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Message: [QUOTE="CuseLegacy, post: 1478105, member: 469"] [URL]http://www.gastongazette.com/article/20150914/NEWS/150919386[/URL] By Ryan Herman Posted Sep. 14, 2015 @ 11:31 pm Usually a pass-first team, East Lincoln took the open lanes Forestview gave it. The Jaguars, on the other hand, got nothing in return. Chazz Surratt ran for a career-high 266 yards and accounted for four scores, Coleton Banks added 137 yards rushing and a touchdown, and East Lincoln scored 27 unanswered points to beat Forestview 41-28 Monday night in a completion of Friday’s suspended game. The teams picked up where they left off tied at 14 with 3:01 to play in the first half. East Lincoln (4-0) took its first snap on Monday with 62 yards rushing as a team. It finished with 403. “We did a good job up front running the football, most of the time,” said Mustangs coach Mike Byus, whose team won its 20th consecutive game. “We had advantages in the run game, and we were running the ball, moving the ball.”Surratt scored on runs of 9 and 1 yards in the third quarter, and added touchdown passes of 27 and 9 yards to his younger brother, Sage. The older Surratt, committed to play at the University of North Carolina in 2016, entered averaging 300.3 yards passing per game, but only threw for 132 yards in this one, simply because the running game couldn’t be stopped. Surratt had four of East Lincoln’s seven carries totaling 39 yards on the opening drive of Monday’s action, and with the Jaguars (1-3) looking for another run, Surratt mixed in a 27-yard TD pass to Sage Surratt for a 21-14 lead. After forcing Forestview to punt on the opening drive of the second half, the Mustangs again came out toting the football. They ran it six times from their own 27, and 73 yards later Surratt found the end zone on first-and-goal from the 9 to make it 28-14 with 7:26 to play in the third. Forestview turned it over on downs after four consecutive plays on its next drive, and East Lincoln capitalized, marching 67 yards in seven rushing plays, ending with Chazz Surratt’s 1-yard score. That made it 34-14 late in the third after the missed PAT, leaving Jaguars coach Chris Medlin amazed at the Mustangs, yet scratching his head at his own team’s play. Surratt’s 266 yards on the ground were his highest since rushing for 260 against Bandys on Sept. 27, 2013.“We were playing a really, really good team who knows how to win. They’ve got a really special player back there at quarterback,” Medlin said. “We needed to get something going early and just weren’t able to. Once they scored, we needed to try and stay within a score of them, and it just got away from us.”[B]The Surratts connected with 9 minutes to play to go ahead 41-14 before Forestview finally got something going.[/B] [B]Colton Guthrie, who was plagued by dropped balls by his receivers most of the evening, completed his final eight passes, and connected with Moe Neal twice, once from 16 yards out and the last from 52, for the final margin. Guthrie finished with 279 yards on 18 of 31 passing and had three touchdown passes, all to Neal. Neal, who had 48 yards rushing on 16 totes, finished with 114 yards receiving on just four catches[/B]. The Jaguars had, cumulatively, a net of 2 yards rushing as a team.“We had some opportunities early like (the end), but we just didn’t execute,” Medlin said. “We’ve just got to keep working, and keep getting better. Again, that’s a really good team. They’ve won 20 in a row now, I think. We’ve just got to put it behind us and move forward.” [/QUOTE]

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