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LORANGER FOOTBALL
Wolves roll up yardage, but turnovers prove costly.
Loranger outgains Sumner 115 to 110.
Jacob Rester, Loranger Sports
LORANGER—In their first real scrimmage of the season against another team, the Loranger Wolves
put together a pair of solid drives, but turnovers took away a pair of scoring chances as the Sumner
Cowboys defeated Loranger 10-0 in the annual Tangelina Jamboree Friday night.
“Coach Messina and his staff do a fantastic job every week,” said Sumner Head
Coach Zephaniah Powell. “You could tell those kids were ready to play.
SENIOR GAINS—Senior Nate Robinson carried ten times averaging 4.9 yards per carry. |
They had a couple drives that
pushed us back, but our defense came out and made stops for us. We have a few guys in our secondary
that we’re excited about and they made plays tonight.”
“We didn’t finish tonight,” said Loranger Head Coach Sammy Messina. “We didn’t
take advantage of opportunities we had. In the second half, we had opportunities to get them
off the field and we let the quarterback scramble and get the first down. We didn’t get to scrimmage
last week because of the rain, so this was our first live action against another team.
I thought we ran the football well tonight. We made a few good catches in the passing game.”
Loranger had the ball first and had what looked to be a promising drive
after driving to the Loranger 45, but Billy Hinson intercepted B.J. Rainey’s pass to end the threat.
Sumner was held to a quick 3 and out and Loranger took over at their own 14. The Wolves would then
start a 13 play drive to the Cowboy 14 with 30 seconds left before half but Hinson
intercepted another of Rainey’s passes to half the drive.
In the second half, Sumner started with the ball after running just four
plays in the first half. The Cowboys made the most of the possession, as Donovan Taylor and
Marcus Brumfield carried the ball on the drive for a total of 52 yards,
highlighted by a 11 yard scoring drive by Brumfield. That put the Cowboys up 7-0 after
Leonel Moreno’s PAT with 5:32 to go in the second half.
Sumner’s defense again stopped the Wolves after they moved the ball
33 yards into Cowboy territory before Dakota Naquin and Orlandon McCallister posted
back-to-back sacks to end the threat. The Sumner offense used that momentum to move the ball
to the Loranger 19 where Moreno kicked a 36-yard field goal to put the game out of
reach with 19 seconds remaining.
Loranger outgained Sumer 115-110 but committed the two
costly turnovers in the loss. B.J. Rainey was three for eight for 31 yards.
Nate Robinson carried the ball 10 times for 49 yards for the Wolves.
Matthew Bridges was two for seven for 19 yards. Taylor finished with 14 yards
on five carries while Brumfield carried five times for 30 yards.
Bridges had five carries for 31 yards.
The Cowboys travel to Kentwood on Friday night to begin the regular season.
Loranger makes the trip to Springfield next Friday for a date with the Bulldogs.
“We’re gonna watch the film and see where we need improvement. If we have t
make changes we’ll make changes,” said Messina. “Our goal is to come out and win some games.
0-10 is not going to be in our vocabulary this season.”
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LHSAA Reclaasification
DISTRICT 9-3A
Albany
Amite
Bogalusa
Independence
Loranger
Sumner
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