STAYTON — Senior running back Hunter Mollerstrom carried 27 times for 244 yards and five touchdowns Friday night as Stayton scored 40 unanswered points in a 40-14 football win over Philomath.
The Warriors (3-5 overall, 2-3 4A Special District 2) scored the game’s first and last touchdowns, but a banged-up roster couldn’t keep pace with a Stayton ground game that piled up 349 rushing yards and averaged 7.4 yards per carry. The Eagles, playing on senior night, improved to 4-4 overall and 2-3 in league play.
“I thought we started off pretty well, and then I think we just kind of got a little tired,” Philomath coach Alex Firth said. “At the point of attack, we had some guys get tired. We had a couple guys going to the wrong gap a couple times, and they caught us with it. But other than that, I thought we held up as well as we could. We just started getting tired. We started running out of dudes.”…