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Indians steam roll their opponents
By Jerri Lynn Merritt
The Immokalee Indians are on a roll. Immokalee Bulletin/Jerri Lynn Merritt
The Immokalee Indians continue to steam-roll their opponents. This past Friday night they took the ball and dominated cross county rival Lely High School. Immokalee has won its first six games by a combined score of 221 to 29. The Indians dominated Lely in the 37-6 win on Friday only allowing 6 points in the fourth when the second string had the opportunity to take the field. The Immokalee High School football team is ranked No. 11 in the National Football Poll, according to MaxPreps.com.
The Indians quickly set the tone for the night when Ramces Rouzard hit Aaron Henry with 72-yard pass play for a touchdown. The extra point attempt was no good but Markease Williams quickly redeemed himself with a 26-yard field goal on Immokalee?s next possession.
Immokalee?s next possession came just a short time later when Immokalee?s Gladimir Casime intercepted a Trojan pass. Carl Elie was the man as he zoomed down the field for the touchdown. Immokalee faked an extra-point kick for a two-point conversion on a pass play from holder Jesse DeLarosa to Richardson Alusma bringing the score to17-0.
The second quarter was just as rough for the visiting Trojans as they just could not gain any ground against the strong Immokalee defense and the offense just kept driving the score up, up, up. Immokalee?s Brian Rolle flipped over the Trojan defense for the Indian touchdown and made the gap 24-0 then it was Eric Contreras who brought in a 16-yard pass from Rouzard with just 2:23 left in the game to cap the half time score at 30-0.
After the half time Lely pushed hard and made it to the Immokalee 20-yard line but the attempted pass was foiled when David Lamour turned the pass into an Immokalee interception, that ended with a Brian Rolle 9-yard touchdown. After Brian scored again and the extra-point kick by Williams was good the score was 37-0 and the mercy rule took effect just 3:24 into the third quarter. The game was played under a running clock until the end of the game.
The Trojan?s only score came against Immokalee?s second string of young Immokalee players when they took advantage of a quarterback fumble and ran it in for a 20-yard TD.
Ereck Plancher couldn?t get anything going during the Immokalee game. He is one of Southwest Florida?s best backs and he was held to just 43 yards on eight carries. He met the Rolle brothers first hand and if Brandon wasn?t taking him down then Brian was.
Trojans? quarterback Rolf Bathold finished 8-of-16 for just 80 yards and four interceptions. He also felt the sting of the Immokalee defense as Brandon Rolle and Richardson Alusma took him out.
Brian Rolle said, ?We did excellent! We played a heck of a game! I just keep the train going that?s what I do.?
For Immokalee Carl Elie had 19 carries for 158 yards and one touchdown, Richardson Alusma, Johnny Dor, Hendrickson Armand each had 8 strong tackles, Brian Rolle had 6 and 2 touchdowns. ?This was another great effort by our club. They played a great game and we are very proud of their accomplishments. We worked to get our team up this week because it was a big game for us a ?District Game? and we are going to win District no matter what the state says.?
After the post-game prayer at center field led by Lely, the Immokalee players started yelling, ?Beat Naples, beat Naples? in hopes of fueling the flame to help Lely win.
Immokalee will host yet another Collier County rival when the Indians play the Gulf Coast Sharks. As for that game and the ensuing games Coach Weber said, ?The train is going to roll,? said Weber, referring to an Indians? win. ?You can put that in the paper. I don?t care. The train is going to roll.?
