Pilch’s Record Breaking Night Leads Panthers to Rout

The Stockbridge football team has numerous players in the state record books from the high-powered offense a few years back, but after Friday night you can add another to that list as Jeremy Pilch smashed the school record with nine touchdowns in a game to lead the Panthers past Pontiac 68-40.

Pilch scored accounted for 64 of the Panthers 68 points in the contest. He ran for five touchdowns, caught three TD passes and returned a kickoff for a score. He also had five two-point conversions and threw for another two-pointer. He came up just short of the state record of 66 points in a contest set in 1920. The two-point pass is credited to the reciever and not the quarterback or he would have tied the record.

The state record for touchdowns in a game is 11. Pilch is now tied for third on the MHSAA state record list.

Pontiac opened the scoring with a 45 yard TD pass and two-point conversion to take an 8-0 lead.

Pilch scored his first touchdown and ran in the two-pointer to tie it at 8-8 after one quarter.

The Phoenix retook the lead with a 78-yard TD pass, but Riley Kennedy connected with Pilch for a 51 yard scoring pass and two point conversion to retie it at 16.

After a 34 yard TD pass by Pontiac, Kennedy lofted a pass toward the corner of the endzone and Pilch went up and took it from two Phoenix defenders for a 16 yard score. The two-point conversion gave the Panthers a 24-22 lead.

Pontiac scored on a 16 yard pass to retake the lead 28-24 but Pilch ran it in from two yards out to put the Panthers back on top 32-28 at the half.

The Panthers opened the second half when Kennedy hit Pilch for a 50 yard touchdown pass and a 40-28 lead.

An interception by Travis Salyer gave the Panthers the ball back, but a bad shot gun snap forced the Panthers to a 3rd and 26. Pilch broke free and sprinted in for an 83 yard TD run and a 46-28 lead.

Pontiac returned the kickoff for a touchdwon, but Pilch would break free for his seventh touchson of the night on a 75 yard run to make it 54-34 after three quarters.

Pilch would add a five-yard TD run early in the fourth and after the Phoenix connected for a 70-yard score, he would return the kickoff 73 yards for the final score of the night to make the final 68-40.

To go with his record setting nine scores, Pilch finished with 307 yards rushing on 13 carries and caught four passes for 126 yards.

Kennedy connected on four of six passes for 126 yards and three TD’s. He also rushed for 94 yards on nine carries. Dominic Storie rushed for 44 yards on 16 carries, Zac Rogozinski three for 33 yards, and Drew Robinson four for 18.

Brock Rochow and Jalen Rogozinski each picked off passes for the Panthers.

The Panthers improved to 2-2 on the season and will travel to Leslie Friday night for a GLAC showdown with bitter rival Blackhawks.

 

 

 

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