Cranes win season opener 33-6 over Lutheran Westland

The Cranbrook Cranes football team kicked off the 2011 season on the road with a strong showing over non-conferance opponent Lutheran Westland Friday evening.

To start the game off senior Jack Briggs had some good blocking and returned the opening kickoff 65 yards. Senior Mike Ray started out a great kicking day by putting the Cranes on the scoreboard first with a 39 yard field goal. Westland came right back and pounded the ball for a 12 play 66 yard drive to go on top 6-3.

In the second quarter senior Ned Rogers and sophomore Belvin Liles each had a sack on the warrior quaterback and the CK defense tighted up to slow down Westland's offense. The Crane offense also got on track. Mike ray hit his second field goal (a 29 yarder) to tie the game up 6-6. The CK special teams gave the offense good field position and senior running back Christian Croom had a big 35 yard run to set up his first touchdown of the day on a 12 yard run. Croom came back in the next series with another 12 yard run to send the cranes to the locker room at halftime with a 20-6 lead. Ray kicked both PATs after Croom's TDs.

The Cranes came out in the 3rd quarter focused on finishing what they started. The defense got a turnover with a fumble recovery by junior linebacker Keegan Keln and the offense scored on a 45 yard run by Croom for his third of the day. The PAT was missed. The defense held the Warrior offense on downs in the next series and the Crane offense scored the final points of the game on a 10 yard run by sophomore running back Joe Myrick. PAT was good by Ray.

With three regular starters out with injuries everyone played and contributed to the win. Special teams gave us great field position and scored points, the offense controlled the ball and had no turnovers, and the defense shut down the Westland offense while creating two turnovers with the fumble recovery and a 4th quater interception by junior linebacker Aric Homovek.

The Cranes will play their home opener against rival and former Metro Conference member Clarenceville at 4:00 on Thursday Sept. 1st. We need everyone out there to support the team!

GO CK! BEAT THE TROJANS!

see game stats below			Cranbrook vs Westland Lutheran
				Final Game Stats
Rushing	Carries	Gain	Loss	Total	Avg/car	TD	2 pt
Croom	13	177	1	176	13.5	3	0
Myrick	4	11	4	7	1.75	1	0
Thelen	2	4	0	4	2	0	0
Kelln	1	3	0	3	3	0	0
Hall	1	2	0	2	2	0	0
Fraser	1	0	5	-5	-5	0	0
Total	22	197	10	187	8.5	4	0
Passing	Att	Com	%	Yds	Int	TD	2 pt
Hall	11	5	45	63	0	0	0
Fraser	2	2	100	14	0	0	0
Total	13	7	53	78	0	0	0
Rec	Catch	Yds	TD	2 pt				Scoring	TD	2 Pt	F. G.	PAT	Tot Pts
Mogill	5	58	0	0				Croom	3				18
Wilhelm	2	28	0	0				Ray			2	3	9
Total	7	78	0	0				Myrick	1				6
Turnovers	Int	Fum	F Lost	Total				Penalties	#	Yds
CK	0	0	0	0				CK	6	40
Opp	1	2	1	2				Opp.	2	10
Punt	#	Avg	Long					Int.	#	Ret
Hall	0	0	0					Homovec	1
Punt Ret.	#	Avg	TD	Long				Fum. Rec	#	Ret.
								Kelln	1	0
Kick Ret.	#	Yds	Avg	Long	TD
Briggs	1	65	65	65	0
Myrick	1	5	5	5	0			3rd Conv.	Att	Con	%
								CK	8	3	37
								Opp.	12	6	50
Opp Rush	Carries	Gain	Loss	Total	Avg/car	TD	2 pt
#22 Richter	22	90	2	88	4	0	0	First Down	Rush	Pass	Pen	Total
#7 Brown	12	46	6	40	3.3	0	0	CK	4	3	0	7
#12 Weber	1	9	0	9	9	0	0	Opp.	10	1	1	12
#17 Kemp	3	7	0	7	2.3	0	0
#24 Miller	2	7	2	5	2.5	0	0
#20 Dewitt	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
#19Sylvester	7	1	17	16	-2.4	1
Total	48	160	27	133	2.7	1	0
Passing	Att	Com	%	Yds	Int	TD	2 pt
#19 sylvester	2	1	50	17	1	0	0
Total	2	1	50	17	1	0	0
Rec	Catch	Yds	TD	2 pt
#85 Rosin	1	17	0	0
Total	3	65	0	0				Total Yds	Gm	Rush	Pass	Total	Avg/Gm
								CK	1	187	78	265	265
Punt	#	Avg	Long					Opp	1	133	17	150	150
#2	2
Punt Ret.	#	Avg	TD	Long
Tackles solo asst loss sack BIG HIT INT Forced Fumble Ray 6 5 Croom 5 2 2 Lopez 4 8 Homovec 3 6 1 1 Briggs 3 1 1 Liles 2 3 1 Rogers 2 3 1 1 Myrick 1 7 1 Sheehan 1 6 Handley 1 3 1 Himelhoch 1 1 Bloomer 6 Thelen 3 Sanford 2 Varatharajan 1 Kelln 1