SAXONS OFF TO 1-0 START!!!
Senior, Aaron Roberts has a huge night with 4 TD's as Saxons dominate

Aaron Roberts had a career night against the Indians - 3 receiving TD's and 1 interception for a TD.

Ferris Saxons Football started off the 2008 season with a convincing 49-6 win over the North Central Indians. Senior Aaron Roberts had a career high night with 120 yds receiving on 4 catches. Three of the four catches were for touchdowns. He also had a 67 yard pick six in the third quarter.

For those in the stands that watched and wondered how the "new" players would do after the class of 08 graduated - It's all good. In the first half, the Saxons offense scored on all possessions and the defense held the Indians to unofficially one, maybe, two first downs.

Nathan Tonani had a huge game with 88 yards rushing, including a nifty 51 yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Nate was a force on defense with a nose for the ball carrier and getting in on a number of tackles. Nate's brother Jordan also saw his first varsity football action and made his presence know. He made a nice play on a NC pass and picked it off.

Probably, a little overlooked in all the excitement was new starting QB Connor Halliday. He started out a little rough, missing his first three passes but settled in and had a nice first outing. He was 7-12 for 170 yards and three TD's. Congratulations Connor.

Ferris now has to gear up for next weeks game against the Gonzaga Prep Bullpups. Gonzaga had quite a contingency of coaches and players at the game trying to scout the Saxons. Tomorrow night GP plays EV and I would bet that there will be some representation from Ferris scouting up both teams - if you are interested, that game is at East Valley at 7:00pm.

Old Man Minn Game Notes: My man, Brett Ward, scooped up a fumble and he rumbled, bumbled and stumbled for a beautiful 90 yd TD.....Derek Peterson threw probably the nicest pass of the game on a nice 30 yd timing pattern that he laid right into the receivers hands - it was nice....The Saxons had some penalty issues (8 for 80 yards) that I'm sure will be addressed over the week...Game Pictures will be coming soon

Standings

Ferris vs. NC - Stats

1 2 3 4 F

Ferris 21 7 14 7 49

North Central 0 0 0 6 6

Scoring

Ferris - Roberts 17 pass from Halliday (Belling kick)
Ferris - Tonani, 51 run (Belling kick)
Ferris - Roberts, 70 pass from Halliday (Belling kick)
Ferris - Tonani 11 run (Belling kick)
Ferris - Roberts, 20 pass from Halliday (Belling kick)
Ferris - Roberts, 69 interception return (Belling kick)
Ferris - Ward, 90 fumble return (Belling kick)
NC - Campasino, 8 pass from Materne (kick failed)

Statistics

V H First downs 10 13 Rushes-yards 35-106 23-188 Passing yards 128 192 Passes 13-21-2 9-18-0 Punts-Avg. 3-26.3 1-42.0 Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-yards 4-20 8-80

Individual statistics

RUSHING: Ferris-N. Tonani 4-88, Halliday 4-33,Orosco 4-28, Peterson 6-10, Horning 3-25, Sharkey 2-4.

PASSING: Ferris-Halliday 7-12-0 170, Petesron 1-5-0 14, Sharkey 1-1-0 8.

RECEIVING: Ferris-Roberts 4-120, J. Tonani 1-14, N. Tonani 1-6, Bates 1-14, Weigand 1-30,Guinn 1-8.