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Peewee
Panthers even record at 2-2 with solid effort against Brampton Bulldogs
By Fred Sherwin
Orléans Online The
Cumberland Panthers Ontario Varsity peewee team evened its record at 2-2 with
a 34-13 home win over the Brampton Bulldogs at Millennium Park on Saturday, but
the win came with a heavy cost. Panthers'
running back Jaylen King suffered a broken collar bone in the fourth quarter and
will likely miss the rest of the season. The injury came after he had already
run for 164 yards and scored three touchdiwns. King
scored his first touchdown when he ran the football 64 yards on the very first
play from scrimmage. A couple of plays later, Jason Azzi recovered a Bulldog fumble
deep in their own territory and rumbled across the goal line to put the Panthers
up 13-0. They would go up 15-0 after they managed to convert a botched extra point
attempt. The
score remained 15-0 until early in the second quarter when King scored his second
touchdown of the game to give the Panthers a commanding 22-0 halftime lead. The
Bulldogs would eventually get on the scoreboard in the third quarter, but not
before King's third touchdown of the game gave the Panthers a 29-0 lead. The
Panthers added five more points in the fourth quarter on a safety and a 27-yard
field goal by kicker Quentin Soares, while the Bulldogs scored a late touchdown
to make the final score 34-13. By
game's end, the Panthers had racked up an impressive 299 yards on the ground.
Besides the 164 yards that King racked up before getting injured, Ray Somerville-Rashad
rushed for 92 yards and Dimitri Veilleux-Vallaincourt ran for 42 yards. It
was a great rebound game for the Panthers who had lost a heartbbreaker to the
Myers Riders the week before. Cumberland had a chance to beat their crosstown
rivals in the dying moments of regulation time, but their field goal attempt was
blocked negating them of even a single which would have won them the game. The
Riders eventually scored on their second set of downs in overtime. The
peewee Panthers next home game is this Satruday at 12 noon against the Pickering
Dolphins. With quarterback Jake Molinski not expected to return to the lineup
for another two weeks and King out for the rest of the season, the Panthers will
be in tough against the Doplhins who are 3-1.. In
oither Ontario Varsity action on the weekend, the Panthers' Junior Varsity team
lost their second in a row falling 26-24 to the Kingston Grenadiers, while the
OV team improved their record to 4-0 by shutting out the Grenadiers 25-0. The
senior squad will be looking to keep their perfect record intact this Saturday
when they host the Cornwall Wildcats at Millennium Park. Game time is 5:30 p.m. '(Posted
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