Bunge's 5 TD day lifts Eagles

For the Middletown South seniors, the Thanksgiving Day matchup with cross town rival Middletown North was to be their last career game. The seniors were honored before the game and were all present at midfield for the coin flip.

From then on out, though, it was junior Chris Bunge's day on route to 5 TD's and a 35-7 Eagle victory.

The Lions were unable to convert a first down after forcing the Eagles to punt and punted the ball away.

Bunge fielded the ball near his own 20 yard line and took it all the way to the endzone basically untouched to put the Eagles up 7-0.

North put together a long drive that ate a lot of clock and then Joe Dickey threw a touchdown pass from 1 yard out to tie the game at the beginning of the second quarter.

The teams went into the locker rooms tied at 7, and it was any one's game.

On their first possession of the third quarter, however, South regained the momentum when Pat Campbell hit Bunge for an 83 yard TD pass to give the Eagles the lead, which they would not lose again.

Bunge added three more touchdown runs to bring his total to five. One was set up on an interception by Rob Cruz, and another by a crazy play on the ensuing kickoff.

Alex Romanski kicked from the left hash on his own 40, and kicked it to the opposite sideline, at about the 25. The ball came within inches of hitting touching the sideline before bouncing straight back towards the middle of the field and into an Eagles special teams player's hands.

The Eagles continue their winning streak against Middletown North, extending it to 7 straight years as winners of the Homecoming Game. South finishes with a record of 8-3, while the Lions end the season at 3-7.


It gets quiet now for a couple of weeks as far as South sports is concerned. Basketball practice starts tomorrow for both the boys and girls with opening night December 14. The first game is against Middletown North, and as I hear now, both the boys and girls will be home and they will be playing the games back to back, so the atmosphere is going to be amazing for those games. The hockey team has already hit the ice and will play its first game December 4 at the Wall Sports Arena.

Knowshon Moreno gets his first taste of the Georgia-Georgia Tech Rivalry on Saturday when the Bulldogs travel to Atlanta to take on the Yellow Jackets. The Tennesse-Kentucky game will also be of interest to Georgia fans as the Bulldogs need the Volunteers to fall if they want to play in the SEC Championship game. That game would just give Moreno a better chance to get to Herschel Walker's freshman rushing record of 1,616 yards (Moreno currently has 1228 yards).