Ahmad Green rushed for 139 yards in the loss, as the Sharks emptied the playbook in an effort to get a score against a team allowing about 6 points per game.
“That’s what we did Sunday. We just kind of went to work and started looking to see what we could find weakness-wise. There’s not a whole lot of weakness,” coach Rodney Summers said.
“They’ve got a lot of talent over there and it seems year in and year out they keep doing it, and there’s a reason they’ve only lost two games in five years.”
May River received the ball to open the game but misplayed the return and got pinned deep at its own 10-yard line. But then the Sharks did what seemed an impossible task coming into the game: move the ball on their first drive. The Sharks marched down the field by rushing Green and Brandon Morales and got to the Wildcat 28 in 10 plays. On the 11th play, however, Green dropped back for a pass and was picked off by cornerback Daizon Alford, who returned it 80 yards for the first score.
“Our question mark when we put the film on was, ‘Can we run the ball on these guys?’” Summers said.
“We knew it was going to be tough. After that drive, we were like, the kids came off the field like, ‘Hey, we can move the ball, we can run it coach.’”