North Miami Sets Tone Early In Win Over Valley
October 14, 2017 at 5:58 a.m.
North Miami Sets Tone Early In Win Over Valley
By Dale [email protected]
In a Three Rivers Conference playoff game at Tippecanoe Valley, the Warriors scored on their first offensive play of the game, a 76-yard run by sophomore running back Tristan Working, and never looked back.
Working finished the game with 128 yards and three touchdowns on 10 carries, and also caught three passes for 44 yards and a touchdown. His early score set the tone for North Miami in a 40-14 rout of the host Vikings.
“Football is a game of emotion, and when you look at a play on the first touch from scrimmage that goes for a touchdown, especially when you’ve gone through some adversity and when you’ve had some big plays cost you games throughout the season, it’s tough,” said Tippecanoe Valley assistant coach Jeff Shriver.
“Our kids are resilient, and our kids are hard-nosed, and they want to be great football players. They’re working hard, but they’re also young men that are 15 to 18 years old, and when things go bad you kind of wait for things to go bad again. That’s something that we’re working hard as a coaching staff to overcome.
“We’ve been faced, especially this group of seniors, with a great deal of adversity throughout their careers here at Tippecanoe Valley, and that’s something that we’ve talked a lot about and we’ve been honest with them. They’ve come through at a time when a lot of good things haven’t happened here at Valley in the last four years, and that’s something that we all need to work together to change.”
Friday’s loss dropped the Vikings to 2-7 on the season, while the Warriors improved to 6-3.
It was also the second time this season the Vikings lost to North Miami, a 28-0 winner over Valley on Sept. 1.
The Warriors, who tallied 363 yards on the ground and 450 overall, led 20-0 at halftime and extended the lead to 33-0 when senior quarterback Zane Briggs hooked up with classmate Dakota Riviera for a 30-yard strike with 6:56 left in the third quarter.
Riviera complimented Working’s performance with six carries for 60 yards and a score, as well as the 30-yard touchdown reception.
Briggs completed 7 of 11 passing attempts for 87 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions.
Shriver said a big part of the Vikings’ defensive struggles in the loss had to do with missed tackles.
“They were able to execute their offense, and one of our biggest problems on the defensive side of the ball was missed tackles,” said Shriver. “We didn’t necessarily blow a lot of assignments tonight, but the fundamentals of tackling weren’t there. There was a couple times where maybe we had a tackle for a loss and it ended up being a completion, or it was a tackle for a loss and it ended up being a first down.
“We had a couple penalties, but they were aggressive penalties, defending the pass, and they weren’t unsportsmanlike. Nonetheless, they put us in a bad situation at times. Our kids played hard, and we talked to them a little bit about it being senior night here, and it’s a disappointing way to leave this field, but if we can bounce back next week some good things can happen.”
Valley opens Class 3A Sectional 27 play at Peru Friday, while North Miami travels to South Newton for a 1A Sectional 42 battle.
The Vikings scored their first touchdown when sophomore Jaydin Conley powered his way in from two yards out with 1:59 remaining in the third quarter.
Sophomore quarterback Tannier Trippiedi scored Valley’s other touchdown, also a two-yard run, with 3:52 left in the fourth quarter.
The Vikings tallied 243 yards of total offense, 191 on the ground and 52 through the air.
Junior Cameron Parker led Valley’s ground game with 14 carries for 76 yards, while classmate Alex Morrison had eight rushes for 31 yards, Conley five for 27, Noah Miller four for 24 and Trippiedi seven for 23.
Trippiedi completed 4 of 11 pass attempts, with four different receivers making a catch. Miller led the way with 36 receiving yards.
“We had a couple guys that stepped up tonight and played really good, and Cam is one of them,” said Shriver. “We started running some belly plays with him, and he really felt, I think , a great deal of desire tonight to run the ball, and he didn’t disappoint.
“We commented a couple times from the field, we were lined up a little deep, we wanted to be a little tighter than that in our offensive formation. But even though he was maybe misaligned a little bit, he blew it up in there and really ran the ball hard. And Johnny Gonsalez, a freshman, was lead blocking for him a lot.
