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Uniteds Cody Cope gets around East Palestines Drennen Sevacko on a touchdown run Friday. (Morning Journal/Ron Firth)

HANOVERTON United scored on two long passes and a safety in the opening 2:48 on the way to a 47-12 win over East Palestine in Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference play Friday night.

The Golden Eagles have won four straight games to improve to 5-1 overall and 3-0 in league play. Southern, United and Valley Christian are unbeaten in EOAC play. The Bulldogs drop to 0-7 and 0-4.

United sophomore Luke Courtney hauled in a 55-yard touchdown pass on the second play of the game, had a first-quarter interception defensively on a fake punt and closed out the first half with a school-record 44-yard field goal with room to spare.

The Eagles used three quarterbacks on their opening three drives freshman Parker Newburn, sophomore Andrew Ogilvie and junior Grant Knight and substituted frequently in the first quarter.

United scored on two of its first five offensive plays on Newburns 55-yard pass to Courtney and Ogilvies 46-yard touchdown pass to Brock Rhodes as the Eagles had 118 total yards right out of the gate.

In between, a snap went over the East Palestine punters head and Nick Hardgrove forced a safety to help give the Eagles a 16-0 lead with 9:12 left in the first quarter.

East Palestine drove 79 yards in nine plays to the United 1-yard line, but was stopped on downs after three clutch tackles by Daniel McCracken.

The Bulldogs held on downs on their own 20-yard line and marched down the field in seven plays including an Owen Jurjavcic 11-yard pass to Shane Richardson on fourth-and-10 to set up Jesse Lipps 43-yard touchdown run.

Lipp had a fine first half with 122 yards on 13 carries.

East Palestines Timmy Buskirk recovered a United fumble on the next play and the Eagles brought their first-team defense back onto the game.

Three plays later, Knight returned an interception 55 yards for a score and a 23-6 Eagle lead with 6:51 to play in the first half.

United junior Cody Cope scored on a 9-yard run at the 1:56 mark.

Two plays later, Hardgrove had an interception at the East Palestine 38 to set up Courtneys school-record 44-yard field goal as the first half expired.

In the second half, Knight added a 40-yard touchdown run and freshman Chance Cope collected a 5-yard scoring run.

Game notes

United had 201 yards on 22 plays in the first half. Seven different players ran the ball.

The Bulldogs had 164 yards in the first half on 36 plays most coming on Lipps 122 yards on 13 carries and a 25-yard run by Tyler Bistarkey.

Before the game, Emily McKarns was crowned Uniteds homecoming queen and Angus Cope the king.

East Palestine has lost 10 games in a row and 27 of their last 28.

Both teams return to league play Friday as United visits Wellsville and East Palestine hosts Columbiana.

EAST PALESTINE: 6- 612

UNITED: 33-1447

SCORING

ULuke Courtney 55 pass from Parker Newburn (Luke Courtney kick)

USafety, Nick Hardgrove tackled punter in end zone

UBrock Rhodes 46 pass from Andrew Ogilvie (Luke Courtney kick)

EPJesse Lipp 43 run (pass failed)

UGrant Knight 55 interception return (Luke Courtney kick)

UCody Cope 9 run (Luke Courtney kick)

ULuke Courtney 44 field goal

UGrant Knight 40 run (Luke Courtney kick)

UChance Cope 5 run (Luke Courtney kick)

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