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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Dupire Drops 438 Yards On Downtrodden 'Dogs
Western Arkansas, AR
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By: Mike Capshaw
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Photo(s) By: Will Flowers
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"You want to stay with a rhythm and keep calling the plays and run them fast ... Hopefully, you wore them out," said Northside coach Darrell Henry. "(The Bulldogs) did a fantastic job but I think the got a little tired in some places and helped us out."
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FAYETTEVILLE — Fort Smith Northside outlasted a banged up Fayetteville squad during a 42-35 victory at Harmon Field on Friday night.
The game-winning touchdown came when Northside’s KJ Roberts, who runs a 10.5 second, 100-meter dash, beat Fayetteville’s Franco Broyles on a deep fade for a 56-yard touchdown pass from Dax Dupire to create the final margin with 4:11 remaining in regulation.
Dupire worked fast and used talented teammates like Roberts, Arthur Poole, Andres McKinney, Semaj Edwards and Allen Johnson to keep the sticks moving in the Grizzlies' no-huddle offense that may have wore down the Bulldogs down the stretch.
"You want to stay with a rhythm and keep calling the plays and run them fast ... Hopefully, you wore them out," Henry said. "(The Bulldogs) did a fantastic job but I think they got a little tired in some places and helped us out."
The winning play was what Northside calls an "early squeeze" that's a fade pattern off of a presnap read by Dupire based on how the defender is guarding Roberts.
"Dax showed some great leadership throwing the football and KJ kept coming back," Henry said. "We missed plays and kept coming back to it."
Dupire was named the VYPE Impact Player of the Game after completing 31 of 42 passes for 438 yards and 5 touchdowns. Coincidently, Dupire also was named Impact Player of the Game after rallying the Grizzlies from a 15-point fourth quarter deficit to a 37-24 win at Fayetteville last season.
Dupire was just as humble as last season defense the fact he threw for more than 400 yards for the third time this season.
"The weapons we have on offense are crazy," Dupire said. "You can even name off the offensive line because they have been amazing to me and I think they've (given up) maybe two sacks other than the Har-Ber game. That's just amazing.
"Everything we've done has been because of the line and receivers. I'm just there to get the ball to them."
Fayetteville led 21-7 in Friday’s track meet and stayed a touchdown ahead of the Grizzlies for most of the final three quarters before being stopped of its final three series. It was Fayetteville's fourth straight loss and they were without two all-state players in two-way lineman Colby Berna (shoulder) and linebacker Cody Hammer (ankle).
“I’m very proud of the fact that we started fast tonight," Fayetteville coach Daryl Patton said. "I’m proud of the fact that with 20 seconds left, they didn’t quit. They fought and scratched and we threw the ball into the end zone at the buzzer with a chance to tie it up or win it.”
After a defensive stop with under a minute to play, Fayetteville threatened after Allen hit Demetrius Dean on a 56-yard bomb that put the ball at the Northside 39. After Allen spiked the ball, five seconds remained for one final shot at the end zone.
Two of Dean’s three touchdown receptions earlier in the game came on 50-50 balls that the 6-foot-2, 220-pound sophomore with a scholarship offer from Arkansas came down with. However, the final jump ball was thrown into heavy traffic with Dean, among others, getting a hand on it before Grizzlies’ senior Semaj Edwards snared it out of the air to steal the victory on Fayetteville’s homecoming.
Henry said he figured Dean was going to come down with another touchdown when he saw the ball in the air.
"I thought he was going to catch it," Henry said. "I thought, 'Well hey, this game's in overtime,' or they go for two and beat us."
Without Berna and Hammer, the Bulldogs' defense did little to stop Dupire and has given up a combined 128 points in the last three games, all 7A West losses. It better shore up things in a hurry with Southside next on the schedule, a team that beat Springdale 55-52 on Friday.
Meanwhile, Northside is sitting pretty heading into next week's home game against Springdale.
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