“We saw a couple guys tonight that are coming back next year that ran the ball really, really well. We had seen a lot of good things out of (Alex) Morrison and (Wes) Melanson, and we did tonight, but those two young guys came in and really gave us a boost.”
NORTH MIAMI 40,
TIPPECANOE VALLEY 14
NM 14 6 13 7 — 40
TV 0 0 7 7 — 14
NM TV
1st downs 23 14
Rushing yds 363 191
Passing yds 87 52
Comp-Att-Int 7-11-0 4-11-1
Total yds 450 243
Fumbles/lost 3/2 0/0
Penalties/yds 4/55 4/30
Punts/Avg 0/0 3/25
First Quarter
NM – Tristan Working 76 run (Connor Hanaway kick) 8:21, 7-0
NM – Dakota Riviera 6 run (Hanaway kick) 5:26, 14-0
Second Quarter
NM – Working 1 run (kick failed) 5:16, 20-0
Third Quarter
NM – Zane Briggs 10 pass to Working (kick failed) 8:44, 26-0
NM – Briggs 30 pass to Riviera (Hanaway kick) 6:56, 33-0
TV – Jaydin Conley 2 run (Domingo Santiago kick) 1:59, 33-7
Fourth Quarter
NM – Working 9 run (Hanaway kick) 10:20, 40-7
TV – Tanner Trippiedi 2 run (Santiago kick) 3:52, 40-14
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing — North Miami, Working 10-128, Briggs 10-64, Riviera 6-60, Greg Sonafrank 8-45, Darian Hanley 3-34; T. Valley, Cameron Parker 14-76, Alex Morrison 8-31, Conley 5-27, Noah Miller 4-24, Trippiedi 7-23
Passing — North?Miami, Briggs 7-11-87, 2 TDs, 0 INT; T. Valley, Trippiedi 4-11-52, 0 TD, 1 INT
Receiving — North Miami, Working 3-44, Riviera 1-30, Lucas Garrison 1-7, Connor Parent 1-6; T. Valley, Miller 1-36, Isaac Randall 1-8, Jalen Shepherd 1-6, Parker 1-2
Records: North Miami 6-3, T. Valley 2-7
In a Three Rivers Conference playoff game at Tippecanoe Valley, the Warriors scored on their first offensive play of the game, a 76-yard run by sophomore running back Tristan Working, and never looked back.
Working finished the game with 128 yards and three touchdowns on 10 carries, and also caught three passes for 44 yards and a touchdown. His early score set the tone for North Miami in a 40-14 rout of the host Vikings.
“Football is a game of emotion, and when you look at a play on the first touch from scrimmage that goes for a touchdown, especially when you’ve gone through some adversity and when you’ve had some big plays cost you games throughout the season, it’s tough,” said Tippecanoe Valley assistant coach Jeff Shriver.
“Our kids are resilient, and our kids are hard-nosed, and they want to be great football players. They’re working hard, but they’re also young men that are 15 to 18 years old, and when things go bad you kind of wait for things to go bad again. That’s something that we’re working hard as a coaching staff to overcome.
“We’ve been faced, especially this group of seniors, with a great deal of adversity throughout their careers here at Tippecanoe Valley, and that’s something that we’ve talked a lot about and we’ve been honest with them. They’ve come through at a time when a lot of good things haven’t happened here at Valley in the last four years, and that’s something that we all need to work together to change.”
Friday’s loss dropped the Vikings to 2-7 on the season, while the Warriors improved to 6-3.
It was also the second time this season the Vikings lost to North Miami, a 28-0 winner over Valley on Sept. 1.
The Warriors, who tallied 363 yards on the ground and 450 overall, led 20-0 at halftime and extended the lead to 33-0 when senior quarterback Zane Briggs hooked up with classmate Dakota Riviera for a 30-yard strike with 6:56 left in the third quarter.
Riviera complimented Working’s performance with six carries for 60 yards and a score, as well as the 30-yard touchdown reception.
Briggs completed 7 of 11 passing attempts for 87 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions.
Shriver said a big part of the Vikings’ defensive struggles in the loss had to do with missed tackles.
