Cincinnati Taft 51 uses Ferocious offense and defense to blank Dayton Meadowdale 00

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David Burnworth | September 11, 2022

My Saturday afternoon game took me to Welcome Stadium in Dayton, Ohio a place I had not been to since 2017. With new turf, the place looks so much better than it did back then, and with the upgrade, Dayton should really make a bid to host the state finals. There were only a couple of hundred people in the stands to take this game in but the few who were there got to see Cincinnati Taft put on a movie script-like effort as they would not only win the game by fifty-one points they would hold the home team to an unofficial thirty-two yards on thirty-nine plays.

Meadowdale would have three nice plays in a little over a minute span with Chris Devaughs crushing Rayshawn Holly for a loss of two, then Devaughs would stop Jahmar Richardson before he could gain anything. The final play came with 7:03 left in the first when Carlos Woods stopped Richardson also for no gain.

From there unfortunately things would go downhill at a rapid rate for the Lions with a bad snap on a punt leading to a safety putting Taft up 2-0, with 4:33 left in the fast-moving opening quarter. Antaeyo Stuckey would use some sweet moves and field vision to pick up twenty-three yards but he would give five off that back after he was called for an offensive face masking. Holly would gallop to a gain of thirty-eight moving the ball to the Lions eight-tard-line, with 2:57 left on the clock. Holly would finish the drive off on a four-yard touchdown run with Max Brown hitting the point after kick to make this a 9-0 game.

In quarter number two the Senators would get a catch from Johnny Cotton who after breaking a tackle picked up eighteen yards to move the chains. Holly would go back to work closing out the drive on his fourteen-yard run making this a 15-0 game. The Taft defense would record another safety after a muff by Davion Fleming at the 8:39 mark of the second quarter to make this a 17-0 game, with 8:39 left in the half.

Holly would take the ball to the Lions three-yard line on a twenty-one-yard run but a face mask was called on Jay’ Quan Bostic to cancel the gain. Javier Ison would hit Stuckey for a gain down to the Lions six. From there the drive ended on a two-yard run from Ison. Ison found Cotton to convert the two-point play to give the Senators the 25-0 lead, with 6:24 left in the half.

On the ensuing kickoff, Rmonte Chambers of the Senators pounced on the football to bring his squad high octane offense right back out on the field. Facing a fourth and seven Head Coach Tyler Wiliams and staff elected to go for it and this paid off when Ison found Richardson for the first down. Nine seconds later Ison connected with Bostic for a gain of seventeen. At the 4:11 mark of the quarter Ison had his pass tipped right back to him and he would pick up eight yards after catching his own pass. The drive failed to deliver any points as the Lions continue to give their best effort even with the game well out of hand.

After Lance Byndon picked off the Meadowdale pass the Senators offense would need seven plays to light up the scoreboard again with Ison hitting Bostic for the twenty-five-yard play. TiAndre Turner would pick off the two-point conversion pass leaving this a 31-0 game.

With the running clock being incorporated in the second half, the half flew by but the Senators still found a way to score three more times

First, Ison hit Stucky for the score then it was a sixty-yard run by Holly followed by a pick-six from Geneo Jackson from about twenty yards out to make this a 51-0 game. Taft improves to 3-1 with a long road trip coming next week against Chardon Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin Lions who limp in with a 1-3 record. For Meadowdale 1-3 it is another home game against a much smaller opponent in 2-2 Cincinnati Summit Country Day Silver Knights.

Unofficial Stats

Taft

59 plays

422 yards

Passing, 13-30 2 TD’S

Meadowdale

39 plays

32 yards (Minus 11 in the first half)

Passing, 3-13 2 INT’S