South Elgin victors again after first loss
Bartlett Press
Fri Oct 02, 2009, 10:42 AM CDT
Bartlett, IL -
If South Elgin’s football players were downright angry after the Storm’s first loss of the season to St. Charles East two weeks ago, then they took out on Lincoln-Way North with a 24-10 win last Saturday at Millennium Field.
“The kids were not happy about that loss,” South Elgin coach Dale Schabert said. “They haven’t lost a lot in high school, so it kind of catapulted us into a good week of practice.”
The good week of practice catapulted the Storm (4-1, 1-1 Upstate Eight Conference) to a solid showing in their homecoming game.
“Saturday we played much better and got back on track,” Schabert said. “Everyone played and executed much better.
“Top to bottom it was a much better performance.”
Another slow start nearly threatened to hamper South Elgin, but a strong second half put the game away.
With the score knotted at 10-10, the Storm marched 96 yards on a scoring drive that gave it the lead for good. John Menken’s 34-yard pass to Jake Kumerow on third-and-2 set up Menken’s 12-yard touchdown run on the next play to make it 17-10 with 1:32 left in the third quarter.
Menken (11-of-20 for 209 yards) put the game out of reach with a keeper late in the fourth quarter to cap the scoring. Brad Birchfield (22 carries, 75 yards) had a 50-yard punt return to set up the score.
South Elgin got on the board first with David Reisner’s 21-yard field goal, capping a 16-play drive to start the game.
Lincoln-Way took the lead on a halfback option pass for a touchdown, but the Storm
responded with Menken’s 1-yard touchdown pass to Sean Kolber. A Phoenix field goal tied things at 10-10 at intermission.
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