Daviess County High School - Echoes Yearbook (Owensboro, KY)

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at TURNOVER Ccontinued3 After losing three of their first four games, the Panthers wiped their slates clean, at least in their mind's eye, by de- feating Apollo 22-14 as Reid Stadium was officially dedicated. Ieff Priar scored two TD's Eddie lack- son scored one on a pass from Shreve as the Panther defense devoured the Ea- gles. Daviess wasn't hurt by Apollo's two off-sides, the second of which was on first and goal. Priar crashed through for the go-ahead score. Beginning on the Apollo 18, following a Barry Porter interception, the Panthers drove for the score making it 22-14, Madisonville literally rolled over DC. The Panthers seemed to have a hard time getting their act together. For the game, Daviess had 88 yards total of- fense. Shreve completed only four passes and was intercepted twice. But it was the ground game that caused the Panthers problems. leff Priar led the rushing with only 19 yards and his backfield partner added only 14. The Owensboro Red Devils handled the Daviess County Panthers 34-7. The Panthers kept warm by running scoring drives of 56, 85, 45, 74 and 50 yards against Ohio County on Home- coming night. Shreve hit Darrell Bowlds who ran 29 yards for a score. Ionathon Yeagle caught a 7-yard pass from Shreve and

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TURNOVER CcontinuedD Warren Central went back ahead as the hectic first quarter ended. DC scored the first of the two second quarter TD's on a 20-yard pass from Shreve to Toby Myrick. The Panthers then jumped back ahead 21-13 late in the half on Shreve's two- yard run. Warren Central came back with two third quarter TD's, sandwiched around Priar's five yard scoring run making the score 27-25. No score came in the fourth quarter. lt looked as if the Panthers might hang a scare on the No. 2 ranked Henderson County Colonels when the rug was yanked from under them. Following a Daviess sack, Henderson began the Panthers undoing with a 20- yard scoring run. Daviess contributed to the Colonels' momentum by fumbling the kickoff and on Henderson's third snap, they ran the ball 27 yards to make the score 21-0. Three fruitless attempts and a punt lat- er, Henderson was back playing keep- away until 10 seconds left on the half, The lone DC score came in the third quarter on a beautifully executed pass from Shreve to Danny Fuqua. Shreve suckered the Colonel line into a deep charge then lobbed the ball behind them to Fuqua, who completed the 65-yard plot with a slash through the Henderson defenders. Final decision 46-7. The Daviess County Panthers dropped to 1-3 on the season after falling to Meade County 24-9. All of DC's scoring came in the first quarter. jeff Priar put the Panthers on board with a safety. Then Shreve hit Todd Boling on a 30-yard scoring pass. Fariss' extra point was good. DC lead 9-8 at the end of the first quarter but couldn't hold on. Meade County scored the go-ahead TD and put the icing on the cake. l98l-V.o.rsity- Potntherst . ..,...W..-,. M E! ul rx - Scott I ohn 'iv

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1981 VARSITY SCOREBOARD y Daviess County Q -. Daviess County Daviess County l-K Daviess County ? i5 ?'f? -f Daviess County i -,. Daviess County a g- ggi Daviess County Daviess County ' 2 Daviess County Daviess County Tell City Warren Central Henderson County Meade County Apollo Union County Madisonville Owensboro Senior Ohio County Owensboro Catholic Top left, Robbie Shreve was unable to stop jeff Priar from getting sacked by Catholic defenders. The Panther stamina drove the game into the only overtime of the season. Bottom left, Robbie Shreve lets fly one of his pat- ented touchdown passes to Darrell Bowlds. Center, leff Garrison and Scott Greer forced Union County to the air with their determined defen- sive action. Top, Todd Watkins es- capes the clutches of an Ohio County defender. DC beat Ohio 34-6. Right, Billy Teasley rushes to the aid of two other teammates who are having some problem tackling the quarter- back in action against Catholic. TURNOVER CcontinuedD scored another added to his second which came on a 17-yard run. Final score 34-6. Owensboro Catholic downed the Pan- thers 13-7 in the only overtime game of the season where incompletion seemed to rule. The game was remarkably close with DC coming out ahead in the unofficial 293-288. The DC touchdown was from leff Priar who barreled over from one yard out for the score and then booted the extra point. Football Action!47