Terriers blast Granite City 69-7

The Carbondale Terriers football team played one of the worst teams on its schedule last Friday, and it showed. The Terriers dominated a winless Warrior team by 62 points (69-7 final) and in every phase of the game.

It wasn’t that the Terriers slopped to a win against a sloppy team, however. They played well against Granite City, incurring few mistakes and almost no penalties as they ran up a 48-7 lead before halftime.

“We hit the ‘reset’ button,” Carbondale coach Bryan Lee said of breaking a four-game losing streak. “Part of the reset was reshuffling the defensive and offensive lines, and part of it was not making stupid mistakes.”

The mistakes had involved penalties, missed defensive assignments and poor tackling by the defensive side.

“We stopped doing bad things we were doing the last four games,” Lee said.

That included the Carbondale center and Carbondale’s sophomore sensation quarterback, Davin Wooley, getting on the same wavelength, so there were no bad hikes. Needless to say, the beautiful dry weather helped the situation, too. The Terrier defense and game management was OK, but occasionally there were mix-ups about who was supposed to be on the turf at any particular time. But even those minor improvements worked against a visitor that could only muster 110 total yards.

The only score Granite City got resulted from a 98-yard kick return off a razzle-dazzle reverse.

Wooley showed what he can do if he is given time to spot his receivers. He threw five passing touchdowns, and Calen Lilly caught three of them, including the first one at 9:00 to go in the first quarter. Lilly and his fellow wide receiver, Braylon Berry, have the ability to play at the next level.

Carbondale kept it on the ground most of the second half as Granite City was powerless against any and all Carbondale runners including several fast sophomores and even some freshmen.