By Debbie Raney
Burns Times-Herald

The Crane Mustangs had possession of the football 9 times during last Friday’s contest against the Dayville/Monument/Long Creek Tigers (D/M/L). The Mustangs scored on each possession for a 72-8 win.

Beginning with a 58-yard punt return from Ryan Opie, and ending with a blocked punt ran in by Greg Thompson for score, the Mustangs were dominant throughout the entire game. At the half, Crane had a 52-8 lead.

Pete Joyce ran the third quarter opening kickoff 70 yards back for a touchdown, putting the game into running time for the remaining 11:48 of the third quarter and the full 12 minutes of the fourth.

Royal Henricks was responsible for the blocked punt that resulted in Crane’s final touchdown, as well as a blocked punt in the first quarter of play.

Defensively, the Mustangs had 21 players record tackles and assists, including shared sacks by Zach Cody and Thompson and Matt Miller and Milton Merritt.

This week, the Mustangs will be playing in an endowment game, a change  from the original schedule. Crane will play in Bend at 1 p.m. on Friday,  against the Days Creek Wolves.

1    2     3    4       Final
D/M/L      8    0     0    0         8
Crane       22   30   14   6        72
First quarter
Crane — Opie 58 kick return (Steeves pass from Opie) 11:05.
Crane — Opie 7 run (Henricks pass from Opie) 4:56.
D/M/L — 4 run (run) 2:35.
Crane — Maupin 49 run (run failed) 2:20.
Second quarter
Crane — fumble recovery Thompson (run P. Joyce) 11:54.
Crane — Opie 9 run (Max Miller run) 8:46.
Crane — Potter 11 pass from Opie (run failed) 3:06.
Crane — Opie 27 run (Cody pass from Opie) 0:00.
Third quarter
Crane — P. Joyce 70 kick return (Thompson run) 11:48.
Crane — Opie 13 run (pass failed) :50.
Fourth quarter
Crane — Thompson 37 blocked put return (run failed) 6:34.
Crane individual statistics
RUSHING — Opie 8-131, Maupin 7-125, P.Joyce 4-99, Thompson 3-43, Max Miller 2-5.
PASSING — Opie 7-10-63.
RECEIVING — Potter 3-35, Cody 2-16, Henricks 2-9, Steeves 1-3.
TACKLES UNASSISTED-ASSISTED — P.Joyce 3-6, Henricks 4-3, Nyman 1-4, Witzel 4-1, Maupin 1-4, Matt Miller 2-2, Merritt 1-3, Thompson 1-3, Potter 1-3, Steeves 1-1, Max Miller 1-1, Haworth 1-1, Williams 0-1, Northrop 0-1, Davies 1-0, R. Joyce 1-0, Lamb 0-1, L. Miller 1-0, Cody 1-0.