Brad Geever almost made it a repeat performance. The junior quarterback was on his way to a 77-yard touchdown run on Friday night against Joliet Township on the same bootlege play, albeit this time to right, that he scored a 92-yard touchdown on against Morgan Park two weeks ago.
This time there was no Orlando Thomas to throw a key block. This time Geever was caught from behind at the 5-yard line.
He doesn't care. The Raiders scored a few plays later and went on to blow out the Steelmen 48-0 to stay undefeated and qualify for the playoffs with their fifth win.
"I'm just happy we scored," Geever said after throwing for two touchdowns and rushing for a third on a 13-yard run. "I got caught from behind. If we wouldn't have scored, I would have been more mad than I was, but I can't do anything about it now."
Except get ready for the hooping and hollaring during film study. My experience with these things is that his teammates will be nice about it, but getting ran down like that opens a guy up to some razzing.
After the Morgan Park game, Raiders coach John Ivlow said something along the lines of Geever is the worst athlete on the field, but made the biggest play. Ivlow said that Geever's mom, Laura Graf Geever, didn't take kindly to that.
"His ma jumped me behind the concession stand today and started yelling at me about saying that, and I told her, 'I'm sticking to it,'" Ivlow said. "He is. I'm sticking to it. Worst athlete on the field. But he's a great high school quarterback. He makes the right reads. He's not going to hurt you."
Unless you're a Bolingbrook opponent that is.
