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2010 East Fairmont High School Football

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Bees can’t stop physical Elkins
‘Outmatched’ East never leads, falls to Tigers by 43-33

By Mike Bowen - Times-West Virginian

ELKINS — East Fairmont’s offense came to play in the 2010 season-opener against Elkins. But the defense looked overmatched as the Tigers ran over, around and through the Bees for a 43-33 victory, their first victory over East this decade.

“We were outmatched physically,” East Fairmont head coach Bill Haddox said. “They were stronger than us up front, and it hurt us on both sides of the ball.”

The Tigers struck first on a Markus Cassiday 6-yard run with 9:04 left in the first quarter, and the Tigers never looked back. Elkins never trailed in the game. East went three-and-out on its first series and a big punt return put Elkins right back in business, and Cassiday scored on a 7-yard run and then caught the 2-point conversion pass to go up 15-0 with 4:37 left in the first. The Bees put together a drive on their next possession but it stalled and they were forced to punt. Elkins muffed the punt and the Bees recovered at the Elkins 18-yard-line.

On the first play from scrimmage, Bee quarterback Tyler McCutchan hit Travis Nuzum for an 18-yard touchdown and Brandon Davis added the extra point to pull East within 15-7. “Our offense played well, but we couldn’t run the ball because they were pushing us around,” Haddox said. “We put up 33 points but we just couldn’t outmuscle them.” The Bees managed to hold off the Elkins attack on the next possession and drove down the field on the strength of McCutchan’s arm before an interception ended the drive.

The Tigers moved down the field quickly and aided by a 15yard personal foul penalty, scored again on a Cassiday 15-yard run to go up 22-7 with 2:04 left before the half. East had one of its best drives on the next one. The Bees went right down the field, starting with a option pass from Nuzum to Eddie DeVito for 25 yards. It ended with McCutchan hitting Nuzum on three straight passes, the first for 13 and the second for 29. The third Nuzum pulled in while getting a foot down in the corner of the end zone as time expired in the half for his second touchdown and pulled East closer at the break, 22-14. “Our athletes played hard,” Haddox said. “We had opportunities to get ahead, but each time we got close they went right back down the field and we back up more.”

East got the ball first in the second half but was forced to punt. Elkins didn’t waste any time as Cassidy broke a 49-yard run on the third play from scrimmage to put Elkins up 29-14. The Bees responded with a nine-play drive the culminated in a 13-yard touchdown pass from McCutchan to DeVito. The two-point conversion pass failed, leaving the Bees trailing 29-20 heading into the fourth quarter.

The Tigers struck first in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard touchdown run. Then East Fairmont scored on a 70-yard TD pass from McCutchan to Nuzum, the third time the pair hooked up in the game. They also found the end zone a fourth time, on a 10-yard pass to produce the final score. McCutchan finished with 311 yards passing. The Tigers’ Cassiday had 173 yards rushing in the win.

The Bees (0-1) will return to action next week when they return home to take on University, a winner over North Marion Friday. “We’ll work on it,” Haddox said. “We were limited in what we could do because of what was happening up front, but we’ll work on it.”

2010 East Fairmont Football Schedule

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