Amherst County running back Marquis Brown made a statement in the Lancers’ week-one 32-6 win over Northside, picking up 170 yards and two touchdowns.
Friday night at William Fleming stadium, Brown scored four times and rushed for 145 yards as Amherst County dominated the Colonels in the 39-3 non-district win.
The Lancers flexed their muscles early, scoring the game’s first 15 points before William Fleming ran their first offensive play.
After taking the opening kickoff and driving for the first score on a Brown 2-yard run and 2-point conversion, Amherst executed an onsides kick, with Brown scoring minutes later from 2-yards out.
Fleming got on the scoreboard when Joel Ugochukwa hit on a 23-yard field goal to cut the Lancer lead to 15-3 early in the second quarter.
Amherst scored the final 17 points of the half on two more Brown TD scampers from 7 and 29 yards, sandwiched around a Logan Barber 35-yard field goal to send the teams to the locker room up 32-3.
Amherst added the second half’s only score on a 25-yard fumble return in the third. The Colonels will look for their first touchdown of the season tonight, as Fleming travels to Magna Vista.
