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LEAVING NO DOUBT
The five biggest win margins in the Newton-Conover-Bandys varsity football series since 1980:
Margin Score Year
52 Bandys 66-15 at N-C 2003
48 N-C 55, Bandys 7 at Bandys 2017
40 Bandys 40, N-C 0 at N-C 1997
39 N-C 71, Bandys 32 at N-C 2006
36 Bandys 50, N-C 14 at Bandys 1998
SOURCE: HobbsDailyReport.com research/files.
CATAWBA – Scoring twice in the game’s first six minutes and 41 points in the opening half, visiting Newton-Conover High ripped Bandys 55-7 on Friday night in South Fork 2A football.
With Tylor Stinson rushing for two touchdowns and 123 yards and Shamar Baker throwing for 182 yards and two scores, the Red Devils (5-1. 2-0) posted their biggest win margin over the Trojans in their last 40 meetings.
NEW.-CONOVER 55
BANDYS 7
The 48-point difference is topped in the series only by the Trojans’ 52-point win (66-14) at Gurley Stadium in 2003.
Baker scored on a 24-yard run in the first three minutes at Butler Stadium, and Kyjuan McClain’s two-point conversion run made it 8-0.
Less than three minutes later, Stinson broke a run for 29 yards and a score and the Red Devils’ led 13-0.
Bandys (2-4, 0-2) got a 75-yard TD run by Ethan Howard — his eighth of the year and his longest — with six minutes, 43 seconds left in the first quarter but did not score again.
The Red Devils led 21-7 after one quarter after Baker found Jaheim Mullen for an 8-yard TD score, connecting with Mullen for a TD for the first time in three games.
Outgaining Bandys 459-190, Newton-Conover rolled with quick second-quarter scoring.
Baker ran 12 yards and a two-point conversion three minutes into the second quarter, increasing the lead to 29-7, and Stinson went 15 yards for a TD about three minutes after that for a 35-7 lead.
Baker hit Myles Baker with a 15-yard TD pass just 1.9 seconds before the half to extend the Red Devils’ lead to 41-7.
The only scores of the second half were for the Red Devils with a 41-yard interception return by Myles Baker and Stinson’s 56-yard run with 11:25 to play.
Myles Baker now has three scores this season; the others are on a pass reception and a 90-yard kickoff return.
Shamar Baker completed 14 of 19 passes – seven of them for 59 yards to Mullen – and he had 283 yards of total offense and is unofficially past 1,000 yards passing this season (1,170).
Bandys, which had three turnovers, got 114 yards on 18 carries from Howard, who unofficially has 793 rushing yards on 119 carries.
The Trojans played without two injured quarterbacks – Lake Hojancki hasn’t played this season after breaking a collarbone and Ta’Jay Culliver missed Friday night’s game with an injury.
Newton-Conover, which leads its series with Bandys 32-15, next plays West Lincoln on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. in Gurley Stadium.
The Trojans, who share last place with Lincolnton and Lake Norman Charter, go to Lincolnton next Friday at 7:30 p.m. for a league game.