by The beautiful fall weather finally hit Northeast Ohio Friday night. Just in time for a Week 7 match-up in which Wickliffe came out with the road win in Independence.
If it was not for an opening drive fumble by Wickliffe running back Logan Ruscin, they may have scored on that first drive alone. But Ruscin would make sure to make up for it.
On the very next chance he got the ball, he took it to the house for 83 yards and quickly gave Wickliffe a 6-0 lead with 7:52 left in the first quarter. Little did we know, that this was just the beginning of a monster night for Ruscin.
He would go on to account for 4 of 5 Wickliffe’s touchdowns on the night. Yes, he had 4 touchdowns by himself!
With a 13-0 lead riding into halftime, it was looking like Wickliffe would run away with this one, litterally. As Quarterback Frank Bucar had two attempts on the night. One interception, and one in-completion.
Wickliffe would even come out of the half with a 7-play 52 yard drive putting them up 19-0.
The scoring wouldn’t stop as the star himself would get involved again with a 70-yard fumble return for a touchdown, which was his 4th of the night putting Wickliffe on top 26-0.
The Blue Devils offense finally woke up though and put together back-to-back drives resulting in touchdown passes by duel threat Quarterback Dominic Narduzzi.
The first one going to his go-to target in Rocco Ressler, and the 2nd going to Stephen Mlynarczyk.
Ressler had himself a night for 113 receiving yards on just 8 catches including the 27-yard touchdown.
With the Wickliffe one-dimensional offense becoming very predictable by the 4th quarter, the defense would have to be the ones to put this one away.
As defensive lineman Andrew Darch would take it to the house with a 58-yard pick-6 return for a touchdown sealing the 33-14 win along the way.
Tonight’s player of the game has to go to Wickliffe’s star Logan Ruscin who had 4 total touchdowns, and carried the ball just 8 times, but had a whopping 156 yards on the ground.
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