{"id":3550,"date":"2007-09-08T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2008-09-11T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T15:50:05","slug":"eagles-record-second-shutout-offense-pushes-%e2%80%98cats-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=3550","title":{"rendered":"Eagles record second shutout, offense pushes \u2018Cats around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nGoing for 200 Tyrone senior Shayne Tate picks up a big chunk of the 204 yards he rushed for against Huntingdon in the Golden Eagles\u2019 18-0 victory on Saturday night at Gray-Vets Memorial Field. (The Daily Herald\/Steve Michaels)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

After his team\u2019s 18-0 victory over Huntingdon last night at Gray-Veterans Memorial Field, Tyrone coach John Franco said he tells his players often that tradition never graduates \u2013 that it\u2019s every players\u2019 responsibility to carry on what players before them have established.
\nAnd the Golden Eagles are winning like the teams that preceded them, now 2-0 after two weeks for the fourth straight season after recording their second shutout.
\nBut for anyone who\u2019s looking for the same flare that that went along with the wins of 1996, 1999, 2004 or 2006, they\u2019d be better off looking in the conference room at the Tyrone Area High School athletic office, where the team stores its game film, because the Eagles of 2007 aren\u2019t doing it with panache.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve won two games on nothing but pure heart, desire, guts and hustle,\u201d Franco said. \u201cNow if we could just take it one step farther and get the execution of the offense \u2026 but that\u2019s the growing pains of a sophomore quarterback, two new running backs and pretty much a new line. It\u2019s the inevitable growing pains, but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019ve got to like it.\u201d
\nThere was a lot for Franco not to like about the Eagles\u2019 victory, which upped their regular season winning streak to 25 games. There were the four penalties, not including two illegal shift calls that were declined. There were the three turnovers, two by way of interception. There was a blocked extra-point.
\nBut there was a lot to feel good about, most notably Tyrone\u2019s running game, which ground out 356 yards without the services of starting running back Johnny Franco, who could possibly return to the lineup as early as next week.
\nIn his absence, senior Shayne Tate \u2013 who spent 2006 as a wide receiver \u2013 recorded his second straight 100-yard game, rushing for 204 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries. Junior Mark Mingle \u2013 despite playing on a sprained ankle \u2013 added another 109 and a touchdown on 15 carries.
\nBy the fourth quarter, when Tyrone ran for 107 yards, the cumulative effect of the Eagles\u2019 relentless rushing attack was too much for the Bearcats.
\n\u201cIt gets frustrating, and it wears on the two-way players,\u201d said Huntingdon coach Jim Zauzig. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t quite as bad as last year, when we were victims of big plays. They had some big plays here, but they moved the ball on us.\u201d
\nAnd when Tyrone wasn\u2019t methodically pushing the ball forward, its defense was smothering Huntingdon\u2019s offense. The Eagles stopped seven plays in the \u2018Cats\u2019 backfield, and held them without a first down until the six-minute mark of the third quarter.
\n\u201cComing into every game, we expect nothing less than a shutout,\u201d said senior Shane Emigh. \u201cCoach really doesn\u2019t say that, but the team together, before the game, said we were going to try for a shutout every week. You\u2019ve got to start somewhere.\u201d
\nSo far, so good. Through two games, the Eagles have allowed penetration inside their 20-yard line only once. The closest the \u2018Cats came last night was when they advanced as far as Tyrone\u2019s 28 in the fourth quarter, but that foray ended when Brandon Gehret picked off Eric Buza in the end zone.
\nFor most of the game, it looked like Tyrone\u2019s defense might have to hang another zero on the board if they were going to win at all, because although the Eagles moved the ball well, sustaining long drives was problematic early.
\nTate started their second series by breaking outside off tackle right and sprinting 53 yards to the Huntingdon 14-yard line. But the next three plays netted only three yards, bringing on Johnny Shaffer, who stuck a 28-yard field goal to lift Tyrone to a 3-0 lead with 5:52 left in the first quarter.
\nThe Eagles\u2019 next two possessions were a series of stops and starts, both ending in turnovers. Mingle ran for 28 yards to the Huntingdon 23 on Tyrone\u2019s next drive, but two plays later sophomore quarterback Levi Reihart fumbled when he was sacked, and Huntingdon linebacker Hunter Morder was there to cover it up.
\nAfter holding the \u2018Cats to three plays and a punt, the Eagles moved the ball to their own 42 before Reihart was intercepted by Michael Sellers.
