High school football highlights: LexCath lights up Lafayette, Trinity stays undefeated.
Highlights from Week 8 of the high school football season around Kentucky on Friday night:
Lexington Catholic 43, Lafayette 0: Jack Gohmann tossed three touchdown passes and ran for two more as the Knights pounded the host Generals for their third straight win.
Lexington Catholic (4-2) built a 36-0 halftime lead and churned out 375 yards of offense on the night. Gohmann completed six of 10 passes and gashed Lafayette (1-4) with big plays. He connected with Blake Busson for a 97-yard touchdown to make it 29-0 early in the second quarter and capped the scoring with a 35-yard TD strike to Jackson Klein in the third.
Seven different LexCath defenders were credited with sacks as the Knights held Lafayette to 123 yards of offense. Owen Hellard had 50 yards rushing for the Generals, while Noah King caught three passes for 43 yards.
Pulaski County 42, Tates Creek 19: The Maroons (7-1) got a pair of blocked punts, including one returned 24 yards for a touchdown by Jerricho Dixon and a 35-yard interception return TD from Aiden Wesley, as they overcame a slow start and pulled away in the fourth quarter for their seventh straight win. Tates Creek had TD runs from Matthew Underwood and Ke’Shon Douthitt. The Commodores hung tight with Pulaski for a while as Aaron Klein’s 55-yard pass to Trepeon Broadus cut the lead to 21-19 about midway through the third.
Southwestern 41, Madison Central 35: Tanner Wright’s 4-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter gave Southwestern a 41-27 lead and the visiting Warriors held on to get the best of a back-and-forth battle.
Madison Central (1-6) struck first on a 1-yard TD plunge from Canon Scenters. Southwestern (7-1) responded with a 3-yard TD run by Connor Crisp followed by a 25-yard touchdown by Wright to take its first lead at 14-7 late in the first.
A 66-yard touchdown run by Adrien Parks gave Madison Central a 27-21 halftime lead.
Southwestern took control in the second half, scoring three unanswered touchdowns. The Warriors pulled back ahead on Crisp’s 40-yard TD rush. Wright’s second TD for Southwestern produced the only two-score lead of the night by either team. After Parks got Madison Central within six points on a 9-yard score with 3:31 to play, Southwestern converted a pair of first downs — one via a face-mask penalty on the Indians — then ran out the clock.
Parks ran for 153 yards and averaged 8.5 yards per carry for Madison Central, while Jayden West caught three passes for 128 yards and two touchdowns. Crisp accounted for 137 of Southwestern’s 296 rushing yards.
Covington Catholic 38, Simon Kenton 3: Owen Nally ran for a 13-yard touchdown and caught a 9-yard scoring strike from Caleb Jacob as the visiting Colonels (7-0) jumped out to a 13-0 first-quarter lead on their way to a romp.
After Simon Kenton (3-5) got on the board via a 25-yard field goal by Nick Seger, Owens ran for a 3-yard TD to make it 28-3 Colonels at halftime.
Jacob completed 20 of 30 passes for 280 yards and two touchdowns for Covington Catholic (7-0), which has surrendered just one touchdown in its last five games. Max Lawrie made two sacks for the Colonels’ defense. Jayden Lawson ran for 44 yards in the loss.
Mercer County 26, Western Hills 12: Trosper Buchanan opened the scoring with a 4-yard bootleg and finished the day with a 1-yard TD sneak as the Titans (5-1) rolled off 26 points before Western Hills could answer late. Buchanan also had a 56-yard TD pass to Aaron Caton and Brayden Dunn added a 19-yard score.
Danville 28, Raceland 25: Caleb Burns had 22 carries for 124 yards and TD runs of 4, 51 and 15 yards as the Admirals (4-2) outlasted the Rams (4-4) in a game that didn’t exist on the schedule until Thursday. Danville’s Sage Dawson completed 16 of 27 passes for 179 yards and a 20-yard TD to Blake Jones that came on a fourth-and-13 play. Will Nichols recovered a fumble and took it in for a TD that put Raceland up 18-14 just before halftime.
