Parkersburg High School Big Reds Football

Nov. 1 Huntington game

Sack Scores 3 Times As Huntington Beats PHS, 37-12

Keegan Sack scored three touchdowns including one on a blocked punt to lead fourth ranked Huntington to a 37-12 Mountain State Athletic Conference win over Parkersburg Friday night at Stadium Field.

Sack, who scored four touchdowns last week and now has 24 touchdowns on the season, ran for 157 yards on 17 carries including a 74 yard scoring play while adding 28 receiving yards and scored in the third quarter when he picked up a blocked punt and waltzed untouched into the end zone.

The win was the eighth in a row for the once-beaten and fourth-ranked Highlanders of coach Bill Seals while dropping the Big Reds to 3-6 on the season.

Poor field position hampered the Big Reds, who were only out-gained 321-254 in total offense and intercepted three passes on defense – by Zane Lewis, Javel Chandler and Cyrus Backus. Jakel Shelton had 90 yards receiving while Brady Thorn added 38 and both Big Reds scored on passes from Cooper Cancade who completed 15 of 30 attempts for 185 yards.

PHS stopped Huntington on the first series of the game when Chandler made a juggling, one-handed interception near midfield. But the Big Reds produced nothing offensively and suffered a 17 yard punt that gave the visitors the ball on their own 31. After forcing a punt the PHS offense again failed to get a first down and this time the punt went just eight yards giving the visitors the ball on the PHS 18 yard line.

Huntington capitalized this time in one play as Sack went untouched around left end for the first touchdown of the game and Jordan Price kicked the extra point.

PHS decided to gamble on fourth-and-two from its own 35 yard line on the ensuing series and was stopped for no gain.

A big sack from Braxton Kupfner forced Huntington to settle for a 41 yard field goal with 11:14 left in the second quarter to make it 10-0.

PHS tried to answer with a field goal attempt of its own but Quinton Wright’s 37-yard attempt was short. It was Wright’s only second miss of the season.

Huntington scored again two plays later when Sack broke one for 74 yards to the end zone and the PAT made it 17-0 with 6:33 left in the half.

Parkersburg then put together a 12-play, 71-yard scoring drive with Cancade passing to Thorn for the final six yards. A 21-yard pass to Tytan Parsons was the big play on the drive but Wright’s extra point attempt was blocked to make it 10-6 at half.

Huntington had a chance to score again as the half ended thanks to two penalties against PHS but Price missed a 14-yard field goal attempt.

A 51-yard run by Sack set up Huntington’s third touchdown early in the second half and the Highlanders added another six points just two and a half minutes later when Wright’s punt was blocked with Sack picking the ball up and going untouched into the end zone from five yards away to make it 31-6.

PHS showed some life to begin the fourth quarter as Cancade hit Thorn with a 33 yard completion and then found Shelton for 22 more yards and a touchdown with 11:18 left in the game to cut the score to 31-12.

An interception by Lewis gave the PHS the ball back with 8:03 left in the game but on fourth down from their own 34 the Big Reds came up just short and Huntington put an insurance touchdown on the board with a seven yard run by Tayveon Wilson which was aided by two big penalties against PHS.

#4 Huntington vs #16 Parkersburg (Nov. 1, 2024 at Parkersburg)

Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4 Total

Huntington 7 10 14 6 37

Parkersburg 0 6 0 6 12

Qtr Time Scoring play

1st 03:27 HUNT - Keegan Sack 18 yd run (Jordan Price kick), 1-18 0:07

2nd 11:14 HUNT - Jordan Price 41 yd field goal, 7-11 2:22

06:33 HUNT - Keegan Sack 74 yd run (Jordan Price kick), 2-80 0:40

01:15 PHS - Brady Thorn 6 yd pass from Cooper Cancade (Quinton Wright kick blockd), 12-71 4:55

3rd 07:28 HUNT - Deuce Olden 12 yd pass from Avonte Crawford (Jordan Price kick), 5-51 2:51

05:01 HUNT - Keegan Sack 5 yd blocked punt return (Jordan Price kick)

4th 11:18 PHS - Jakel Shelton 22 yd pass from Cooper Cancade (Cooper Cancade pass failed), 8-89 3:09

03:24 HUNT - Tayveon Wilson 7 yd run (Jordan Price kick failed), 6-40 2:54

HUNT PHS

FIRST DOWNS 17 11

RUSHES-YARDS (NET) 34-192 26-69

PASSING YDS (NET) 129 185

Passes Att-Comp-Int 19-10-3 30-15-0

TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS 53-321 56-254

Fumble Returns-Yards 0-0 0-0

Punt Returns-Yards 1-30 0-0

Kickoff Returns-Yards 2-18 4-83

Interception Returns-Yards 0-0 3-26

Punts (Number-Avg) 1-38.0 5-15.2

Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0

Penalties-Yards 4-75 9-86

Possession Time 20:27 26:45

Third-Down Conversions 6 of 11 5 of 14

Fourth-Down Conversions 0 of 0 2 of 4

Red-Zone Scores-Chances 3-5 1-2

Sacks By: Number-Yards 2-7 2-26

RUSHING: Huntington-Keegan Sack 17-157; Tayveon Wilson 3-20; Antonyo Paschall 2-10; Andreas Reese 3-5; Marc. Henderson 1-3; Avonte Crawford 8-minus 3. Parkersburg-Jakel Shelton 14-38; Cooper Cancade 8-27; Ethan Jones 3-5; Bryan Gregory 1-minus 1.

PASSING: Huntington-Avonte Crawford 10-19-3-129. Parkersburg-Cooper Cancade 15-30-0-185.

RECEIVING: Huntington-Tayveon Wilson 4-68; Keegan Sack 3-28; Tavian Chandler 1-16; Deuce Olden 1-12; Andreas Reese 1-5. Parkersburg-Jakel Shelton 5-90; Braxton Kupfner 4-28; Ethan Jones 3-7; Brady Thorn 2-39; Tytan Parsons 1-21.

INTERCEPTIONS: Huntington-None. Parkersburg-Zane Lewis 1-17; Javel Chandler 1-9; Cyrus Backus 1-0.

FUMBLES: Huntington-None. Parkersburg-None.

Huntington (8-1) vs. Parkersburg (3-6)

Date: Nov. 1, 2024 • Site: Parkersburg • Stadium: Stadium Field

Attendance: 500

Kickoff time: 7:30 • End of Game: 10:01 • Total elapsed time: 2:31