Canyon Keeps Tradition Alive With 28-0 Win

It seemed like old times at Quartz Hill High on Friday night.

There was a high school football game, a homecoming queen . . . and Quartz Hill was soundly beaten by Canyon.

The Golden League game was expected to be competitive because Quartz Hill, usually overmatched, came in with a strong team while Canyon came in with a losing record.

But three Canyon touchdowns in the first quarter put Quartz Hill in its traditional place and the Cowboys went on to win, 28-0.

Canyon is 3-3-1, 2-0 in league play. Quartz Hill falls to 3-4, 1-1.

The Cowboys scored so quickly and so often in the first 12 minutes that the touchdowns blurred together.

* Chris Peery ran 55 yards for one score.

* Tim Beidle threw to Chris Spahr from seven yards for another.

* Peery dove in from the two-yard line for a third.

After only 15 offensive plays, the Cowboys led, 21-0.

“We did all the right things, made all our blocks and I ran hard,” said Peery, who rushed 23 times for 159 yards.

The game settled down in the second quarter when Quartz Hill’s defense held Canyon on consecutive possessions.

But the offense missed opportunities to close the gap when Chad Watters came up short on a 46-yard field-goal attempt and quarterback Kendial Armstrong threw an incomplete pass on fourth down from the Canyon 11-yard line.

Canyon added a final score with six minutes left when Beidle threw seven yards to Clint Beauer.

Beidle completed 10 of 16 passes for 129 yards and two touchdowns. His counterpart, Armstrong, completed 16 of 36 for 166 yards with one interception.

Quartz Hill’s leading rusher was Randy Wolfe, who could muster only 22 yards in six carries. The rest of the team added just 13 yards on the ground.

Jesse Oggs led the Rebel offense, catching eight passes for 98 yards. Linebackers Joshua Patterson and Selves Smith led a defense that sacked Beidle four times for losses totaling 30 yards.