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Winless Kettle Run scores third TD of year in 40-7 loss to Eastern View
Kettle Run High football coach Jeff Lloyd summed up his team's state of affairs Friday night after its contest with Eastern View High School: "It's been the same thing all year. We do one thing well one time, and then we look horrible two plays in a row."
In other words, one step forward, two steps back.
By contrast, when Eastern View running back Stevie Strother takes two steps back, it's merely the prelude to about 50 steps forward to the end zone.
Strother made it look easy against the Cougars, rattling off 249 yards and five touchdowns on 16 carries as the Cyclones handed Kettle Run its second straight 40-7 defeat.
In this battle of first year schools, Eastern View improved to 3-1 with the win. The Cougars fall to 0-5.
“He's a very talented kid,” Lloyd said of Strother, a senior who used to attend Culpeper County High. “He's faster than any kid I have on any team.”
Strother took it in from 18 yards out on Eastern View's opening drive to give the Cyclones a 6-0 lead. Two drives later, after EV quarterback Cody Whitlock fired a 40-yard TD strike to Matt Case to make it 13-0, Strother took an underhanded pitchout from Whitlock, reversed field after seemingly being trapped behind the line of scrimmage, turned the corner and raced down the sideline for a 48-yard score that increased the first-quarter lead to 20-0.
“Obviously, Stevie is a special player. He's so hard to get a hit on, and his field vision is so good,” said Eastern View coach Greg Hatfield.
“They knew the play that was coming, and they shifted to the right,” said Strother, “so when I got the pitch, I could see that the whole team was to the right, so I just cut back and used my speed.”
Kettle Run lived up to the second half of its name at times, thanks to kick returner Jimmy Hargro, who twice ran back kickoffs into Eastern View territory in the first quarter, but fell apart once its offense took the field...See the Wednesday print edition of the Fauquier Times-Democrat for the complete story.
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