OTHER VOICES: Casper Star-Tribune Cody runs over Douglas in 3A title game By JACK NOWLIN Star-Tribune staff writer LARAMIE – As the game got longer, Carter Myers and the Cody offensive line only got stronger. Myers, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound senior, gained 174 of his 239 rushing yards in the second half Friday to lead the Broncs to a 19-0 victory over Douglas in the Wyoming State High School Class 3A Football Championship game at the University of Wyoming’s War Memorial Stadium in Laramie. I’m not surprised,” Cody coach Matt McFadden said. “The bigger the stage, the bigger Carter plays. You just cant tackle him in the fourth quarter. Running behind an offensive line that features five seniors – tackles Jordan Schulte and Cap McClure, guards Donovan Robinson and Ben Flickinger and center Malik Oilar – Myers simply wore down Douglas’s top-ranked defense as the game wore on. Cody (10-2) was held without a first down on its first two drives, but got rolling on its third possession. Myers carried the ball seven times for 33 yards and capped the 15-play, 79-yard drive with a 7-yard touchdown run with 2 minutes, 51 seconds remaining in the first half. The scoring drive took nearly 6 minutes off the clock. “It took us a little while to get going,” Myers said, “but I think that touchdown really took the wind out of their sails and it really got us fired up.” The Broncs took the 7-0 lead into the locker room thanks to some missed opportunities by the Bearcats. That included a missed 38-yard field goal late in the first quarter after Douglas had the ball first-and-10 at the Cody 19. But a penalty and an incomplete pass on third down pushed them back. “It was a hard-fought game,” Douglas head coach Jay Rhoades said, “but we kept killing ourselves with penalties. And in the end, Cody just wore us down.” The Broncs increased their lead to 13-0 with 2:32 to play in the third quarter on Cameron Myers’ 7-yard scoring run. Carter Myers carried the ball five times for 55 yards on the drive, including runs of 20 and 21 yards in which he carried Douglas defenders for extra yardage. Cody put the finishing touches on its first state title since 1991 with a 2-yard TD from Noah Rivera on a jet sweep with 9:01 remaining. “It’s going to take a while for me to realize that we’re state champions,” Rivera said. “Right now, it’s all kind of surreal. “I’m supposed to tell the media that I’m going to Disneyland … but I’m really not.” Any chance Douglas had of rallying for the victory was stuffed in the fourth quarter. The Bearcats (9-2) had the ball for only four plays in the quarter and lost eight yards. “We made stops when we had to,” said McClure, who finished with a sack and 2.5 tackles for loss from his defensive tackle position. “We had a bend-but-don’t-break style and it paid off today.” Cody held Douglas, which came into the game averaging 295.5 yards per game on offense, to just 137 yards in the game, including 37 in the second half. The Broncs, meanwhile, ground their way to 319 yards, with 205 of those coming after halftime. “In the second half you could start to see the offensive and defensive lines start to take control,” McFadden said. “That’s been the way it’s been all season, but we really got stronger up front as the game went along.” Not surprisingly, Carter Myers had nothing but praise for his teammates on the o-line. “Those guys make it easy for me,” he said. “We came in here with a game plan and even though it took some time, we stuck to that and it paid off.”
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 03:37:47 +0000
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