Oct. 13—EFFINGHAM — Lucas Dyer had a day against the Effingham Flaming Hearts on Friday at Klosterman Field at Washington Savings Bank Stadium.
The Mahomet-Seymour quarterback threw for 341 yards on 15-of-25 passing and four touchdowns in the Bulldogs’ 49-0 win.
“I knew he was good; he was good last year,” said Effingham head coach Brett Hefner of Dyer. “Think about how good they’d be if No. 1 was still playing.”
The player that Hefner was referring to was Trey Peters. Committed to Illinois for football, Peters didn’t play due to injury.
Others stepped up in Peters’ absence.
All of Dyers’ numbers came in the first half, too.
Dyer connected with Bryson Tiefenthaler for a 57-yard score with 10:36 left in the first quarter. He then hit Ray Long for a 16-yard touchdown, Gavin Hammerschmidt for a 54-yard score and Tiefenthaler, again, from seven yards away.
Mahomet-Seymour scored on all six of its drives in the first half.
“There’s a reason they have the success that they’ve had,” Hefner said. “The quality of people that they’ve played in the non-conference, and a lot of those guys played a lot of football last year; they didn’t play many seniors. They’re a very good team.”
The Bulldogs opened the game with a five-play drive. The Hearts committed a false start penalty that pushed M-S to the 27-yard line. Dyer threw an incomplete pass before an 11-yard completion to Tiefenthaler. He then had another incomplete pass and Cade Ashby followed with a five-yard run before the first touchdown throw.
The Bulldogs defense forced a punt on the first EHS series. The lone positive play for the Hearts came when Jaxon Bridges hit Maxx Kistler for a 14-yard completion, pushing EHS to midfield.
M-S followed with an eight-play drive. Hammerschmidt ran for four yards on the first play. Dyer then hit Hammerschmidt for six before completing a…
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