(Lenox) Lenox jumped out to an early lead and closed it out with a 34-14 win over CAM in a Round of Sixteen 8-Player Football game at Lenox on Friday night.
Sophomore Gabe Funk scored three touchdowns to lead the Tigers, and Isaac Grundman and Keigen Kitzman accounted for the other two scores.
Chase Spieker fired an 8-yard pass to Sam Foreman, and Austin Williams scooped a blocked punt accounting for the two CAM touchdowns.
Lenox won the flip and marched 65-yards to paydirt on their opening drive. Funk polished off the drive with a two-yard run and punched in the extra point to put the home team on top 8-0 with 8:36 left in the first frame. On CAM’s ensuing drive, Jake Cox intercepted a pass at the 19-yard line, and the Tigers capitalized with a two-yard push by Isaac Grundman and led 14-0 at the end of the first quarter.
Funk scampered in from one yard out with one second left to go in the half and led 22-0 after the two-point conversion at the break. Funk and Kitzman found the end zone twice more in the third quarter on one-and-two-yard runs, pushing the lead to 34-0.
CAM kept battling. Spieker rifled an eight-yard touchdown pass to Sam Foreman late in the third quarter and scored again with 2:36 left in the game when Foreman blocked a punt; Austin Williams scooped it up and rambled into the end zone to move the score to 34-14.
CAM Head Coach Barry Bower says Lenox smacked them in the mouth right away and controlled the line of scrimmage.
Lenox extends its’ unblemished record to 10-0, and CAM bows out of the postseason at 7-3. The Tigers host district foe Fremont-Mills in a rematch next Friday night. Lenox won the regular season battle 29-2.
