The road to Canton doesn’t get any easier after Friday. We’ve just got to keep these classes together and have no attrition and work hard in the offseason.” We want to develop that program to where we have 21 seniors, and that’s when you know you’ve arrived as a program. That’s what I told our guys after the game. They played tonight with 21 seniors and we’re starting seven freshmen, but no excuses. They’ve worked hard for three years and I’m glad they were able to experience success,” Pelini said. “We had a small senior class, but they were really good leaders, always. The Cardinals are young, but coach Carl Pelini is optimistic about what’s to come for the Mooney program.Ĭardinal Mooney’s Ashton O’Brien throws a pass Friday night against South Range during their regional semifinal matchup at Girard’s Arrowhead Stadium. Just as South Range is using Mooney as a yardstick of what they want to achieve, Mooney is using South Range as a yardstick back at them. The Cardinals’ fantastic turnaround year ends with a 6-7 record after posting a 1-9 mark the year prior. Unfortunately for Mooney, that was the only time they would cross the goal line. Mooney drove down the field on their opening drive of the second half and capped it off with a 1-yard O’Brien rush. The Cardinals didn’t just lay down however. Our defense held down to six points which is unbelievable.” The offensive line, our receivers, our running backs, Billy, our defense. “The total outcome of the ballgame, like I said, it wasn’t one person, it was everybody. Those little sequences, those little plays were huge. “In that sequence, he had a bat down, had an interception and had a nice return off the interception. “It’s hard to talk about one person because they all did a super job,” Yeagley said. Those little sequences added up for South Range by the end of the game. Just a few plays later, Skripac hit JD Crouse on a 17-yard strike to establish that two-score lead. Crumbacher took the ball 44 yards to put South Range 21 yards away from a 14-0 lead. The following play, Crumbacher came up big again, this time on an interception. But those fingertips, belonging to Brady Crumbacher, broke the pass up and saved the Raiders from a tie ballgame. Mooney quarterback Ashton O’Brien was mere fingertips away from connecting with a receiver on a surefire touchdown.
In the end, it was a little bit of a sloppy game, we still have things to improve, but in the end, we won.”Īfter the first touchdown of the night, a 1-yard run by Skripac that capped off a 99-yard drive, a two-play sequence on the following Cardinal possession really helped South Range establish a lead. “We had to respond to a few turnovers when we were in the red zone and didn’t score. “That was really how the whole night was for us,” Skripac said. There was some sloppiness, as to be expected, but every time there was a mistake made, South Range found a way to respond and recover from it. Skripac went 11-of-18 for 198 yards and three touchdowns through the air, then added 78 more on the ground and two scores.
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