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It's hard to have imagined St. Teresa's turnaround a week ago.
Coming off a disappointing loss to Tolono Unity in which the Bulldogs managed two scores in the second half, St. Teresa lit up the scoreboard and in impressive fashion.
Three of the Bulldogs' touchdowns covered three-fourths of the field, including Zach Jarrett's 76 yard opening-drive score and two touchdown passes that were 78 and 81 yards.
Compare that to their longest play against Unity, a 23-yard run by Ryan Fyke in the first quarter.
Defensively, they gave up about the same amount of yards, but siphoned off the bleeding with interceptions and two recovered fumbles, a drastic improvement from the lone interception in Week 1.
Even in a loss, it would have been a confidence boost to St. Teresa to see plays executed how they are in practice. But to see it in a win, and against Maroa-Forsyth, which had a regular season winning streak of 17 games, that provided Tim Brilley with perhaps his biggest win with the Bulldogs.
CIC Weekend
While St. Teresa made the biggest splash of the weekend with its win, the rest of the CIC made enough noise of their own.
Warrensburg-Latham and Sullivan-Okaw Valley had huge shutout wins, Meridian and Clinton both prevented late two-point conversions that would have tied or won the game for their opponent and Tuscola and Shelbyville looked as strong as ever.
Out of all the teams, Tuscola's game impressed the most considering the strength of the opponent. Georgetown Ridge-Farm had won 35-6 against Warrensburg the week before, but the Warriors and Nick Bates were in control the entire way.
On the eve of CIC play, the rest of the conference should take notice of the accurate passing attacks from Tuscola and Shelbyville. Bates has completed 18 of 28 passes so far, and Shelbyville's Lucas Duckett has connected on 26 of 41.
Aerial Assault
It's too early to predict how Mount Zion's Payton Grinestaff will finish the season in the record books.
But there's no denying he's off to an incredible start.
After tossing 387 yards in Week 1, Grinestaff topped himself with a 399 yard performance against Jerseyville. And he found new favorite targets each week, which could further help keep opponents off balance.
After Mason Bruce and Brandon Price were the beneficiaries Week 1, it was Austin Thacker (261 yards) and Max Gensler (89) who were the top receivers against Jerseyville.
But here's something to chew on. Tuscola's Dusty Burk threw for a H&R-area record of 4,052 yards in 1997. On Grinestaff's current pace, he'll hit 3,930 in 10 games.
Almost There
Sullivan-Okaw Valley has roared out to 127 points in two games this year. They scored 132 last year.
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