Boyle County 53, Madison Southern 7: The Rebels (6-0) jumped all over the visiting Eagles, running the score to 43-0 by halftime and getting four TD passes from quarterback Jagger Gillis and two rushing scores from Will McDaniel. Gillis hit Cole Lanter for scores of 30, 20 and 31 yards and had a 44-yard TD bomb to Luke Shepperson. Hayden Kelly tacked on a 90-yard kickoff return. Cameron Holbrook got the Eagles (3-3) TD.
Franklin County 47, North Oldham 8: Playing without regular starter Nick Broyles at quarterback, the Flyers offense looked different, but still devastating against the Mustangs with Kaden Moorman carrying the load with 100 yards of rushing offense and three touchdowns. Zach Claudio scored twice, including a 79 yard interception return TD. Franklin County (4-1) stifled North Oldham’s offense allowing only 38 total yards and getting four turnovers.
Lincoln County 46, Rockcastle County 24: Clayton Davis scored on TD runs of 3, 39 and 70 yards and Lee Amon added rushing touchdowns of 10 and 34 yards as the Patriots (5-3) controlled from the outset. Thaden Garr and Ben Harris also tallied in the rout.
Johnson Central 35, Belfry 14: Dylan Preston broke a 52-yard touchdown run after Belfry mishandled a first quarter kickoff and the Golden Eagles (7-0) never looked back in this battle of defending Class 4A and Class 3A champions. Preston finished with 136 yards and three touchdowns. Johnson Central QB Grant Rice had the other two, both on runs. Isaac Dixon led the Pirates with 98 yards rushing and two touchdowns.
West Carter 25, Russell 21: Orry Perry tossed a 41-yard Hail Mary that was tipped in the end zone and caught by Gage Leadingham as time expired to give the Comets (7-1) their first win over Russell in 28 tries, according to the Daily Independent’s Matthew Sparks. West Carter also got scores from a Leetavious Cline 51-yard interception return for a TD just before halftime and a Perry TD pass to Logan Berry.
Wayne County 43, North Laurel 8: Braedon Sloan rushed for 243 yards and five touchdowns on his way to breaking the Cardinals’ career rushing mark set by his father, James Sloan in 1990, according to the game story by the Commonwealth Journal’s Steve Cornelius. Sloan broke the record midway through the third quarter of Wayne County’s (3-3) rout of North Laurel. The younger Sloan finished the game with 5,352 yards to his dad’s 5,279.
Corbin 48, Somerset 21: Three fumbles and two interceptions doomed the Briar Jumpers’ bid to knock off the Redhounds. Having starting QB Kaiya Sheron out with an injury also likely did not help. Corbin (6-1) got 111 yards passing and two TDs and another 29 yards on the ground with a score from Cameron Combs. Franklin West returned one of the Somerset fumbles for a touchdown.
Taylor County 28, Bourbon County 26: The Cardinals (7-1) got 188 yards and one TD from Wes Oliver and 131 yards and two scores from backfield mate Kaden Smith.
Trinity 42, Bowling Green 7: Nathan McElroy threw four touchdown passes to Jack Mitchell, including a 15-yarder to set the final score, as the host Shamrocks remained undefeated. Trinity (6-0) has scored 40 or more points in every game this season. Augustin Nyembo’s 53-yard interception return for a score accounted for the only Bowling Green (5-2) touchdown of the night. The Shamrocks’ defense has not allowed a touchdown in its three games.
Walton-Verona 40, Louisville Holy Cross 28: Jacob Gaines ran for 207 yards and two touchdowns as host Walton-Verona (5-3) handed Louisville Holy Cross (5-1) its first loss of the season. Chaz Geraghty connected with Lex Thomason a 6-yard touchdown pass to pull Holly Cross within 33-21 late in the third quarter. Geraghty completed 17 of 33 passes for 191 yards and two TDs.
This story was originally published October 31, 2020 at 12:17 AM.
