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Rhett Schweizer’s 3 touchdown performance paces St. Marks to a 38-35 victory over the upstart Caesar Rodney Riders

By David A. Willauer-Contributing Editor

St. Marks High School-Spartan Stadium-Wilmington, DE-10-24-14-In a high scoring see saw contest in a high scoring game, the Spartans of St. Marks on Rhett Schweizer’s 3 touchdown runs of 2, 3 and 1 and carried the ball 18 times for 86 yards along with qb Matt Williams 19 completions out of 30 attempts for 227 yards as he threw touchdown passes of 10 yards to Ryan Lewis, 20 yards to Dalton Ziemba and 20 yards to Greg Betts along with Jay Berry’s 21 yard field goal as they defeated the Riders of Caesar Rodney by a 38-35 score.

Michael Schoenwolf CR Head Football Coach: “We came up short but our squad played hard and has been able to score a few more points every game our offense has improved much better along with the lineman moving quicker staying with their blocks, and our defense made big plays for us still another year of seasoning will make improvements we are going to play hard for 2 games left in the season .” “Jordan Downes has done well for us rushing the ball and doing his responsibilities.”

Rhett Schweizer St. Marks Running back on his performance vs. Caesar Rodney: “This game was huge for us and was tough fight we felt great today on the win over a very touch CR squad.” On my first TD it was a sweep like the Green Bay Packers use but I give credit to the offensive line they gave us the serge.” “CR has the momentum they are good counter gap I give credit to the offensive line for what they did and dominated our defense got the win.”
For the Riders, Fito Lewis scored on a touchdown run of 2 yards, Jordan Downes 14 carries for 231 yards scored on 3 touchdown runs of 10, 37 and 42 yards, Fito Lewis 17 carries for 118 yards along with 1 run of 2 yards, Mike Clever scored on a 3 yard run.

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