Gentry downs Berryville in big win

Gunter DeZurik put the stops to a run attempt. The Gentry defense kept Berryville from moving the ball Friday, as the Pioneers stopped their opponents and came away with a big win.
Gunter DeZurik put the stops to a run attempt. The Gentry defense kept Berryville from moving the ball Friday, as the Pioneers stopped their opponents and came away with a big win.

— Tanner Coy scored on two long runs as Gentry (5-3, 3-2 1-4A) defeated Berryville (1-7, 0-5) Friday by a score of 28-7.

Coy scored on runs of 60 and 40 yards.

Ethan Ramsey added a 2-yard touchdown run for Gentry and Austin Millsap hit Justin Stewart with a 25-yard touchdown pass.

Peter Acuna scored on a 10-yard run for Berryville.

Gentry racked up 373 total yards of offense on Friday night, with 305 gained on the ground, according to a game summary in the Gentry Pioneer Football weekly newsletter.

“That is not only a credit to the running backs, but to those offensive linemen who worked so hard to pave the way; they did an awesome job,”said Gentry’s head coach, Brian Little.

“Hernandez, DeZurik, Savage, Hudson and Watkins, along with tight ends Scherer and Asencio-Porter, all put on their ‘hardhats’ and went to work,” he wrote.

Tanner Coy benefited from that work the most by rushing for 143 yards and picking up two touchdowns. Ramsey and Rosenthal added another 145 yards and one TD combined, while Asencio-Porter and Millsap added the remaining yards, Little wrote.

Millsap was seven for 15 passing with one TD pass to Stewart. He threw no interceptions.

The one TD allowed by our defense was a letdown for them, but “despite the Bobcat score, our defense was solid,” Little wrote.

“In a year where somegood things have already happened for the Pioneers, we added to that list on Friday night at Berryville,” Little wrote. “The current football players were third, fourth and fifth graders the last time Gentry had five wins in a season. The list I refer to has a couple of more items on it that we would like to cross off.

“Realistically, we wanted to be 8-2,” Little wrote. “We still have a chance to be 7-3; that’s one item. The other item is postseason play. If you look at the conference standings, it is beginning to clear up a bit. It could still come down to points. For every conference win, you receive points up to and notto exceed 13. These points can determine seeding when records are identical for more than two teams. We’ll take ‘em one at a time,” Little wrote.

Sports, Pages 14 on 10/27/2010