Confident Dawgs swamp Lakers,
35-0
By Barry Merrill
NL Publisher
3 October 2007 — “Our kids knew we were a better team. They came out of the locker room ready to go.”
A Princeton team that had struggled to score and was winless in their five previous games this year celebrated Homecoming with a smashing 35-0 shutout Friday night.
In his above comments Monday morning, Princeton Coach Russell Williamson attributed some new found confidence to the suddenly dominant Dawgs.
And the Dawgs were the dominant team from the opening gun. They moved down the field in the early minutes with Kevin Foy scoring the first touchdown on a ten-yard run.
Two minutes later, Foy broke loose on a 62 yarder that put Princeton up 12-0.
Early in the second quarter Kwame Corprew got the scoring calls, getting in one around the left end from five yards out, and then taking one a few minutes later from ten-yards out around the other end.
Princeton went to the Homecoming festivities up 25-0.
In the third quarter the Bulldogs added a Dylan Myers score their fifth TD, as the QB scored from six yards out.
Chris Hinton made up for missing three extra points by adding a fourth quarter field goal from 29 yards away.
The Princeton running game was sufficient as Myers only threw the ball twice on the night, and he completed both of those.
Foy had an amazing 164 yards on 17 carries. Corprew added 60 on ten carries.
“We didn’t run but four or five plays all night,” Coach Williamson said Monday morning.
In addition to praising the running of his two big backs, he complimented the way his offensive line blocked Friday night.
He was hard pressed to single out anyone on the defense. “Any time you limit a team to 25 yards, your whole defense played well.”
The Bulldogs are back home Friday night, and while they may ride the momentum of last Friday’s win this Friday against winless Spring Creek, Coach Williamson is predicting a tough game.
“Our athletes match up well. It should be a pretty evenly matched game.”
The Gators run a lot of offensive formations, like Princeton.
“It’s likely to come down to the kicking game and turnovers,” he concluded.
Spring Creek, while struggling every season, has not lost to Princeton in the six years since they started playing varsity football.
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