ZACK STOYCOFF

Sports Sunday Correspondent

They seldom come in prettier, better-rounded packages.

Sequoyah racked up 341 yards and limited Berryhill to a total of mere feet through the first three quarters, giving coach Jody Iams fodder for what may be the understatement of the month.

“There weren’t very many things out there tonight that didn’t go our way,” he said after Friday’s 42-7 District 3A-3 romp.

That’s for sure.

It was Berryhill which ended Sequoyah’s 18-game winning streak a season ago, and the Eagles didn’t seem to forget.

In typical drain-the-clock fashion, Iams’ squad used 16 running plays during an 81-yard scoring drive that ate up most of the first quarter and left only 46 seconds for Chiefs quarterback Dominic Grippando to validate Sequoyah’s defensive prowess. His interception to Gage Delozier did the trick, setting the stage for an early second-quarter touchdown as the Eagles improved their district record 3-0 and moved to 3-2 on the season behind an all-around domineering performance.

“Defensively, just a phenomenal effort,” Iams said. “Our kids played so well.”

After sandwiching net losses of three and six yards around a 10-yard second quarter, Berryhill managed 80 against Sequoyah’s second-stringers in the fourth, but not before missing first downs in its first nine drives. Its first extended possession came at the 9:21 mark of the fourth — a six-play, 13-yard effort stopped on a fourth-and-7.

Two turnovers and seven forced punts ended the Chiefs’ sequence of dismal drives, which culminated in a high snap on a third-and-15 that marked a 22-yard loss and cemented an output of minus-19 yards by the Berryhill running game in the third period.

But don’t forget about the offense.

Sequoyah’s 324-yard rushing performance may well take a back seat to its 17 yards through the air. At least, quarterback Cody Richardson’s aerial game — a lone completion to Cody Greer — was in itself enough to top the total 16 yards garnered by Berryhill’s ground efforts.

But Sequoyah stayed in character. The Eagles took all but six of their 57 snaps with intent to run as six counted double-digit totals on the ground, including Michael Wangsgard’s game-leading 104 yards on 15 carries — better than the 81-yard output of the entire Chiefs offense.