Galloping ghosts: Vikings run away from Lawrence Academy on Senior Night
Junior Eli Harris ran the rock four times for 80 yards and a touchdown, quarterback Cameron Podruchny tossed a pair of scoring strikes and Halifax Academy ran roughshod over visiting Lawrence Academy, 84-0, before a packed house on Friday at Viking Stadium.
The NCISAA Coastal Carolina triumph — which was really nothing but an exercise in sideline-to-sideline efficiency — moved the Vikings to 6-0 overall this season, and 3-0 in league play.
“I thought that, for the most part, we came out focused,” Halifax Academy head coach Pete Edwards said of his team’s effort. “We’ve struggled with this crowd in some games, and we preached that we had to come out tonight and establish dominance from the very beginning.”
And my, did the Vikings ever.
Harris and senior defensive end Jesse Rose began the runout with a 44-yard dash to the end zone and a pick-6 — artfully cradled, at that — which properly stunned the winless Warriors, who would then allow a hard-to-fathom six more touchdowns by halftime.
Done and done, as the old expression goes.
“I think getting a couple of quick scores on them, they’re a young crowd — they got one senior, a lot of 10th-graders — I think once we jumped on them to start, they kind of shellshocked them… it just snowballed,” Edwards said.
Indeed so.
Halifax Academy, which led by 40 points after one quarter and 62 at the break, dialed its in-every-phase prowess back in the second stanza, content to watch an impressive reserve unit take most of the snaps over the final two quarters.
In total, a unique performance — and per Edwards, one delivered by quite the unique collection of players.
“A special group,” the coach said of his outfit, celebrated along with other senior athletes in a special pre-game ceremony. “They were 9th-graders when I first came, won a JV championship, undefeated, they’ve been together for a while. At that time, the program was down a little bit, and so they’ve been a big part of building the program back up.”
And on Friday, into a model of performance that revealed no flaws whatsoever.
Junior Eli Harris ran the rock four times for 80 yards and a touchdown, quarterback Cameron Podruchny tossed a pair of scoring strikes and Halifax Academy ran roughshod over visiting Lawrence Academy, 84-0, before a packed house on Friday at Viking Stadium.
The NCISAA Coastal Carolina triumph — which was really nothing but an exercise in sideline-to-sideline efficiency — moved the Vikings to 6-0 overall this season, and 3-0 in league play.
“I thought that, for the most part, we came out focused,” Halifax Academy head coach Pete Edwards said of his team’s effort. “We’ve struggled with this crowd in some games, and we preached that we had to come out tonight and establish dominance from the very beginning.”
And my, did the Vikings ever.
Harris and senior defensive end Jesse Rose began the runout with a 44-yard dash to the end zone and a pick-6 — artfully cradled, at that — which properly stunned the winless Warriors, who would then allow a hard-to-fathom six more touchdowns by halftime.
Done and done, as the old expression goes.
“I think getting a couple of quick scores on them, they’re a young crowd — they got one senior, a lot of 10th-graders — I think once we jumped on them to start, they kind of shellshocked them… it just snowballed,” Edwards said.
Indeed so.
Halifax Academy, which led by 40 points after one quarter and 62 at the break, dialed its in-every-phase prowess back in the second stanza, content to watch an impressive reserve unit take most of the snaps over the final two quarters.
In total, a unique performance — and per Edwards, one delivered by quite the unique collection of players.
“A special group,” the coach said of his outfit, celebrated along with other senior athletes in a special pre-game ceremony. “They were 9th-graders when I first came, won a JV championship, undefeated, they’ve been together for a while. At that time, the program was down a little bit, and so they’ve been a big part of building the program back up.”
And on Friday, into a model of performance that revealed no flaws whatsoever.
