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September 28, 2012

Vincennes wins at Hatchet Hollow

By Mike Myers Washington Times-Herald

WASHINGTON — For the Washington Hatchets, Friday night was a return to the bad old days of losing, and losing big, to the Vincennes Lincoln Alices.

After dominating their longtime rival in recent years, Washington saw Vincennes roll into Hatchet Hollow and score a 42-7 win on Friday in Big 8 Conference football action.

Washington (2-5, 0-5) was out of the game almost as soon as the contest began against Vincennes (5-2, 3-1). A pair of Patrick Toole punt return touchdowns gave the Alices an early 14-0 lead and Vincennes never looked back. Toole would go on to add a long touchdown run in the third quarter for the Alices.

Vincennes held Washington 195 yards of total offense and limited Trey Parsons, who topped the 200-yard mark on the ground last week at Mt. Carmel, to just 72 yards on 18 carries.

The only highlight on the evening for the Hatchets came late in the fourth quarter, when quarterback Jake Brashear engineered a 98-yard drive after a WHS goal line stand, a drive which ended with a nine-yard completion to tight end Cody Milligan for a touchdown with 1:31 left in the game. Milligan finished the game with 67 yards receiving five catches.

Following the game, Hatchet coach Kelly Brashear was a man of few words.

“I don’t know where to begin or where to end. There is just not a whole lot positive to say about this game. I probably just need to keep my thoughts to myself and move on. It‘s not going to get any easier next week (at Jasper),” said Brashear. “My hats off to coach (Jon Heiden) and his group, they have a lot of kids that play hard.

“They have about eight kids that play both ways, and a lot of those kids play special teams. They don’t seem to get tired, they tackle well, they block well, and they run well,’ said Brashear. “They’re a pretty good football team.”

Nothing went right for the Hatchets in the first half. The first two Washington possessions ended in punts, and then punt return touchdowns, for Vincennes and Toole. The first was a 79-yard return for six, and the second accounted for 60 yards, with Toole barely being touched by a Hatchet defender on either return as Vincennes led 14-0 before the Alices had even ran an offensive play.

Chris Bouchie added a 35-yard touchdown run for Vincennes as the first quarter ended, and the Alices notched another score on a one-yard Brandt Nowaskie midway through the second quarter as Vincennes led 28-0 at halftime.

Washington’s stat line at halftime was not impressive; a pair of fumbles (by Cody Milligan and Kyle Pfender) that ended WHS drives, a pass interference call that negated a Tyler Walls interception in the Hatchet end zone and kept the Vincennes drive alive that ended with Nowaskie’s touchdown, and just 90 yards of total offense.

Toole added a 47-yard touchdown run on the Alices first possession of the second half, and Avery Mickens contributed the final score of the night on a six-yard run late in the third quarter.

Washington travels to Jasper on Friday.

 

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