Clackamas football is the Week 4 winner of the Oregon Team of the Week, presented by the Oregon National Guard.
Photo courtesy of Just-n-Time Sports Photography
Week 4 Winner: Clackamas Football
It has been five long seasons since the
Clackamas
(Ore.) Cavaliers have had a winning football season. That
includes an 0-10 campaign in 2010.
But following
56-25 win at Reynolds on Friday, Joe Bushman's squad is off to a 4-0
start and features the state's leading rusher,
Dan
Sherrell, to boot.
The 5-foot-9,
170-pound senior has rushed 88 times for 822 yards and 12 touchdowns,
including 201 yards and four touchdowns on Friday. That's coming a week
after racking up 309 yards and three scores in a 35-7 win over Aloha.
The victory avenged a 28-19 home loss to Reynolds
last season.
For it all, the Cavaliers have been
selected the MaxPreps Oregon Team of the Week, presented by the Oregon
National Guard.
Clackamas were right on the verge of
breaking the losing-season streak last year, going 5-5 during the
regular season before losing in the first round of the 6A playoffs to
Tualatin 32-20.
Dan Sherrell, Clackamas
Photo courtesy of Just-n-Time Sports Photography
But
the Cavs opened the season with a resounding 42-23 win over Grants Pass
before eeking out a 29-28 win over Newberg on an 18-yard TD run early
in the fourth quarter by Sherrell. The defense held from
there.
"Dan Sherrell is a great kid. Very humble,"
said Bushman. "He is shifty and hard to
tackle. He has a great group of offensive linemen and tight ends who do a
nice job opening holes for him."
On Friday, not only
did Sherrell go off, but the quarterback duo of
Doonie
Johnson and
Cade
Wilkins combined to go 12 of 19 for 181 yards and two
touchdowns. Johnson was particularly effective, going 7-for-8 with two
scores.
A pair of underclassmen, sophomore
Bryce
Dickey and junior
Brett
Peterson, also contributed touchdown runs and seniors
Taylor
Stinson and
Keegan
Daley caught touchdown passes.
It was a
true team effort.
On defense,
Zach
Farnes and Dickey had huge games, with 15 and 12 tackles,
respectively, and juniors
Hayden
Kirsch and
Nathan
Kemp had nine apiece.
"We have continued
to stay the course and believe in what we are doing," said Bushman.
"We have a good run of kids coming through right now — kids who are
driven,
hard workers with a nice mix of senior
leadership."
Clackamas, No. 11 in the state according
to the MaxPreps computer rankings, hosts No. 27
Lakeridge
(Lake Oswego) Friday night at 7
p.m.
Do you know a team that deserves
consideration for Oregon Team of the Week? Email us with your
nominations at ORteamoftheweek@maxpreps.com.
