Mattila, recalling a 49-0 playoff loss to Vale in the 1993 2A state quarterfinals.
For Clatskanie head coach Jon Routh, the win was a relief after a fusillade of adversities this season. Routh has already missed a pair of games this season for family reasons. Faulkner went down in a 40-15 loss to Colton last Friday and the subsequent week leading up to the game had its share of roadblocks.
"We had a bomb threat yesterday that cancelled school," said Routh, "so we had no practice. And our starting center cut his pinkie off."
Well, Calder Karber didn't exactly perform an autopinkiectomy, but his pinkie was sliced off above the joint in an auto shop mishap.
"They sewed it back on and he played today," said Routh, with the assumption being that the sewing was done by a doctor and not in an afternoon home-ec class. Routh also added that Karber seemed upset that he wasn't getting enough playing time Friday night. His toughness rather epitomized Clatskanie's smashmouth approach.
"The whole game we dominated and we wore them down," said Routh. "To stay in the game, they started passing the ball in the second half. Gantenbein was awesome."
After a short touchdown run by sophomore Trevor Marioni gave Clatskanie a 14-6 lead in the second quarter, Eric Gantenbein found Dan Wolfe for a 17-yard touchdown pass. A failed conversion left Clatskanie in front 14-12 at halftime, with the Tigers accumulating 187 yards on the ground in the first two quarters.
Meyer scored the first and the longest of his touchdowns on the first Clatskanie drive of the second half, racing 59 yards to the end zone. He would score again on a 35-yard run, but each time Warrenton answered with Gantenbein hooking up with Dallas Moses for a pair of short touchdown tosses.
Moses and Dan Wolfe each had big contributions on both ends, with each catching a pair of touchdown passes and coming up with big defensive plays to set up scores. Moses, who caught four passes for 55 yards, got the Warriors on the board in the first period after scooping up a Tiger fumble at the goal line and racing 100 yards for a touchdown. Wolfe's 55-yard interception return set up Moses' second TD catch of the third quarter, making it a 28-26 ballgame going into the final 12 minutes.
It was a long fourth quarter for Warrenton, as the Tigers controlled the ball for 26 plays to their six and scored three more touchdowns to put the game out of reach.
"They couldn't keep throwing the ball on us," said Routh. "They were getting big plays on passes, but you can only go so far on that when the other team is pounding the ball at you."
Meyer and Cody Pesio scored back-to-back touchdowns in the fourth period as Conrad Ritche's interception of a Gantenbein pass allowed Clatskanie to take a critical two touchdown lead.
Pesio finished with 78 yards on 19 carries and Trevor Marioni amassed 89 yards on 14 totes with a touchdown and three successful conversion runs. The highly touted sophomore has become something of a utility man for the Tigers, switching between tight end and running back, while playing the kind of defense at linebacker that saw him get an all-N.W. League nod as a frosh in 2005. Marioni will likely assume quarterback duties for the Tigers next year. Not a lot of heavy lifting required there as senior Adam Kallio completed one pass to Marioni for 17 yards and his other pass ended up in Dan Wolfe's hands in the first half.
"We just could not get them stopped," said Mattila. "We traded touchdowns back and forth into the fourth quarter then they got two in a row and got us down."
"I think offensively we could move the ball. We could throw the ball, but we couldn't run the ball very much because we weren't in a position to do that."
The Warriors, now 3-2 overall, host Vernonia next Friday in a crucial game with major playoff implications in a league where four teams may be fighting for three playoff spots. The Loggers defeated Riverdale 36-8 and Rainier trounced Neah-Kah-Nie 44-6 in other Lewis & Clark League games.
WARRENTON 0-12-14-6-32
CLATSKANIE 8-6-14-20-48
1stQ-CLA: Chris Reynolds 12 run (Marioni run)
2ndQ-WAR: Moses 100 fumble return (run failed)
2ndQ-CLA: Marioni 1 run (run failed)
2ndQ-WAR: Wolfe 17 pass from Gantenbein (pass failed)
3rdQ-CLA: Meyer 59 run (Marioni run)
3rdQ-WAR: Moses 9 pass from Gantenbein (pass failed
3rdQ-CLA: Meyer 35 run (run failed)
3rdQ-WAR: Moses 10 pass from Gantenbein (Gantenbein to Moses)
4thQ-CLA: Meyer 15 run (run failed)
4thQ-CLA: Pesio 11 run (Marioni run)
4thQ-WAR: Wolfe 52 pass from Gantenbein (pass failed)
4thQ-CLA: Meyer 7 run (run failed)
RUSHING-WAR: 17-46 (Jorge Campos 12-49), CLA: 73-491 (Meyer 26-260-4td)
PASSING-WAR: Gantenbein 8-15-1-171-4td, CLA: Adam Kallio 1-2-1-17
RECEIVING-WAR: Wolfe 4-105-2td, CLA: Marioni 1-17
TURNOVERS-WAR: 3, CLA: 2
PENALTIES-WAR: 3-20, CLA: 2-20
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