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Highlanders throttle past Summer Creek

By: WOL Sports Staff
| Published 10/31/2014

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HUMBLE, Texas - The Woodlands Highlanders clinched at least a share of the District 16-6A football championship with a 63-14 victory over Summer Creek before a sparse Halloween crowd on Friday night at Turner Stadium.

The Woodlands improves to 5-0 in district


The win moved the area’s second-ranked Highlanders to 8-1 overall and 5-0 in District 16-6A play. They can clinch the outright district crown with a victory over Kingwood in the final week of the season at 4 p.m. next Saturday at Woodforest Stadium.

Summer Creek, which made the jump from Class 4A to 6A before the 2013-2014 school year, dropped to 3-6 overall and 2-4 in the league.

The Woodlands put up 35 first-quarter points against the much-maligned Bulldogs’ defense and coasted the rest of the evening.

Matt Bonaguidi, who was back in the starting lineup after Chris Andritsos started a week ago, scored on a 7-yard run to open the onslaught early in the first period. Bonaguidi and Andritsos split time at quarterback for the first half of the game.

Special teams star Mason Wuensch made it 14-0, when he blocked Summer Creek’s punt and recovered it for a touchdown in the end zone on the Bulldogs’ first offensive possession.

Patrick Carr scored on runs of 5 and 6 yards, and Bonaguidi hit speedster Chris Stewart with a 26-yard scoring strike to put The Woodlands up five touchdowns only 12 minutes into the game.

Summer Creek, which is loaded with offensive talent, scored twice in the second quarter to try and remain in the contest.

Junior quarterback Zachary Walker scored from 4 yards out on fourth-and-4 with 6:30 left in the second quarter, while running back Myles Wanza added a 3-yard touchdown scamper to make the score 42-14 with 3:13 left until intermission.

Summer Creek had two other chances to score in the second quarter, but The Woodlands’ Nick Purcell stopped Walker on fourth down from the Highlanders’ 18. Walker missed a pair of wide open receivers on fourth-and-goal from the 4, with 11:20 left in the half.

Carr, who passed Daniel Lasco for most rushing touchdowns in a career, scored on a 59-yard run with 6:13 left in the half. He would add touchdown runs of 4 and 9 yards in the third quarter as he finished with 129 yards rushing and five scores.

The Woodlands had one other chance to score in the second quarter, but Nacho Garcia’s 25-yard field goal sailed wide left on the final play of the half.

While The Woodlands’ defense took over in the second half, third-string quarterback Craig Heiser took over the offense.

Heiser, who was 4-for-4 for 43 yards, hit Brentley Kalata with a 10-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter. The three Woodlands’ quarterbacks combined to hit 17-of-20 passes for 270 yards. The Highlanders had 538 yards of total offense.

Summer Creek managed 379 total yards, which is the most the Highlanders have given up this season.

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