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| SportsFriday, August 24, 2007 11:11 PM CDT |
Dunn, BHS pull through against MacArthur
BLOOMINGTON -- Bloomington High School tailback Darrelyn Dunn wanted the game to rest on his burly shoulders Friday night. | Photo gallery “I wanted the ball bad,” the 6-foot junior said. “If I found a hole I was going to pop through it.” He went untouched. Dunn’s 60-yard touchdown run with 1 minute, 47 seconds to play sealed the Purple Raiders’ 11th consecutive season-opening victory in a 28-14 win over Decatur MacArthur at Fred Carlton Field. “They were only down seven,” Dunn said. “My team needed me to come up big.” The run deflated the Generals. “That was a backbreaker,” MacArthur coach Derek Spates said. “That was killer.” The Purple Raiders (1-0 overall and in the Big 12 Conference) blitzed to a 21-0 halftime lead, thanks in large part to Dunn. The BHS junior rushed 10 times for 120 yards and two touchdowns in the first half. Meanwhile, the Generals (0-1, 0-1) finished the half with only 53 total yards. “The game should’ve been over,” Dunn said. It wasn’t. Midway through the third quarter, BHS lined up for a punt inside its own 40-yard line. The snap to punter Adam Peden sailed over his head and was downed at the Purple Raider 15. Two plays later, MacArthur scored when Tirell Anderson caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Robert Smith. “We came out flat,” BHS coach Rigo Schmelzer said. “That’s the most disheartening thing.” MacArthur cut the deficit to 21-14 with 1:58 left on a 25-yard touchdown reception by LaDarion Shelby, but Dunn immediately put the game out of reach with his third touchdown on the night. “Darrelyn’s a consummate player,” Schmelzer said. “The kid’s got great ability, great vision. … He’s a young man that we expect to get a lot of work for us.” Dunn finished with 196 yards on 16 carries. All tolled, the Purple Raiders accumulated 324 yards of total offense with 267 coming on the ground. Despite the impressive offensive numbers, BHS was penalized 10 times for 80 yards. “Our offense is terrible because we’re not that good to recover from those kinds of things,” said Schmelzer, whose team faces Normal Community at 7:30 p.m. next Friday at Hancock Stadium. “It’s a situation where most of it is mental sharpness and we’re not there mentally.” Get area high school sports scores and statistics at Varsity Sports. |
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