Photo Cassidy Blair

Coming off a 14 – 12 loss to the number one ranked team in the nation, the Huron Heights Warriors on September 24th, the Korah Colts took to Superior Heights field on Friday, September 30th to meet the Superior Heights Steelhawks in senior Sault Ste Marie High School action.

With a 79 yard run, Korah’s Jesse Burella gives the Colts a 6 – 0 lead at 7:09 of the first quarter, Ty Koski adds a convert to the lead for Korah. Colt quarterback Gabe Byron find Johnny Filion in the Steelhawks endzone with 35 seconds remaining in the first for Korah’s second major of the game, Koski finds the uprights for the Colts convert to bring the lead to 14 – 0. Korah adds to the lead at 8:12 of the second quarter with a 13 yard major with Koski kicking his second convert of the game to bring the lead to 21 – 0. With Korah on the Steelhawks six yard line, Byron finds a hole in Superior Heights defense to run the ball for the Colts fourth touchdown at 7:10 of the third quarter. With 2:08 left in the third, Superior Heights quarterback Gabe Barkley runs for a six yard major to close the gap to 19. Drew Esposito of the Colts blocked the convert to bring the game to 27 – 6. At 7:17 of the fourth, Grant Rains rushes for 30 yard touchdown carry after catching a Barkley 45 yard pass to bring the Steelhawks with 15. 18 seconds later, Cole Barbeau runs a 62 yard touchdown along the sideline for the Colts to increase the lead to 34 – 12 after a Koski convert. With 73 seconds remaining in the contest, Jacob Brown concedes to two points to the Steelhawks with kneeling in Korah’s endzone for two points.

“Our goal from the beginning of the season was to get better every game and the results will take care of themselves. I think we did that tonight. I was proud of the level of compete from our kids especially on defense. On offence we just need to catch the football. I counted 8 or 9 drops including 2 in the endzone that we should have had. If we can fix that we will be very competitive down the stretch,” added Steelhawk coach Paul Orazietti.

Coach Tom Annett of the Korah Colts told Saultsports that “I’m very proud of our athletes.  We had a very tough and high profile game last week and we were concerned with how our team would respond this week. Our Program Leadership was excellent all week and our Athletes came out the gate ready to play! Our OL (aka The Chain Gang) was excellent and our stable of running backs also played great!  As our running backs gain more game experience, they are improving their vision and finding more cutback lanes.”

“Defensively it was a  great team effort.  We had three interceptions, multiple batted balls and defended the run very well.  Additionally, we got a lot of backup Players game reps which is critical for development and building depth going forward,” added Annett.

The Colts take their 34 – 14 win into Friday, October 7th matchup against the St Mary’s Knights with a 7:30 p.m kickoff while the Steelhawks have a bye week before closing out their regular season with a Friday, October 14th contest with the St Mary’s Knights.