The Cannon County Lions football team went into Friday night’s game against the York Institute Dragons with a newly found confidence that hadn’t been seen in quite some time. After all it was a week ago that A.J. Daniel amassed 145 yards on 13 carries and led the offensive charge as Cannon defeated Smith for their first win of this football season. A puzzling thing happened in the York game though, for whatever reason, Daniel only got to touch the ball once last night behind the line of scrimmage and it ended up being a meaningless 4 yard carry in the second half after York had already put the game away. Daniel and backfield mate Jake Walkup played most of the game as wide outs. Daniel who has been nursing a shoulder injury finished the game with 3 receptions for 50 yards including a 35 yard touchdown reception that tied the ballgame up at 7-7 in the first quarter. Then there’s the question of Ethan Smith. Smith broke out in Cannon’s longest run of the night as it was his first game back from a knee injury when he ran 37 yards to help set up good field position for the Cannon County Score. Even though he played the rest of the game, Smith only got one more touch for two yards. York defeated Cannon 49-7. Offensively Cannon netted just 12 yards rushing the football and 73 yards of total offense while York came 29 yards shy of hitting 500 total yards of offense. Cannon’s chances of finishing third in the district and possibly an outside chance of a spot in the postseason despite their 1 win record vanished with the loss. Cannon will finish the season Thursday night with their last game in Baxter against District opponent Upperman.
