By Justin Lafferty Special to the Review-Journal
October 2, 2026 - 9:14 pm
After Sunrise Mountain’s 34-0 homecoming rout implicit Del Sol connected Friday night, elder moving backmost Kaylin Mills was acceptable to commercialized his cleats successful for dancing shoes.
Mills rumbled his mode to 158 yards and 3 touchdowns connected 16 carries successful the victory, past attended the homecoming creation soon after. His show helped the Miners (6-1, 3-1 DIII East) assertion an East League rubric successful their quest for the inaugural Superintendents Cup.
“That’s the champion I did each year,” Mills said. “I’ve gotta springiness props to my O-line.”
The linemen paved the mode for Sunrise Mountain connected some ends of the ball, creating gaps for moving backs, keeping sophomore backmost August Krael upright and stuffing the potent Dragon (5-1, 3-1) offense.
The Miners racked up 517 yards of full offense, holding Del Sol to conscionable 115 — each connected the ground.
“They played their butts off,” Sunrise Mountain manager Patrick Achord said. “The D-line — a batch of them were asked to instrumentality connected treble teams tonight, and they roseate to the challenge.”
Sunrise Mountain loaded the container connected defence to support the Dragons’ rushing onslaught bottled up astir of the night, starring to plentifulness of three-and-outs. They besides capitalized connected mistakes, recovering 3 Del Sol fumbles and snatching an interception.
“Anytime you tin rise a banner, it’s a bully thing, due to the fact that we conscionable won our broadside of the bracket tonight,” Achord said. “We had the 1 twelvemonth successful 2023 erstwhile we went to the authorities championship, and present we tin rise different banner adjacent to that one. Our kids are ace excited astir that.”
The Miners got connected the committee soon earlier the extremity of the archetypal 4th connected a abbreviated Mills touchdown run.
After recovering a Del Sol fumble, Sunrise Mountain added to its pb with 5:18 near successful the fractional erstwhile elder moving backmost James Sherrod recovered a spread successful the Dragon defence and sprinted 56 yards to paydirt. After Krael connected with inferior receiver Malaki Thomas for a two-point conversion, the Miners were up 14-0.
Roughly 3 minutes later, Mills scored his 2nd touchdown of the game, rumbling 49 yards to the extremity zone. Sunrise Mountain took a 20-0 pb into the half.
Mills’ 3rd scoring tally of the game, this 1 from 17 yards out, happened midway done the 3rd quarter. The Miners added a fourth-quarter touchdown connected a walk from Krael to Thomas, who finished with six catches and 185 receiving yards. Krael went 8-for-12 passing with 212 yards.
Del Sol inferior moving backmost Jayden Koempel had a team-best 50 yards connected 14 carries.
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