SOUTH WESTERN MUSTANGS GRIDIRON 2010-5

By Bill Engelhardt
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Last Friday evening, September 24, the Mustangs of South Western visited the YAIAA Division II Warriors of Susquehannock and galloped and passed their way to a 33-7 victory.

The Warriors opened the game and got a first down before ending a 4-play 17-yard drive with a punt. The Mustangs then launched an 81-yard 16 play touchdown drive, featuring an 11-yard pass from Jesse Good to Casey Froehlich, a 10-yard pass to Jeff Hacker, a 9-yard pass to Mike Pugh, a 12-yard run by Mike Felton, and a 10-yard run by Pugh. Felton scored on a 5-yard run and kicked the extra point to put the Mustangs up 7-0 with 2:45 left in the first quarter.

The Warriors got to run off two plays before Ryan Sexton intercepted a Matt Olphin pass for the Mustangs. Connor Senft immediately returned the favor by recovering a Mustangs fumble for the Warriors. They went three and out and punted and Felton returned the punt 20-yards to set the Mustangs up at their own 40-yard line. A seven play drive, aided by two 15-yard penalties, ended with Good’s, 15-yard touchdown strike to Tommy Nicklas. Felton’s extra point upped the score to 14-0 at the 8:41 mark of the second quarter.

The Warriors ended up punting again and the Mustangs marched 65-yards in six plays, featuring a 15-yard pass from Good to Cody Kephart, and ending with Good’s 35-yard touchdown pass to Felton. Felton’s extra point kick put the Mustangs up 21-0 with 3:09 left in the first half.

The Mustangs opened the second half with a 65-yard nine play drive, featuring a 35-yard pass from Good to Froehlich. Jeff Hacker plunged in from the 3-yard line to make the score 27-0 at the 8:11 mark in the 3rd quarter.

The Warriors went three and out, as Ryan Dotson pressured and Matt Funk sacked Matt Olphin for an 8-yard loss, and punted. The Mustangs then drove 61-yards in five plays. Felton sprinted 29-yards for a Mustangs touchdown only to have it called back due to a holding penalty. Not to be deterred, Hacker sprinted 40-yards for a touchdown on the very next play, putting the Mustangs up 33-0 at the 5:01 mark in the 3rd quarter.

The Mustangs substituted liberally but still drove 63-yards, featuring Zach Gross’ 8-yard pass to Pugh, Dillon Langenfeld’s 8-yard run, Matt Stroda’s 8-yard run, and Carnie Fryfogle’s 13-yard run. But the drive ended when Brian Quinn recovered a fumble for the Warriors.

The Warriors then drove 83-yards in twelve plays, featuring a 17-yard pass from Matt Olphin to Justin Onley. Olphin’s 25-yard touchdown pass to James Weger put the Warriors on the scoreboard and Brandon Webster’s extra point kick made the final score 33-7 in favor of the Mustangs with 8:09 left in the game.

Felton kicked off 6 times for 259-yards, with the longest going for 53-yards, and he punted 1 time for 71-yards. Jerome Robinson returned a kickoff for 21-yards and Tommy Nicklas returned a kickoff for 4-yards. Felton fair caught 1 punt and returned 1 punt for 20-yards, and Mike Pugh returned a punt for 1-yard, for the Mustangs.

Jake Shaffer led the Mustangs defense with 6 tackles, followed by Carnie Fryfogle with 5 tackles and a pass hurry, Aaron Bosley and Cody Kephart with 5 tackles each, Jeremy Loughlin, Keith Pappas, and Matt Stroda with 4 tackles each, Matt Funk with 3 tackles and a sack, Ryan Dotson, Jaelen Langenfeld, Mike Pugh, Leonard Sturgis, and Zach Townsend with 3 tackles each, Dakotah Moses with 2 tackles and a pass hurry, Alex Baugher, Dillon Higgins, Mike Felton, Tommy Nicklas, and Rich Delea with 2 tackles each, Ryan Sexton with 1 tackle, an interception and a pass hurry, Chad Kolper with 1 tackle and a sack, and Devon Ackerman, Tyler Burke, Reid Cruz, Jeff Hacker, Daulton James, Jerome Robinson, and Mike Trish with 1 tackle each.

