Jacksonville 47, New Bern 6<\/p>\n
Jacksonville is a talented football team, and when opponents make mistakes, the Cardinals make them pay.<\/p>\n
New Bern never found a way to get untracked at Jacksonville to open Big Carolina 6A\/7A Conference action. The Bears committed four turnovers and key penalties nullified two touchdowns while keeping Jacksonville drives alive.<\/p>\n
Case in point, the Cardinals took a 7-0 lead on an Amari Pearson 4yard run. The drive was helped by back-to-back roughing the passer and pass interference calls.<\/p>\n
Following a Jacksonville fumble recovery by SaRonn Thompson, the Cardinals scored on a 5-yard run by quarterback Josiah Benton. The drive was kept alive by a face mask call.<\/p>\n
\u201cJacksonville is a very good football team, but I have to do a better job of getting my team and coaches prepared,\u201d New Bern coach Terrance Saxby said.<\/p>\n
Sammie Rogers had a pair of interceptions for the Cardinals. His first pick led to a 32 yard touchdown romp by Pearson for a 20-0 Jacksonville lead midway through the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Pearson would finish the night with four touchdowns while Benton threw for two and Montez Jimenez scored on a short run.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville (4-1, 1-0) led 26-6 at halftime and wasted no time adding to the score in the third period.<\/p>\n
Dominic Williams returned the second half kickoff 63 yards to the 3 and Pearson punched it home on the next play just 21 seconds into the second half.<\/p>\n
The lone score for New Bern (4-2, 0-1) was a 4-yard score by Karvin Magwood, his 19th of the year.<\/p>\n
The Bears host White Oak next week while Jacksonville travels to J.H Rose.<\/p>\n
Havelock 41, West Carteret 0<\/p>\n
Havelock rebounded from a difficult loss to Croatan with a shutout at West Carteret in a Coastal 5A\/6A Conference tussle.<\/p>\n
The Rams (3-4, 2-1) played a solid game according to coach Brent Wooten.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe biggest thing is the fact we had no turnovers and we committed just four penalties,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Gatling once again led Havelock with four touchdowns, three rushing and one receiving. Quarterback Kaleb Montanye had plenty of time to find receivers, Wooten said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur offensive line did a tremendous job in pass protection and our defensive line was just as impressive with their alignment and assignments,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was the third time in six games the Patriots (2-4, 1-2) were held scoreless.<\/p>\n
Havelock continues conference play next week at Dixon.<\/p>\n
Pamlico 56, Jones Senior 22<\/p>\n
In a Coastal Plains 1A\/2A Conference opener, Pamlico used a 32-point second quarter to beat Jones Senior.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes have been dealing with the injury bug, but freshman Gavin Moody stepped up with 159 yards rushing and three scores.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started six freshmen tonight, and I am so proud of our guys showing up and playing with effort,\u201d Pamlico coach Brandon Akins said.<\/p>\n
Izmir Benjamin and Brayden Bujalski each had a pair of touchdowns as the Hurricanes improved to 2-4, 1-0.<\/p>\n
Jones Senior (0-6, 0-1) plays at Southside next week while Pamlico will be at Northside-Pinetown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville 47, New Bern 6 Jacksonville is a talented football team, and when opponents make mistakes, the Cardinals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,110],"class_list":["post-417531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}