FALLON — As if the way they’ve rolled through the Northern 3A so far this season hasn’t been enough to strike fear into opponents, Greenwave coach Calvin Connors dropped a chilling reminder to the rest of the league after last Friday’s 48-8 win in Dayton: his dominant squad is still getting better.
The Greenwave scored on five of seven offensive possessions and added two return touchdowns in beating the Dust Devils, improving their record to 7-0 overall and 5-0 in the Northern 3A.
Quarterback Camden Richardson threw three touchdown passes, and had three others nullified by penalties, although Fallon ultimately scored on each of those possessions.
Maxton Richardson scored three touchdowns — one rushing, one receiving and one on a punt return. Calin Anderson and Dion Gocong caught touchdown passes, Rylan Clark ran for a score and Nathaniel Bianchi punctuated the night with an 83-yard kickoff return for the Greenwave’s final points of the night.
Pictured right: Fallon’s Maxton Richardson comes down with a reception despite being hit by Dayton’s Diego Enriquez. Photo by Robert Perea
Defensively the Greenwave forced three turnovers on two interceptions and a fumble, and the special teams also got a turnover when a Dayton kickoff returner though the ball was going out of bounds and instead the Greenwave recovered at the Dayton 12-yard line.
“Very, very thrilled with how our all three phases played, including defense,” Connors said. “Anytime you come out with a victory, 48-8, you can't be upset.”
Camden Richardson connected with Anderson on a 53-yard touchdown pass on the fifth play of the game to put the Greenwave up 7-0. Fallon’s second possession resulted in a 9-yard touchdown pass from Camden Richardson to Maxton Richardson, capping a drive that was keyed by 19- and 14-yard receptions by Gocong and a 17-yarder by Maxton Richardson.
A 42-yard touchdown from Richardson to Anderson on the first play of the second quarter was called back because of an illegal motion penalty, but a 31-yard run by Maxton Richardson and five straight carries by Clark, the last a 2-yard touchdown, made it 21-0.
After the Greenwave recovered the ensuing kickoff at the Dayton 12, Camden Richardson found Gocong for a 12-yard touchdown on fourth down to make it 27-0.
Maxton Richardson’s 57-yard punt return with 4:13 left in the second quarter made it 34-0, then his 8-yard touchdown run with 2:15 left in the third quarter put Fallon up 41-0.
Dayton answered that score with an 80-yard run by Boston Moon, but Bianchi took the kickoff back 83 yards for a touchdown for the final 48-8 margin.
Fallon has outscored its five league opponents 238-53, which is both the most points scored and fewest allowed in the league, and its point differential of 185 is more than double the next best of 88 by Spring Creek.
“You look at our margin of victory this season, we've got increasingly better as the season goes on, that's what you want as a program,” Connors said. “And something that we've built here in the past three seasons is seasons is getting better throughout the regular season and peaking at the right time towards the end of the regular season, into the postseason.”
Even so, Connors pointed to penalties, including three that resulted in touchdowns being called back, as things the Greenwave needs to eliminate.
“Second week in a row that we kind of shot ourselves in the foot a little bit,” he said. “That's not good in any way you look at it. So, overall, we're going to clean those things up, get on the film tonight, and get prepared for Fernley.”
The Greenwave host Fernley at 7 p.m. Friday. Connors said the Greenwave are focused on following their blueprint for winning, regardless of who the opponent is each week.
“We stick to our standard and that's preparing the right way and making sure that we're assignment-sound, putting a good game plan together for the boys and executing that to a very high level,” Connors said. “We've been able to do that consistently this season and playing Fernley is no different. We look forward to it.”
Below: Four Fallon defenders combine to sack Dayton quarterback Abel Russell. Photo by Robert Perea
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