High school football: Cape Coral stuns Port Charlotte; Fort Myers tames South
Ed ReedCape Coral 31, Port Charlotte 29
At Port Charlotte
• Adrien Canty’s 33 yard touchdown run gave the Seahawks a 31-17 lead with 3:05 to play in a key Class 6A-District 10 contest. Canty ran for three scores on the night.
• The Seahawks took the second-half kickoff and drove 80 yards in nine plays to open up a 24-7 lead over the Pirates.
• Cape Coral fumbled seven times but recovered five.
• Cape Coral jumped out to a 17-7 lead at the half.
• Port Charlotte scored two touchdowns in the final three minutes to set up the decisive two-point conversion attempt in the last minute that failed.
Records: Cape Coral 4-0 (1-0), Port Charlotte 3-1 (0-1)
Next games: Sept. 21 – Sarasota at Port Charlotte; Sept. 28 – Cape Coral vs. Ida Baker
CC 7 10 7 7 – 31
PC 7 0 0 22 – 29
First quarter
PC – Jean-Louis 27 pass from Rogers (McCormick kick), 9:44
CC – Jaydin Feliz 27 pass from Parker O’Dell (Antonio Garcia-Castro kick), 7:09
Second quarter
CC – Adrien Canty 4 run (Garcia-Castro kick), 3:30
CC – FG Garcia-Castro 20, 0:00
Third quarter
CC – Canty 5 run (Garcia-Castro kick), 8:23
Fourth quarter
PC – Guy 24 pass from Rogers (McCormick kick), 7:54
PC – FG McCormick 30, 5:25
CC – Canty 33 run (Garcia-Castro kick), 3:05
PC – Perry 62 pass from Rogers (kick failed), 2:52
PC – Ferrentino 1 run (pass failed), 0:36
Fort Myers 28, South Fort Myers 14
At Wolfpack Stadium
• After close to a two-hour lightning delay, Fort Myers opened up the scoring 27 seconds in after a Yasias Young kickoff return that went all the way to South’s 36-yard line. Willie Neal found Milan Tucker for 31 yards, then Neal ran it in from 5 yards out.
• The first turnover came in the second quarter when South Fort Myers QB Damian Bloomer fumbled, recovered by sophomore Marvens Merisier.
• Milan Tucker stood out with four receptions for 135 yards and two touchdowns. Neal went 12-for-20 for 199 yards and the two scores. Neal added 10 carries for 71 yards and a rushing TD.
• Fort Myers outgained South Fort Myers on offense, 386-219.
• South Fort Myers forced three fumbles against the Greenies, to keep them in the game in the second half.
Records: South Fort Myers 0-4, Fort Myers 4-0
Next games: Sept. 21 – Palmetto Ridge at South Fort Myers; Charlotte at Fort Myers
FM 13 6 7 2 — 28
SFM 0 0 0 14 — 14
First Quarter
FM — Willie Neal 5 run (Sam Heidt kick) 11:33
FM — Zemare Harvin 5 run (kick failed) 0:38
Second Quarter
FM – Milan Tucker 32 pass from Neal (2-point conversion failed) 0:19
Third Quarter
FM – Milan Tucker 62 pass from Neal (Heidt kick) 5:10
Fourth Quarter
FM – Safety, 10:44
SFM – Julian Durham 31 pass from Damian Bloomer (Bloomer rush) 7:46
SFM – Freddie Ward 2 run (Kevin Leon PAT no good) 4:05
North Fort Myers 57, Island Coast 0
• North senior quarterback Jesse Charles ran for close to 100 yards and two touchdowns and threw for four touchdowns in a homecoming rout of Island Coast in the Class 6A-District 10 opener for both teams.
• The Red Knights scored on seven of their first eight drives. Meanwhile the defensive line got a consistent push up front in a dominant defensive effort to follow a solid effort against a talented Palmetto Ridge team last week.
• “We’re 2-2 right now, 2-2 is .500 and that’s not acceptable for us,” North first-year coach Dwayne Mack said. “We’ve got to try and get the guys going in the right direction, so we can have a winning season and return to the playoffs.”
• The game was out of reach and went to a running clock at the start of the third with North leading 43-0. Clayton Savinsky had two touchdown receptions while Shomari Mason ran for a score and caught a touchdown pass.
• The Gators are 0-4, but coach Jim Wiseman said the team is making strides. “The kids are understanding there is a way to prepare, a way to go about business of putting yourself in position to make plays and win football games. We’re getting better by leaps and bounds. We’re just going to keep working and try to get better.”
