BYFIELD – Tabor Academy defensive coordinator Tomas Rubio works exhausting daily on the turnover circuit for his protection to satisfy its weekly aim of forcing not less than two turnovers.
Saturday afternoon, because the offense generally struggled to persistently transfer the ball, these abilities had been one of many Seawolves’ best strengths as a part of a 42-6 rout of Governor’s Academy in Impartial College League motion.
Dameer Phifer (4 receptions, 65 yards) caught two landing passes and ran in a 3rd, pairing with two landing runs from Hugo Djeumeni Kemeni (99 dashing yards) to account for many of Tabor’s (2-0) offense. However lots of these scores had been arrange by brief discipline place created by two fumbles, an interception, three sacks and 4 turnovers-on-downs inside a signature outing from the protection.
Governor’s (1-1) wasn’t capable of rating till the final two minutes.
“We’re lucky where our front six – they’re aggressive, they’re smart, they’re powerful – so if we can keep everything in front of us, we typically have a good outcome,” mentioned Seawolves head coach Jeff Moore. “I think it’s important that when we had the chance to close the door, we did. But I thought we left a ton of meat on the bone, especially in the third quarter. … For us, we’ve got these explosive plays, but the consistency needs to be a little bit better.”
After forcing a three-and-out deep in Govs territory that was punted simply 32 yards from the top zone, Djeumeni Kemeni took three carries for 23 yards and a 5-yard landing.
Govs working again Dawson DuBose (175 dashing yards, TD) gained some good chunks on the following possession, however was stripped on a would-be third-down conversion round midfield. Tabor couldn’t capitalize on that chance, although Djeumeni Kemeni added a 4-yard TD run quickly after Tabor hauled in an interception on a Govs pretend punt try.
It was a turnover-on-downs within the second quarter that led to a 2-for-2, 46-yard sequence from quarterback Peter Bourque (10-for-18, 136 yards, two touchdowns), connecting for a landing with Phifer for a 21-0 lead.
Governor’s Academy fumbled once more three performs later, which Bourque once more adopted with a landing move to Phifer after an 11-play, 55-yard drive.
Carter Gooden was a serious standout up entrance with 1.5 sacks and steady stress within the backfield, as had been linebackers Derek Moreau (sack) and Brendan Farhat. Marcus Almada plugged gaps and cut up the sack with Gooden.
“They do an unbelievable job of running to the football,” Moore mentioned. “We’ve got to play some of the down-block, off-tackle stuff a little bit better, but we’re super, super physical up front, which showed and paid off. We did a pretty good job of rushing the passer. The linebackers played really, really well and played fast, and in the secondary, we just did a good job.”
Tabor’s finest drive got here within the third quarter, going 62 yards on six performs that Phifer completed with a 2-yard TD run on the jet sweep. Every of the following three Governor’s drives resulted in a turnover-on-downs, up till DuBose went 77 yards on two rushes for a landing towards the Seawolves’ backups.
