Homecoming will have a little extra excitement for Benjamin Logan tonight after the Raiders snapped a five-game losing skid Friday with a 42-20 win over visiting Urbana. The Raiders improve to 2-5 overall and 1-1 in the Central Buckeye Conference Mad River division. The Hillclimbers remain winless at 0-7, 0-2. It was a good night for the Raiders offense as it tallied 431 total yards.
Quarterback Tanner Perkins completed 10-of-22 passes for 137 yards and three touchdowns, while also rushing for 32 yards and touchdown on six carries. On the ground, the Raiders’ Kainan Stoner piled up 240 rushing yards and two TDs on 26 carries. Three scores in the first quarter spring boarded Ben Logan out to an 18-0 lead. Perkins threw 59-yard and 10-yard TD passes to Kaidin Whitrock, while Stoner added an 8-yard TD run.
In the second quarter, Perkins tossed a 1-yard TD pass to Stoner with 10:45 left to go until the break to give the Raiders a 24-0 halftime lead. Urbana got on the scoreboard early in the third quarter with a 73-yard touchdown run by Logan Johnson. That left the Hillclimbers trailing 24-7. Ben Logan’s special teams came up big for the next score. Stoner returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown to give the Raiders a 30-7 lead with 6:06 left to play in the third quarter. The Hillclimbers scored on the ensuing kickoff when Aaron Norris took the ball back 73 yards for a touchdown. That made it a 30-14 score with six minutes to go in the third period. Stoner added another score for Ben Logan with a 43-yard TD that increased the Raiders’ lead to 36-14 with 5:53 remaining on the third-quarter clock.
The Raiders’ final score came early in the fourth quarter on a 37-yard touchdown run by Perkins. Urbana rounded out the scoring on a 1-yard TD run by Johnson with 43 seconds left in the game. Whitrock led the Ben Logan receivers with 69 yards on two cathes and Blake Peterson had 42 receiving yards on two catches. Joel Abbott sparked the Raiders’ defense with five tackles and Aden Neeley had four tackles, two sacks and two tackles for loss.
Ben Logan hosts Indian Lake on Friday for a local CBC Mad River division game.