Offensively, North Mac tallied more than 500 yards, including 468 via the running game. On the other side, the Panthers could do whatever they wanted, especially on the ground. Since then, they were completely locked up, only producing a total of six yards in the game’s final 24 minutes. The Cavaliers put together a 54-yard drive in the closing minutes of the first half, but failed to put points on the board. We dug ourselves a hole that forced us to do things we weren’t able to do.” We played a great opponent and had some people that hadn’t been in the mix before. “Obviously, when you have first-and-15, it doesn’t help the play sheet very much. “Those miscues killed us,” Easterday said. That led to a major downslide for an offense that only managed 125 yards the entire night against a powerful Panther front and pass rush. The Cavaliers committed five penalties in just the first 12 minutes alone, including two before they could even get a snap off. One glaring issue for Carlinville was its mental game. “We’re young and I was hoping that we wouldn’t make as many mistakes as we did early on.”
“We played a great ballclub,” CHS coach Chad Easterday said in respect to North Mac. “Every time you have the neighboring school district coming in and you’re starting a new beginning in a new conference against a program that has dominated for so long, you’re going to come in with a lot of energy.” “The kids fed off that ,” NMHS head coach Patrick Bowman said. The Panthers, led by 18 seniors and a Division I commit in Cooper Starks, electrified a racous home crowd and flipped the script on their Route 4 rival with a stunning 40-0 victory. 26, an experienced and hungry core of Panthers proved too much for a young Cavaliers’ team to handle in North Mac’s highly-anticipated South Central Conference debut. That unfortunate memory was finally put to bed last weekend. Southwestern beats Staunton Gillespie wins in Dalton Barnes’ debutįor six years, the North Mac community had to live with the bitter taste of a heartbreaking 27-23 IHSA state semifinal loss that came against Route 4 rival Carlinville in Virden. Enquirer Democrat photo by Jackson Wilson. Brown also ventured 63 yards to the end zone on a quarterback keeper that put North Mac on top on just the second offensive play of the night. Brown, the Panthers’ quarterback, totaled 224 yards and additionally threw a 57-yard touchdown pass. Kaden Brown rushed for 134 yards on 13 carries and helped lead the North Mac High School football team to a 40-0 victory over Carlinville in Virden Aug.
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