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Buckeye Dominates Clearview In PAC (9/24/2016)
YORK TWP. — Bill Turner knows a mismatch when he sees one. When the 27-year assistant coach and 11-year offensive coordinator sees it, he exploits it. On Friday in the Buckeye football team’s final tuneup before Patriot Athletic Conference Stars Division action, Turner called one play over and over and over again. By the time the PAC crossover game with Clearview concluded, Buckeye was on the right side 42-14. Most it was because of the jet sweep, which the team ran 20 times for 268 yards. “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Coach Turner for 20 years, and he’s outstanding,”
Bucks coach Mark Pinzone said. “Now, he’s crazier than a $3 bill, but he’s one of the hardest-working coaches, technicians, film-watchers and breaker-downers of film that I’ve seen. His understanding of the game is second to none.” Against the Clippers (1-4), Justin Canedy was second to none as well. With Clearview missing injured defensive end DeAri Todd, who has nine Division I offers, Buckeye (4-1) continually ran right at the spot he vacated. Canedy ran for a career-high 246 yards on 14 carries (17.6 yards per carry) and scored four touchdowns — all on jet sweeps. He had scoring runs of 40, 18, 60 and 37 yards, taking what his offensive line gave him and continually running up the sideline virtually untouched.
“He’s finally healthy,” Pinzone said. “He’s had hamstring issues throughout. We started resting him up and getting him ready. “We know he’s good. Coach Turner knows he’s good. When he’s healthy, he’s as dangerous as can be. He showed himself, he can really put us to another level. He can be a difference maker and game-changer. He’s seeing that himself and that’s the difference.”
The fact the 6-foot, 170-pound junior did things in essentially 2? quarters shows just how vital he was against Clearview. With two first-half touchdowns, Canedy had the Bucks up 28-6 at intermission. Only 15 seconds into the third quarter, he made it a 29-point game. The Clippers didn’t sit their starters — the first string was on the field for all but one play — and cut it back to a 21-point spread with 2:21 remaining in the third quarter. So Canedy trotted back onto the field and scored his final touchdown on a 37-yard scamper for the last points of the game. “I’ve never had a game quite like that,” Canedy said. “I got great blocking. You just follow them and take it right up the sideline. We kept up our technique as if (Todd) was in there. They were playing the jet off, so the daylight was there.”
Canedy’s big night opened up holes for quarterback Michael Doerge, who finished with six carries for 52 yards and a score. That kept Clearview on its heels, as the Bucks racked up 347 yards on the ground and 386 overall, picking up 9.1 yards per rush and 8.6 per play. “The jet always opens up the quarterback run stuff,” Doerge said. “I think how well we did on the edge really opened up the longer runs for us.” The win gave Buckeye its 12th consecutive regular-season win at home and geared it up for Stars Division play against Wellington as the Bucks look to defend their conference crown the next five weeks.
While Buckeye can’t go undefeated in the regular season like it did a year ago, the quest to repeat as league champs and get in the Division III, Region 9 playoffs is a real scenario at the midway point of 2016. “A big win like this will help us the rest of the season,” Doerge said. “I think everything is building. We’re getting better. The backups are coming in and getting stronger. We’ll get a lot of momentum off of this.” Contact Brad Bournival at sports@medina-gazette.com.
