Is there anything Morris’ John Dergo doesn’t do?
In the first 68 seconds of Friday’s Suburban Prairie South showdown at Oswego, the senior scored on a 42-yard run, kicked an extra point and delivered two long kickoffs.
And he was just warming up as No. 5 Morris went on to flatten the Panthers 45-14.
“I get a lot of credit for touchdowns and stuff, but some of those plays I don’t even get touched,” said Dergo, who scored five TDs, kicked six extra points and added a 27-yard field goal. “The line blocks really well, and I wouldn’t be breaking those records if they weren’t up there.”
Dergo had 18 carries for 279 yards and has 1,755 for the season for Morris (8-0, 4-0). He also caught two passes for 92 yards.
The Redskins and Dergo struck quickly. On his team’s opening play, Dergo took a handoff and blasted up the middle, cut left to evade a defender and ran the last 30 yards untouched.
He scored again less than six minutes later, this time on a 7-yard TD run that capped a nine-play drive. And when a Redskins drive stalled early in the second quarter, Dergo booted his field goal.
Oswego (5-3, 3-1) finally stopped Morris on its fourth possession as quarterback Donovan Monahan was sacked at the Panthers’ 22 with 4:15 left in the half.
But that was merely a pause. The Redskins regained possession a few minutes later as Dergo turned on the afterburners on a 53-yard TD run.
