BREAKING NEWS: Mulberry Thumps Lake Placid

LAKE PLACID - LAKE PLACID - For Jamar Sanchious, Friday night's game at Lake Placid couldn't have started any better. For the Green Dragons, it couldn't have gotten much worse.

The junior tailback scored on his first and only two touches of the game -- both from more than 50 yards out - as Mulberry ran all over Lake Placid 58-0 in a Class 2A-District 5 meeting at Roger Scarborough Field.

"I just followed my blockers, they were making it easy for me," Sanchious said. "I've never had a start like that - in JV, maybe."

Mulberry senior Deon Smith added two more scores and the Panther defense forced six Green Dragon turnovers in a game that went to a running clock the entire second half.

Lake Placid head coach Tim Grant equated the thumping to "showing up to a gunfight with a rake."

"We didn't bring our bullets," said Grant, who was without senior linebackers Jonathan Simons, Josh Hickey and Rashaad Brown. "We were asking some young players to do some things against a very fast team. When you fall off from three seniors to what we had, that's what you get."

The Green Dragons (2-4) managed just two first downs all game, while the Panthers found the end zone on each of their first five possessions.

After Sanchious finished his night with touchdown runs of 55 and 59 to open the first quarter, the Panthers (3-2) recovered a fumble deep in Green Dragon territory and found the end zone when Smith went untouched from four yards out to put Mulberry up 19-0.

Less than a minute later and after another Lake Placid fumble again put the Panthers within striking distance, sophomore Lorenzo Rome scurried in from two yards out to put Mulberry up 25-0 after a quarter.

They'd score three more times before the half, once on a 62-yard run by Smith, then again on a 90-yard interception return for a touchdown by junior Steven Willis and a 22-yard pass.

Meanwhile, the stingy Panther defense gave the Green Dragons problems all night, sacking senior quarterback Conlin Veley six times and holding junior running back Chevontry Wilson to one yard on 12 carries.

"They brought a lot of pressure," Veley said. "It's frustrating, because it didn't give us time to do the things we needed to do."

The running clock couldn't slow down the Panthers, who tacked on two more scores in the second half via a nine-yard run from Jermaine West and a 70-yard punt return for a touchdown by Jerrell Carr.

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