With 1:42 left in the half, Conley’s receiving and defensive backfield cohort, senior Jim Geiser, intercepted a halfback option pass and returned it deep into Berea territory at the 21. The perfectly‑executed 28‑yard scoring play ended with the Tigers leading 14‑0. DeWitz stepped back and unleashed a perfect strike to senior receiver Gary Conley, who enjoyed his greatest night as a Tiger. The capper came on a first‑and‑23 play following a holding penalty. Bronc Pfisterer added the conversion kick.īerea was forced to punt again, and this time the Tigers moved 60 yards to score in eight plays. The score came on a three‑yard linebuck by Spielman with 8:44 remaining in the half. The only pass was a 22‑yarder from quarterback Brian DeWitz to Spielman to end the first quarter. It took the Tigers’ 12 plays to move the length of the field. Led by the big, bad boomers known as the Massillon front line, the running combination of junior Chris Spielman and senior Jim Bushe ground out steady chunks of yardage. So did Berea, with quarterback Davis’ kick downed at the Tiger one‑yardline. The Tigers received the opening boot but had to punt. Conditions were less than perfect an intermittent drizzle fell from the heavens while a steady wind made the temperature seem colder than it was. Passing wasn’t much better, as Berea quarterback Bill Davis completed only eight of 30 attempts as the Tigers’ hard‑hitting and strong rush resulted in a flurry of hurried passes and some ill‑timed drops.Ī crowd of 15,250 showed up at the Akron Rubber Bowl. With star running back Rod Witlow hobbled, the Braves’ running game was nonexistent. On the Tigers’ second possession, they marched 99 yards Braves for the first score of the game, eating up almost eight minutes of the clock.īerea was expected to struggle offensively a shutout certainly concedes the point. The Braves were allowing barely 100 yards a game defensively. The Tigers almost matched that in a single night no other team had ever even scored twice on the Braves. Perhaps in this case, a great team made them.īerea entered the game having allowed only 36 points in 11 contests. The only response to that comes from “The Sports Writer’s Bedside Companion of Cliches and Alliteration” ‑ a good team makes its own breaks. If you've been using KAYAK successfully up until now, try closing your browser and starting again.AKRON ‑ Was Massillon head coach Mike Currence kidding?Īfter Saturday’s 31‑0 thrashing of Berea, Currence commented, “We were lucky tonight. Please send us a message and we'll try to figure out what went wrong. Probably something about the web browser you are using made KAYAK think you are a bot. They tend to try to cram large suitcases in the overhead bin, and they prattle on about celebrities they know while you are trying to watch the movie. For example, we don't want bots running about trying to book airline tickets. Bots are generally a good thing, but some web pages are for humans only. KAYAK uses bots to search for travel deals. Search engines like Google use robots to build up search results. What is a bot?Ī bot, or robot, or crawler is software that visits web sites and collects data from them without a human present. If you are seeing this page, it means that KAYAK thinks you are a "bot," and the page you were trying to get to is only useful for humans.
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