Loudoun Valley Opens Strong Against Dominion

The Loudoun Valley High School football team scored just 26 points in the first five games last year but the Vikes put memories of that season away quickly Friday as they rolled to a 41-0 win over Dominion at home.

Junior quarterback Andrew Taylor threw for 253 yards on 17 of 26 passing and tossed four touchdowns, three to Kyle Kohnen in the first half in the non-district match-up of two teams that went 1-9 last year under first-year coaches (Danny McGrath at LV and Karl Buckwalter at Dominion).

The AAA Vikes -- with an enrollment of 2,205 a year ago and probably pushing 2,300 now -- had too much depth for the AA Titans -- with an enrollment last year of 1,241.

LV's defense held Titan senior running back DeAndre Reaves to 31 yards on 10 carries and the Vikes out-gained the Titans, 442-103 in total yards. LV piled up 23 first downs to Dominion's four.

Bernard Thompson led the Vikes with 104 yards on 23 carries.

Loudoun Valley 41, Dominion 0

Dominion 0 0 0 0 - 0

Loudoun Valley 7 20 7 7 - 41

LV - Kohnen 9 pass from Taylor (Huggins kick)

LV - Druhan 27 pass from Taylor (kick failed)

LV - Kohnen 10 pass from Taylor (Kranias pass from Taylor)

LV - Kohnen 9 pass from Taylor (run failed)

LV - Clay 1 run (Huggins kick)

LV - Thompson 24 run (Huggins kick)

Rushing

Dominion: Reaves 10-31, Moreno 5-13, Wesley 8-12, Baxter 4-6. Totals 27-62.

Loudoun Valley: Thompson 23-104, Taylor 6-38, Simmons 5-37, Kranias 1-9, Clay 1-1, Nelson 1-0. Totals 37-189.

Passing

Dominion: Baxter 3-10-0 41.

Loudoun Valley: Taylor 17-26-1 253.

Reciving

Dominion:Gravallese 1-20, Lewis 1-15, Bullock 1-6. Totals 3-41.

Loudoun Valley: Kohnen 5-73, Kranias 5-60, Miller 4-71, Druhan 3-49. Totals 17-253.

Football statisticians please send your box scores and stats from each game to dan.sousa{at}verizon.net. Thanks!