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When it rains, it pours.
And Friday night, Elizabethtown poured it on McCaskey, defeating the Red Tornado, 53-7 in the Barney Ewell sports complex.
The night's steady rain did nothing to slow down E-town, as wingback Conrad Heisey and fullback Shane Rosenberry combined to run roughshod over the Red Tornado defense.
Heisey carried 10 times for 96 yards and three touchdowns, while Rosenberry added 84 yards and three more scores on 11 attempts.
E-town churned out 239 yards on 39 rushes in all.
"Our offensive line really blew holes open," Rosenberry said. "It was so easy to run through them."
E-town coach Jeff Polites said his team's line was a question mark coming into the game.
"I think we got some questions answered tonight," he said afterward.
McCaskey contributed to its own demise with poor tackling, allowing seemingly small gains ballooned into huge results.Rosenberry broke off a 35-yard weak-side draw for the first score of the game on a play that should've gone for five yards, tops.
McCaskey answered with Adrian Westbrook's 73-yard option keeper down the left sideline.
But Westbrook managed just eight more yards on his next seven attempts, and McCaskey could only put together 97 rush yards and 85 through the air.
"They were, obviously, a lot more physical and played with more effort tonight," said Tornado coach Scott Feldman, who deemed the loss, "as bad as it gets."
Mitch Weidman followed Westbrook's TD with a 70-yard kickoff return, setting up Rosenberry's three-yard score that gave E-town a 14-7 lead with just 4½ minutes gone in the first quarter.
The wet weather was a factor from there, making the ball increasingly difficult to handle.
McCaskey fumbled eight times in the game, losing five. Two of those set up scores, and a third led directly to E-town's last touchdown of the night, David Kennedy's 28-yard return.
The Bears broke the game open in the second quarter as Rosenberry scored from a yard out.
(1513) (899) (270) (269) (45) (40) (30) (29) (28) (11) (9) (2)Heisey rumbled 13 yards, and Jeremie Jones pulled in a 6-yard toss from quarterback Kyle McNeil, whose only incompletion in a 3-for-5, one interception night came when Justin Wysock batted down a pass at the line of scrimmage.
Heisey scored on runs of 11 and 39 yards in the second half, before Kennedy capped the scoring with 9:43 to play.
"It was a good start," Polites said. "Our seniors have never lost an opener and they didn't want to start tonight."
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