Three games into the high school football season and the Bethel High Braves are putting up basketball-like numbers on the scoreboard.
The Braves’ high-powered offense exploded for 49 points in the first half on the way to a 63-8 rout of Rogers in a South Puget Sound League game Friday at Bethel High.
The huge point total comes one week after a 56-39 victory over Todd Beamer and two weeks after a 56-44 loss to Permian High of Odessa, Texas.The Braves are averaging 54.3 points a game.
“If we keep executing like this, then our offense could carry us a long way,” said Bethel senior quarterback Justin Hordyk, who completed 12 of 15 passes for 214 yards and three touchdowns and ran the ball eight times for 96 yards and another score. “We’ve got a lot of weapons and a great offensive line. I really haven’t been touched all year.”
The Braves had Rogers (1-2, 1-2) on its heels the entire game.
“We push the tempo even faster in practice,” Hordyk said. “Then on game night, we can think clearly and everything just flows.”
David Fontenette tallied the first two TDs for Bethel, dashing 1 yard on an option play and then scoring from 23 yards out on a bubble screen pass from Hordyk.
Hordyk capped a 71-yard, eight-play drive with a 1-yard TD run on Bethel’s next possession, giving the Braves a 21-0 lead. Hordyk, starting for his third season, set up the score with a dazzling 34-yard run.
Jeffery Holder added a 4-yard TD run, and Fontenette added a 9-yard run as Bethel soared to a 35-0 lead with 4:16 left in the first half. Fontenette scored four TDs.
On Bethel’s defense, junior linebacker Daniel Gonzalez scored a TD on a 35-yard fumble return.
“I thought the ball was dead, but my teammates were yelling ‘Go, go’ and so I picked it up and took off for the end zone,” Gonzalez said.
At halftime, Bethel had more than 400 yards of offense to just 47 for Rogers, finishing with a 490-136 advantage.
Rogers scored late in the third quarter when backup quarterback Grayson Madland dashed 68 yards into the end zone .
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