Around the BDC: Eldorado rolls to win, 34-15, at Vienna-Goreville

http://www.dailyregister.com/sports/20170902/eldorado-rolls-to-win-34-15-at-vienna-goreville

VIENNA, IL –  (Michael Dann, Harrisburg Register.  Please click on the link above for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Playing at Vienna-Goreville comes with a unique set of circumstances that any Black Diamond Conference School is well aware of.

Before the game, Eldorado’s leading rusher Jacob Traxler’s helmet was accidentally ran over by the team bus, but the senior back got help from a teammate with a new lid and ran for 131 yards on 10 carries and had three touchdowns in the win.

Eldorado, who finished with 319 yards on the ground, served notice early, taking a 20-0 lead before Vienna-Goreville got on the scoreboard and for first year head coach Joe Clark says his team is still developing.

“Overall, we are doing a good job running the football and when we want to are able to take advantage in the passing game. We continue to grind, but we made some mistakes, myself included and starting with me that we were able to recover from. We had a lot of kids step up Vienna-Goreville head coach Mike Rude said Saturday’s contest with a measuring stick game for his club, one where he considers Eldorado to be the No. 1 or No. 2 team in the conference.

“I would say a lot of people are going to pick Traxler to Player Of The Year in the conference. He’s a D1 football player and he’s a load. I didn’t really feel like the score should have been what it was at halftime. We learned a lot of things today, we said this was our measuring stick and we know where we’re at now.”nd that was nice to see.”