Aaron Bosley, Brady Conroy, Ryan Dotson, Carnie Fryfogle, Matt Funk, Josh Hertz, Jeff Hacker, Cody Kephart, Jeremy Loughlin, Keith Pappas, Ryan Sexton, Jake Shaffer, and Leonard Sturgis, manned the offensive and defensive line and linebacker positions. Mike Felton, Brandon Krise and Mike Pugh, patrolled the secondary, with help from Casey Froehlich, and Jeff Hacker, for the Mustangs.

The Mustangs gained 247-yards rushing and 180-yards passing for a total of 427-yards of offense. Jeff Hacker led the Mustangs rushing attack with 15 carries for 97-yards (including touchdowns of 3 and 40-yards), followed by Mike Pugh with 9 for 41-yards, Mike Felton with 9 for 33 (including a 5-yard touchdown), Nick Bond with 4 for 25, Dillon Langenfeld with 3 for 16, Carnie Fryfogle with 2 for 11, Dakotah Moses with 2 for 10, Matt Stroda with 3 for 9, Jesse Good with 2 for 9-yards, Zach Gross with 1 for no yards, and Reid Cruz with 1 for minus 4-yards. Quarterback Good completed 11 of 14 passes for 163-yards and 2 touchdowns and quarterback Gross completed 2 of 3 passes for 17-yards for the Mustangs. Casey Froehlich caught 2 passes for 46-yards, Cody Kephart caught 3 for 44-yards, Felton caught 3 for 40-yards (including a 35-yard touchdown), Pugh caught 2 for 17-yards, Tommy Nicklas caught 1 for 15-yards and a touchdown, Hacker caught 1 for 9-yards, and Langenfeld caught 1 for 9-yards, for the Mustangs. Felton kicked 3 extra points and Ryan Sexton intercepted a pass for the Mustangs.

The Warriors rang up 43-yards rushing and 117 yards passing for a total of 160 yards gained. Justin Onley led the Warriors rushing attack with 12 carries for 27-yards, followed by Tony Fodel with 5 for 8-yards, Mike Costa with 1 for 8-yards, Brian Quinn with 1 for 2-yards, Phillip Norris with 1 for 1-yard, and Matt Olphin with 5 for minus 3-yards. Quarterback Olphin completed 9 of 21 passes for 117-yards and a touchdown, 2 for 39-yards to James Weger (including a 25-yard touchdown), 3 for 34-yards to Josh Mueller, 2 for 19-yards to Quinn, 1 for 18-yards to Onley, and 1 for 7-yards to Nate Irwin, for the Warriors. Brandon Webster kicked an extra point, and Quinn and Connor Senft each recovered a fumble, for the Warriors.

The 9-time Cavalcade of Bands Champions, Tournament of Bands Group IV Champion and US Scholastic Band Champion South Western Mustangs Marching Band proudly made a pregame presentation of its 2010 field show “Los Sonidas de España.” The show opened with “Grenada,” followed by John Tesh’s “Barcelona,” and “The Toreador Song” from Bizet’s opera Carmen. The show closed with an arrangement of Michael Daugherty’s Candelabra Rumba and the traditional España Cañi. The Susquehannock Warriors Marching Band and the cheerleaders put on a spirited post game show on Homecoming Night. The Mustangs and Warriors Cheer Leading squads excited the faithful with their exuberant cheering.

The Mustangs of South Western are 3-1-0 overall and 0-0-0 in York Adams Interscholastic Athletic Association (YAIAA) Division I league play.

Don Seidenstricker has a 186-80-1 (.699) record as coach of the Mustangs, who have a career record of 327-198-8. The results of the 533 games played in the history of the South Western Mustangs are a career .623 winning percentage and a .629 non-losing percentage.

Next week the Mustangs host the Division II Bulldogs of West York (2-2 overall, 0-0 league) at the Mustang Corral. West York is coming off of a hard fought 21-14 loss to the Wildcats of Dallastown. The Mustangs are looking to gallop along in their winning tradition. GO MUSTANGS GO.