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Green Wave take it to the ground
Updated: September 24, 2011 12:30AM
It wasn’t exactly what coach Mike Rolando was looking for, but St Edward was still able to overcome a boatload of mistakes on Friday night to defeat visiting Walter Lutheran 49-21 in a Suburban Christian Conference crossover. The Green Wave improved to 4-1 after suffering its first loss of the season last week.
St Edward received an early wake up call when Walter Lutheran recovered a mishandled punt return at the Green Wave one-yard line just over a minute into the game. The Broncos scored on th next play to jump on top 7-0. St. Edward did bounce back however to score the next 43 unanwsered points. But contrary to the lopsided score nothing seem to come easy for the Green Wave, who committed 10 penalties, turned the ball over three times, and allowed five quarterback sacks.
“It was just very sloppy from the get go,” Rolando said. ‘‘We wanted to try and throw the ball a little more tonight to get more two-dimensional, but we never really found our rythm in the passing game.’’
Luke Duffy enjoyed a big night for St Edward rushing for 136 yards and scoring a pair of touchdowns. The Green Wave as a team racked up 291 yards on the ground.
“I can’t do it without my offensive line,” said Duffy. “They make it easy for me. I just have to hit the holes they open. We knew this was a must win after our loss last week,Then after the way the game started we knew we were going to really pick up the intensity the rest of the way.”
St. Edward tied the score on the very next series after yielding an opening touchdown to the Broncos. The Green Wave marched 66 yards for the score. Duffy had a 44-yard run on the drive and then went into the endzone on a 7-yard run.
A bad snap on a punt by Walter Lutheran gave the Green Wave the ball at the Broncos 20-yard line and set up the Green Wave’s next score. Four plays later Brian Johnson scored on a 7-yard touchdown run to put St Edward ahead 14-7. Johnson scored again with 1:01 left in the first quarter on a 5-yard run after St. Edward had recovered an on-side kick.
St Edward added a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter on a 50-yard pass from Bob French to Duffy and a 3-yard run by DeVontae Elam to go up 36-7 at the break.
French had another 4-yard touchdown pass to Daniel Jaimes in the second half. Will Both well wrapped up the scoring for the Wave with a one yard touchdown run.
Despite scrambling for his life most of the game French managed to complete 11-of-18 passes for 154 yards. The Wave rush defense held Walter Lutheran to -6 yards on the ground.
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