Cory Roberts came to play Friday night, rushing for a season-high 201 yards and five scores to spark Alexander Central High’s victory over Statesville.
Roberts ran 33 times and scored on runs of 9, 4, 5, 2 and 2 yards as the visiting Cougars beat the Greyhounds 35-21 in a non-conference game at Greyhound Hollow.
The victory snapped Alexander Central’s losing streak at two games and got Cougars head coach Tom Harper his 40th career victory. Thirty-two of them have come in four-plus seasons at Alexander Central.
Alexander Central broke a 14-all tie with two TDs in the third quarter to drop Statesville to 4-4-1.
Roberts scored on a 7-yard run with seven minutes, 20 seconds left in the third quarter for the lead, then added a 2-yard TD run about seven minutes later to send the Cougars into the final quarter ahead 28-14.
The Cougars led 14-0 after the first quarter, on runs of 9 and 4 yards by Roberts, but the Greyhounds did all of the second-quarter scoring.
Justin Daniels caught a 4-yard TD pass from Triston Mumford and Treon Allison’s 3-yard TD run about 90 seconds before the half helped Statesville go into intermission tied at 14.
Statesville was within 28-21 after Munford scored on a 7-yard run with 9:09 to play, but Roberts extended the Cougars’ lead with a 2-yard TD run with 3:36 to play.
Alexander Central quarterback Nick Salyer ran for 54 yards on 10 carries and completed 7-of-14 passers for 145 yards, with Phillip Ferguson making three catches for 57 yards and Matt Quigley making three for 54.
Mumford, the third Statesville starter at quarterback this season after the first two were lost to injuries, had 21 carries for 100 yards and completed 14-of-22 passes for 96 yards.
Alexander Central outgained Statesville 399-232.
Casey Anderson led the Cougars’ defense with 13 total hits and Nathan Birkedal, who had six hits, had two interceptions he returned for 62 yards.
Freedom 56, East Rutherford 28
Freedom quarterback Michael Helms stayed red-hot – throwing for a season-high 287 yards and five TDs – as the Patriots rolled in a South Mountain Athletic 2A-3A game.
Helms, a senior, threw for five scores for the second straight game and for his 14th TD in the last three games as Freedom improved to 8-1 overall and 3-1 in the conference.
Helms threw scoring passes of 7 and 39 yards to David Duckworth, 21 yards to Raymond Beam, 16 yards to Khris Gardin and 63 yards to Marcus Kincaid.
Kincaid returned a kickoff 95 yards for a TD and David Burgess ran 35 and 12 yards for TDs and had 10 carries for 106 yards.
Freedom led 21-7 after one quarter and 35-14 at the half.
Helms, picked this week for the North Carolina Shrine Bowl team, has unofficially completed 58.8 percent of his passes this season for 1,935 yards and 23 TDs.
With two regular season games left, he’s closing in on 6,000 career passing yards and now has 70 career TD passes with only 29 interceptions in 730 career attempts.
East Rutherford (5-3, 2-2) got two TDs from T.J. Watkins, on a 2-yard run for an early 7-all tie and on a 66-yard pass from Maddox Stamey to end the first half.
Burns 56, Patton 0
Darius Ramsey ran for four scores – runs of 17, 34 30 and 8 yards – as the Bulldogs (8-1, 4-0) rolled to a win that kept them in first place in the South Mountain Athletic 2A-3A.
Brandon Littlejohn ran 7 yards for a TD and threw a 23-yard TD pas to Darius Lowe as Burns kept the visiting Panthers winless (0-9, 0-4).
The Bulldogs were up 28-0 after one quarter and 42-0 by halftime.
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