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September 1, 2012

South football wins easily at Vincennes Lincoln

Andy Amey The Tribune-Star

VINCENNES — Visiting Terre Haute South was never really stopped in high school football Friday night at Vincennes.

But the Braves stopped themselves twice in the first half, host Vincennes Lincoln used its wishbone offense with mind-numbing efficiency, and it wasn’t until the last two quarters that the Braves played like they can and rolled to a 34-0 nonconference win.

“[The Alices] executed their gameplan really well in the first half [which ended with South ahead 7-0],” coach Mark Raetz of the Braves said afterward. “They did a great job running the clock down and getting first downs [some of those with South’s help].

“We told the kids [at halftime] ‘don’t panic.’ Something we needed to work on was finishing a game. We were wanting to play a good second half, and I thought our guys did that.”

Friday was South’s fourth straight win over Vincennes by 33 or 34 points, but it was by far the toughest. After the Braves drove 52 yards in nine plays with their first offensive possession, Tyler Seibert scoring on a 10-yard reverse for a 7-0 lead, Vincennes controlled the ball for the next 10 minutes and seven seconds.

The Alices used every possible second of the play clock before running — literally — a play, moving from their 18-yard line to South’s 15 on a 15-play drive kept alive once on a fourth-down face-mask penalty against South. Vincennes’ first pass of the game ended that march, however, as it was picked off by South’s Timmy Herrin.

The Braves had two more first-half possessions, but they lasted 60 and 63 seconds respectively — a fumbled pass reception and an interception after a South receiver fell down breaking for the ball.

“[The struggle] was almost to be expected,” South quarterback Danny Etling said after the game. “There was not a lot of experience out there [because of injuries that kept seven South starters out of the game] … and our timing was a little off … eventually I may have to play nose tackle.”

At intermission, the Braves had run 17 plays and had five minutes and 11 seconds of possession time. But the second half was different.

The Braves got the third-quarter kickoff and immediately marched 59 yards in six plays, the big one a 22-yard completion from Etling to tight end Nic Keller. Seibert scored on another reverse, this from 11 yards out, and it was 14-0.

Vincennes was forced to punt, and South went 87 yards in seven plays. The big one this time was a 36-yard pass from Etling, who scrambled to elude a pair of Vincennes pass rushers, to Seibert, who retreated with his quarterback in trouble to turn the broken play into a big gain. Jeremy Patterson then caught a 16-yard pass, breaking a couple of tackles along the sideline, and Etling scored from the 13 on a bootleg run.

Although a bobbled snap cost South its extra point attempt, the lead was now 20-0 and a patient offense wasn’t going to win for the home team. The Alices went to the air again and Jonathan Weakley intercepted for South, the senior’s third pick in as many games.

“I just went out and played as hard as I could and didn’t give up,” said Weakley — whose best moments were still to come.

On the first play after the interception, Etling found Weakley — who stayed in the game as a receiver — for a 38-yard touchdown pass, but it was called back by a penalty. Four plays later, however, Etling went to Weakley again and the newly discovered two-way player went up in a crowd for a 18-yard touchdown catch.

With South’s receiving corps short-handed, Weakley had a pretty good audition Friday for more playing time on that side of the ball too.

“We’ve just got to get him the plays,” Etling said, pointing out that some of the defenders pressed into offensive duty are still learning the offense one huddle at a time.

“I like both,” Weakley said when asked which side of the ball was his favorite. I’ll be able to play both and finish strong; get some water and come back in the game.”

With South’s receiving corps short-handed, Etling agreed that Weakley had had a pretty good audition for more offensive playing time.

“We just need to get him the plays,” the quarterback said, noting that the defensive players pressed into service were learning the offense one huddle at a time.

“The second half, we really started to pick it up, and [the new receivers] started to understand what I wanted,” Etling continued. “I felt like a spectator [in the first half], but I think that’s what a lot of teams will try to do … when you keep a [team] off the field, it can lose momentum. We have to keep focusing on the offense and never quit.”

“Danny Etling was dropping dimes out there. He threw some great passes,” Weakley added, “and the defense stayed in the game.”

Ian Newton, who got the bulk of the carries for South on Friday, scored the last touchdown and finished with 75 yards in 13 carries.

He took the place of Pedro Piloni, who likewise replaced linebacker Derik Whalen and led a South defense — along with Junior Berry and Dillon Bell — that not only had a shutout but held the Alices to 40 second-half yards.



Terre Haute South 34, Vincennes Lincoln 0

Terre Haute South    7    0    13    14    —    34

Vincennes Lincoln    0    0    0    0    —    0

THS — Tyler Seibert 10 run (Adam Kahn kick), 3:36 1Q

THS — Seibert 11 run (Kahn kick), 9:38 3Q

THS — Danny Etling 13 run (pass failed), 2:52 3Q

THS — Jonathan Weakley 18 pass from Etling (Kahn kick), 10:37 4Q

THS — Ian Newton 14 run (Kahn kick), 5:44 4Q

    THS    VL

First downs    22    9

Rushes-yards    25-165    42-132

Passing yards    204    0

Comp-Att-Int    11-18-1    0-2-2

Return yards    22    10

Fumbles-lost    1-1    2-1

Punts-avg    0    4-32.5

Penalties-yards    8-60    8-72

Individual statistics

Rushing: South — Newton 13-75, Seibert 6-50, Chase Morris 5-27, Etling 1-13. Vincennes Lincoln — Brandt Nowaskie 17-66, Patrick Toole 11-30, Avory Mickens 8-18, Conner Barmes 1-14, Pek Thang 1-3, Dalton Nidey 3-3, Team 1-minus 2.

Passing: South — Etling 11-18-1, 204 yards. Vincennes Lincoln — Barmes 0-1-1, Devin Lett 0-1-1.

Receiving: South — Nic Keller 4-71, Seibert 3-83, Weakley 2-29, Jeremy Patterson 1-16, LaMarkis Stevenson 1-5.

Next — South (2-1) plays next Friday at Carmel. Vincennes Lincoln (2-1) hosts Mount Vernon (Posey) that night.

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