Records: North Fort Myers (2-2, 1-0 district); Island Coast (0-4, 0-1 district)
Next games: Sept. 28: Island Coast at Charlotte; Port Charlotte at North Fort Myers
IC 0 0 0 0 – 0
NFM 15 28 7 7—57
First quarter
NFM — Jesse Charles 52 run (Isaiah Taylor run), 10:23
NFM — Shomari Mason 4 pass from Charles (Ethan Bennett kick), 3:31
Second quarter
NFM — Chris Lucas 5 pass from Charles (Bennett kick), 11:35
NFM — Lucas 39 run (Bennett kick), 5:51
NFM — Charles 30 run (Bennett kick), 4:39
NFM — Clayton Savinsky 20 pass from Charles (Bennett kick), 1:35
Third quarter
NFM — Savinsky 38 pass from Charles (Bennett kick), 6:03
Fourth quarter
NFM — Mason 16 run (Bennett kick) 9:39
Cypress Lake 44, Mariner 34
At Cypress Lake
• Cypress Lake’s Jayson Riches was taken off on a stretcher with 2:32 remaining in the third quarter. Riches was injured on Rashawn Hunter’s 10-yard touchdown for Mariner. After a long time lying on the goal line, Riches was placed on a stretcher and then into an ambulance. Panthers coach Richie Rode said the injury was a broken leg. At the time Riches was injured, Mariner had pulled within 34-28 in the Class 5A-District 12 opener for both teams. “It’s such a close-knit group and he’s such a popular player,” Rode said. “They (his teammates) did a good job using that as positive emotion. They’ll deal with it now and some of the sadness now, and they’ll go visit him. But in the moment, they did a good job.”
• Chris Joseph ran for 174 yards and four touchdowns on 15 carries to propel the Panthers. CJ Shedd threw for two Cypress Lake touchdowns.
• For Mariner, Cade Reynolds rushed for 157 yards and a TD, and Hunter carried 16 times for 107 yards and three touchdowns. Hunter also hit Erickson Noel on a 60-yard TD pass. “They had some big plays,” Rode said. “They’ve been doing that to everyone. We’ve got some young kids on the back end, and we don’t expect that to be an excuse but it’s a learning experience.”
• Mariner fumbled three times, although the Tritons recovered all three. One fumble wound up as a 23-yard Tritons loss as players on both sides dove and batted at the ball back before Mariner finally regained possession.
• Although not a single drop of rain fell, lightning delayed the game for an hour and 48 minutes. There was another lengthy delay as paramedics attended to Riches. As a result, the game didn’t end until well after midnight.
Records: Mariner (2-1, 0-1 district), Cypress Lake (3-1, 1-0 district)
Next games: Sept. 21 – at Barron Collier; Sept. 28 – Mariner at Immokalee
M 7 0 13 14 – 34
CL 7 7 14 10 – 44
First quarter
M – Cade Reynolds 1 run (Kaleb Manley kick), 6:10
CL – Chris Joseph 6 run (Jasiel Ramirez kick), 3:01
Second quarter
CL – Joseph 5 run (Ramirez kick), 4:20
Third quarter
CL – Kyrie Savoy 30 pass from CJ Shedd (Ramirez kick), 10:23
M – Erickson Noel 60 pass from Rashawn Hunter (kick blocked), 9:12
CL – Joseph 44 run (Ramirez kick), 8:01
M – Hunter 10 run (Manley kick), 2:32
CL - Joseph 32 run (kick failed), 0:36
Fourth quarter
M – Hunter 1 run (Hunter conversion), 11:04
CL – FG Brett Reed 21, 8:22.
CL – Koby Moore 18 pass from Shedd (Ramirez kick), 5:53
M – Hunter 2 run (no conversion attempted), 0:00
Bishop Verot 59, First Baptist 14
At First Baptist
• Bishop Verot recorded a statement win with a rout of FloridaHSFootball.com's No. 5 team in Class 2A. The 59 points were the most scored by a Verot team since a 68-point effort against St. Pete Catholic in 2002, when now-head coach Josh Vogelbach was the quarterback.
• Tailback Terry Lindsey scored on three short touchdown runs in the first half, helping the Vikings to a 45-8 lead after 24 minutes. The junior finished with 115 yards on 21 carries
• Jacob Azizi tossed three touchdowns for the Vikings, all more than 20 yards. Tequon Chatman, Jaidin Brown, and Brock Gee all hauled in scores from the sophomore signal-caller.
• Thomas Casey was a bright spot for the Lions, rushing for 113 yards on 16 carries, most of which came in the first half. 67 of those yards came on a touchdown run that put FBA on the board.
• A muffed punt set up First Baptist's final score of the game, a 6-yard touchdown run by Jimmy Ridinger.
Records: Bishop Verot 3-1, First Baptist 2-1
Next games: Sept. 21- Bishop Verot at LaBelle; First Baptist at Tarpon Springs
BV 21 24 7 7 – 59
FBA 0 8 0 6 – 14
First quarter
BV – Terry Lindsey 7 run (Logan McLeod kick), 8:31
BV – Tequon Chatman 21 pass from Jacob Azizi (McLeod kick), 7:38
BV – JJ Mira 18 run (McLeod kick), 6:16
Second quarter
BV – FG McLeod 27, 8:47
FBA – Thomas Casey 67 run (Casey run), 7:53
BV – Lindsey 2 run (McLeod kick), 6:23
BV – Jaidin Brown 48 pass from Azizi (McLeod kick), 4:47
BV – Lindsey 3 run (McLeod kick), 0:34
Third quarter
BV – Brock Gee 47 pass from Azizi (McLeod kick), 4:00
Fourth quarter
FBA – Jimmy Ridinger 6 run (kick blocked), 5:00
BV – Mira 46 run (McLeod kick), 1:50
LaBelle 34, Oasis 33
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• LaBelle senior Enrique Hernandez turned into a one-man wrecking crew for the Cowboys. He scored the game-tying touchdown on a 44 yard punt return before kicking the go-ahead extra point with 2:30 to go in the third quarter. He closed out the final Oasis threat with an interception with less than a minute to go.
