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Southeastern topples Panthers
September 08, 2009 at 6:43 am
By MAC CORDELL
Pictued left - Fairbanks’ Tyler Smith (16) rips through the Southeastern defense. Smith rushed for more than 200 yards against the Trojans.
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Sometimes, said Fairbanks head football coach Morgan Cotter, the game comes down to X’s and O’s. Sometimes, he said, it comes down to Jimmies and Joes, acknowledging that better players often make the difference in a game.
Friday night was one of those times as the Fairbanks Panthers fell, 56-34, to a Southeastern team with superior athletes.
“We got beat by a great football team,” said Cotter. “They had athletes I didn’t know they had. You see them on film, but you can’t anticipate these kinds of athletes.”
He added, “We were in the right places, we just got blown by.”
Fairbanks and Southeastern played even football for two and a half periods in a classic case of two very different offenses – a high-powered passing attack for the host Trojans and a grind-it-out formation for the Panthers.
The Trojans got on the board first, one play into their second possession, as quarterback Reed Florence connected with Austin Mercer on a 40-yard scoring pass. Mercer snatched the pass 15 yards from the line of scrimmage, broke from his defender and scampered down the sideline and into the end zone.
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