River View Raiders run past PikeView Panthers

GARDNER — For a second straight week, PikeView Panthers found themselves in an early hole, and like their opener, the Panthers couldn’t dig themselves out.

PikeView went three-and-out on their first drive then three plays later River View’s Austin Walker sprinted 30 yards for a score. The Panthers would never recover, as the Raiders won 50-20 Friday night at PikeView High School.

“I think the problem here is these boys have been beat on so much that we sit back to see how bad it’s going to be before we decide play,” PikeView head coach Bobby Wyatt said. “Last week, from the third quarter on, we played pretty good. We got to come out more mentally tougher at the beginning of the game. We’re setting back on our heels wondering what are you going to do to us then we’ll play.

“We’ll work on that and get better. I’ve got two seniors and we played five freshmen. It’s going to be a process to get there. I knew that when I came in here and I won’t get frustrated.”

River View ran just 18 plays in the first half, as they amassed 367 yards and 42 points. The Raiders never had a drive last longer than four plays and only one did not end in a score.

“That’s always good because you get your younger kids a chance to play,” River View head coach Mitch Estep said of the early lead. “We’re pretty good running the football. We’ve got some good skill athletes. The biggest improvement we had was our offensive line.

“PikeView played hard, but they’re just young and inexperienced. On defense, we’ve got a lot of returning starters. We expect to be pretty decent. [PikeView] will come around and they’ll be tough.”

After River View’s first score, the Raiders added two more touchdowns in the opening stanza. Brandon Thomas hulled in a 40-yard touchdown reception then Walker hit Jordan Wilson on a screen pass as the speedy sophomore raced 54 yards for a score to make it 22-0.

Following a Joseph McClanahan touchdown, PikeView was able to get on the board thanks to the combo of Jordan Hardin and Logan McKinney.

Hardin hit McKinney on post route and the lanky receiver sprinted 55 yards for a touchdown. The two came together for a 68-yard score in the season opener.

The two teams traded scores to close out the half. Wilson rumbled 40 yards for his second touchdown before PikeView’s Hunter Moses broke free for a 22-yard touchdown. River View though closed out the half with a James Mills 56-yard touchdown.

“We had a nice couple drives against their first group,” Wyatt said. “We dropped a potential touchdown pass early in the first quarter right after they scored. It just that mental toughness of making that play to keep us in it. Last week, we came up with a big play to make it 16-6 against Summers County.

“We then went brain-dead on the kickoff and didn’t execute it then they turned it into a 30-6 game. We got caught playing on our heels tonight. We had been playing pretty good defense and we didn’t do it all tonight. We just sat back and waited to see what they’d bring. They brought it.”

The second half saw both teams turn to their reserves with the game firmly in River View’s grasp.

Neither team crossed the goal in the third, but in the forth, both teams got on the board. Ryan Blankenship scored on a 45-yard run for the Raiders while Adam Holdren had a 50-yard rushing touchdown for the Panthers.

Moses led PikeView with 132 yards rushing on 26 carries plus a touchdown all in the first half.

“We made that move because we felt like we weren’t quite hitting up in the hole like we needed to do last week,” Wyatt said of Moses moving from fullback. “We knew Hunter would do that. We thought we were wasting him a little at fullback and we were. We’ll keep throwing him at people and he’ll keep going at him.”

Hardin finished 4-of-9 for 89 yards and a touchdown. PikeView totaled 325 yards of offensive in the game.

River View was led by Wilson’s 107 yards. Blankenship chipped in with 78 yards while McClanahan finished with 47 on two carries.

The Raiders finished with 394 yards rushing and 128 yards passing.

“This is another club that’s been doing that for years now,” Wyatt commented. “Even though they’re in their third year, they’ve been running it for quite a while. They’re use to it.

“What they do, they do well. I’m counting on in about three or four years, what we do, we’ll be doing well.”

PikeView will look to regroup as the Panthers welcome in Liberty-Raleigh this Friday. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

At PikeView High School

River View.22 20 0 8 — 50

PikeView.....0 14 0 6 — 20

First Quarter

RV - Austin Walker 30 rush (Jordan Wilson rush), 9:30

RV - Brandon Thomas 40 pass from Walker (Joseph McClanahan rush), 7:16

RV - Wilson 54 pass from Walker (Jeremy Crigger kick failed), 2:16

Second Quarter

RV - McClanahan 26 rush (Crigger kick), 9:17

PV - Logan McKinney 55 pass from Jordan Hardin (PAT failed), 6:00

RV - Wilson 40 rush (Crigger kick failed), 7:52

PV - Hunter Moses 22 rush (Joseph Jennings rush), 4:19

RV - James Mills 56 rush (Crigger kick), 3:27

Fourth Quarter

RV - Ryan Blankenship 45 rush (Dustin Jackson from Matt Thornsberry), 7:22

PV - Adam Holdren 50 rush (PAT failed), 4:37

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING - River View, Jordan Wilson 7-108-td, Blankenship 6-78-td, James Mills 1-56-td, Joseph McClanahan 2-47-td, Austin Walker 1-30-td, Jeremy Crigger 4-40, Justin Ward 5-14, Matthew Thornsberry 3-16, Tyler Whistlehunt 1-6, TEAM 1-(-1); PikeView, Hunter Moses 26-132-td, Jordan Hardin 2-(-8), Ryan Roberts 1-4, Joseph Jennings 4-28, Tanner Farley 2-10, Daniel Brown 4-22, Justin Dickinson 1-(-2), Adam Holdren 1-50-td.

PASSING - Walker 2-2-0-94-2, Blankenship 1-2-1-34-0; PV, Jordan Hardin 4-9-0-89-1.

RECEIVING - RV, Thomas 1-40-td, Wilson 1-54-td, Crigger 1-34; PV, Logan McKinney 3-80-td, Jennings 1-9.

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