Cascade Middle roars past MTC

Coach David Parker challenged his Cascade Middle team at practice this week to continue improving and cut down on its turnovers.

In spite of a 28-26 overtime win at Forrest last Thursday, Parker knew his Champions were capable of a far superior effort.

Mission accomplished.

Cascade scored at least once in all four quarters and dominated visiting Middle Tennessee Christian in a 50-14 victory on Thursday night.

"The kids did a great job," Parker said. "I give credit to the offensive line. They weren't very happy with the way we played last week in Chapel Hill. We let them set the tone for the game early. Our attitude coming out here this week was that we needed to jump on somebody and bury them in the dirt and don't let them breathe."

Parker juggled his starting lineup a bit and the results became evident early as Cascade eighth grader Creed Rose found daylight in the second level and coasted to a 22-yard touchdown. Later in the quarter, he weaved through the Cougar defense for a 58-yard jaunt to paydirt to make it 14-0.

Alex Toombs carried in a score from 5 yards out with 4:25 left in the second quarter. Rose hauled in the two-point pass from Thomas Lindeman to up the advantage to 22-0.

Ty Seibers broke through the line and blocked a MTC punt with 2:16 to go prior to halftime. That set up Rose's third touchdown with 17 seconds showing. Toombs ran in the conversion.

The all-phases dominance continued on the ensuing kickoff as Cascade recovered its third fumble of the half. Rose made it hurt with a 29-yard TD run to bump the lead to 36-0.

"I stressed the whole week, 'Don't worry about what everybody else is doing. Don't try to do too much, just do your job.' And, I thought we did a good job of that," Parker said.

"We had one fumble (lost). Last week we had four. So, we got better there."

Jordan Evan got the Cougars on the board with a 7-yard TD scamper midway through the third period.

Zack Demonbreum countered for Cascade with a 19-yard scoring run less than two minutes later.

Demonbreum's 10-yard TD and Tavist Campbell's two-point carry made it 50-6 with 3:21 to play.

Evan crisscrossed his way to a 53-yard score. Austin Melton caught the conversion pass from Peyton Buckner for the final two points.

Cascade is off next week before hosting Community Middle on Sept. 9.