Lisle steamrolls Aurora Central Catholic
After turning the ball over on its second play from scrimmage, Lisle didn't do much else wrong in its matchup with Aurora Central Catholic Friday night in Aurora.
On their second drive, the Lions put together a 15-play drive, 88-yard drive that was capped on by a 2-yard touchdown run from Grant Haen.
Haen, Nick Massura and Mark McGrath combined for 208 yards and 4 touchdowns as Lisle ran over the Chargers, 50-6.
"I thought our line play was very good," said Lisle coach Paul Parpet. "I thought we played with a sense of urgency tonight and we have some very talented players and it is our job as coaches to try and get the ball to them in space and, with some counter action inside, then it is their job to not run away from people."
"We were able to sustain a drive, last week we only scored on big plays," said McGrath, who finished with a game high 80 yards and also caught a 13-yard touchdown pass. "Coach wants us to find a hole and hit it hard, try to make a play by running a guy over or making a guy miss. He (Parpet) would say by running a guy over."
Aurora Central Catholic (0-2) couldn't get much going on the ground all night but the Chargers were able to answer the Lions' first score with some play action as quarterback Johnny Belskis found Chris Patrick all alone behind the defense for a 37-yard touchdown to make the score 7-6.
Lisle (1-1) answered with a quicker-hitting drive when Massura broke through the middle of the line and went 43 yards for a touchdown to make 14-6 in favor of Lisle.
After an ACC fumble, the Chargers were able to make a defensive stand when Victor Ramos stuffed a fourth-and-goal attempt by the Lions and force a turnover on downs. But on the next play Lions linebacker Mark Pivek came free and sacked Belskis who lost the ball in the end zone and Joe Mondia jumped on it for another Lisle touchdown.
"We're losing the line of scrimmage," said Aurora Central Catholic coach John Belskis. "We're getting beat up inside and our kids need to respond to that because until we do that, we can 't do anything offensively. And we can't stop them enough times on the defense side of the ball to get off the field and get our guys some rest."
It was more of the same in the second half as the Chargers started their first drive at their own 1-yard line after a great punt by the Lions' Drew English pinned them deep. Mondia again made the big play, coming clean through the middle of the Chargers' line and recording the safety.
"We didn't play as fast or as well as we wanted to last week defensively," said McGrath. "So tonight we really came out with so much energy and played the game the right way."
McGrath scored on a 6-yard TD run in the third quarter that put the game out of reach at 37-6. The Lions added late touchdown runs of 2 yards from Michael Metoyer and a 51-yard run by Josh Jamison. Lisle ended the game with 330 rushing yards.