Marlington Dukes at Louisville Leopards 2001 Football Highlights

Louisville Leopards Old Scoreboard 2001

Louisville 32, Marlington 0

Louisville scored on their first four possessions to turn what was supposed to be a competitive NBC deciding battle into a 32-0  blowout of visiting Marlington back on October 19, 2001.

“During the day at school, you could see it in everyone’s eyes,” Louisville Player Anthony Desiato said. “We were ready to play. We wanted to get going.”

54 of Runningback Curtis Elsass’s 138 yards rushing in the game came on the opening drive. The 9 Play, 61 yard drive ended with Quarterback Gary Whaley plunging in from a yard out.

After a short punt, the Leopards got the ball back on the Dukes 41. On 2nd-and-9, Whaley found Justin Boudler for a 40 yard touchdown via a flea flicker pass with 4:30 left in the first quarter.

Then a Marlington fumble was recovered by Louisville’s Marc Zustin to setup the next scoring Beatty's Sports White Hat Addrive. Elsass scampered 32 yards for the score near the end of the first and later in the second quarter found the endzone again from 3 yards away. The Leopards went into the break with a convincing 25-0 advantage.

The Louisville Defense dominated Marlington allowing them just 12 first half yards. During the course of the game they recorded 18 plays for negative yardage which included 8 sacks. Defensive Tackle Dan DiPietro had 4 tackles for a loss and 1 sack, Defensive End Bryan Jones was in on 4 sacks, and 10 other Leopard players recorded at least a sack or a tackle for a loss. They included: Alex Bowman, Jacob Burkhart, Adam Burris, Mark Common, Elsass, Matt Herbert, Neal Linder, Matt Rodak, Frank Warnock, and Kyle Yoder.

The Dukes Josh White entered the game as the county’s leading rusher with 1,190 yards. However, he left with just 27 yards on 11 carries.

Louisville added their final touchdown in the fourth quarter. Whaley hooked up with Boudler again for a 24 yard touchdown pass to put the Leopards ahead 32-0.

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Scoring Summary

Team 1-2-3-4–TOTAL

Marlington 0-0-0-0–00

Louisville 19-6-0-7–32

1st Quarter

Louisville – Gary Whaley 1 Yard Run (Brian Potts Kick), 7-0

Louisville – Justin Boudler 40 Yard Pass from Gary Whaley (Kick Failed), 13-0

Louisville – Curtis Elsass 32 Yard Run (Pass Failed), 19-0

2nd Quarter

Louisville – Curtis Elsass 3 Yard Run (Kick Failed), 25-0

3rd Quarter 

None

4th Quarter

Louisville – Justin Boudler 24 Yard Pass from Gary Whaley (Brian Potts Kick), 32-0

Stats

Rushing: Marlington 29-79, Louisville 43-197

Passing: Marlington 5-6-0-39, Louisville 8-11-0-117

First Downs: Marlington 6, Louisville 9

Fumbles-Lost: Marlington 4-3, Louisville 2-1

Records: Louisville 7-2, 5-1; Marlington 6-3, 4-3

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