Monday, October 7, 2013

Football: Carroll leads Mountain Brook in 35-7 win over Carver

By Ben Cook | AL.com
on October 04, 2013 11:35 p.m.
 
Mountain Brook (3-3, 2-2) scored in every quarter and took a Class 6A, Region 6 victory over Carver (1-5, 0-4).

Jacob Carroll led the Spartans with 201 passing yards with two touchdowns and an interception, completing 15 of 23 passes, and rushed for 77 yards and two touchdowns on six carries. Gene Bromberg led Mountain Brook in rushing with 95 yards on 23 carries.  Buddy Pell led the Spartans defense with 10 tackles, while Carter Dukes and Austin Chapman each had an interception.
Montego Morris led Carver in rushing with 91 yards on 17 carries. Dacorian Bivens completed 9-of-20 passes for 100 yards but he was intercepted twice. Kelly Marsh had four catches for 53 yards.
Joshua Rice led the Carver defense with 12 tackles. Kevin McDaniels scored Carver's lone touchdown on a 70-yard interception return.

Carroll opened the scoring with an eight yard touchdown run with six minutes left in the first quarter, but Carver's McDaniels evened the score with his interception return for a score with a minute remaining in the first.   It was all Mountain Brook after that, with Pell scoring on a 4-yard run, and with twenty six seconds left in the half, Carroll connected on a 5-yard touchdown pass to Hunter Branch. Carroll rambled in for a score from 56 yards out in the third quarter, and tossed a 15-yard touchdown pass to Drew Odum in the final quarter.