Canfield 38 Mathews 0
The Canfield Little Cardinals 120# squad traveled to Vienna Saturday and came away with a 38-0 victory over the Mathews Mustangs. Canfield improved to 3-0 on the season led by a defense that has yet to yield a touchdown.
Canfield scored early and often as Jacob Whittenberger and Andre Crump hit paydirt from 30 and 20 yards respectively. Tyler Stein and Dominic Yozwiak added conversion runs to give Canfield a 16-0 lead after 1 quarter. Ethan Fletcher scored from 9 yards out to give Canfield a 22-0 half time lead.
After another strong stand by the Cards defense Whittenberger blasted over the right side behind the blocks of Andy Murphy and Richie Hofus for the touchdown. Yozwiak added his second conversion run of the day to make it 30-0. Fletcher's 20 yard burst early in the 4th quarter along with Jake Kowal's conversion run provided the final margin. Canfield utilized 15 different ballcarriers in the game.
Coach Donadee cited Nick Grawford, Glenn Griswold, Cole Morrell, Jake Donadee, BJ Parker, PJ Haloff, Zach Smith, and Colin Leonard for their efforts on offense. Defensively Whittenberger, Fletcher, Bailey Flanagan, McCoy Watkins, and Stein led the charge.
The Little Cards return to action this Sunday when the Austintown Colts visit Bob Dove Field.
CLC 120 JV squad 22 Howland 0
The Canfield Little Cardinals 120# JV team posted a 22-0 victory over the Howland Little Tigers Tuesday. Canfield (2-0) struck first when Conor Crogan burst 26 yards up the middle to give the Cards a 6-0 lead. A Paris Bumgardner sack and fumble recovery at the Howland 35 led to Chance Merlin's 5 yard TD run. Jake Kowal added the conversion and the lead was 14-0 at the half.
Kowal's interception ended a Howland threat early in third quarter. The offense then took over with Crogan taking a reverse 42 yards to paydirt. Kowal rolled right and hit Crogan with the conversion to make it 22-0.
Crogan led all rushers with 76 yards on 5 tries, while Yozwiak added 66 and Merlin 52 on six totes each.
The defense was led by Matthew Zaremski who had a sack and a fumble recovery. While Gio Saadey, Caden White , Chris Smith, Seth Hull, David Rhinehart, Greg Karas, Mario Mavar, Race Mingus, and Bryce Beal were cited for their play. On offense Dominic Joseph, Kevin Walls, James and Joseph Warren, Gavin Tareshawty, Joseph Bruno, Angelo Cestone, David Noday, Nathan Ritenhour, Alexander George and Alex Smyczynski were cited for their play.
