Posted on Sat, Oct. 24, 2009 12:42 AM
Friday night brights: Jobe, Winnetonka bounce back big time
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Jobe, Winnetonka bounce back big time
Winnetonka delivered exactly what coach Ken Clemens had hoped for after a district-opening loss to Fort Osage last week.
Behind star running back Darrell Jobe’s 295 yards and three touchdowns, the Griffins issued North Kansas City a 54-14 beating.
“It was pretty much what we expected,” Clemens said. “We’ve played a couple really good opponents the previous two weeks but felt like we played right with them.”
Only William Chrisman now stands between Winnetonka, 6-3, and another trip to the Missouri Class 5 playoffs.
“I’m hopeful that people are starting to notice we’ve got a pretty physical football team,” Clemens said. “Obviously, Darrell’s a big part of that. But I think we also block well, and we’re starting to tackle well too.”
Of course, it’s hard to ignore Jobe’s increasingly gaudy numbers. With one game remaining in the regular season, he has 1,862 yards and 19 touchdowns with two additional receiving scores.
White leads Gryphons’ fourth-quarter rally
Still not quite back to full strength after catching the flu a few weeks ago, University Academy’s Darrenn White remains a dangerous player.
Cass-Midway found out just how dangerous Friday night as White, the Gryphons’ quarterback, rushed for 223 yards and four touchdowns, while adding 130 yards passing in a 28-16 victory.
“He’s still not 100 percent,” University Academy coach Damon Paul said. “He had some side-effects last week and got a little winded when we were doing some no-huddle late in the second quarter. He’s probably at about 80 percent right now, but he played a tremendous ballgame for us tonight.”
White scored on 9- and 7-yard runs in the first half as the Gryphons built a 12-0 halftime lead, but Cass-Midway rallied to take a 16-12 lead in the fourth quarter.
That’s when White went to work, scoring on runs of 70 and 18 yards while running for one two-point conversion and passing for another.
“He’s definitely the guy who makes us go on offense,” Paul said. “We were backed up late in the third quarter, facing third-and-probably 13 and he broke a 70-yard run for a touchdown.”
SM East reaches playoffs in Sherman’s debut season
Congratulations are in order for Chip Sherman and the Shawnee Mission East Lancers, who rebounded from an 0-3 start and punched a Kansas 6A playoff ticket Friday night by pulling a 13-12 shocker against SM Northwest.
Sherman had led Platte County to three state titles and a 52-game win streak before spending last season at Salina South. He took on perhaps his toughest coaching assignment when he replaced John Stonner last April.
After a rocky start, SM East has won four of five games and led Olathe South 30-20 in the fourth quarter in its one loss over that stretch.
But the pièce de résistance came against the Cougars, who entered the game favored and quickly jumped out to a 9-0 lead.
In a microcosm of the Lancers’ season, though, Kevin Hertel caught a couple of TD passes as Sherman’s bunch rallied. SM East will play SM West next week for the Kansas 6A District 1 title.
| Tod Palmer, tpalmer@kcstar.com
Posted on Sat, Oct. 24, 2009 12:42 AM
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