Bill Lusk | WVOW Sports
LOGAN Luvante Kenney scored two touchdowns as the Logan Middle School Timberwolves remained unbeaten with a 22-8 victory over county rival and previously unbeaten Chapmanville Middle School on Thursday night at Willis-Nisbet Stadium.
Kenney scored on a 24-yard run and later scored on an 88-yard screen pass from Caleb Johnson as the Timberwolves improved to 4-0.
In what was believed to be the first ever meeting between undefeated teams in school history, Logan scored two first half touchdowns and led 14-0 at halftime.
Johnson started the scoring for Logan when he found Lucas Lambert for a 26-yard touchdown pass with 4:34 remaining in the opening quarter. Bentley Williamson hauled in the two-point conversion to give the Timberwolves an 8-0 lead.
Keeney scored from 24-yards out with 1:04 to play in the second quarter to give Logan a 14-0 lead.
Chapmanville got on the board in the third quarter as quarterback Dakota Dalton scored from 1-yard out and Jaxton Ellison added the two-point conversion to cut the deficit to 14-8 with 3:20 to play in the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, Johnson lofted a screen pass over an outstretched hand of a Chapmanville linemen and into the hands of Keeney, who took to the house 88-yards for his second touchdown of the game on a 3rd-and-18 play from the Logan 12-yard line.
Ethan Hensley added the two-point conversion and Logan led 22-8 with 4:30 to play.
Late in the fourth quarter, Logan’s Grayson Sanders was injured while making a tackle on Mattox Sartin after an 11-yard reception.
Sanders was taken by ambulance to a local medical facility and diagnosed with a concussion.
Once play resumed Chapmanville had a 1st-and-10 from the Logan 35, but four plays later, Brodee Belcher intercepted a Dalton pass in the end-zone to ice the game for the Timberwolves. For Belcher it was his second interception of the contest.
Jacob Maynard rushed for 92 yards on 21 carries for Chapmanville. Dalton ran for 30 yards on 10 carries and Ellison carried the ball once for 31 yards. Dalton was 3-of-13 passing for 15 yards and Sartin hauled in three passes for 15 yards.
For Logan, Keeney rushed for 51 yards on eight rushes and caught one pass for 88 yards. Zo Murphy had three rushes for 45 yards, Hensley gained 22 yards on two carries, Lambert added 12 yards on two carries and Sanders had one carry for eight yards.
Johnson completed 4-of-5 passes for 131 yards and two touchdowns. Lambert hauled in two passes for 42 yards and Murphy caught one pass for one yard.
Chapmanville, who fell to 3-1 with the loss, will host Madison Middle School Thursday night at Barker Stadium while Logan travels to Poca Thursday night.