By TYLER HENRY
Lead Sportswriter - Salina Post
The Salina South Cougars played a nearly perfect game of football on Friday, steamrolling Campus to the tune of 55-6 for their first victory of the season.
The Cougars allowed just two first downs and zero points on their first nine defensive possessions, while the South offense scored a touchdown on its first eight offensive possessions.
Sophomore quarterback Izzy Telles played the game of his life, completing 12 of his 13 passes for 279 yards, six touchdowns, and no interceptions for a perfect passer rating, all in just the first half.
The first of those scores went to Jay Curtis, who hauled in the game's first score from nine yards away.
The second came on a fumble into the end zone that was scooped up by Slade Pickrell for six.
Then the Jaxon Myers show began.
Myers caught four passes for 156 yards, finding paydirt on all four to give South a commanding 41-0 lead.
Late in the second quarter, Armane Redmond joined in on the fun, waltzing into the end zone for a one-yard touchdown run.
Telles would find Curtis for the wideout’s second, and the quarterback’s sixth touchdown of the day to put the game even further out of reach.
The clock ran throughout the entire second half, and Campus tacked on one score late in the third, but it was far too little far too late as the Cougars cruised to victory.
This 55-point scoring outburst was the largest for Salina South since 2014, and helped to showcase just how far the Cougars have come in just two years under Christien Ozores.
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