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Huskies have no answer for Hinsdale C. QB

October 1, 2008
By TIM STABLEIN tstablein@pioneerlocal.com

Imagine the statistics John Whitelaw might put up if he played against the Oak Park-River Forest football team more than once a season.

The Hinsdale Central junior quarterback ran for four touchdowns in a 56-28 win over the Huskies (1-4, 0-3) in a West Suburban Conference Silver Division game on Friday night.

Whitelaw, who also had one touchdown pass, had 156 yards rushing on nine carries against the Huskies.

It wasn't as if the Huskies knew nothing about Whitelaw coming into the game.

It was around a year ago when Whitelaw ran for 224 yards and tossed two touchdown passes against the Huskies on a Saturday afternoon at Oak Park Stadium.

"A couple of people said something about (having another big game against OPRF)," Whitelaw said. "The line and running backs made key blocks and got me into the open. All I had to do was run basically."

Whitelaw scored the first of his touchdowns on a 25-yard run on the Red Devils fourth play from scrimmage with 8 minutes, 44 seconds left in the first quarter.

"We were outmatched up front," said OPRF assistant coach Bob Organ. "Hopefully an experience like this will encourage them to get stronger. Missed tackles and not wrapping up was a huge thing. They just ran right through us. Hinsdale Central has a lot of speed and speed killed us."

The Huskies finally showed some offensive spark on a 48-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Elliot Davidson to Dorion Grant to cut the deficit to 28-7 with 4:11 left until halftime.

"We had not moved the ball very well up until that point," Organ said. "We would have been pretty happy to get in at halftime down only 28-7."

That didn't happen, as the Red Devils added four quick touchdowns to lead 56-7.

"We tried to give them some different looks on defense," Organ said. "It looked good at times, but once they got outside it was lights out."

The half at least ended on a positive note for the Huskies with a 9-yard TD pass from Davidson to Darnell Lee to cut the lead to 56-14.

Davidson and reserve quarterback Jack Rogalla had touchdown passes in the third quarter to Marty Finnegan (15 yards) and Lee (28 yards) against the Hinsdale Central reserves.

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