Miramar dominates Flanagan
MIRAMAR — Flanagan came into its District 12-8A game at Miramar on Friday with a 1-4 overall record and 0-3 in league play.
But four plays into the contest, it looked like the Falcons had come to play. Quarterback Kamel Cameron connected with wide receiver Wayne Ruby on a 68-yard bomb for a 7-0 lead minutes into the game. From there, however, it was all Miramar, which turned in 49-14 victory.
Seven different Patriots (4-1, 4-0) scored first-half touchdowns — culminating with 10-yard fumble recovery for a TD by senior Hansky Palliant with 5:35 left second quarter — en route to a 49-7 halftime lead. The game was played with a running clock after Palliant’s score.
The Patriots’ defense held Flanagan to minus-21 yards in that first half and scored on a blocked punt and fumble return. The Miramar offense scored the first five times it touched the ball.
With a running clock, Miramar only had the ball twice the entire second half. Flanagan’s Ruby scored on a late 3-yard TD run to make the final difference 35.
Miramar got three TD passes from QB Steven Williams. Xavier Zavala had the blocked punt for the touchdown.
WESTERN 48, CYPRESS BAY 7: Harrison Story threw for 166 yards with a touchdown and rushed for three more as the Wildcats remained unbeaten with a victory over the Lightning in a District 12-8A game in Weston.
Story’s effort was matched by the effectiveness of his team’s defense, which forced four Cypress Bay (2-3, 0-3) fumbles and one interception. The Wildcats (6-0, 3-0) went on to score on all but one of the turnovers.
Story rallied the Wildcats from an early, and brief, 7-0 deficit, scoring his first touchdown on a 22-yard run just before the end of the first quarter. His second two scores, both 1-yard sneaks, came on drives when he converted a third-and-long yardage situation with pass completions to Jordan Chambers.
On the Wildcats’ second possession, he connected with Chambers over the middle for 70 yards on a third-and-14 to keep that drive alive.
Early in the second quarter and facing a third-and-23, Story connected with Chambers down the sidelines that took the ball down to the Lightning 1. Story scored on the next play for his third touchdown.
Chambers finished with three catches for 117 yards with a touchdown. Keshaun Clarke added a pair of rushing touchdowns.
Western’s defense yielded close to a touchdown a game coming into the contest. That average looked to be put to the test early as the Lightning scored on its opening march. Cypress Bay took the opening kickoff 68-yards on 10 plays to the end zone, capped by Marlon Serbin’s 5-yard keeper to take the early lead.
AMERICAN HERITAGE 42, STRANAHAN 3: The underdog Dragons managed to keep the score close for most of the first half, however, the undefeated Patriots (4-0) scored a pair of touchdowns in the final 2:19 of the first half to take an 18-point halftime lead enroute to a victory in Plantation
The Patriots marched down the field on the opening possession to take the early 7-0 lead as Miles Jones rushed for a 4-yard touchdown.
Leading 7-3 late in the second quarter, Heritage’s Edwin Rhodes hooked up with Beau Johnson on a 10-yard touchdown pass to give the Patriots the 14-3 lead.
Instead of running out the clock in the half, Stranahan (3-4) tried to advance the football. However, the Dragons’ Devine Freeman was stripped by the Patriots Dyllon Lester at the Dragons 40, Lester caught the fumble in the air and raced 40 yards for the defensive touchdown putting the Patriots ahead 21-3 just before the half.