Bailey carries Raiders to upset victory

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Friday, Sept. 23, 2011
Posted: 11:33 p.m.
By Mike Clark
YourSeason.com

What looked to be heading toward blowout territory took a U-turn, but the destination was still the desired one for Bolingbrook.The No. 16 Raiders blitzed No. 11 Homewood-Flossmoor with a 27-point first quarter on Friday night and coasted home with a 41-28 SouthWest Suburban Blue win in Flossmoor.Bolingbrook (5-0, 3-0), which plays Lincoln-Way East next weekend, scored a special teams touchdown and picked off Homewood-Flossmoor quarterback Tim Williams on consecutive plays en route to opening leads of 27-0 after one quarter and 41-7 at halftime.Homewood-Flossmoor (3-2, 1-2), which lost to Lincoln-Way East last week, rallied in the second half but couldnt climb back up the mountain.Junior quarterback Aaron Bailey paced the Raiders, running for three first-half touchdowns and finishing with 129 yards on 30 carries.Thats what we wanted to do, Bailey said. We wanted the ball to start the game, to go out there and set the tempo.Bailey scored on a three-yard run with 9:29 left in the first quarter to start the Raiders run. DJ Pruitt then ran back an H-F punt 67 yards for a score with 7:35 left and Tevin Teamers first interception set up Baileys seven-yard scoring run at 5:45. Teamer picked off Williams on the first play of the Vikings next possession and Jaden Huffs five-yard touchdown run in the final minute of the first quarter pushed the lead to 27-0.We had a Lincoln-Way East hangover, H-F coach Craig Buzea said. We knew that was going to happen. I knew we would have it, win or lose last week. ... We as a program have to be able to play big games like that.Williams (14 of 30, 212 yards) hit Sean Jones with a 40-yard touchdown pass with 8:32 left in the second quarter to put H-F on the board. But Huff had a one-yard scoring run and Bailey dashed 66 yards for a score to make it 41-7 with 2:53 left till halftime.We capitalized on their mistakes, Bolingbrook coach John Ivlow said. The fact that we jumped on them early made all the difference in the end.H-F did all the scoring after halftime, getting two more touchdown passes from Williams, a 54-yarder to Jones and an 18-yarder to Kris Porche. Anfernee Roberts picked off Bailey and went 45 yards for the games final score with 10:27 left in the fourth quarter.Thats probably a more realistic score, Ivlow said of the final. Are we a 40-point better team than that team? Probably not.The only thing Im worried about, weve got to finish off the game better than that, Bailey said. This is one game we didnt finish off.Omar Stover ran nine times for 118 yards for Bolingbrook and Huff finished with 58 yards on 14 carries.H-F managed just four net rushing yards on 21 carries.

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