“They were able to execute their offense, and one of our biggest problems on the defensive side of the ball was missed tackles,” said Shriver. “We didn’t necessarily blow a lot of assignments tonight, but the fundamentals of tackling weren’t there. There was a couple times where maybe we had a tackle for a loss and it ended up being a completion, or it was a tackle for a loss and it ended up being a first down.
“We had a couple penalties, but they were aggressive penalties, defending the pass, and they weren’t unsportsmanlike. Nonetheless, they put us in a bad situation at times. Our kids played hard, and we talked to them a little bit about it being senior night here, and it’s a disappointing way to leave this field, but if we can bounce back next week some good things can happen.”
Valley opens Class 3A Sectional 27 play at Peru Friday, while North Miami travels to South Newton for a 1A Sectional 42 battle.
The Vikings scored their first touchdown when sophomore Jaydin Conley powered his way in from two yards out with 1:59 remaining in the third quarter.
Sophomore quarterback Tannier Trippiedi scored Valley’s other touchdown, also a two-yard run, with 3:52 left in the fourth quarter.
The Vikings tallied 243 yards of total offense, 191 on the ground and 52 through the air.
Junior Cameron Parker led Valley’s ground game with 14 carries for 76 yards, while classmate Alex Morrison had eight rushes for 31 yards, Conley five for 27, Noah Miller four for 24 and Trippiedi seven for 23.
Trippiedi completed 4 of 11 pass attempts, with four different receivers making a catch. Miller led the way with 36 receiving yards.
“We had a couple guys that stepped up tonight and played really good, and Cam is one of them,” said Shriver. “We started running some belly plays with him, and he really felt, I think , a great deal of desire tonight to run the ball, and he didn’t disappoint.
“We commented a couple times from the field, we were lined up a little deep, we wanted to be a little tighter than that in our offensive formation. But even though he was maybe misaligned a little bit, he blew it up in there and really ran the ball hard. And Johnny Gonsalez, a freshman, was lead blocking for him a lot.
“We saw a couple guys tonight that are coming back next year that ran the ball really, really well. We had seen a lot of good things out of (Alex) Morrison and (Wes) Melanson, and we did tonight, but those two young guys came in and really gave us a boost.”
NORTH MIAMI 40,
TIPPECANOE VALLEY 14
NM 14 6 13 7 — 40
TV 0 0 7 7 — 14
NM TV
1st downs 23 14
Rushing yds 363 191
Passing yds 87 52
Comp-Att-Int 7-11-0 4-11-1
Total yds 450 243
Fumbles/lost 3/2 0/0
Penalties/yds 4/55 4/30
Punts/Avg 0/0 3/25
First Quarter
NM – Tristan Working 76 run (Connor Hanaway kick) 8:21, 7-0
NM – Dakota Riviera 6 run (Hanaway kick) 5:26, 14-0
Second Quarter
NM – Working 1 run (kick failed) 5:16, 20-0
Third Quarter
NM – Zane Briggs 10 pass to Working (kick failed) 8:44, 26-0
NM – Briggs 30 pass to Riviera (Hanaway kick) 6:56, 33-0
TV – Jaydin Conley 2 run (Domingo Santiago kick) 1:59, 33-7
Fourth Quarter
NM – Working 9 run (Hanaway kick) 10:20, 40-7
TV – Tanner Trippiedi 2 run (Santiago kick) 3:52, 40-14
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing — North Miami, Working 10-128, Briggs 10-64, Riviera 6-60, Greg Sonafrank 8-45, Darian Hanley 3-34; T. Valley, Cameron Parker 14-76, Alex Morrison 8-31, Conley 5-27, Noah Miller 4-24, Trippiedi 7-23
Passing — North?Miami, Briggs 7-11-87, 2 TDs, 0 INT; T. Valley, Trippiedi 4-11-52, 0 TD, 1 INT
Receiving — North Miami, Working 3-44, Riviera 1-30, Lucas Garrison 1-7, Connor Parent 1-6; T. Valley, Miller 1-36, Isaac Randall 1-8, Jalen Shepherd 1-6, Parker 1-2
Records: North Miami 6-3, T. Valley 2-7
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