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The Waugh Way

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Central High senior quarterback Dallas Waugh connected on 8-of-17 passes for 145 yards and three touchdowns Friday night at the Citrus Bowl in Inverness against the winless Citrus High Golden Hurricanes.

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By MARTY MILLER

Hernando Today correspondent

Published: September 20, 2008

INVERNESS - For a time in the second quarter Friday night against Citrus, things did not really look promising Central football coach Cliff Lohrey and his team.
With the Bears coming into the game winless at 0-2 and having trouble sustaining any offense, Central jumped to a quick 14-0 lead in the first quarter before Citrus close the margin to 14-10 halfway through the first half.
But while the score at half time remained 14-10, in the third quarter the Bears had the best quarter of the young season as they scored four touchdowns to crush the winless Hurricanes, 41-10.

Waugh's Way

CHS quarterback Dallas Waugh completed 8-of-17 passes for 145 yards and three touchdowns while Steven Read caught two of those scoring passes and tailback Austin Forte rushed for 158 yards on 20 carriers and scored a touchdown. All three put up those numbers while only seeing three quarters of action.
"I have a lot of confidence in these guys over there," said Lohrey after the game when asked if at any point he was worried about the outcome. "By far, we didn't play a perfect game, but we were still able to do this tonight. "
"We've talked about it a lot recently," said Lohrey about improving on offense. "We like to spread the ball around because the more weapons you have, the less people can focus on one person."
The Bears defense also had a hand in winning the game. Although Citrus was without star running back Antoin Scriven, the Bears held the Hurricanes to just 75 yards in total offense and forced four turnovers.
"The difference is we came out to play today," said Waugh. "We knew we need to get a win with the big district game we have next week with Ridgewood. We had to get some motivation going for next week."

Central 41, Citrus 10
Qtr. Scoring:
CEN 14 0 27 0 -- 41
CIT 0 10 0 0 -- 10
Individual Scoring:
CEN - Forte 1 run (Rosario kick)
CEN - Read 10 pass from Waugh (Rosario kick)
CIT - FG Watkins 40
CIT - Brown 14 fumble recovery (Watkins kick)
CEN - Read 20 pass from Waugh (Torres run failed)
CEN - Waugh 1 run (Rosario kick)
CEN - Gibbenmeyer 7 pass from Waugh (Rosario kick)
CEN - Gartner 2 run (Rosario kick)

CEN CIT
First downs 18 8
Yards rushing 40-217 22-36
Yards passing 150 39
Passes 8-17-1 8-18-1
Punts 3-33.3 4-34.5
Return yards 88 65
Fumbles/Lost 1-1 6-3
Penalties 13-105 9-95

Individual statistics
RUSHING (Attempts, Yards, Touchdowns, Long gain)
CEN : Torres 9-78, 0, 52; Rosario 4- (-15), 0, -1; Gartner 2-8, 1, 6; Forte 20-158, 1, 52; Waugh 3-(-17), 1, -1; Read 1-10, 0, 10; Gibbenmeyer 1-(-5), 0, -5.
CIT : Walker 5-17, 0, 9; Swearinger 1-7, 0, 7; White 1- (-12), 0, -12; West 3-(-21), 0, -4; Jackson 12-21, 0, 11.
PASSING (Completions, Attempts, Interceptions, Yards, Touchdowns, Long gain)
CEN: Waugh 8-17-0, 145, 3, 47;Rosario 1-4-1, 5, 0, 5. CIT: West 8-18-1, 39, 0, 14.
RECEIVING (Catches, Yards, Touchdowns, Long gain)
CEN: Gibbenmeyer 3-25, 1, 16; LaValle 1-5, 0, 5; Read 4-73, 2, 39; Gartner 1-47, 0, 47. CIT: Paquette 4-31, 0, 14; Aquillar 1-11, 0, 11; Sneed 1-15, 0, 15; Brown 1-2, 0, 2.

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