Fort Chiswell overcomes early Galax lead in route to 49-19 win
“(Brendan Mabry) He’s the motivator. He is the kick start that we need. He wants everyone to play well.” –Fort Chiswell head coach Cory Mabry
Galax, VA – Galax jumped out to an early 13-0 lead but couldn’t make it stick, as Fort Chiswell scored two second quarter TD’s to take a 14-13 lead going into the locker room. From there it was all Pioneers, as the visitors scored five times in the third quarter to stretch the lead to 49-13.
The Pioneers scored about every way you could – on the ground, through the air, and on a blocked punt and recovery in the end zone by Senior DL 74 Brendan Mabry. The big lineman caused a fumble, recovered a fumble, blocked a PAT, blocked a punt for the TD, and was just a load for the Maroon Tide all night. “(Mabry) He’s the motivator. He is the kick start that we need. He wants everyone to play well, said Fort Chiswell head coach Cory Mabry.
Coach Mabry and Brendan are distant cousins. To their credit, Galax kept fighting and finished the night’s scoring in the final stanza with 6:24 leff in the game. Tide RB 7 Trey Markham punched it in from the three yardline to make it 49-19.
Galax got the scoring started in the game with QB 6 Dalton Rosenbaum scoring from the eight. The point after was blocked. The Galax defense followed that up with a fumble recovery by RB/DB 2 Ricardo Esquivel in the endzone. That made it 13-0. Fort took the lead on two second quarter touchdowns.
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QB/DB 7 Landon Hetherington found WR/DB 10 over the middle on a 22-yard TD pass and then he hit WR/S 5 James Stone on a 39-yard TD pass. “We started playing together and actually started playing the (kind) of football that we need to get to,” said Coach Mabry. Turnovers killed the Tide, and when they gave it back to the Pioneers, the visitors made them pay for it. The Pioneers got 28 points directly off of Tide turnovers. Fort Chiswell’s passing game also was big factor in the win. “I’m excited for that. It was nice to see us put it in the air. We still need to get better week by week.” – Cap’n Crunch
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