COLFAX — Panorama junior tailback Ryan Cogil carried the ball 34 times Friday at Colfax-Mingo, visiting the end zone on six occasions while compiling 304 yards as the Panthers pulled away for a 57-33 victory.
Cogil was burst onto the scene this season and has 540 yards and nine TDs on the ground on 60 total carries through two games.
The TigerHawks (0-1) passed for over 350 yards and five touchdowns to keep pace in the first half before the Panthers (2-0) slipped away.
Scoring aerials of 73 and 77 yards pushed C-M into a quick 14-0 lead, but Cogil scored from 43 yards out to cut the deficit to 14-6 after one frame of play.
Cogil TDs of 13 yards and then of four — with Cogil adding the two-point conversion after the former — pushed the Panthers into a 20-14 lead.
C-M used a six-yard scoring pass to move in front, 21-20, with a 40-yard Cogil jaunt and two-point play making the score 28-21. A seven-yard aerial from the home team and a missed two-point try allowed Panorama to enter the break holding a 28-27 advantage.
Cogil from two yards (Klayton Bremer adding the two-point conversion) and then from 46 moved the scored to 43-27, with Jacob Walker kicking a PAT. Braedon Draper pulled in a 10-yard scoring strike from Cayden VanMeer, with Walker’s boot creating a 50-27 bulge.
The hosts stayed alive early in the fourth quarter with a 42-yard pass to change the scoreboard to 50-33 before VanMeer ran in from 36 yards out (Walker hit the PAT) to set the final at 57-33.
VanMeer had 93 yards and a score on eight carries for the guests, with Sawyer Simmons (13-20), Cristian Monroy-Nunez (1-3), Austin Wagner (4 for minus-1) and Draper (1, minus-five) also carrying the ball.
VanMeer was 8-17-2 for 75 yards and one TD in the air, with Gavin Lindstrom connecting on his lone pass for 10 yards.
Bremer (4-55), Draper (3-29, 1 TD), Landon Howard (1-10) and Cogil (1, minus-9) all caught passes.
Cogil’s big night included a team-best 8.5 tackles and a fumble recovery, with Keyton VanGundy making six stops and Bremer five while Walker also fell on a fumble. Draper (1-15) and VanGundy (1-10) both had interceptions for the Panthers.
Panorama will host Pella Christian Friday.
