By DEREK CAMPBELL
St. Joseph Post
After receiving the ball in the opening kickoff in the First Half Maryville quickly took a 6-0 lead over Savannah on a 2-yard rushing touchdown from Derek Quinlin for his first score of the night. Savannah on their opening drive was not able to get anything going after an early false start call that forced Savannah to punt the ball away. Maryville then expanded on their lead with another Quinlin rushing touchdown from the 1-yard line to take a 12-0 lead over Savannah to end the first quarter.
To start the second quarter Quinlin from Maryville was able to connect with both Wyatt Garner and Don Allen for big receiving touchdowns to lead 25-0 at halftime over Savannah. Savannah with multiple drives in the first half was not a able to string together a complete drive to get any momentum going before the end of the half.
Coming out of halftime Savannah had some life in them to start the third quarter with an Aiden Knechtenhofer 40-yard touchdown pass to Kaden Calloway to make it 25-7. Knechtenhofer also ended the night with an 80-yard rushing touchdown of his own with 1:40 to go in the third quarter to make it a 32-13 game with Maryville still leading.
Maryville able to hold off the power run game from Savannah to improve to 7-1 while Savannah falls to 6-2 on the year with the 39-20 loss Friday night to Maryville.
Next week Savannah will take on St. Pius X while Maryville will be taking on St. Joseph Lafayette next Friday night.
