<div>OWENSBORO – After falling behind by two touchdowns in the first quarter and sitting through an hour-long lightning delay, the Owensboro Catholic High School football team scored 49 unanswered points to turn back Bardstown 49-12 on Friday at Steele Stadium.With the victory, the Class 2A second-ranked Aces improved to 4-1 overall. Bardstown, meanwhile, dropped its second game in a row and fell to 3-2 on the year.“We came in at halftime and challenged them,” said Catholic head coach Jason Morris, whose team went into the break with a 14-12 edge. “It was kind of a trap week for us, especially with all the heat and delays we had during the week, and then came out here and had the delays that we had — so, the energy was not where it needs to be. The thing is, we got to learn from it, not make excuses, and go get better because of it.”Bardstown, which entered the contest ranked eighth in Class 3A, struck on the game’s opening possession when sophomore quarterback Elijah Young capped off a 12-play, 77-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run. A high snap and failed pass on the 2-point attempt left the Tigers up 6-0 with 6:22 left in the first quarter.After waiting more than an hour for lightning to pass through the area, Catholic’s first drive ended when senior quarterback Dre’Mail Carothers was intercepted in the end zone.Nine plays later, Bardstown sophomore running back Gavien Barber broke loose for a 51-yard scoring scamper. The Tigers’ extra-point attempt sailed wide, giving them a 12-0 edge with 27.5 seconds left in the opening frame.From there, however, it was all Catholic.Carothers scored on a 3-yard scramble to cut the Aces’ deficit to 12-7 with 10:09 left in the second period. Catholic held the Tigers to a punt moments later, and senior running back Shaiden Mitchell put the Aces ahead for good on a 1-yard touchdown run with 6:06 left before halftime.Catholic scored on its first five drives of the second half to pull away.“I’m really happy about the leadership that we had in the second half to fix what we had going on there in the first half, play about as bad we could play, and still go into halftime with the lead,” Morris said. “That’s what I told the boys (after the game): ‘If you can’t be excited about a 49-12 win, then maybe we need to go do something else.’“We got to bring the energy ourselves and keep challenging ourselves each week to make sure that we become the best team we can possibly be, because we have huge goals.”Junior running back Ridge Roberts scored on a 4-yard run, Mitchell notched his second TD on a bruising 17-yard run with 7:23 left in the third quarter, Carothers connected with junior wideout Noah Grant for a 3-yard touchdown four minutes later and Roberts punched in another 1-yard score to push the Aces to a 42-12 edge with 15.8 seconds remaining in the third quarter.“It’s just awesome,” Morris said of his team’s running attack led by Roberts and Mitchell. “You also got Jude Evans and Carter James and Dre’Mail running the football. But it all comes behind those big, big boys up front, and they’re doing such a good job of paving the way.“So many teams are giving us a 2-3 box because of Dre’Mail’s passing ability and all of our receivers that we got. We have to run the football at that, and that’s what we did. That’s what you got to do.”Two plays after forcing a Bardstown turnover on downs, Carothers found junior wide receiver Drew Miles streaking down the seam for a breakaway 76-yard touchdown — giving the Aces a 49-12 advantage and forcing a KHSAA-mandated running clock with 10:05 left to play.Mitchell finished with 47 yards and two touchdowns on six carries, along with four receptions for 51 yards, while Roberts tallied 48 yards and a pair of scores on eight rushes.Carothers completed 20 of 26 passing attempts for 352 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions, along with 37 yards and a touchdown on the ground.Miles caught three passes for 102 yards and a TD, Grant made four catches for 75 yards and a score, and junior wide receiver Braylon Coots had five catches for 75 yards as the Aces racked up 501 yards of total offense.Young completed 10 of 23 passes for 117 yards and rushed for a TD for Bardstown, and Barber finished with 72 yards and a touchdown on nine carries.The Tigers finished with 327 yards of offense.</div>

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OWENSBORO – After falling behind by two touchdowns in the first quarter and sitting through an hour-long lightning delay, the Owensboro Catholic High School football team scored 49 unanswered points to turn back Bardstown 49-12 on Friday at Steele Stadium. With the victory, the Class 2A second-ranked Aces improved...

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No. 2 Aces turn back Bardstown 49-12

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