Post by 50yardfan on Feb 27, 2012 13:32:40 GMT -5
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BLOOMINGTON — Jason Townson didn’t find a prominent position on the stat sheet from Sunday’s Bloomington Edge home debut. Neither did Quince Holman.
However, their play on the offensive line got a lot of credit for enabling the Edge to rebound from a disappointing season-opening loss.
Townson corrected his center-exchange problems from the first week while Holman shined in a fill-in role, enabling the Dusty Burk-led Edge offense to rack up seven touchdowns in a 54-40 Indoor Football League win over the Reading Express before a U.S. Cellular Coliseum crowd of 5,216.
“We were more in sync than we were last week,” said Burk, who threw for three TDs and ran for another. “I thought Jay did a great job at center; he really snapped the ball well and everything fed off that.
“Something else that needs to be pointed out is that Quince stepped up and played really well in a position he’d never played before. He was learning on the fly out there.”
Running back Andre Raymond found the end zone three times and John Cooper caught each of Burk’s scoring tosses, while Jon Kowalyshen and Jeff Sobol spearheaded the defensive line’s frequent pressure on Reading quarterback A.J. McKenna.
“We were all kind of disappointed with how last week went,” said Sobol, who led a rush that forced a McKenna incompletion on fourth-and-goal from the Edge 5 that preserved a 14-point lead with 3:31 to play. “It was nice to get in front of the home fans and get a big win, get some momentum going into next week.”
Edge coach Kenton Carr thought Holman deserved to be player of the game after the veteran defender switched sides when Ray Krishock suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first quarter.
“He’s such a good kid and a hard worker. He’s a part of this family and I feel really bad for him,” Carr said of Krishock.
The Edge never trailed after taking a 7-3 lead on Raymond’s 2-yard TD run at the 8:32 mark. Sobol thwarted the following Express drive with a sack before Burk connected with Cooper on a 38-yard strike. After Reading again failed to gain first down, Raymond capped a six-play drive with a 2-yard plunge for a 21-3 advantage.
“This was an opportunity for us to come together as a collective group and correct the mistakes that happened last week,” said Raymond, who totaled 62 yards on 11 carries. “We vowed to ourselves that we wouldn’t make the same mistakes and we would just get a little better every week.”
Reading got within 28-19 on T.J. Porter’s TD catch with 3 seconds left in the second quarter, then attempted to end the half with a squib kick. But Kowalyshen snared the ball and touched the side wall to stop the clock, allowing Pete Christofilakos to hit a 36-yard field goal as time expired. The Express got no closer than 11 points the rest of the way.
Burk threw for 155 yards in the turnover-free game while McKenna posted 172 yards with three TDs and also ran for a score. Joshua Floyd gave Reading a bright spot with a 57-yard kick return TD in the third quarter.
“We’ve still got some work to do. Special teams is one area I definitely didn’t like,” said Carr. “We’re going to keep getting better, make adjustments here and there and add a player or two. But it’s definitely a good win.”
BLOOMINGTON — Jason Townson didn’t find a prominent position on the stat sheet from Sunday’s Bloomington Edge home debut. Neither did Quince Holman.
However, their play on the offensive line got a lot of credit for enabling the Edge to rebound from a disappointing season-opening loss.
Townson corrected his center-exchange problems from the first week while Holman shined in a fill-in role, enabling the Dusty Burk-led Edge offense to rack up seven touchdowns in a 54-40 Indoor Football League win over the Reading Express before a U.S. Cellular Coliseum crowd of 5,216.
“We were more in sync than we were last week,” said Burk, who threw for three TDs and ran for another. “I thought Jay did a great job at center; he really snapped the ball well and everything fed off that.
“Something else that needs to be pointed out is that Quince stepped up and played really well in a position he’d never played before. He was learning on the fly out there.”
Running back Andre Raymond found the end zone three times and John Cooper caught each of Burk’s scoring tosses, while Jon Kowalyshen and Jeff Sobol spearheaded the defensive line’s frequent pressure on Reading quarterback A.J. McKenna.
“We were all kind of disappointed with how last week went,” said Sobol, who led a rush that forced a McKenna incompletion on fourth-and-goal from the Edge 5 that preserved a 14-point lead with 3:31 to play. “It was nice to get in front of the home fans and get a big win, get some momentum going into next week.”
Edge coach Kenton Carr thought Holman deserved to be player of the game after the veteran defender switched sides when Ray Krishock suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first quarter.
“He’s such a good kid and a hard worker. He’s a part of this family and I feel really bad for him,” Carr said of Krishock.
The Edge never trailed after taking a 7-3 lead on Raymond’s 2-yard TD run at the 8:32 mark. Sobol thwarted the following Express drive with a sack before Burk connected with Cooper on a 38-yard strike. After Reading again failed to gain first down, Raymond capped a six-play drive with a 2-yard plunge for a 21-3 advantage.
“This was an opportunity for us to come together as a collective group and correct the mistakes that happened last week,” said Raymond, who totaled 62 yards on 11 carries. “We vowed to ourselves that we wouldn’t make the same mistakes and we would just get a little better every week.”
Reading got within 28-19 on T.J. Porter’s TD catch with 3 seconds left in the second quarter, then attempted to end the half with a squib kick. But Kowalyshen snared the ball and touched the side wall to stop the clock, allowing Pete Christofilakos to hit a 36-yard field goal as time expired. The Express got no closer than 11 points the rest of the way.
Burk threw for 155 yards in the turnover-free game while McKenna posted 172 yards with three TDs and also ran for a score. Joshua Floyd gave Reading a bright spot with a 57-yard kick return TD in the third quarter.
“We’ve still got some work to do. Special teams is one area I definitely didn’t like,” said Carr. “We’re going to keep getting better, make adjustments here and there and add a player or two. But it’s definitely a good win.”