\nBut Tyrone managed to get on the board once more before the half. Starting at their own 27, the Eagles advanced the ball as far as the Huntingdon 11 using six straight running plays, including a 29-yard reverse to Emigh. But the drive stalled there with a holding penalty and another sack of Reihart, placing the ball on the 26.
\nFrom there, Shaffer came on to kick a 44-yard field goal, just one yard short of the Tyrone record set by Scott Gummo in 1999, making it 6-0 at halftime.
\n\u201cHe was booming them in pre-game,\u201d said Franco. \u201cI looked at (assistant) Tony Yaniello and said what do you do? He said he\u2019s good from 50 and in. So we said if we can line it up from the 40 and in, we\u2019re going to go for it.\u201d
\nThe Eagles found their way into the end zone on their first series of the second half. After a 20-yard punt return by Tate set them up at midfield, they drove 50 yards in seven plays, including back-to-back 13-yard runs by Tate and Mingle that put the ball at the 2. Mingle blasted in from there one play later to make it 12-0 at the 6:46 mark.
\nTyrone put a lid on the game in the fourth quarter with a 90-yard scoring drive that lasted five minutes and consisted of eight straight running plays. The biggest came on third-and-8 from the Tyrone 33 when the Eagles used a quick count to catch the \u2018Cats out of position on a Shayne Tate sweep to the left. Tate broke to the outside and ran 67 yards for his second touchdown of the season.
\n\u201cThey had been really loading up inside,\u201d said Franco. \u201cI thought that they felt we were just going to try to run it out and punt, but I just didn\u2019t want to make Levi punt.\u201d
\nReihart had been struggling with leg cramps much of the second half, and was even forced to the sidelines for two series.
\n\u201cThe two-way guys might have been slow in getting to their alignment and I think John sensed that and started going with the quicker count,\u201d Zauzig said.
\nThe Eagles will now face Penns Valley at home next week, and Franco said his team will spend the next seven days correcting the mistakes it made against Huntingdon.
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t play offensive football like we did tonight and expect to beat Penns Valley,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re pretty good. That game used to be a gimmie, now, the roles are reversed. They\u2019re going to come in as the favorite, and this will be the first time since I\u2019ve been here that we\u2019ve been an underdog against Penns Valley.\u201d
\nGRID TIDBITS: Ben Ingle had an interception in the fourth quarter \u2026 Gehret recovered a fumble on a mishandled punt return attempt \u2026 Anthony Young drew kudos from Zauzig for his all-around play. He accounted for 71 of the \u2018Cats 98 total yards and blocked an extra-point attempt in the third quarter \u2026 Huntingdon is now 1-1.
\nTyrone 18 Huntingdon 0
\nTyrone 3 3 6 6 \u2013 18
\nHuntingdon 0 0 0 0 \u2013 0
\nScoring Summary
\nFirst Quarter
\nT \u2013 Shaffer 28 FG 5:52
\nSecond Quarter
\nT \u2013 Shaffer 44 FG 3:56
\nThird Quarter
\nT \u2013 Mingle 2 run (PAT blocked) 6:46
\nFourth Quarter
\nT \u2013 Tate 67 run (PAT failed) 3:56
\nTeam
\nT H
\nFirst Downs 18 4
\nYards Rushing 356 60
\nPass Att.-Comp. 2-11 2-9
\nYards Passing 17 38
\nTotal Offense 367 98
\nFumble-Rec. 2-1 2-1
\nInterceptions 2 2
\nPen.\/Yards 4-25 1-12
\nPunts\/Avg. 3-30.6 7-39
\nIndividual
\nRushing
\nTyrone \u2013 Tate 24-204; Mingle 15-109; Emigh 3-34; Walker 4-8; Reihart 3-3; Walk 2-(-2).
\nHuntingdon \u2013 Young 7-37; Buza 9-12; Riley 7-11.
\nPassing
\nTyrone \u2013 Reihart 2-11-17, 0 TD, 2 Int.
\nHuntingdon \u2013 Buza 2-9-38, 0 TD, 2 Int.
\nReceiving
\nTyrone \u2013 Emigh 2-17.
\nJohnstown \u2013 Young 1-34; Fisher 1-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going for 200 Tyrone senior Shayne Tate picks up a big chunk of the 204 yards he rushed for against Huntingdon in the Golden Eagles\u2019 18-0 victory on Saturday night at Gray-Vets Memorial Field. (The Daily Herald\/Steve Michaels) After his team\u2019s 18-0 victory over Huntingdon last night at Gray-Veterans Memorial Field, Tyrone coach John Franco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}