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| Brett Rodriguez, along with the rest of the backs, had their way against BH-BL on this night. |
Queensbury 42, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake 0
When the #1 team in the state faces off against a counterpart also ranked in the top 10, most would expect a showdown. This one was anything but that, as Queensbury punished the home team drive after drive en route to another statement W.
The game started with the visiting Spartans shooting themselves in the foot when it looked like they'd surely score. After marching up from their own 40 to the BH 9, Queensbury fumbled on the snap and Burnt Hills recovered, taking away the first chance to score. A couple Burnt Hills penalties.. besides the fact they couldn't move the ball.. ended that thought as quickly as it started, and Queensbury capitalized on their next chance. With the next drive starting at their own 45, they kept it on the ground again with their usual heavy dose of Chris Goudy, Brett Rodriguez, and Tyrell Adams. Goudy took control on this drive, racking up 47 yards and finishing it off with the 5 yard score to put Queensbury up 8-0 late in the 1st quarter. Burnt Hills responded with what proved to be their most threatening drive of the night. Gains of 16, 13, and 29 put them in business inside the Queensbury 20, but a short gain on the ground and 3 incompletions forced a turnover on downs. The Q responded with the most demoralizing drive I've seen all year. 17 plays, 84 yards of downhill action, running it down the defense's throat, basically child abuse on the line. 5 different Spartans had carries on the drive, with Rodriguez picking up 40 of the yards. Goudy was the one who hit paydirt again though, with his 90th yard of the half being on a 3 yard TD run. The conversion was good, putting Queensbury up 16-0 with 1:39 left in the half. The drive chopped 7:30 off the clock and basically showed to everyone that Queensbury wasn't going to be stopped. Burnt Hills' last drive of the half ended in an interception, ending a rough half for them - but the rough half turned into a 3rd quarter straight from the depths of Hell.
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| About the only time John Clayton had breathing room was... well, before the snap. |
The home team had the ball to start the 3rd, but turned it over on downs after picking up one 1st down. It only took 3 plays for Queensbury to pile it on - 2 Goudy runs for 12 yards followed by the biggest gain of the night, a 58 yard TD run by Tyrell Adams to put Queensbury up 22-0. Same thing for Burnt Hills coming back - a couple first downs followed by a turnover on downs on a man-sized sack of John Clayton. This is probably a game that will become a repressed memory for him, or so he hopes. After the Q punted it away, BH turned it right back over on downs... 4 & out? Queensbury & BH traded penalties that were good for 15 yards (BH unsportsmanlike, Q holding) on the ensuing drive, but Queensbury was able to spring the drive forward with a 54 yard completion... yes, completion. That means pass. They threw the ball. Keeghan O'Leary got tackled within a foot of the goal line, which only met Brett Rodriguez could get in the end zone on the next play. The game that felt like a rout turned into an actual rout, with Queensbury leading 29-0 late in the 3rd. They scored the next time they touched the ball too, a 6 play, 45 yard drive that ended in a Sean Doran 1 yard plunge. Rodriguez sprung that drive forward with a 28 yard gain, which proved to be his last carry of the night. To finish Clayton's night from Rensselaer (close enough to Hell, if you ask me), he fumbled it away on the 1st play of their next drive when getting sacked. With basically Queensbury's 2nd string backs in, they were still able to make decent work of the BH-BL defense. Steven Duell stepped in and broke a 14 yard run to bump the lead to 42-0, which was all she wrote. This game basically made any drama surrounding the Class A playoffs in Section 2 null-and-void, because beating a team down by 40+ on the road - on their senior night - says everything you need to hear.
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| 58 yards to the house, no one was catching Tyrell Adams once he cut it back. |
#ByTheNumbers - The Queensbury Quartet finished the job that their O-Line started. The line dominated the trenches play after play, and the backs found the holes and shook tacklers all the way. Chris Goudy led the way with 118 yards on 19 carries and a pair of 1st half touchdowns. Gifted back Brett Rodriguez added 97 yards on 10 carries and a couple spectacular runs, along with a short TD run. Tyrell Adams had 74 yards on 9 carries, most of them coming on his 58 yard TD burst to start the 2nd half. Erik Wetterstag added 7 carries/37 yards. Queensbury amassed 410 yards on 60 plays compared to just 105 on 44 for BH-BL. Queensbury had the ball for 2/3 of the game, at just a fraction under 32 minutes. John Clayton had the type of game that ESPN's John Clayton wouldn't want to report - 5/18, 66 yards in the air and a pick, 3 carries for 5 yards (not including being sacked twice) and a lost fumble. Danny Maynard was held to 10 yards on 5 carries and 2 catches for 5 yards before leaving early in the 3rd with what looked like maybe an ankle injury. Mike Leveroni had 23 yards on 8 carries. This is one the home team probably just wants to heal their wounds and move forward from.
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