Crusaders Roll Past Indian Rocks in Craig-Myers Return
Aug 29, 2015
By: Robert Sumpter
After a year and a half of watching football, Tampa Catholic Wide Receiver Nate Craig-Myers finally was able to get back on the field and contribute for his team. In his first game back, Criag-Myers help lead Tampa Catholic to a 45-16 victory over Indian Rocks Christian in the first game of the 2015 football season.
" I just felt great coming out preparing all week and playing in my head the game. I had a mindset of proving myself and helping TC get a victory." Craig-Myers said.
It
didn't take long for Catholic to get him involved in the game. On its first offensive play of the game, he caught a 14 yard pass from Austin Sessums. The next play, junior running back Devan
Barrett took the handoff and went 58 yards for the touchdown to put the
Crusaders up 7-0.
Indian
Rocks Christian scored on their next position on a 21 yard touchdown run by Zeke
McGaughty, which was set up by a 50 yard touchdown pass by Deano Trilin to
Burrige.
Catholic
took the lead back the next drive going with a 63 yard touchdown pass to Darius
Corbett.
After
a series of fumbles by both teams, Catholic took advantage of the fourth fumble
and scored on a 39 yard touchdown pass to Craig-Myers to make the score 19-7.
Tampa
Catholic was able to take advantage of an interception by Craig-Myers on the
next drive and Devan Barrett took a handoff and ran 59 yard for a touchdown to
make it 26-7.
The
second half was the same for Catholic as they scored on they took three plays
to score with a 40 yard touchdown run by
Barrett to increase the lead 33-14.
Barrett would end the day rushing for 233 yards on 10 carries with three
touchdowns.
The
Crusaders finished the game with two interceptions returned for touchdowns a 87
yard from Austin Speck and a 89 yard interception by Craig-Myers to end the
scoring for the Crusaders.
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