RUMFORD – Nothing was going right for the Mountain Valley High School football in the first half of a Class B Campbell Conference game.
Senior Luke Sibley was the main weapon as he rushed for 145 yards and scored four touchdowns in the first 21 minutes, allowing Wells to romp to a convincing 33-14 win against the Falcons Friday night at Hosmer Field.
Mountain Valley (1-1) proved to be its own worst enemy by turning the ball over on two fumbles and an interception in the first half alone. The Falcons, who beat Leavitt 19-18 in their season-opening game last week, was plagued with poor tackling and an obvious lack of emotion.
“I’m very pleased,” Wells coach Tim Lacomb said. “Any time you can come up here on this field, which I consider the best place in the state to play, and beat Mountain Valley that says a lot. I just thought our offensive execution went extremely went, especially in the first quarter, but they made some mistakes that helped us.”
Mountain Valley fumbled a lateral on its first play from scrimmage and the Warriors circled the wagons. On the very next play, Sibley broke containment and raced down the right side for a 30-yard TD. Brian Matthews kicked his first of three extra points and Wells led 7-0.
Mountain Valley went three plays and punted to the Wells 40. Warrior QB Tyler Stevens (2-for-4 for 63 yards, interception) then directed a nine-play, 60-yard drive. Sibley, 177 yards on 23 rushes in the game, barreled in from seven yards.
Falcon QB quarterback Zach Fergola (4 of 15 for 22 yards, one interception) was under pressure throughout the game. Eric LePage gained 56 yards rushing and Dickie Cote made 30 yards on eight rushes.
“There was no specific game plan,” Sibley said. “Every one was fired upon the bus coming up here and we didn’t think about let’s go inside or out side. The line just blocked extremely well and we played smash-mouth football.”
Sibley also scored from seven and 15 yards.
Mountain Valley finally got things going after Travis Dragoon blocked a PAT and then recovered a fumble. LePage ran in from 27 yards.
The Falcons came out in the second half and recovered two onside kicks. Cory Stairs passed to LePage for a six-yard TD on a halfback option. Ben Madigan caught the two-point conversion to make it 27-14. A key play was a LePage pass to Travis Fergola covering 31 yards.
The Falcons couldn’t capitalize again and were stopped in the red zone.
“We was upset at halftime,” Lacomb said. “I thought that we had tackled better in our win against Morse.”
Kirk Jones (69 yards on 16 rushes) scored the final TD.
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