![]() 5 - looked like the Lancer legend breaking a couple of tackles and racing to the endzone for a 25-yard touchdown with 1:21 left in the first quarter to open the scoring.Īfter a three-and-out by Marana on its next posession, Salpointe got the ball at the Marana 47. Salpointe gained possession at the Marana 25 after the punt, and senior running back Jaxson Banhie - wearing Bijan Robinson’s No. Rushing’s sack of Wood, a loss of 9 yards, forced Marana to punt from its 1. ![]() Salpointe’s defense pinned the Tigers at their 1-yard-line after a Lancer field-goal attempt was blocked, giving Marana the ball at its 7 with 3:26 left in the first quarter. Marana’s possessions in the first half ended with three punts, a fake punt that did not result with enough yardage for a first down and a missed field goal. Recorded a sack on the very first play and the Tigers could not consistently find their rhythm in Salpointe’s 35-14 win to open the season. served notice from the start that D would be disruptive against Marana’s potent offense. “After getting that (first) sack, proved I can do it. “My thoughts coming into it (the game), was ‘Go, go, go,'” Wilhite said. Wood finished a respectable 21-of-35 for 181 yards with a touchdown, but he started 8-of-16 for 59 yards. The Tigers mustered only 22 yards rushing on 20 attempts. Marana’s rushing game never got on track, and Wood could not get into a consistent rhythm engineering the Tigers’ usually potent, fast-paced, no-huddle, short-read attack. He finished with minus-14 yards on the ground on 12 carries. Wood was sacked five times in the game - Rushing had two of them - and was constantly under duress. He sacked Wood on the first offensive play of the game. ![]() Wilhite served notice from the start that he and Rushing will be a terror for opposing offenses. Offensive plays did not develop as quick as he wanted. coach knows that although the outcome of Friday’s 35-14 loss to Salpointe wasn’t what he wanted, that the lessons learned will be invaluable – in his players’ minds and from the film. I told my tackles, ‘Hey, you’re trying to college, block one of those guys, and those schools will be coming after you.’ It was good for our guys to see that level of play.” “Watching those two (Rushing and Wilhite) tonight, they did what they’re supposed to do,” said Steward, who played major-college football at Houston before a stint with the Rams of the NFL. His offense, behind the play of Jason Wood and graduated Elijah Joplin at quarterback last season, averaged 47.8 points a game. The 14-point total is the second-lowest of Steward’s tenure. The victory was the 27th straight for Salpointe against Southern Arizona teams dating to the 2017 season when Jamarye Joiner and Cienega defeated the Lancers 30-20. Salpointe’s Keona Wilhite (50) and Richard Archuleta (6) track down a Marana ball carrier in the Lancers’ 35-14 win over the Tigers on Friday night (Lexie Fegan/Special to )Įventually, Arizona commits Elijah Rushing and Keona Wilhite will have a nickname befitting of their dominance, displayed for the first time in their senior season at Salpointe Friday night in a 35-14 win over a commonly-potent Marana offense under third-year coach Phillip Steward.
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