Tigers claw the Bruins 49-12
Andrew Grimm NICE CATCH — Brooke's Grant Yost hauls in a deep ball in the third quarter against Elkins on Friday night at Brooke Memorial Stadium. Yost scored an 80-yard touchdown on the play, but Elkins ultimately prevailed, 49-12.
Andrew Grimm BACK TO PASS — Brooke quarterback Kamden Sperringer delivers a pass during Friday's game against Elkins.
Andrew Grimm WRAPPED UP — Brooke tailback Cole Bolen is wrapped up by Elkins defenders after a short gain on Friday night.
Andrew Grimm NICE CATCH — Brooke's Grant Yost hauls in a deep ball in the third quarter against Elkins on Friday night at Brooke Memorial Stadium. Yost scored an 80-yard touchdown on the play, but Elkins ultimately prevailed, 49-12.
Andrew Grimm BACK TO PASS — Brooke quarterback Kamden Sperringer delivers a pass during Friday's game against Elkins.
Andrew Grimm WRAPPED UP — Brooke tailback Cole Bolen is wrapped up by Elkins defenders after a short gain on Friday night.
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WELLSBURG -- The Brooke football team struggled to slow down Elkins powerful running game and the offense could not keep up as the visiting Tigers took a 49-12 win at Brooke Memorial Stadium on Friday night.
The Bruins fell behind 14-0 after one quarter on a pair of long scoring runs by the Tigers and trailed 21-0 at halftime.
Brooke’s defense got a stop to start the second half, but the visitors returned a punt for a score to go up 28-0 midway through the third.
Brooke finally got something going on the first snap of the next drive when Bruins quarterback Kamden Sperringer delivered a perfect pass to senior receiver Grant Yost in stride and he hauled it in and went 80-yards to put the Bruins on the board.
The Tigers, though, answered with a long scoring run on the next drive and got a pick-six on the drive after that to put things away.
The Bruins did add a late touchdown on their last drive, Memphis McCoy scoring on a short run to cap a nice scoring drive by Brooke’s reserve unit and conclude the scoring.
Elkins, which improved to 8-1 with the victory and solidified its spot in the Class AAA playoff race, closes its regular season next week against Preston.
The Bruins, now 4-5, will look to snap a four-game slide and finish the regular season at .500 when they host rival Weir High in the annual clash of neighboring schools on Paul “Bud” Billiard Field next Friday.