St. John is ranked highly in their home state and on Saturday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Lewis J. Bennett/Olmsted/Middle Early College/East. The St. John's Cadets simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat the Lewis J. Bennett/Olmsted/Middle Early College/East Tigers 42-0 at home. The contest was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Cadets had established a 35 point advantage.
A big part of the victory came down to the chemistry between Nyeem Woods and his top target Reece Williams. Woods threw for 202 yards and three touchdowns while completing 72.2% of his passes while Williams picked up 126 receiving yards and two touchdowns. The dominant performance gave Woods a new career-high in rushing yards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, St. John's was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 224 rushing yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Lewis J. Bennett/Olmsted/Middle Early College/East only rushed for 39.
The win got St. John's back to even at 1-1.
St. John's has the luxury of staying home for another week and will welcome Archbishop Carroll at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. As for Lewis J. Bennett/Olmsted/Middle Early College/East, they will head out to square off against Hutchinson-Central Tech/Emerson Vo-Tech/City Honors at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday.
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