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Oak Forest’s Coleman delivers
Updated: September 3, 2011 1:00AM
Oak Forest’s Tevin Coleman can do everything on a football field.
Coleman had two rushing touchdowns, returned a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown, and had two interceptions, one of which he returned 80 yards for a TD, leading No. 10 Oak Forest to an easy 47-12 win over Rich Central on Friday in Olympia Fields.
“I always have a way to score, and I will score because my team needs me,” said Coleman, who had eight carries for 46 yards. “Even if I’m hurt, I’m going to keep going back in.”
Oak Forest got on the board when Rich Central attempted a pooch punt on the team’s first possession to avoid kicking to Coleman. The punt was blocked by Nick Bukowski and scooped up by Alec Brown, who took it 40 yards for a touchdown.
With seven seconds left in the first quarter, Coleman scored on a 5-yard run on fourth-and-goal to make it 14-0.
After gaining minus-16 yards of offense in the first quarter, Rich Central (1-1) opened the second quarter with a bang. On the Olympians’ first play from scrimmage, Shawn Mitchel Jr. took a reverse for 69 yards and a touchdown to cut the Bengals’ lead to 14-6.
A 16-yard scamper by Matt Barry (24 carries, 97 yards) made it 21-6 with a little over four minutes left in the half.
Then both teams started swapping turnovers.
After a punt by Central, Malik Fountain recovered a Barry fumble to give the ball back to the Olympians. Rich Central, however, gave it right back to Oak Forest via a Coleman interception.
Central then thought it had the last laugh. Calvin Wiley intercepted a screen pass and returned it 15 yards for a touchdown to make it 21-12 with 1:17 left in the first half.
Coleman laughed louder, taking the ensuing kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown to make it 28-12 at the break.
Coleman added a 21-yard TD run with less than a minute to go in the third quarter, jumping over a Central defender and flipping into the end zone to make it 35-12.
After a 51-yard pass by Devonte Black (11-for-25, 168 yards) to Mitchell Jr. gave Central some momentum, Coleman squashed it by intercepting the next pass attempt and taking it 80 yards to the end zone to make it 41-12.
Tom Zale found Joe Buckley for a 25-yard touchdown pass to cap the scoring for Oak Forest.
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