Sports off
Campus
By Jerry Ulmer
Staff writer
High School Game of the Week
Lakeridge stings Rex Putnam
Lakeridge’s Dane Walker
I returned the opening kickoff 96
I yards for a touchdown Friday
I night, setting the tone as the
I number one ranked and
I unbeaten Pacers stung Three
I Rivers League rival Rex Putnam
145-0 before a homecoming
I crowd at Lake Oswego High
I School.
The
victory
pushed
I Lakeridge’s record to 5-0, keep-
I ing them tied atop the TRL with
I number three ranked Canbv.
I who won at West Linn 41-22
■ Friday. Lakeridge will play at
ICanby Oct. 30. Putnam fell to
13-3 in league and fifth place
■ with the loss.
When senior Mike Miadich
Ihit Mike Held for a 98 yard
I scoring pass to make it 14-0
I midway through the first
I quarter, it was apparent that
[Lakeridge would gain revenge
[for last year’s 35-27 loss to Put-
Inam.
Miadich went on to throw
four touchdown passes, three to
the senior Held, en route to 346
yards passing on 15 for 26. The
effort included touchdown
bombs of 70 and 64 yards in the
fourth quarter for the Pacers
final two scores, well after the
game was out of reach.
Putnam’s offensive game
plan fizzled when it Jost its
leading ground gainer, senior
Dan Ruhl, to a season-ending
knee injury early in the second
quarter. But even with Ruhl, the
Putnam offense was stagnant as
the Pacers dominated the line of
scrimmage, led by senior defen
sive end Ben Finklea.
The Putnam offense manag
ed just 119 total yards to 490 for
Lakeridge. Putnam quarter
backs Dan Keswick and Brock
Dressel were constantly dealing
with a ferocious pass rush and
were sacked four times by a
defense that registered its se
cond consecutive shutout. “I
thought we played very, very
well,” said Lakeridge Coach
Tom Smythe.
If there was any doubt about
the Pacers 17-0 halftime lead, it
was quickly put to rest at the
start of the second half.
Lakeridge marched 70 yards on
nine plays to make it 24-0, cap
ped by Held’s 17 yard
touchdown run. During the
drive, Held carried the ball five
times for 51 yards, running ex
clusively to the left, as they got
“back to basics,” said Smythe.
The next Lakeridge drive stall
ed at the Putnam 10 yard line
when Miadich was intercepted by
Jeff Peters. But Keswick fumbl
ed the snap from center on the
next play, and Lakeridge
linebacker Carmen MacDonald
recovered at the Putnam seven.
Held scored his third touchdown
on a seven yard pass from
Miadich to follow. That made it
31-0 and the hunt for the
astronomical victory margin was
on.
Lakeridge looked for more in
the fourth quarter. Miadich
stayed in and fired touchdown
bombs to Chris Richards and
Garrett Sullivan, and even had a
58 yard touchdown pass to
Richards called back because of
holding.
Smythe’s fourth quarter play
calling raised questions as to
whether he was making Putnam
pay for last year. Let’s face it, if
the situation was on “You Make
the Call,” how many of us would
call for the long ball with a 31-0
lead?
“We’re getting ready for the
playoffs, and we want to play our
starting quarterback for at least
one play in the fourth quarter,”
said Smythe, “I didn’t see them
take their first stringers out. If
they’re going to play a seven man
front and blitz people and expect
us to hand the ball off and get
killed, that’s bull—! If you think
I’m running up the score, you’re
way off base.”
Was Smythe thinking of last
year? “Last year is over, this is a
new year,” he said. “Last year,
when they (Putnam) hurt our
quarterback (Jason Palumbis),
5,000 people gave their defense a
standing ovation. Tonight, after
Ruhl got hurt, we showed some
class.”
“This team doesn’t care who
gets the credit,” said Smythe as
the Pacers won for the thirteenth
time in 14 tries versus Putnam.
“We got 45 guys pulling
together.”
Putnam Coach Rusty Law
knows his team can’t afford
another loss. “We’ll be back to
work Monday with a positive at
titude,” said Law. “We’ve got to
win two in a row to get into the
Kansas Plan, at least. I’m not
disappointed, I’m proud of our
kids. They played hard.”
The sprinkler system
mysteriously came on with four
minutes left in the game, but not
even that ould douse the spirits of
a Lakeridge parade.
first Downs
Rushes-Yds
Passing Yds
Tola! Yds
Turnovers
PUT
9
21-68
51
119
4
LAK
17
27-155
335
490
5
PASSING - Lakeridge - Miadich J5-26-2
346, Nussmeier 0-2-0 0 - Putnam - Keswick
5-15-1 41, Dressel 3-13-1 27, O’Neill 0-1-00.
RUSHING - Lakeridge - Miadich 11-53;
Held 9-77, Nussmeier 3-11, Richards 1-3,
Gatto 1-1, Walker 1-3, Smith 1-7 - Putnam
-Hedrick '6-42, Stenholm 5-5, Ruhl 4-8.
Passadore 2-9, Swanson 2-0, Williams 1-2,
O’Neill 1-2. .
RECEIVING - Lakeridge - Held 3-Î25,
Richards 5-ÎO7, Gatto 3-14, Bassö 2-28.
Walker 1-8, Sullivan 1-64 - Putnam -O’Neill
2-19, Kobs2-13, Swanson 2-12, Dressel 1-1Ö,
Brandel 1-14.
1st- LAK
LAK
2nd-LAK
3rd- LAK
• LAK
4th- LAK
LAK
Walker 96 KO return
7 -0
Held 98 pass from Miadich ’
- 1 4 -0
Martinez 23 FG
.1.7 -0
Held 17 run
■ 2 4 -0
Held 7 pass from Miacich
.3 1 -0
Richards 70 pass from Miadich. 33 -0
Sullivan 64 pass from Miadich" 4 5 - 0
Lakeridge 14 3 14 14-45
Putnam
0 0 0 0-0
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