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WOODLAWN BEARS GRAB ANOTHER WIN AGAINST DERMOTT RAMS

By Britt Talent/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL
Friday, November 6, 2009 2:18 AM CST

DERMOTT — The fact that the Woodlawn Bears were playing their second game within a 72-hour span seemed to have little consequence Thursday night as they rolled up the winless Dermott Rams 38-0 at Sportsman’s Field in Dermott.

Woodlawn had just a two-day turnaround to prepare for the Rams after beating the Smackover Buckaroos 28-7, on Monday night at the Carl Jones Sports Complex to lock up the No. 3 seed from the 8-2A Conference.

The Woodlawn-Smackover game was originally scheduled for Friday, Oct. 30, but flooding in the Smackover area late last week closed the school there Friday and postponed the game until Monday.

The Bears improved to 7-3 overall and 6-2 in conference play with the win. They will host the No. 3 seed from the 3-2A Conference in the first round of the Class 2A playoffs next Friday at Woodlawn.

The Rams, who fell to 0-10 with the loss, offered little resistance during Thursday’s game.

Woodlawn scored on six of its seven possessions, and recorded two safeties after snaps sailed out of the end zone.

The Bears’ Blake Brown set the tone early as he accounted for Woodlawn’s first two touchdowns. The first came on a 22-yard run capping a four-play drive after Dermott failed to convert on fourth-and-seven at its own 39.

The Rams then snapped the ball out of the end zone on its ensuing possession, and on the ensuing free kick Brown went 68 yards for the his second touchdown. Ryker Smith’s second two-point conversion after made it 16-0 with 6:35 left in the first quarter.

Woodlawn Coach Marion Glover left his first-team offense in for one more series. The Bears drove 57 yards in six plays with Dillon Aldy, another sophomore, scoring on a 1-yard run. Smith’s kick made it 23-0 with 1:09 left in the first quarter.

Dermott would fumble the ball back to Woodlawn at its own 25 on the first play of its next possession, and three plays later Dalton Fowler was scoring from 3 yards out. Another PAT from Smith made it 30-0 with 11:05 remaining in the second quarter.

After the Rams turned the ball over at their own 30 on the ensuing kickoff, Glover pulled the throttle way back.

Running between the tackles on every play, Dalton Tollett sprang for an eight-yard gain on third-and-1 to pick up a first down at the Rams’ 3. Glover sent in Smith on the next play for an 18-yard field goal that pushed Woodlawn’s lead to 33-0 with about 2:15 left in the first half.

Glover started using his newly-arrived freshmen in the second half.

After Aldy returned the second half kick off 45 yards to the Dermott 30, the Bears drove to the Dermott 10 before Glover settled for a 27-yard field goal from Smith, making it 36-0 to invoke the mercy rule with 5:01 left in the third.

Dermott ended its next drive with its second safety when another snap sailed over quarterback Adrian Hill’s head and out of the back of the end zone.

Woodlawn’s final drive ended with Smith missing a 38-yard field goal attempt.

The Bears never attempted a pass in the game, and rarely took the ball outside the tackles.

Dermott managed just 60 yards of offense for the night with LaQuan Jones accounting for 55 of that on a long run against the reserves late in the second quarter.

Brown led the Bears in rushing with 57 yards on three carries, followed by Lane Brooks with 32 yards on four carries, freshman Bret Boyd with 31 on six carries, and Dillon Tollett with 29 yards on seven carries.

Freshmen Boyd, Robert Pevey and Austin Logan all saw action in the offensive backfield.

Woodlawn had 207 yards rushing on the night.

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