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In a matter of seconds, two mistakes turned into points and that was the boost Liberal need to pull away from Diamond for good Friday in Spring River Valley Conference football action.
Holding a 14-0 lead late in the first half, the Bulldogs (2-1 overall, 2-1 in SRVC) scored two touchdowns right before the half to make it 28-0.
Liberal then scored two touchdowns in the second half to pull out a 41-0 victory.
The Bulldogs’ first two touchdowns were via the air, a 67-yard pass from Colten Selvey to Zac Short and a 45-pass from Selvey to Jordan Meadows. After a quarter it was 7-0 and then Meadow’s TD made it 14-0 early in the second quarter.
The game turned around even more in the final minutes of the first half.
Liberals’ Zac Lovell picked off a pass and ran it back 20-yards for a touchdown. Selvey’s point after attempt made it 21-0.
Diamond (0-3, 0-2) got the ball back, but stalled out on offense. Forced to punt, Liberal got the ball back and drove down to score. Meadows ran for a 3-yard touchdown. Selvey’s PAT made it 28-0 at half.
“A couple little mistakes and it goes from 14-0 to 28-0,” Diamond coach Aaron Davied said. “They like to run so we took that away from them. They had only 26 or 28 yards in the first half. We forced them to pass, but we didn’t do what we needed to do. We got them out of their comfort zone and we didn’t capitalize.”
Liberal scored a pair of touchdowns in the second half, one per quarter, to account for the final score.
Lovell ran for an 80-yard touchdown and Wade Sprenkle dove in for a 1-yard score in the fourth quarter.
The Wildcats’ had a chance to score late, but running back Jarren Reinhart was knocked out of bounds at the 1-yard line as time expired.
Diamond got to the Liberal red zone three times, but came away with no points.
“We are struggling on offense,” Davied said.
Reinhart had 55-yard rushing on 16 carries, while quarterback Craig VanLue ran for 50 yards on 22 carries. VanLue was 1-for-7 passing the ball.
Jon Paul and T.K. Xiong led the team in tackles during the game. Paul, an All-SRVC lineman last year, was injured in the game and had to leave early.
Diamond will look to snap a 11-game losing skid Friday, traveling up the road to play Sarcoxie at 7 p.m.
In a matter of seconds, two mistakes turned into points and that was the boost Liberal need to pull away from Diamond for good Friday in Spring River Valley Conference football action.
Holding a 14-0 lead late in the first half, the Bulldogs (2-1 overall, 2-1 in SRVC) scored two touchdowns right before the half to make it 28-0.
Liberal then scored two touchdowns in the second half to pull out a 41-0 victory.
The Bulldogs’ first two touchdowns were via the air, a 67-yard pass from Colten Selvey to Zac Short and a 45-pass from Selvey to Jordan Meadows. After a quarter it was 7-0 and then Meadow’s TD made it 14-0 early in the second quarter.
The game turned around even more in the final minutes of the first half.
Liberals’ Zac Lovell picked off a pass and ran it back 20-yards for a touchdown. Selvey’s point after attempt made it 21-0.
Diamond (0-3, 0-2) got the ball back, but stalled out on offense. Forced to punt, Liberal got the ball back and drove down to score. Meadows ran for a 3-yard touchdown. Selvey’s PAT made it 28-0 at half.
“A couple little mistakes and it goes from 14-0 to 28-0,” Diamond coach Aaron Davied said. “They like to run so we took that away from them. They had only 26 or 28 yards in the first half. We forced them to pass, but we didn’t do what we needed to do. We got them out of their comfort zone and we didn’t capitalize.”
Liberal scored a pair of touchdowns in the second half, one per quarter, to account for the final score.
Lovell ran for an 80-yard touchdown and Wade Sprenkle dove in for a 1-yard score in the fourth quarter.
The Wildcats’ had a chance to score late, but running back Jarren Reinhart was knocked out of bounds at the 1-yard line as time expired.
Diamond got to the Liberal red zone three times, but came away with no points.
“We are struggling on offense,” Davied said.
Reinhart had 55-yard rushing on 16 carries, while quarterback Craig VanLue ran for 50 yards on 22 carries. VanLue was 1-for-7 passing the ball.
Jon Paul and T.K. Xiong led the team in tackles during the game. Paul, an All-SRVC lineman last year, was injured in the game and had to leave early.
Diamond will look to snap a 11-game losing skid Friday, traveling up the road to play Sarcoxie at 7 p.m.
