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Information for this story is courtesy of the DuBois Courier-Express
COUDERSPORT – The streaks are over.
Jordan Crane threw two touchdown passes to lead Cameron County to a 28-16 win over
at Coudersport Friday night.
The victory snaps the Falcons (2-1 overall, 2-1 AML North) 21-game regular-season
win streak as well as Coudersport’s 27-game AML North win streak. It is also Cameron County’s first
win over Coudersport since 1995 and the Red Raiders (3-0, 3-0) first win at Coudersport since probably
either 1966 or 1967 – records are definite on this.
Coudersport’s last regular-season loss came Oct. 30, 2004, 26-14 to Curwensville
in the AML Title Game (the AML Title Game was considered a regular-season game in 2004 and 2005 but not
in 2006 because of a change in District 9’s playoff rules). The Falcons last loss in the AML North was
Sept. 6, 2002, 21-14 to Eisenhower, which was also the last non-AML Title game regular-season loss
Coudersport suffered.
Cameron County led 6-2 at halftime thanks to a 53-yard interception return for a
touchdown by Charlie Holjencin. Coudersport’s lone points of the half came when a bad punt snap
resulted in a safety late in the half.
The Red Raiders expanded the lead midway through the third quarter when Crane hit
Abram Zoschg with a 25-yard touchdown pass and then found Cameron Clingan with the 2-point conversion
pass to make it 14-2.
Coudersport answered back less than two minutes later on a 2-yard scoring run by
Kyle Gee to make it 14-9, but the scoring run was about all the Falcons managed on the ground in the
game, as the Falcons lost 46 yards on 20 carries with most of those lost yards coming on five sacks of
Coudy quarterback Boomer Wetzel. Shawn Ellenberger accounted for three of those sacks for Cameron County.
With the ground game not working, Wetzel threw the ball 43 times completing 19 of
them for 282 yards and a touchdown. He also threw three interceptions.
Following Gee’s run, it was Cameron’s turn to strike again this time on a
52-yard pass from Crane to Darrick Mason making it 21-9 with 1:16 left in the third quarter.
Coudy fought back late in the fourth quarter when Wetzel hit Colton Corey with a
48-yard scoring strike making it 21-16 with 4:36 to play.
But any thought of a Falcon comeback was extinguished 55 seconds later when Cameron
Clingan broke free for a 50-yard scoring jaunt to put the Red Raiders back ahead by two scores.
Clingan’s long run made him the leading rusher for Cameron County with eight
carries for 90 yards. Mason had 11 for 56 and the one catch for 52 and the touchdown. Crane was 4-for-12
passing for 89 yards, two scores and one interception. Holjencin had another pick in addition to the one
he returned for a touchdown.
Kyle Gee caught six passes for 80 yards to pace Coudersport.
NOTES – The 21-game regular-season win streak was the seventh longest
regular-season win streak in District 9 history. Smethport holds the record with a 67-game streak –
that record doesn’t includes loses in the AML Title Game which at the time were not counted as
regular-season games for reasons unknown (possibly because of the D9 playoff structure and how District 9
counted those games) ... The loss means Coudersport head coach Paul Simcoe is still two wins shy of 200
in his career. He would be the first District 9 coach to reach 200 career victories ... Cameron County is
3-0 for the first time since starting 12-0 in 1999 when it won the District 9 Class A title and a
first-round PIAA playoff game ... The longest active regular-season win streak in District 9 now belongs
to Bradford at all of four games .. Cameron County, Port Allegany, Kane and Redbank Valley are all right
behind the Owls with 3-game win streaks with all those victories coming this season. Bradford is 2-0 this
year and won its final two regular-season games last season.
CAMERON COUNTY 28, COUDERSPORT 16
Score By Quarters
Cameron Co. 6 0
15 7 – 28
Coudersport 0 2
7 7 – 16
Scoring Summary
First Quarter
CC - Charlie Holjencin 53 interception return (run failed),
1:47.
Second Quarter
CO - Jordan Crane took safety after bad punt snap, 1:50.
Third Quarter
CC - Abram Zoschg 25 pass from Jordan Crane (Cameron Clingan
pass from Crane), 6:27.
CO - Kyle Gee 2 run (Cooper Bonczar kick), 4:41.
CC - Darrick Mason 52 pass from Crane (Charlie Holjencin
kick), 1:16.
Fourth Quarter
CO - Colton Corey 48 pass from Boomer Wetzel (Bonczar kick),
4:36.
CC - Cameron Clingan 50 run (Charlie Holjencin kick), 3:41.
CC CO
First Downs 11 12
Rushes-Yards 46-184
20-(-46)
Passing Yards 89 299
Passes: Comp-Att-Int 4-12-1
21-48-3
Total Yardage 273 253
Punts-Average 5-38.8
8-26.1
Fumbles-lost 4-3 0-0
Penalties-Yards 5-37
6-51
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing - Cameron County: Cameron Clingan 8-90, Darrick
Mason 11-56, Charlie Holjencin 6-30, Abram Zoschg 8-17, Taylor Songer 4-6, Jordan Crane 8-1, Team
1-(-16). Coudersport: Tim Thomas 3-13, Boomer Wetzel 7-(-40), Kyle Gee 5-0, Adam Foust 2-1, Zach Buckler
1-(-2), Dirk Cowburn 2-(-18).
Passing - Cameron County: Jordan Crane 4 of 12, 89 yards, 2
TD, 1 Int. Coudersport: Boomer Wetzel 19 of 43, 282 yards, 1 TD, 3 Int.; Eric Babcock 2 of 4, 17 yards, 0
TD, 0 Int.; Dirk Cowburn 0 of 1.
Receiving - Cameron County: Abram Zoschg 2-42, Darrick Mason
1-52, Mike Malizia 1-(-5). Coudersport: Kyle Gee 6-80, Dirk Cowburn 5-61, Brett Whitman 4-39, Justin
Kinder 3-23, Colton Corey 1-48, Derek Burdick 1-41, Tim Thomas 1-7.
Interceptions - Cameron County: Charlie Holjencin 2, Jarek
Holjencin. Coudersport: Colton Corey.
Sacks: Cameron County: Shawn Ellenberger 3, Mike Malizia 1,
Donovan McCurley 1/2, Taylor Songer 1/2.
Punting: Cameron Clingan 5-38.8 avg. Coudersport: Boomer
Wetzel 7-25.6 avg.; Nate Minor 1-30.0 avg. |
