Bucks Pound St. Joe’s 48-27

bucks-footballFARWELL – The first time Bucktail and St. Joseph met in week 1 it was a 12-0 victory Bucktail. Tonight it was a shoot-out by both offensive teams as Bucktail landed its third victroy of the season by a score of 48-27. Bucktail’s Gage Sutliff left the game earlily with a hip pointer. Tanner Riggle was called upon to pick up the slack when it was the fourth quarter and the Bucks needed a first down on third and long. The St. Joe’s defense knew that he was getting the ball and had no answer for stopping him this night.

Riggle was just a running machine for over 200 hundred yards. He would just run over the Wolf’s defensive players. Riggle runs of 35, 75, 88 and 60 yards, scoring 4 touchdowns on the night.

Buck quarterback, Richard Perry had an outstanding night throwing the ball for two touchdowns through the air and one rushing touchdown. He had a nice throw and run pass to WR Logan Long for a 88 yard touchdown, one of two on the night.

On defense Liam Dwyer had two key interceptions in the fourth quarter, one right on the goal line.

The shoot-out started off early as St. Joe scored first and Bucktail first play was a 35 yard touchdown by Riggle. The Wolfs would score again and Bucktail would answer with a 14 yard touchdown run by Perry making it 13-12 Wolfs at the end of the first quarter.

Bucktail started to build momentum as they scored twice in the second quarter on a 88 yard touchdown pass from Perry to L. Long. Perry had a nice pass to Gavin Becker for 25 yards as it set it up for the 1 yard run by Riggle making it 26-13 at the half.

In the third quarter the momentum was stasrting to go the Wolf’s way when the St. Joe’s defense held the Bucks on a fourth and three to start their drive on the Bucks 22 yardline. The Wolf’s offense would eat up the rest of the third quarter as neither team would score.

In the fourth quarter the shoot-out started again as St. Joe would finish that drive making it 26-21 Bucks. Riggle would break one for some 50 yards before getting drug down on the one yard line as the Bucks coaching staff would call Riggle’s number to finish the touchdown. But again, St. Joe’s would answer back with a touchdown of their own, making the score 34-27 at the 5:55 mark. This time Perry would find L. Long for a 19 yard touchdown to put Bucktail up 41-27.

Dwyer would have his first interception and return it back to the Wolf’s 25 yardline. First play from scrimmage Riggle ran for a 75 yard touchdown making it 48-27. St. Joe’s would not go quietly this night and made one last attempt to score. Fortunately for Bucktail, Dwyer would come up with yet another interception on the goal line as the Bucks would run the final 1:36 off the clock for its third victory of the year.

Sept. 22, 2017 1 2 3 4 TOTAL
ST JOSEPH 13 0 0 14 27
BUCKTAIL 12 14 0 22 4848

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