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Sold-out home crowd sees senior connect for five touchdowns
By David Lee Morgan Jr.
Beacon Journal sports writer
Published on Friday, Sep 04, 2009
LOUISVILLE: He was known as one of the top wide receivers in the area coming into the season.
After Thursday night, however, Louisville senior Bobby Swigert showed that he has the potential to be one of the top quarterbacks in the area.
Playing in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 8,000 fans at Louisville Stadium, Swigert completed 17-of-24 passes for 240 yards and five touchdowns, each to a different receiver and four in the first half of a 34-13 win over North Canton Hoover.
Swigert connected for touchdowns to Jared Strasser (14 yards), Lee Ferguson (16 yards) Cody Stocker (28 yards) and Jeremy White (26 yards) in the first half.
White's touchdown came off a deflection, and White did a nice job of concentrating to pull the ball in for the touchdown.
Senior wide receiver Joe Stoffer didn't score a touchdown, but he led the team with six catches for 103 yards.
As efficient as Swigert and the Louisville offense were in the first half, the Leopards' defense was just as effective. Louisville's entire unit, led by senior defensive tackle Joe Poyser, Hunter Potts, Bill Kennedy, Matt Wharmby, Joe Henderson and Alan Swaggard, never gave Hoover senior running back Erick Howard room to run.
Howard, who last year was named Mr. Football in Ohio, which goes to the state's top player, did not gain a yard in 11 carries in the first half.
Louisville (2-0) came up
with a big defensive stop midway through the second quarter. The Vikings (1-1) had the ball first-and-goal at Louisville's 5 but couldn't score and turned the ball over on downs.
At the time, the Leopards were leading 13-0 and Hoover had a chance to cut into the lead and get back into the game.
Instead, after Louisville's defensive stop, Swigert drove the offense down the field on a six-play, 97-yard scoring drive and put the Leopards ahead 19-0 (the two-point conversion failed) on Stocker's 28-yard touchdown reception with 5:34 left in the second quarter.
Hoover scored its first touchdown on a 38-yard reception by Jordan Witt from quarterback Brett Tulodzieski with 2:28 left for a 19-6 Louisville lead, but White's catch with 27 seconds left gave the Leopards a 27-6 halftime lead.
Michael Schooley caught Swigert's fifth touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, a 4-yard reception, for a 34-6 Louisville lead.
Howard did get in the end zone late in the game with a 1-yard touchdown run.
Traveling fans
Two high school football lovers — Jim Fiorilli and Steve Stone — traveled two hours from the Wheeling, W.Va., area to watch Howard. Fiorilli and Stone left work at 4:30 p.m. to make the kickoff.
The men, who travel all over Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia every weekend to watch top players, had heard about Howard and were anxious to watch him.
They didn't get to see Howard break any big runs because of the solid play by Louisville's defense, but they still enjoyed the atmosphere.
''There's nothing like high school football to put a shot of enthusiasm in your life,'' Fiorilli said.
David Lee Morgan Jr. can be reachedat dlmorgan@thebeaconjournal.com. Read the Varsity Letters high school blog at http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/varsity_letters/. Also on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ABJ_Preps.
LOUISVILLE: He was known as one of the top wide receivers in the area coming into the season.
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