[Baltimore Sun] Catonsville football rolls past Woodlawn, 34-6, to move to 4-0
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Catonsvillle senior Tyler Boyd rushed for 118 yards and three touchdowns and the Comet defense held Woodlawn to under 200 total yards in a 34-6 victory Friday evening. The Comets are 4-0 for the first time since 2019.
Quarterback Gunnar Gemmell connected with Neil Lewis for an 8-yard touchdown pass on the Comets’ first drive to open the scoring and Logan Bates made the first of his four extra-points for a 7-0 lead. The corner route is one the Comets have used successfully in the past, but this was the first time Lewisgot to celebrate a score.
“I was trying to get my first touchdown for the season. When I got the ball thrown to me at the beginning of the season I dropped the ball, so that was my first touchdown,” he said. “It’s exciting, I haven’t had a touchdown since my freshman year.”
“It’s a difficult scenario and when you have success on the power game in front of that, if they don’t step up and protect that, we are going to score there,” Catonsville coach John Youngberg said. “Sometimes we are lucky enough to complete it and this was one of those times.”
Lewis, a junior, also had two sacks for a defense that held the Warriors to just 43 yards in the second held.”
Woodlawn did most of it’s damage on the its first play from scrimmage. Tywuan Matthews raced 64 yards to the 1-yard line and quarterback Dallis Brown scored on the next play, but Lucca Bateman stuffed Matthews on the two-point try and the Comets never relinquished the lead.
“It was a miscommunication with the line. They went through the A-gap and nobody really had the A-gap control,” Catonsville’s Maurkeis Gary said. “It was a little rough at first. I was kind of having a little bit of trouble with the tackle, trying to get past him on the edge when it came to pass rush, but I talked to the coaches on the sideline and got it down and got back there.”
Catonsville extended the lead later in the first quarter when Boyd scored on a 42-yard counter. Boyd’s 30-yard run set up his second touchdown of the night with 56 seconds left in the quarter and the Comets led 21-6.
Boyd came into the game as Baltimore County’s leading rusher (363 yards) and he increased his touchdown total to 11 with a 6-yard run late in the game. Trae Sears (11 carries, 65 yards) also scored a second-half touchdown.
“Boyd is a tough runner. He’s an extremely tough runner and it’s hard to tackle him by yourself which was our game plan — gang tackling, you know that was part of the game plan,” Woodlawn coach CJ Masterson said. “I knew he’s the guy so we were geared up for him, but they have three talented running backs over there that we were prepping for. We just didn’t follow through with tackling as a team.”
The Warriors’ best chance to get back into the game came after they recovered a fumble in Comet territory. Brown’s 15-yard option run and his 2-yard sneak gave them first-and-goal at the 4.
After Gary stopped Matthews for no gain on first down, a fumble recovered by Brown on second down set up a third-and goal from the 9. Sam Azbill stopped Matthews for a yard and James Kelly defended a fourth-down incompletion and the Warriors turned the ball over on downs.
“We just wanted it more. We just were the more explosive team at the end of the day and I’m proud of my guys for that,” Lewis said.
“We’ve got a good group of kids and they kept fighting hard and they kept going after it so I’m really proud of them,” Youngberg said.
Woodlawn dropped to 0-4 overall and Masterson noted similar problems in all the losses.
“We have little bit of success, we get excited and we have a mental breakdown or there is a penalty,” he said. “Even though it’s been like this all season, we clearly have the talent. When somebody plays us we don’t just lay down for anybody, but we have yet to put it together for a whole quarter. It’s been spots and that’s just the change I have to make taking over the program in my second year.”
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