The Aplington-Parkersburg football team couldn’t withstand a barrage of mistakes, and fell 25-7 at Union in Friday’s 1A District 4 opener, as aired on RadioOnTheGo’s YouTube channel.
The Falcons were marred by several untimely penalties, dropped passes, and turnovers. They gave up a 76-yard touchdown pass on the third snap of the game, and a 46-yard touchdown run made it 13-0 Knights in the second quarter. Benny Waller capped off a drive with a one-yard touchdown run, and AP had a chance to take a lead with a two-minute drill late in the half. But a turnover on downs in the red zone halted momentum. To begin the third quarter, the Falcons turned the ball over on an errant snap, and Union capitalized to help put the game away.
“We’re not disciplined,” AP coach Jeff Pikna says. “We’re not doing what we say we’re gonna do. We’re not acting how we say we’re gonna act. When stuff gets hard, we’re not pressing the way we’re supposed to press. That game should not have gone like that in a million years. The reason it went like that is because we didn’t care enough when it mattered the most to be disciplined and do our job. You saw that on the fumble. You saw it on the penalties. So we’ve got to change it up.”
AP (1-3, 0-1 1A-4) will return to action by hosting Sumner-Fredericksburg in Week 5.
