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VCSPreps.com: St. Bonaventure defeats Jordan


By David Lassen

Posted Saturday, September 19, 2009


LOS ANGELES — By his own assessment, Logan Meyer was in a slump.


No more.


The St. Bonaventure quarterback found his form quickly and emphatically Friday afternoon, jump-starting the Seraphs to a 42-21 win at Jordan High of Los Angeles.


Meyer completed his first seven passes — good for 187 yards and two touchdowns — and finished the day 18 of 25 for 312 yards with three TDs.


“It’s good to get on the board, get three (TDs) in there,” said Meyer. “Hopefully I can keep it going.


“We did really well. The receivers were running their routes. That’s what happens with a good week of practice.”


That was more than enough to ensure the Seraphs would withstand Jordan’s unconventional “Attack The Weakness” offense — and its star attraction, multi-talented Deshawn Beck.


With Jordan lining up in a wide (and wild) variety of offensive alignments — including one with players spaced at regular intervals across the width of the field, and another with a four-man box of players in the backfield — Beck ran for 124 yards and threw for 115. But in general, the Seraphs found a way to deal with the efforts to create one-on-one space for Beck; while he accounted for 239 yards, the Bulldogs finished with just 220.


“Our checks were fine,” said Seraph coach Todd Therrien. “We were good defensively. The opening drive of the third quarter” — when Jordan went 57 yards in nine plays to score — “we had some headaches just on missed tackles.”


For the most part, though, Therrien was happy with the discipline his team showed in its defensive assignments.


“It looks so undisciplined,” he said of the Jordan approach, “that sometimes you want to do more than you’re required to do. And I think our kids did a good job of playing within themselves.”


Defensive back Troy Hill — who Therrien noted kept Beck off the stat sheet as a receiver, another area in which he often excels — said it was a difficult defensive challenge.


“It takes preparing,” said Hill. “They’ve got an athlete over there in Beck, so everybody had to stay home and cover. It was real hard, just preparing as a unit to try to keep him contained. “That’s what it was, basically, discipline. All day at practice, our coaches were running around doing everything they did. And it was basically our coaches preparing us, and the will for the defense to come out and be successful.”


St. Bonaventure raced to the early lead, scoring three times in the first six minutes. An opening three-play, 50-yard drive ending in a 5-yard pass from Meyer to Austin Higbie made it 7-0 after a minute of play, and when the Seraphs got the ball back at their own 10 a little over four minutes later, they needed just two plays to score — a 69-yard pass from Meyer to Christian White and a 21-yard run by Devon Blackledge.


And after Jordan turned the ball over at its own 14 following an unsuccessful fake punt, the Seraphs needed just one play to score again, this time a 14-yard pass from Meyer to Daniel Wakam.


Six plays, three touchdowns.


“We started well,” said Therrien. “That was a good job. But then we got really sloppy. We’ve got to clean it up.”


Meyer’s 312 yards were just 2 yards shy of his total for the first two games. He played just three quarters, closing out his day with a 24-yard TD pass to Blackledge in the third.


“That’s a good day,” said Therrien. “That’s a real good day. And if we don’t stall out in the red zone twice in the first half, we’re looking at a real great passing day. At least of his incompletions were drops, maybe three.”


Diamond Schouder extended the lead to 28-0 with a 1-run run early in the second quarter; he would later add a 4-yard TD run and finish with 14 carries for 74 yards.


Jordan’s first TD came on a 98-yard interception return by Raymond Ford in the second quarter; Beck provided the other touchdowns, on runs of 4 and 6 yards, and also kicked his team’s extra points.


Source: VCSPreps.com