Nov 28, 2009
Eastern Alamance fans packed Cardinal Gibbons' house Friday night – and their football team was ready to rock.
Eastern Alamance started with their first drive on their own 46 yard, and it wasn’t long before quarterback Lamar Ivey drove the Eagles in for the first score of the game. On the Gibbons’ 8-yard line Ivey handed the ball off to Elliot Powell, who ran untouched up the middle for the touchdown and Eastern led, 7-0, with 7:37 in the first quarter.
The Gibbons Crusaders couldn’t get the ball past the 50-yard line on their next drive. Eastern Alamance took no time getting on the board again. With three minutes to go in the first, the Eagles’ Ivey took the ball at his own 23, faked a hand-off left and ran 77 yards to the endzone.
Eastern Alamance scored again in the second quarter on an Ivey pitch to Javonte Ellison who ran in from the 7-yard line. At the half, Eastern Alamance led 21-0.
Cardinal Gibbons quarterback Doug Burton spent most of the first half on the ground. Without much protection from the line, Burton couldn’t get too many plays off before he was tackled out of the pocket. The only bright spot for the Gibbons defense came at the end of the first half when they held the Eagles to a four-and-out drive.
The Crusaders put together a promising drive to the Alamance 20-yard line before turning the ball over on downs. They got a second chance to finish the drive when Ivey fumbled the ball on their first play. But yet again the Eagles held the Crusaders without a first-down conversion.
Eastern Alamance sealed the win on a late fourth quarter drive when they decided to go for it on 4th and two from the nine yard line. Ivey scrambled from the pocket towards the left side, turned around right and throws to Ellison at the line of scrimmage. Ellison took the ball right side into the end zone for the touchdown.
Eastern Alamance won the game 28-0. The score tells all in this one, Gibbons couldn’t get anything going offensively and Alamance took advantage.
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