SK trounces Louisa-Muscatine 55-12

SIGOURNEY- The Savage Cobras struck fast and often as they built an early lead never to look back against Louisa-Muscatine on Friday, Oct. 7 at home. Avery Moore provided the first score being on the receiving end of a Luke Greiner touchdown pass of 52 yards. Moore struck again less than five minutes later with a 28-yard rushing touchdown to put SK up 13-0. With 1:45 left in the first quarter Greiner scored on a 24-yard touchdown on the ground, then he added a 35-yarder less than a minute into the second quarter to put SK up 27-0.

            Avery Moore added two more long rushing touchdowns to keep his average of four touchdowns a game going. His rushing touchdowns were from 70 and then 45 yards out. His ability to real off long touchdown runs and receptions have just been an outstanding weapon for SK this season. Luke Greiner would add a couple more touchdowns on the ground to put his total for the game at four. His third rushing touchdown came from 47 yards out just under four minutes left to play in the first half. By the late third quarter it was 55-0 SK, before Louisa-Muscatine was able to tack a couple fourth quarter touchdowns on the board.

            SK ended up with over 500 yards of total offense having 360 on the ground and 150 through the air. SK did have two turnovers, but still won the turnover battle forcing three from Louisa. Luke Greiner was 3/5 passing for 129 yards and a touchdown. Avery Moore had ten carries in this one for 187 yards and three touchdowns, and Greiner added eight rushing attempts for 136 yards and four touchdowns. They averaged 18.7 (Moore) and 17.0 (Greiner) per carry. Moore went over a hundred yards receiving in the game with 2 receptions for 118 yards and a touchdown. Louisa made the mistake of punting to Avery so he also added three returns for a modest 64 yards (21.3 avg.). Moore also added an interception and five tackles to his impressive stat line. Ben Appleget had 4.5 tackles.

          (Read full article in the Oct. 12 edition of The News Review)