Football Roundup: Pack Clips Cards, Cloud Falls in OT, Dogs Down Panthers

Photos by Bobbie Cruzan

Fremont 62 Orchard View 28
The Packers came into Cardinal country and put a bit of a damper on the OV Homecoming as they built a 32 -12 lead by intermission then added another 30 points in the second half for the runaway win. The victory snapped a 12 game conference skid.
Coach Hudson: "We are happy for our guys to see some things click for us on Friday.  We challenged them in every facet of the game this week and we were able to capitalize in each area, from recovering some onsides, turnovers, and executing a new passing concept this week.
"We hope this win will build some much-needed momentum for the remaining 1/3 of the season.  We will be tested each of our final three weeks of the season, so we will need to continue improving every day in order to compete on Friday nights."
Karter Frens scored the first 2 TDs of the game, the first from a yard out and the next a 41 yard scamper. OV responded later in the first with a 33 yard TD strike from Cardinal QB Peyton Babbitt to Tyshawn Smith to pull the hosts within 6. Early in the second the Pack struck again with Frens found a hole and scored from 22 yards out. Once again OV responded with a passing TD to pull within a score but a pair of Packer drives that ended with Talen Reichert-Slater taking it in from a yard out each time gave Fremont the 20 point halftime lead.
The 4 second half TDs came from Frens and Khai Noordyk.
Frens finished with 228 yards and Noordyk added 118.
Trentyn Corley and Asa Barnhard led the team in tackles with 7 apiece. Tritan Corrigan picked off a pair of Cardinal passes and Barnhard also grabbed an interception.

Morley Stanwood 18 White Cloud 12
White Cloud battled to bring home a homecoming win, but the Morley Stanwood visitors prevailed in overtime to capture the conference win.
Jayden Robinson found an open Jayden Graves for one WC score and Reece Johnson tallied the other on the ground. Johnson put up  103 yards rushing and Graves finished with 71 receiving yards.
On defense David Higgs led the Cloud with 10 tackles including a pair of clutch 4th down sacks.
White Cloud (0-2, 1-5) will continue conference play with a visit to Kent City.

Ravenna 42 Hesperia 10
The Bulldogs took care of business at home sending the Panthers to their 4th straight loss after opening the season 2-0
Blake Sayer hit on 11 of his 21 passes for 142 yards with 9 tosses going to his favorite target Ian Fox 2 hitting Thor Klaus and 2 falling in the hands of the Bulldogs. Sayer and Fox connected for the lone Panther TD. Roger De La Sierra booted a field goal for Hesperia.
Skyler Stalbaum grinded out a tough 35 yards against a rugged Ravenna D-line and also led the defense with 9 tackles with Klaus just behind him with 8.
Hesperia (0-3, 2-4) will head to Scottville Friday to face the Spartans