• Cowboy quarterback Bryce Hall scored on a 56-yard, first-quarter touchdown romp and tossed an 85-yard TD bomb (4-for-8-1 132) to Hernandez in the second quarter.
• Junior Oasis quarterback Daniel Rennie (20-for-29-3, 209 yards) tossed two touchdown passes to junior wide out Ashton Roy of 19 and 72 yards.
• LaBelle’s fourth-quarter defense was the undoing of Oasis. Cowboy senior linebacker Tyler Vahle made two big sacks to go along with an Augustine Perez interception and the Hernandez pick.
• Oasis was penalized 15 times for 106 yards including a tough unsportsmanlike call on the coaching staff with four minutes to go in the game when Sharks’ receiver Weston Wilson was decked crossing the middle of the Cowboy defense. The call pushed Oasis outside the red zone and that drive ended with a missed field-goal attempt of 53 yards.
Records: LaBelle 4-0, Oasis 3-1
Next games: Sept. 21 – Canterbury at Oasis; Bishop Verot at LaBelle
L 6 7 21 0 – 34
O 6 14 13 0 – 33
First quarter
O – Tanner Rennie 6 run (Weston Wilson kick failed), 10:34
L – Bryce Hall 56 run (run failed), :58
Second quarter
O – Ashton Roy 19 pass from Daniel Rennie (Wilson kick), 10:00
L – Maynard Blackmon 2 run (Enriquez Hernandez kick), 3:33
O – Jaheed Marcus 2 run (Wilson kick), 0:35
Third quarter
O – Daniel Rennie 33 run (kick failed), 8:17
L – Hernandez 85 pass from Hall (Hernandez kick), 10:00
O – Roy 72 pass from Daniel Rennie (Wilson kick), 9:07
L – Blackmon 3 run (Hernandez kick), 6:45
L – Hernandez 44 punt return (Hernandez kick), 2:30
Palmetto Ridge 46, Estero 21
At Palmetto Ridge
• Running back Leonel Garza carried the load for Palmetto Ridge. Garza had a whopping 33 carries for 184 yards and two touchdowns. That's 20 more carries and 88 more yards than the rest of the Bears.
• Palmetto Ridge's defense was stifling against Estero's running game. The Bears allowed just 10 Wildcats rushing yards. It would've been much worse, but Estero quarterback Tanner Elliott had a 39-yard scramble. The Bears had nine tackles for losses.
• Estero was in this for a half. The Wildcats trailed just 17-14 at intermission. But Palmetto Ridge had two long scoring drives in the third quarter to build a 32-14 lead and the Bears mostly easily cruised from there.
• Elliott had a mixed-bag game. He completed 17 of 36 passes for 241 yards and three touchdowns. But the big majority of that came in the first half and he suffered three interceptions.
• Wildcats receiver Myles Alceus had a monster first half. Showing fantastic hands and nice quickness, he had five receptions for 110 yards at intermission. He had no second-half receptions.
Records: Palmetto Ridge 1-2, Estero 0-4
Next games: Sept. 21 -- Estero at Gulf Coast, 7 p.m.; Palmetto Ridge at South Fort Myers, 7:30 p.m.
PR 7 10 15 14 – 46
E 7 7 7 0 – 21
First quarter
PR – Colby Singletary 3 run (CJ Moya kick), 8:35
E – Max Bosi 3 pass from Tanner Elliott (Mason Crowell kick), 3:20
Second quarter
PR – FG Moya 29, 11:56
PR – Singletary 50 run (Moya kick), 2:16
E – Ethan Montgomery 57 pass from Elliott (Crowell kick), :31
Third quarter
PR – Collin Guyadeene 19 run (Moya kick), 9:00
PR – Leonel Garza 3 run (Nathan Rounds-Seitz run), 5:50
E – Derrick Peart 23 pass from Elliott (Crowell kick), 3:07
Fourth quarter
PR – Garza 4 run (Moya kick), 6:23
PR – Guyadeene 4 run (Moya kick), 3:28
Canterbury 26, Bayshore Christian 0
At Canterbury
• Freshman Alex Gonzales scored on a reverse and pass reception to spark Canterbury.
• Nick Perez had two interceptions for Canterbury and ran one for 45 yards.
• Andrew Cole had a fumble recovery for the Cougars.
Records: Canterbury 2-2, Bayshore 0-4
Next game: Sept. 21– Canterbury at Oasis
C 13 13 0 0 – 26
B 0 0 0 0 – 0
First quarter
C – Alex Gonzales 35 pass from Konner Barrett (conversion failed)
C – Trace Darby reverse (Jordan Hummel kick)
Second quarter
C – Hummel 2 run (conversion failed)
C – Gonzales 35 yard run (Hummel kick)