Almont football ends perfect regular season

ALMONT — Almont (No. 2, Division 6) finished its regular season in impressive fashion, rolling to a 47-3 road victory over Garden City in a nonleague football encounter Friday night.

With the result, Almont watches a 9-0 regular season draw to a close. Garden City finishes 4-5.

In Friday’s encounter, Almont bolted out to a 13-0 advantage after one quarter was done and widened the gap to 28-3 at the half. When the action resumed, Almont picked up where it left off. Aided by a 13-0 third-quarter advantage, the Raiders increased their cushion to 41-3 with 36 minutes elapsed. Almont then outscored Garden City 6-0 the rest of the way, finishing off a 47-3 victory.

The winning Almont side amassed its 47-point total aided by a Brody Corneau 2-yard touchdown run (followed by an accurate extra point kick courtesy of Rian O’Neil); a Blake Lane to Corneau 11-yard touchdown pass; a Lane to Corneau 17-yard touchdown pass (followed by an accurate extra point boot by O’Neil); a Lane to Logan Schapman 19-yard touchdown pass (followed by a PAT run from Corneau); a Shepherd Moussiaux 4-yard touchdown run (followed by a successful extra point kick from O’Neil); an Andrew SaintOnge 4-yard touchdown run; and a Brendan Schocke 1-yard touchdown run.

For the night, Lane completed 6 of 12 pass plays for 91 yards as Almont’s quarterback, tossing no interceptions. His successful tosses went to three different targets. Their ranks consisted of O’Neil (two catches for 43 yards), Corneau (two receptions for 28 yards) and Schapman (two catches for 20 yards).

The Almont ground attack chewed up 355 yards of territory on 34 totes. Ethan McConnell (eight rushes for 117 yards), Corneau (71 yards on six totes) and SaintOnge (five rushes for 63 yards) proved Almont’s toughest players to shut down. The remaining 15 Raider totes netted a combined 104-yard gain. Moussiaux (one solo and five assists) plus Colten Karbel and Max Glavich (six assists each) posted the top Almont tackle totals.

Almont will look to keep its perfect record intact Friday when it hosts Flint New Standard Academy (5-4). 

The Division 6 opening round playoff game is slated to get underway at 7 p.m.