Maiden quarterback Ethan Rhodes stands firm in the pocket to throw as the Trojans’ Maddox Spires (74) and Gabe Myers (75) closes in on him. Rhodes completed nine of 15 passes for 181 yards with two key TD throws to Dylan Abernethy as the Blue Devils won at home, 30-23./PHOTOS BY MICHELLE THOMPSON (to purchase her photos, contact her at luvinlkn@gmail.com).
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SOUTH FORK 2A
MAIDEN 30, BANDYS 23
Bandys 0 16 0 7–23
Maiden 16 14 0 0—30
SCORING SUMMARY
First quarter
M—Amarion Craig 28 run (Brennan James pass from Dylan Abernethy), 8:55
M—Abernethy 32 pass from Ethan Rhodes (Abernethy run), 4:42
Second quarter
B—Hunter Jones 7 run (Isaiah Gilchrist run), 11:54
M—Abernethy 55 pass from Rhodes (Adrian Campos kick), 7:29
B—Quenten Maddox 43 run (Gilchrist run), 3:28
M—Abernethy 10 pass from Rhodes (Campos kick), 12.6
Fourth quarter
B—Gilchrist 1 run (Jessie Pope kick), 3:24
B M
First downs 14 14
Rushes-yards 52-265 37-157
Passing yards 0 181
Passing 0-2-0 9-15-0
Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-0
Penalties-yards 11-105 5-42
Running back Amarion Craig led Maiden with 118 yards on 20 carries and scored the game’s opening TD.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
B: Maddox 2-43, Gilchrist 19-67, Jackson Spicer 9-19, Malik Kennedy 7-45, Jones 6-21, Parker DeHart 4-38, Joshua Williams 4-24, Chris Culliver 1-8. M: Craig 20-118, Rhodes 10-20, Isaiah Thomas 3-2, Abernethy 2-24, Team 2-minus 7.
PASSING
B: DeHart 0-2-0 0. M: Rhodes 9-15-0 181.
RECEIVING
B: None. M: James 3-52, Abernethy 4-110, Thomas 1-7, Carson Hansley 1-19.
Maiden’s Amarion Craig (3) gets to Bandys’ Malik Kennedy to make a stop in Friday’s game at Maiden, where the Blue Devils opened a 16-0 lead early and then held off the Trojans 30-23 to hand Bandys its first South Fork 2A loss. Bandys went 7-0 in 2018 to win a league title.
Bandys running back Quenton Maddox breaks away from Maiden defender Dylan Abernethy to gain some of his 43 yards on two carries in Friday night’s game. Maddox scored on a 43-yard run in the third quarter to pull Bandys within 23-16 after a two-point conversion run by Isaiah Gilchrist.