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MILL HALL --Coming in to Friday night's meeting, Clearfield and Central Mountain's records were opposite of one another as they appeared to be headed in different directions.
Following the game, that scenario remained intact as Central Mountain fell to 0-5 while Clearfield improved to 5-0 with a 42-20 win over the Wildcats at Malinak Stadium.
"Our kids always play hard," said Central Mountain coach Jim Renninger. "They always give us a good effort, but the bottom line is that we aren't a good enough football team that can turn the ball over, survive a few holding penalties and make execution mistakes. Defensively we had a few breakdowns in tackling, but give their kids credit because their kids played hard and did some good things. It is never an effort issue with our kids as opposed to a size thing or a speed thing, but rather we seem to make critical mistakes in detail."
The Wildcats broke the scoring ice in the game as they scored at the 9 minute, 20 second mark of the opening quarter when Connor Soo hauled in a 23-yard scoring pass from Zane Probst.
However, following the Soo score, the Bison came roaring back to take their first lead in the game with a pair of scores, quarterback Oliver Billotte cashing in the touchdowns on a pair of short runs.
Following the second Billotte score, it only took the Wildcats a little more than a minute to get themselves back even in the game when Probst hit Peyton Johnson in the flat, and Johnson broke several tackles, managed to stay in bounds, and sprint down the sideline to complete the 74-yard scoring play.
For the game, Probst finished with 207 yards passing good for a pair of TD tosses in addition to rushing for one of his own. Johnson was Probst's favorite target during the game as he hauled in six passes for 138 yards and the one score.
"We have some pretty good players who can make some big plays," continued Renninger. "Peyton Johnson can make some plays, Rocco Stark can make some plays and Zane is obviously our trigger guy. For us it is just a matter of putting it all together and have a good night offensively when we have a good night defensively. If we can find a way to put it all together we can win some games."