The Caroline High School varsity football record for this year dropped to a dismal 0-7 last Friday as the visiting King George Foxes took them to task by a score of 44-7.
As often happens, it was one quarter that sunk the Cavaliers, with the rest of the game displaying good football despite the wear and tear on Caroline’s 22-member football team. Last week it was the initial quarter that stuck in the craw of Caroline. On the beginning kickoff, Cavalier receiver Vondell Green fumbled the ball, which was picked up by Chris LeVere of King George and returned 14 yards for a touchdown. Ten seconds into the game, King George was ahead 7-0.
An interception of a Juwan Wallace pass early in the quarter set up a five-yard touchdown run by the Foxes’ Pacarri Brown at the 9:21 mark. A blocked punt returned to the Cavalier five-yard line led to a third score as King George’s Jordan Aley ran a draw play for five yards and a touchdown. With just over half of the quarter remaining, King George was ahead by a score of 20-0 and the Caroline offense had yet to post a serious offensive drive. The Foxes’ final score of the quarter came with just over a minute left, as Aley ran for a 60-yard touchdown.
The Cavaliers’ bright moment came after the last King George touchdown when Green took the kickoff and returned it for 90 yards and a touchdown to end the quarter with a 27-7 score.
Although Caroline did not score for the rest of the game, it should be noted they held an offense that exploded in the first quarter to 17 points for the rest of the game. In the last few minutes the defensive line, made up of players going both ways for the entire game, rose up and showed their grit, stopping the Foxes’ attempt to score within the Caroline 20-yard line.
Despite their record, the current edition of the Caroline Cavaliers is not to be scoffed at. In post-game interviews, area coaches have always stated how they cannot take anything for granted and prepare with intensity when meeting the team coached by Antron Yates and his staff.
An understanding Coach Yates, asked about the condition of his 22-member team at this point in the season, said, “We have some that are limping around, but they still get out on the field and give it everything they have. They go the distance.”
-CP Reporter Scott Richards
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