Maples romp over Mikes, improve to 5-0
Mapletown蘑菇视频 Landan Stevenson (1) wards off a Carmichaels defender during Friday night蘑菇视频 game at Mapletown. Stevenson ran for 140 yards and three touchdowns in the Maples鈥� 42-0 victory. (Photo by Rob Burchianti)
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Mapletown蘑菇视频 Cohen Stout (79) tackles Carmichels鈥� Ambrose Anderson during Friday night蘑菇视频 game at Mapletown. Stout made 12 tackles in the Maples鈥� 42-0 win.
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Mapletown蘑菇视频 A.J. Vanata dives into the end zone for a touchdown in the first quarter of Friday night蘑菇视频 game against Carmichaels at Mapletown.
Mapletown's Brody Evans (22) breaks up a pass intended for Carmichaels' Cannon Bupka (2) during Friday night's game at Mapletown.
Carmichaels' Tyler Richmond (11) looks for running room after catching a pass during Friday night's game at Mapletown.
Mapletown coach George Messich greets Josh Howard with a high five as he comes off the field during Friday night's game against Carmichaels at Mapletown.
Mapletown蘑菇视频 Brock Evans (32) signals its the Maples ball as Levi Howard (58) celebrates after recovering a Carmichaels fumble during Friday night蘑菇视频 game at Mapletown. (Photo by Rob Burchianti)
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Mapletown蘑菇视频 Landan Stevenson eyes up Carmichaels鈥� Harley Stoneking as he runs the ball during Friday night蘑菇视频 game at Mapletown. Stevenson scored three touchdowns and kicked six extra points in the Maples鈥� 42-0 victory and surpassed Dylan Rush as the school蘑菇视频 all-time leading scorer with 521 points.
Carmichaels' Alec Anderson is hurried into throwing an incomplete pass by Mapletown's A.J. Vanata during Friday night's game at Mapletown.
Carmichaels' Cannon Bupka tackles Mapletown's Brock Evans during Friday night's game at Mapletown.
Mapletown's A.J. Vanata makes a shoestring tackle on Carmichaels' Alec Anderson during Friday night's game at Mapletown.
Mapletown's Landan Stevenson (1) follows the blocking A.J. Vanata (2) after taking a handoff from Brody Evans (23) during Friday night's game against Carmichaels at Mapletown.
Carmichaels' Alec Anderson (7) follows the blocking of Peyton Schooley (20) during a running play in Friday night's game at Mapletown.
Mapletown's Landan Stevenson turns the corner as he runs the ball against Carmichaels during Friday night's game at Mapletown.
Mapletown's Landan Stevenson kicks the extra point after a first-quarter touchdown by the Maples in Friday night's game against Carmichaels at Mapletown. Stevenson scored three touchdowns and was 6 for 6 on extra-point kicks during the Maples' 42-0 win.
Evan Griffin (30) leads Mapletown onto the field before the start of its game against Carmichaels on Sept. 23. The Maples remain unbeaten at 5-0 after winning at California, 52-20, last Friday night. (Photo by Rob Burchianti)
GREENSBORO 鈥� It was the Landan Stevenson Show again last Friday night as Mapletown handily defeated Carmichaels 42-0 to remain undefeated in the Class A Tri-County South Conference.
Stevenson, doing double-duty as the primary running back and placekicker, along with teammate A.J. Vanata, led a bruising rushing attack that totaled 240 yards on the ground and five rushing touchdowns.
鈥淥ur plan on offense was to run the football and mix a few passing plays in with it,鈥� Mapletown coach George Messich said. 鈥淎nd defensively, our kids are just real aggressive. We didn鈥檛 change anything. We played defense tonight the way we did the last four games.鈥�
Stevenson did it all for Mapletown (2-0, 5-0), which entered the game 4-0 for the first time since 1997.
On 21 carries, Stevenson rushed for 140 yards and three touchdowns. He also went seven-for-seven on extra-point kicks, caught a pass from Vanata for 27 yards and completed a pass to Vanata for eight yards.
Vanata had nine carries for 64 yards and two rushing touchdowns, covering nine and 12 yards.
鈥�(Vanata and Stevenson) are both very good runners,鈥� Messich said. 鈥淎nd they鈥檒l be the first to tell you though, our offensive line is a lot better than we鈥檝e had in a long time. We have four or five guys up there who do a tremendous job blocking.鈥�
鈥淚 expected them to run the ball and they did,鈥� Carmichaels coach Ron Gallagher said. 鈥淭hey did it efficiently. You know, we were losing every phase of this game. Nothing was really going our way.鈥�
Vanata scored first for Mapletown on an nine-yard run with 7:25 in the first to go up 7-0 with Stevenson adding the extra-point kick.
Mapletown followed with three touchdowns in the second quarter: a six-yard rushing TD by Stevenson, a nine-yard scoring jaunt by Stevenson, and a 15-yard passing touchdown from Brody Evans to Evan Griffin to put Mapletown up 28-0 at halftime.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 ever give a message of being down,鈥� Gallagher said. 鈥淚 said, 鈥楲isten, if they can score 28, so can we.'鈥�
Carmichaels鈥� defense did do better in the second half, but Mapletown still found ways to score. Vanata had a 12-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, and Stevenson had a 10-yard touchdown run in the fourth.
Stevenson finished with 24 points giving him 521 for his career, which breaks the Mapletown school record of 516 that was held by Dylan Rush.
鈥淲e鈥檝e got to look at the film and see what蘑菇视频 going on and get back to fundamental football,鈥� Gallagher said. 鈥淏ecause we didn鈥檛 play really good fundamentally.鈥�
The Mikes will look to bounce back in their next game at Beth-Center. Mapletown has another key TCS game at California.