Jared Williams and the rest of the Bradenton Prep Patriots put on quite a show for the homecoming crowd in soundly defeating the Tampa Cambridge Christian Lancers 57-6 on Friday night at Palma Sola Park.
Williams rushed for 163 yards on 14 carries and scored four touchdowns.
Ed Brown set the tone early as he blocked a punt on Cambridge's first possession, giving the Patriots the ball on the 15-yard line. Williams took over from there, scoring on the first play from scrimmage.
On the ensuing Cambridge drive, Brown blocked another punt to give Bradenton Prep another short field. The drive resulted in a 7-yard scoring jaunt by Williams. The Patriots would add another touchdown on a 15-yard pass from Zach Hammond to Randy Coulter and a safety - all before the end of the first quarter.
Penalties aided a long Cambridge drive in the second quarter. The Lancers marched down the field, thanks in large part to 40 yards in penalties against the Patriots. The drive ended with a 20-yard scoring pass from Tampa Cambridge's Hayden Kelley to Ryan Campbell to make the score 22-6 at the half.
"In the first half, we didn't play as well as we could have - penalties and a couple of dropped passes killed us," said Bradenton Prep head coach Joe Hammond.
Bradenton Prep (3-1, 1-0 Class 1B-District 6) wasted no time getting on the board in the second half as Tervaris Hines took the kickoff right down the middle of the field for a 79-yard score. The Patriots scored again almost immediately on defense, when Horatio Papillon ripped the ball away from Kelley on a sack. Jason Shkodnik scooped up the ball and raced in 23 yards for the score - the defensive highlight of the game that saw the Patriots hold the Lancers to a total of 30 yards of offense.
Brown blocked his third punt of the night on the next possession, which allowed Williams to score his third touchdown of the game, this one from 7 yards out. Williams would finish with two more scoring runs of 11 and 45 yards en route to a 164 yard performance.
"In the second half, these kids came out with an attitude and a purpose as far as a way to play the game," Hammond said. "The way we came off the ball in the second half, the way we attacked the quarterback and the way we attacked the ball - that's the way we should play for four quarters."
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