Sprague, South, West begin with wins
CVC favorites victorious in Conference openers
Spetember 25, 2009

Predictions by CVC coaches that Sprague, South Salem and West Salem should finish at the top of the conference standings this season appear to be valid after the first week of league action.

Sprague 48, McKay 24

The third rated Olympians fell behind 18-14 halfway through the second quarter at McKay, but Sprague finished the half with a pair of touchdowns and scored 20 unanswered points to rally past the Royal Scots.

The Olys scored two TDs in the last three minutes of the half, including a drive covering 69 yards in the last minute, culiminated by a 10 yard touchdown pass from Jeff Kidd to Jeff Weisenhaus with only 10 seconds remaining to give Sprague a 28-18 advantage.

The visitors scored 20 unanswered points in the third quarter to ice the victory before McKay scored a late touchdown for the final margin of victory.

Kidd threw for three touchdowns Sprague, including two to Weisenhaus. Angel Delao had two rushing TDs for McKay.

Sprague (3-0, 1-0 in CVC play) hosts McNary next Friday, while McKay (1-2, 1-1) travels to South Salem.

South Salem 24, Redmond 0

Despite a difficult first half, the Saxons had more than enough firepower to pick up the road win against a young Redmond team.

South quarterback Conor Lynch scored the opening TD of the game on a 69 yard run to give the Saxons a 7-0 lead after one quarter. The only other points of the half came on a 31 yard field goal by Jordan Rideout as time expired to give the Saxons a 10-0 advantage going into the locker room.

South Salem quickly extended the lead in the second half, using a time consuming, eight minute drive to cover 55 yards in 11 plays--capped by Lynch's 20 yard TD pass to Junior Espitia.

South tallied their final TD with just over nine minutes left in the game. Lynch drove the Saxons 63 yards on six plays--with the key blow coming on a 31 yard pass to Espitia to give South first and goal at the Redmond 2. Two plays later, Lynch hit Espitia with a 2 yard alley-oop pass for the final score of the night.

Lynch ended the game with 300 yards in total offense, including 181 yards through the air and 119 yards rushing. The Saxon defense limited Redmond to just 184 yards in the game.

South (3-1, 1-0) will be at home next week against McKay. Redmond (0-4, 0-1) has a bye before traveling to North Salem in two weeks.

West Salem 43, McNary 0

West Salem was without quarterback Brett Smith, who cracked his elbow in last week's victory against Tigard. But senior Phil Tolley was ready to fill in, operating the Titan offense almost flawlessly in a shutout road win at McNary.

Tolley passed for 184 yards and a touchdown, and added another 100 yards and a TD rushing. Titan running back Sal Herrera tallied over 150 yards on the ground and scored a pair of touchdowns.

West Salem led the game 21-0 at half.

West (3-1, 1-0) will entertain North Salem next Friday, while McNary (1-2, 0-1) will play at Sprague.

Rex Putnam 23, North Salem 10

North celebrated its homecoming by jumping out to a 3-0 first quarter lead over Rex Putnam on a 29 yard field goal by Erick Chavez.

But the visting Kingsman tallied the next 23 points of the game. North's only touchdown came on a 4th quarter TD pass covering 32 yards from Cole Ferguson to Jonny Garza.

With the loss, the Vikings' winless streak is now to 16 games.

North (0-3, 0-0) opens its CVC season next Friday at West Slaem.