Canton GlenOak Golden Eagles @ Hoover

Friday, October 22, 2010

SITE: North Canton Memorial Stadium, 7:30 PM

RECORDS: GlenOak 3-5, Hoover 3-5.

LAST WEEK: Boardman 41 - GlenOak 13; McKinley 28 - Hoover 17.

GLENOAK VS BOARDMAN GAME NOTES:

• GlenOak's Bri'onte Dunn was held under 100 yards rushing for the first time this season. He carried the ball 24 times for 99 yards and a touchdown.
  

• Boardman's Ryan Pollifrone and Trae Robinson each threw for a pair of touchdowns for Boardman. Dayne Hammond led the Spartans with seven catches for 125 yards and two touchdowns
  

LAST MEETING: GlenOak won 13-9, last year.

GLENOAK SCOUTING REPORT:

Inconsistent play, ill-timed mistakes and injuries have put the Golden Eagles in serious danger of missing the playoffs for the first time in head coach Scott Garcia’s four-year tenure. GlenOak’s big plays have dried up. The Eagles haven’t had a TD play of more than 13 yards since Week 2 against Massillon. (1)

The Eagles defense alllowed 34 unanswered points in each of their last two games. (2)

Bri'onte Dunn (Ohio State commit) is 348 rushing yards away from 2,000 on the season.

GlenOak is a very one-dimensional offensive team in regards to production. They have had to rely exclusively on the running game to generate any yardage due to an inconsistant and unproductive passing game. To the Eagle's advantage, they have Bri'onte Dunn who, over the past four weeks has generated 554 rushing yards on 127 carries. (139 yards per game).

GlenOak's passing game by the numbers (comp-att-int-yards):

8-22-2-87 vs Fitch (09-24)

8-20-1-54 vs McKinley (10-01)

7-13-2-154 vs Lake (10-08)

1-9-0-18 vs Boardman (10-15)

That equates to a completion percentage of 38% for 78 yards per game.

In summary, stop Bri'onte Dunn and you stop the Golden Eagles. Easier said than done!

The Vikings will be without starting quarterback Austin Appleby, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first quarter against McKinley.

Hoover’s two quarterbacks for the rest of the year will be Domenic Iero and Brandon Strausser. Iero came in for Appleby last week and threw for 143 yards. That included a  71-yard TD pass to Stephen Denissoff that Iero threw on a trick play early in the game before Appleby’s injury.  (3)

Sources:

(1) FridayNightOhio.com

(2) ibid

(3) ibid

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