Evening Sun Report

Canastota 40, Sherburne-Earlville 23

WATERVILLE – Sherburne-Earlville returned the opening kickoff 95 yards, and it was all downhill from there, said S-E coach Mick James.

Canastota pulled away from a tight contest with three touchdowns in the third quarter to open a two-point lead to 15.

“We gave them some great field position with fumbles,” James said. “We were winning the line of scrimmage, but we kept giving them the ball back. When they had the ball, they mixed their offense nice with the run and pass.”

The Marauders finished with just 161 yards of total offense, but had the return game working. In addition to Billy Northey’s 95-yard TD return, Tyler Blinebry had kickoff returns of 74 and 50 yards, and the Marauders totaled 300 return yards for the game.

Four lost fumbles and 70 yards of penalties conspired against S-E’s offensive success. Northey scored on a 16-yard run in the third quarter, and junior Nate Kline had a four-yard TD plunge in the fourth.

S-E finishes 2-7.

Scoring by quarters

S-E 7 0 8 8–23

Can. 3 6 21 10–40

S-E scoring

First quarter

S-E: Northey 95 kickoff return (Coye kick)

Third quarter

S-E: Northey 16 run (Price pass from Klockowski)

Fourth quarter

SE: Nate Kline 4 run (Klockowski run)

Individual statistics

S-E rushing: Northey, 17-86, Kline, 10-52, Beadle, 3-14, Brunschmid, 3-12, Klockowski, 3- (-15).

S-E Passing: (SE) Klockowski 3-9-0, 12 yds.

S-E Receiving: (SE) Brunschmid, 2-6, Price, 1-6.

Newfield 20, Oxford 16

OXFORD – Newfield spurned its wide-open attack with a more traditional ground game, and won a mud bowl over the Blackhawks Friday evening.

Normally a passing team, the Trojans established the ground game to take a 12-0 halftime lead. Mike Armstrong completed a 10-yard TD pass to Zach Stamp for the first score, and Marcus Kastenhuber made it a 12-0 halftime lead on a three-yard plunge.

“The field conditions were just awful and it was just a slop of mud the whole game,” said Oxford coach Mike Chrystie. “Newfield did a good job establishing the running game in the first half, and their line handled the conditions better than us.”

Oxford made a charge in the second half getting TD runs of 73 and 25 yard from Scott Shackelton, the latter closing the margin to four points.

Armstrong’s 37-yard quarterback keeper early in the fourth quarter put the game-winning points on the board. “The first half we struggle to establish anything,” Chrystie said. “We turned it around in the second half and got back in the game, we just kind of lost it at the end.”

Shackelton led Oxford with 167 yards rushing on 13 carries.

Score by quarters

Newf 6 6 0 8–20

Oxf. 0 0 8 8–16

Scoring Summary

N: Zach Stamp 10 pass from Mike Armstrong (run failed)

N: Marcus Kastenhuber 3 run (run failed)

O: Scott Shackelton 73 run (Jeremy Nelson pass from Robert Amor)

N: Mike Armstrong 37 run (Armstrong run)

O: Scott Shackelton 25 run (Amor run)

Team summary

N O

First downs 10 6

Rushes-yds 50-240 30-186

Passing yds 29 21

Comp-att-int 3-6-1 2-11-0

Fumbles-lost 8-2 5-1

Penalties-yds 3-20 1-5

Individual Statistics

Rushing: (N) Marcus Kastenhuber, 17-92, Mike Armstrong, 13-91, Chauncey Snyder, 12-33, J. Stewart, 5-11, I. Valentine, 3-13. (O) Scott Shackelton, 13-167, T. Frank, 6-22, Dustin Christopherson, 6-10, Robert Amor, 5- (-13).

Passing: (N) Armstrong, 3-6-1, 29 yds, (O) Robert Amor, 1-10-0, (-4 yards); Shackelton, 1-1-0, 25 yds.