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A couple of old foes met on the gridiron Friday night in Bethel and the Meeker Bulldogs gave the Wildcats some old-fashioned payback with a 27-0 win. Last season, Bethel handed the Bulldogs a 34-6 Halloween loss.
The two squads traded defensive punches for the first quarter and-a-half of play, until Meeker mounted a 71-yard, 12-play scoring drive that took 5:19 off of the second quarter clock. The scoring drive consisted of nine runs for 36 yards and two pass completions for another 30 yards. More telling was two off-sides penalties on the Wildcats defense that twice kept the drive alive. The yellow flags haunted Bethel for most of the contest as they ended up being flagged 13 times for a total of 110 yards.
Meeker concluded the drive on a one-yard scoring plunge by Derek Robidoux with 6:23 left in the opening half. Robidoux led all rushers in the game with 118 yards on 24 carries.
The half ended with Meeker up 7-0, and Bethel dodging another scoring bullet. The Bulldogs drove inside the Wildcats 10-yard line, but a procedure penalty and an incomplete pass on third and goal from the 12 ended the threat and the half.
The Bulldog defense held Bethel to just 50 yards of total offense in the first half and didn’t let up much in the second as the Wildcats had 132 yards of total offense in the contest.
Meeker wasted little time in the second half getting on the board. The Bulldogs took the second-half kickoff to the Bethel 44-yard line and scored in just four plays. Jacky Cloud scored on a three-yard run with 10:03 left in the third, but the big play came on his 40-yard reception from Caleb Martin on the second play of the drive. Martin finished with 121 yards passing on an 8-of-17 effort. Bethel did get an interception of Martin late in the third quarter.
Trailing 14-0, Bethel made a serious run to threaten Meeker’s lead midway through the third quarter after a 38-yard hook-up from quarterback Clint Duncan to Robert Neville. The Wildcats, on a fourth and nine from the Meeker 25, saw the chance slip through their hands. Duncan threw a pass into the end zone, which was tipped by Meeker’s Zack Wood and landed in the hands of prone receiver Garrett Childers, who could not come up with the miracle reception. The incompletion deflated any air left in the Bethel comeback balloon.
The Bulldogs were able to play keep away from Bethel and win back field possession over the next three traded drives. Meeker got its third score with 5:47 left in the game on a Martin 2-yard scoring run. That increased the lead to 21-0. Meeker closed out the scoring with a Ky Davis 1-yard run with :40 to move to 5-4 on the season and a District 2A-2 record of 3-3. Meeker will close out the regular season by hosting Millwood next Friday night.
Bethel (2-7, 2-4) will finish up next Friday night at Jones.
A couple of old foes met on the gridiron Friday night in Bethel and the Meeker Bulldogs gave the Wildcats some old-fashioned payback with a 27-0 win. Last season, Bethel handed the Bulldogs a 34-6 Halloween loss.
The two squads traded defensive punches for the first quarter and-a-half of play, until Meeker mounted a 71-yard, 12-play scoring drive that took 5:19 off of the second quarter clock. The scoring drive consisted of nine runs for 36 yards and two pass completions for another 30 yards. More telling was two off-sides penalties on the Wildcats defense that twice kept the drive alive. The yellow flags haunted Bethel for most of the contest as they ended up being flagged 13 times for a total of 110 yards.
Meeker concluded the drive on a one-yard scoring plunge by Derek Robidoux with 6:23 left in the opening half. Robidoux led all rushers in the game with 118 yards on 24 carries.
The half ended with Meeker up 7-0, and Bethel dodging another scoring bullet. The Bulldogs drove inside the Wildcats 10-yard line, but a procedure penalty and an incomplete pass on third and goal from the 12 ended the threat and the half.
The Bulldog defense held Bethel to just 50 yards of total offense in the first half and didn’t let up much in the second as the Wildcats had 132 yards of total offense in the contest.
Meeker wasted little time in the second half getting on the board. The Bulldogs took the second-half kickoff to the Bethel 44-yard line and scored in just four plays. Jacky Cloud scored on a three-yard run with 10:03 left in the third, but the big play came on his 40-yard reception from Caleb Martin on the second play of the drive. Martin finished with 121 yards passing on an 8-of-17 effort. Bethel did get an interception of Martin late in the third quarter.
Trailing 14-0, Bethel made a serious run to threaten Meeker’s lead midway through the third quarter after a 38-yard hook-up from quarterback Clint Duncan to Robert Neville. The Wildcats, on a fourth and nine from the Meeker 25, saw the chance slip through their hands. Duncan threw a pass into the end zone, which was tipped by Meeker’s Zack Wood and landed in the hands of prone receiver Garrett Childers, who could not come up with the miracle reception. The incompletion deflated any air left in the Bethel comeback balloon.
The Bulldogs were able to play keep away from Bethel and win back field possession over the next three traded drives. Meeker got its third score with 5:47 left in the game on a Martin 2-yard scoring run. That increased the lead to 21-0. Meeker closed out the scoring with a Ky Davis 1-yard run with :40 to move to 5-4 on the season and a District 2A-2 record of 3-3. Meeker will close out the regular season by hosting Millwood next Friday night.
Bethel (2-7, 2-4) will finish up next Friday night at Jones.
