By David Gravely
The leaves have finally started to change, the air is feeling cooler by the day, and the smell of burning leaves is in the air. It finally feels and smells like football season!! The Pulaski County recreation league football teams have continued their seasons this week, and despite the rain we saw many teams were able to get their games in. As I wrote in last weeks article, if you would like to have the information about your team reported each week, feel free to contact me at cougardave23@comcast.net and I'll get you started. Also, just a reminder that if you dont see your favorite teams information in this article each week, then feel free to remind your teams coach to contact me with those stats and scores so we can include them.
Mite League
Dublin Jets
The Dublin Jets are off to a fine start, with a solid 2-0 record. The Jets started the season off with a 36-0 win over the Auburn Blue team, followed up by a 32-6 win over the Auburn White team. The Jets go on the road Tuesday, with a game in Christiansburg at the high school. Coach Ryan Blackburn will be reporting more stats and scored next week for the Jets.
Pulaski Giants
On October 2nd the Pulaski Pirates played the Christiansburg Gold team at Cool Springs in Pulaski. Coach Dirk Compton reported that the Pirates played their best game of the season against the Gold team, with very few penalties and very good interior line play on defense. The Pirates were able to move the ball well at times on offense, but werent able to score against an older and more experience Christiansburg team. The Giants are showing improvement each game, however, and the coaches are looking for good things in the near future. The Pirates next game is October 11th at Cool Springs against the Snowville Panthers.
Patriots
The Pulaski Patriots are apparently going into stealth mode, as the coaches have ask NOT to have their players names that score listed. They did send in scores for the games they have played so far though. The Pulaski Patriots lost in their first game to Christiansburg Gold 18-36, but then defeated the Christiansburg Navy team 18-0. The only other score reported so far is from the Patriots game with the Radford Bobcats, as the Patriots won 13-6. The Patriots will play again on Monday October 4 against the Snowville Panthers at Cool Springs in Pulaski.
Junior League
Cowboys Continue to Roll
The Dublin Cowboys faced the Radford Bobcats this past week. The Cowboys took the opening possession of the half and drove 80 yards for a touchdown, with the score coming when tailback #21 Conner Martin took the ball on a sweep to the left for 30 yards. Quarterback #9 Kellen Dalton took the snap from the shotgun formation and ran around the left end to score the conversion to give the Cowboys a 7-0 lead. The Cowboys defense stopped radford and, got the ball back, and the Cowboys offense drove down the field again behind the running of #24 Lucas Boitnott, #2 Jaceri Eaves, and #21 Conner Martin. The Cowboys scored on a 3 yard run by #3 Drew Mabry. The conversion failed, leaving the score 13-0. Radford scored in the second quarter to move the score to13-6. The Cowboys defense held on a goaline stand just before half. halftime, and the second half began with the cowboys defense stopping Radford on 4 plays. The stops were lead by #53 Joe Reynolds, #65 Brody Fields, #62 Brock Draper, and #10 Noah O'dell who all made big tackles. The Cowboys offense controled the ball for much of the second half, scoring another touchdown late in the third quarter as #3 Drew Mabry ran in his second touchdown from 30 yards out. The conversion failed Cowboys, leaving the score 19-6. Radford was able to score late in the fourth to make the score 19-14 with 40 seconds to go. The Cowboys offense took a knee and ran out the clock to preserve the victory.
The Cowboys improved their record to 3-1 with a victory over the Snowville Panthers 19-0 on Saturday. The Cowboys started the game on defense and on the third play of the game Snowville fumbled and it was recovered by #3 Drew Mabry of the Cowboys on the panthers 25 yard line. The Cowboys #2 Jaceri Eaves took the hand off to the right for four yardsto start the drive, and then #21 Conner Martin took a pitch to the left and ran for 19 yards to the two yard line. On the third play #3 Drew Mabry took the hand off and scored the game's first touchdown. The conversion failed Cowboys, leaving the score at 6-0. The Cowboys and Panthers exchanged several possessions in the rest of the first half, but neither could score. The Cowboys started the second half on offense, and were able to put together an 80 yard drive for a touchdown. The drive had several good runs by #2 Jaceri Eaves, #21 Conner Martin, and #3 Drew Mabry. The drive was capped off on a1 yard run by #9 quarterback Kellen Dalton. The conversion failed, leaving the score 12-0. Head coach Troy Dalton credits the long drive to his offensive line, which includes #65 Brody Fields, #53 Joe Reynolds, #20 Kelly Dalton, #82 Chandler Dunnigan, #62 Brock Draper, #52 Austin Clyburn, and #14 Nathan Asbury. The Cowboys scored in the 4th quarter on a 40 yard run by #2 Jaceri Eaves and #21 Conner Martin ran in the conversion to make the score Cowboys 19 Panthers 0. Coach Dalton noted that the defense played extremely well. #62 Brock Draper had 9 tackles #5 Austin Gallimore had 7 tackles. The Cowboys go back into action on Tuesday October 5th at Randolph Park against Eastern Montgomery.
Senior League
Dublin Chiefs
The Dublin Chiefs are currently 1-1-1 on the season. They tied their first game of the year with Radford 12-12, and then defeated the Christiansburg Navy team 13-6 at Randolph Park. On Saturday the Chiefs lost a tough game to Radford 12-7. Hunter Thomas has scored twice so far this season for the Chiefs, with one rushing and one recieving touchdown. Dante Brown has rushed for one touchdown, while Brandon Piland has one touchdown catch. Logan Smith has rushed for one touchdown, passed for a touchdown, and scored two extra points on the ground for Dublin. Randy Brunk finishes up the scoring for Dublin with a passing touchdown. The defensive line, made up of Drew Allen, Josh Holbrook, Michael Seagle and Brandon Tickle are playing very well. Defensive ends Gage Levine and Logan Smith are playing well, and Piland is also doing a fine job punting for the Chiefs. Dublins next game at Blacksburg on Tuesday at 7:15.
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