Howells-Dodge beats Clarkson/Leigh in Season Opener

The Howells-Dodge Football Team won 42-14 at home over Clarkson/Leigh in the Bacon Bowl Friday night.

Here's a Scoring Summary from the Game:

First Quarter
HD - Luke Rocheford 56 yd run (Levi Belina Run) 11:49
CL - Lance Paprocki 1 yd run (run failed) 8:21
HD - Luke Rocheford 57 yd pass from Darrin Pokorny (run failed) 6:40

Second Quarter
HD - Luke Rocheford 4 yd pass from Darrin Pokorny (run failed) 11:55
CL - Carter Hanel 44 yd pass from Lance Paprocki (Carter Hanel pass from Lance Paprocki) 2:59
HD - Darrin Pokorny 32 yd run (run failed) 1:09

Third Quarter
HD - Luke Rocheford 41 yd run (Levi Belina run) 6:55

Fourth Quarter
HD - Luke Rocheford 6 yd pass from Darrin Pokorny (Luke Rocheford pass from Darrin Pokorny) 11:53

Pokorny was 6-9 passing for 130 yards and three touchdowns. Rocheford hauled in 4 passes for 88 yards, including three touchdowns, and carried the ball 6 times for 90 yards, and scored twice. Pokorny ran for 63 yards on 8 carries, and scored once.

Trevor Schumacher had 10 tackles while Pokorny, Carter Throener, and Charlie Dvorak made 9 apiece. Rocheford and Belina each made 8.

The Jaguars racked up 367 yards of total offense, including 237 on the ground.

The defense gave up 246 yards of total offense, 171 coming through the air.

Really nice win for Howells-Dodge, a good start to the season for the Jaguars.

Howells-Dodge (1-0) travels to GACC (0-1) Friday night in action that can be heard on 107.9 the Bull.

The Bluejays lost 30-20 at home to East Butler last week.

GACC beat the Jaguars twice last season, including in the 2nd round of the playoffs.

I think the tables could very well be turned this time around.

I feel Howells-Dodge is in a really good position to take down the Bluejays this time around.

I have to say I was surprised GACC lost to East Butler.

I thought the Bluejays would roll to a big win.

Perhaps the Tigers are a better team than what I'm giving them credit for, but they had a tough year last year after winning the State Championship two years ago.

You have to figure GACC will still come out and play a good game this coming Friday night though.

The Bluejays aren't just going to quit and allow the Jaguars to come in and run all over them.

Howells-Dodge is going to see a team hungry, motivated, and determined I am sure.

The Jaguars have to be mighty pumped and fired up given what took place, happened, and transpired last year though.

Howells-Dodge has to go into Beemer and make amends for what took place in the playoffs there last year.

The Jaguars have Wakefield and Lutheran High Northeast after this so it would be really big for Howells-Dodge to pick up a win Friday night.

I'm sure the Jaguars would love to make GACC 0-2 on the season.

It's hard to imagine the Bluejays starting 0-2, but it could very well happen.

Howells-Dodge would really love for it to happen too.

For it to happen I think Pokorny and Rocheford need to have big games offensively.

Those two have to have it working in both the passing and running games in order for the Jaguars to be successful I would say.

Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. with pregame at 6:30 on the Bull.