VEEDERSBURG – Fountain Central hosted Attica in football on Friday night and had seven possessions in the first quarter.
The Mustangs scored on all of those drives, often in only two or three plays as they opened a 50-0 lead after one period on their way to a 64-12 final.
Scoring for the hosts in that first period were Owen Acton on a 10-yard run, a 60-yard run and a 33-yard pick-six, Dawson Blue on a 38-yard breakaway, JD Allen on a 15-yard run and a 1-yard run and Lincoln Hoffa on a 6-yard carry.
On the first six touchdowns, Uriah Wildman kicked an extra point, but on the seventh, lineman Andrew Mendoza ran for two points to push the Mustang total to fifty.
Fountain Central, using reserve players in the second quarter, added to their lead when Dakota Willoughby scored from two yards out with the Wildman kick making it 57-0.
On their next drive, the Mustangs tried a field goal that missed and then Attica reached the scoreboard.
A six-play drive capped off by a 48-yard touchdown pass by the Ramblers made the score 57-6 when the two-point run came up short.
That was the tally as the first half came to an end, with the margin being large enough to cause a running clock with the start of the third quarter.
When it began, Fountain Central drove into Rambler territory and tried a field goal, but this one saw an Attica player block the kick.
The visitors then made another good drive that ended in a 5-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter for a 57-12 score.
The junior varsity Mustangs then went 58-yards in six plays with Caylum Wills and Paul Adams doing most of the carrying with the latter scoring from a yard out to make the final score 64-12 after the Wildman kick.
Attica had one last possession and they completed a 42-yard pass that saw the receiver knocked out of bounds on the ½-yard line as the horn sounded to end the game.
“We just overwhelmed them on both sides of the ball,” Fountain Central head coach Herb King said. “We did what we wanted in that first quarter, went to our backups in the second quarter and used our JV in the second half.”
He added, “We didn’t want to run the score up on them late so we gave our [JV] kids a chance and also tried for field goals instead of touchdowns.”
With the win, Fountain Central moves to 4-1 and 3-0 in the Wabash River Conference and will face Seeger at home next Friday.
