Lexington Kentucky
October 17, 2003
©2003 by Ron Harrison
Paul Dunbar (6-1) vs. Henry Clay (5-3) October 17, 2003
Dunbar is 3-0 in district play and the defense has only allowed 16 points in the second half this season. The offense has been led by RB Bobby Vyverberg who has gained 761 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground. QB Davis Stanley has thrown for 699 yards and eight touchdowns.
Henry Clay has won five consecutive games and enter this contest with a 4-0 district slate. So. RB Rod Johnson has gained 675 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground while So. QB Salin Simpson has thrown for 751 yards and seven scores. All-everything WR Aubrey White has gained 1053 all-purpose yards and tallied 11 touchdowns for the year.
The teams traded field goals in the first half as they teams left the field at halftime with the score deadlocked 3-3. The seccond half became the Aubrey White show as the Henry Clay star led his team to a 20-10 victory and their fifth district win of the year. Henry Clay led 6-3 midway through the third quarter when White made one of the key plays of the game. White was standing in the end zone waiting to punt. However, the snap was high and he was forced to virtually "climb the ladder" to pull down the high snap, but he recovered to get away a 42 yard punt to the Henry Clay 48 yard line. The Blue Devils' Chris Orth then intercepted a pass at the Henry Clay 32 yard line and Aubrey White then took a pitch and fired a pass to Clayton Heien who went 68 yards for the score. This score gave Henry Clay a 13-3 lead after three quarters.
White struck again in the fourth quarter as he made a circus catch in the end zone for a TD on a 20 yard pass from Salin Simpson to make the score 20-3. Dunbar cut the lead to 20-10 on a one yard run from Chris Coleman with 7:26 remaining on the clock. This was as close as Dunbar could get and the Blue Devils left the field with a key district victory.
Henry Clay was led tonight by the aforementioned White, who carried the ball twice for 24 yards, caught three passes for 75 yards and a score, completed a pass for 68 yards, and a score, and returned a kickoff for 55 yards. He also punted four times for a 36 yard average. The defense was led tonight by Mychal Dabney who recorded 10 solo and two assisted tackles. Dabney was also credited with an interception.
Bobby Vyverberg led Dunbar on offense with 146 yards on 26 carries. He also caught two passes for 30 yards. Davis Stanley completed seven of 17 passes for 90 yards but had two passes intercepted. Stanley also carried the ball 16 times for 35 yards. Sean O'Brien kicked a 40 yard field goal and punted twice for a 48.5 yard average. Drew Roberts led the Bulldog defense with seven solo and three assisted tackles.
Scoring Summary
| Henry Clay | 20 | Paul Dunbar | 10 |
| School | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Final |
| Paul Dunbar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| Henry Clay | 0 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 20 |
| HC | - Peter Mashni 23 yard field goal |
| PD | - Sean O'Brien 40 yard field goal |
| HC | - Peter Mashni 30 yard field goal |
| HC | - Clayton Heien 68 yard pass from Aubrey White (Mashni kick) |
| HC | - White 20 yard pass from Salin Simpson (Mashni kick) |
| PD | - Christian Coleman 1 yard run (Brian Vasiloff kick) |
Selected Statistics
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| Rushing | No. | Yds. | Avg. | Long | Rushing | No. | Yds. | Avg. | Long | |
| Bobby Vyverberg | 26 | 146 | 5.6 | 31 | Matt Walker | 7 | 35 | 5.0 | 14 | |
| Davis Stanley | 16 | 35 | 2.2 | 16 | Rod Johnson | 11 | 35 | 3.2 | 18 | |
| Chris Coleman | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 14 | Aubrey White | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 15 | |
| Wayne Thurman | 3 | 9 | 3.0 | 5 | Clayton Heien | 7 | 14 | 2.0 | 6 | |
| Sean O'Brien | 1 | -5 | -5.0 | 0 | Team | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Jonathan Ball | 1 | -32 | -32.0 | 0 | Salin Simpson | 3 | -23 | -7.7 | 0 | |
| Ryan Combs | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | ||||||
| Passing | A-C-I | Yds. | TD | Long | Passing | A-C-I | Yds. | TD | Long | |
| Davis Stanley | 17-7-2 | 90 | 0 | 28 | Salin Simpson | 15-3-0 | 75 | 1 | 49 | |
| Aubrey White | 1-1-0 | 68 | 1 | 68 | ||||||
| Receiving | No. | Yds. | TD | Long | Receiving | No. | Yds. | TD | Long | |
| Bobby Vyverberg | 2 | 30 | 0 | 28 | Aubrey White | 3 | 75 | 1 | 49 | |
| Ryan Combs | 1 | 20 | 0 | 20 | Clayton Heien | 1 | 68 | 1 | 68 | |
| Ryan Oakley | 1 | 14 | 0 | 14 | ||||||
| Drew Roberts | 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
| Keith Bailey | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | ||||||
| Phillip Garrard | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
Acknowledgements
A special thanks to WL Stats for the comprehensive stats provided for tonight's game.
Other Games of Interest
Please refer to Week Nine in Review.
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