Charleston Daily Mail

October 15, 2007

by Derek Taylor, Daily Mail Sportswriter

NITRO'S UPSET loss to Cabell Midland has the Wildcats in nearly a must-win situation this week when they travel to Hurricane. Nitro would be hard-pressed to make the Class AAA playoffs with less than a 7-3 record. The Wildcats are 4-3.

Midland junior quarterback Tyler Bartley one-upped Nitro counterpart Michael Scott in a game of ‘Anything you can do I can do better' on Friday. Bartley, who earlier this season torched Parkersburg's secondary and exposed the achilles of the defending champion in a near-upset, threw for 239 yards and three touchdowns. He outdid his passing with his running prowess, however, rushing for 247 yards and two touchdowns.

Scott finished with 237 yards passing while completing an unusually low 15-of-39 passes.

He threw two touchdown passes but was intercepted three times.

A week after amassing more than 500 yards against archrival St. Albans, Nitro was held to 285 total yards against the Knights.