Oct. 25 St Albans game
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Shelton Leads PHS To 27-12 Win
Jakel Shelton scored two touchdowns while rushing for 168 yards to power Parkersburg to a 27-12 Mountain State Athletic Conference win over St. Albans Friday night at Stadium Field.
In beating St. Albans for the 16th time in a row the Big Reds also got an interception return touchdown from Zane Lewis and two field goals from Quinton Wright to end their own two-game losing streak going into next week’s showdown with Huntington.
The Big Reds started slowly, allowing the Red Dragons (now 2-6) to drive 42 yards in nine plays only to miss a 30 yard field goal on the game’s first series. PHS went 3-and-out on its first series and St. Albans’ Sean Mccord broke off a 63 yard run to the PHS one yard line on the first play. Mccord appeared stopped in the backfield but no whistle was sounded and the visiting speedster broke away all the way to the one. After Lewis tackled Mccord in the backfield for a three yard loss, Deshaun Stotts scored on the next play to put the Dragons up 6-0 with 5:15 on the first quarter clock.
PHS responded with a field goal from 22 yards out by Wright but had settle for that after getting a first and goal from the eight yard line only to be hit by a penalty following an incomplete pass. A third down pass from Cooper Cancade to Braxton Kupfner made it only to the five and the Big Reds elected to go for three points from the nearly automatic Wright.
The Big Red defense came through on the next series when Lewis stepped in front of a St. Albans pass over the middle and the PHS senior took it into the end zone from seven yards away with 30 seconds left in the first quarter. Wright’s kick made it 10-6.
A fumble recovery by Kupfner at midfield set up the second Parkersburg score, a six yard run by Shelton, who carried the ball 20 times for his 168 yards. Big plays on that drive included an 18 yard pass from Tytan Parsons and a 17 yard run by Shelton.
Shelton’s second TD came with 53 seconds left in the half to complete a 75-yard, nine-play drive. Shelton had runs of 12, 14 and 18 yards on that series with the touchdown coming on a five yard run untouched up the middle behind some outstanding blocking. Wright’s kick made it 24-6.
The PHS defense set up Wright’s second field goal (his seventh of the season in eight attempts). The Big Red kicker is now just two field goals away from the season record of nine held by Tyler Warner and Connor Louden. St. Albans went for it on fourth down at midfield but Ethan Jones sacked the Red Dragon quarterback for a seven yard loss.
Leading 27-6, PHS gave up a 60 yard pass completion from Reese Lilly to Duece Mcclain to the Big Red six yard line and on the first play of the fourth quarter the visitors got the touchdown on a five yard run to cut the lead to 27-12.
The Big Reds went for it on their next possession and came up two yards short at the St. Albans 36 yard line. The Dragons drove all the way to a first and goal at the 10 but four plays lost a yard when Jones and Lewis making the stop on a fourth down play with 4:43 left in the contest, which started a half hour late due to a power outage in half the stadium.
Helping Shelton in the rushing department was Jones with seven carries for 58 yards while Cancade completed 10 of 15 passes for 64 yards with Kupfner catching three for 20 yards while Parsons, Shelton and Hunter Leavitt all caught two passes.
Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4 Total
St. Albans 6 0 0 6 12
Parkersburg 10 14 3 0 27
Qtr Time Scoring play
1st 05:15 SA - Deshaun Stotts 4 yd run (Gavin Duncan kick failed), 3-64 1:38
01:49 PHS - Quinton Wright 22 yd field goal, 8-59 3:20
00:30 PHS - Zane Lewis 7 yd interception return (Quinton Wright kick)
2nd 07:31 PHS - Jakel Shelton 6 yd run (Quinton Wright kick), 4-48 1:24
00:53 PHS - Jakel Shelton 5 yd run (Quinton Wright kick), 9-75 3:57
3rd 00:59 PHS - Quinton Wright 38 yd field goal, 7-16 3:13
4th 11:52 SA - Sean Mccord 5 yd run (Reese Lilly pass failed), 4-68 0:59
SA PHS
FIRST DOWNS 10 13
RUSHES-YARDS (NET) 31-120 33-242
PASSING YDS (NET) 171 64
Passes Att-Comp-Int 22-12-1 15-10-0
TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS 53-291 48-306
Fumble Returns-Yards 0-0 0-0
Punt Returns-Yards 0-0 1--1
Kickoff Returns-Yards 5-96 3-34
Interception Returns-Yards 0-0 1-7
Punts (Number-Avg) 2-28.5 2-34.0
Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1
Penalties-Yards 2-10 2-10
Possession Time 24:11 23:15
Third-Down Conversions 4 of 11 4 of 9
Fourth-Down Conversions 0 of 4 0 of 1
Red-Zone Scores-Chances 2-4 4-4
Sacks By: Number-Yards 0-0 3-18
RUSHING: St. Albans-Sean Mccord 18-132; Deshaun Stotts 7-15; Ava King 1-0; Reese Lilly 5-minus 27.
Parkersburg-Jakel Shelton 20-168; Ethan Jones 7-58; Cooper Cancade 6-16.
PASSING: St. Albans-Reese Lilly 12-22-1-171.
Parkersburg-Cooper Cancade 10-15-0-64.
RECEIVING: St. Albans-Duece Mcclain 5-145; Sean Mccord 4-23; Deshaun Stotts 2-5; Kadir Maxwell 1-minus 2.
Parkersburg-Braxton Kupfner 3-20; Tytan Parsons 2-23; Hunter Leavitt 2-10; Jakel Shelton 2-3; Brady Thorn 1-8.
INTERCEPTIONS: St. Albans-None. Parkersburg-Zane Lewis 1-7.
FUMBLES: St. Albans-Reese Lilly 1-1. Parkersburg-Javel Chandler 1-1.
St. Albans (2-6) vs. Parkersburg (3-5)
Date: Oct 25, 2024 • Site: Parkersburg • Stadium: Stadium Field
Attendance: 500
Kickoff time: 8:00 (delay power outage) • End of Game: 10:10 • Total elapsed time: 2:10 Temperature: 63 • Weather: rain
