Dunlap-Buckmon is first in Far East
to rush for 2,000 yards in a season
From Stripes and special reports
| Rushing
records Top 10 Far
East single-game rushing performances
Corey Dunlap-Buckmon, Simon Sanchez
Sharks, Guam, 384 yards, 28 carries, Oct. 27, 2001, 66-0 win over John F. Kennedy
Islanders.
Corey Dunlap-Buckmon, Simon Sanchez
Sharks, Guam, 351 yards, 26 carries, Nov. 9, 2001, 84-6 win over Guam High Panthers.
Donald Wimes, Kubasaki Shogun,
Okinawa, 331 yards, 24 carries, Oct. 3, 1986, 50-26 win over Kadena Islanders.
Darren Taylor, Yokota Panthers,
Japan, 291 yards, 38 carries, Oct. 19, 2001, 37-0 win over Nile C. Kinnick Red Devils.
Corey Dunlap-Buckmon, Simon Sanchez
Sharks, Guam, 289 yards, 16 carries, Oct. 13, 2001, 36-6 win over George Washington
Geckos.
J.R. Abad, Matthew C. Perry
Samurai, Japan, 283 yards, 29 carries, Sept. 23, 2000, 24-18 win over Yokota Panthers.
Corey Dunlap-Buckmon, Simon Sanchez
Sharks, Guam, 281 yards, nine carries, Nov. 3, 2001, 70-0 win over Guam High Panthers.
Darren Taylor, Yokota Panthers,
Japan, 278 yards, 19 carries, Sept. 22, 2001, 24-0 win over Zama American Trojans.
Darren Taylor, Yokota Panthers,
Japan, 276 yards, 10 carries, Sept. 29, 2001, 85-0 win over Matthew C. Perry Samurai.
Jared Warner, Nile C. Kinnick Red
Devils, Japan, 251 yards, 13 carries, Sept. 28, 1996, 77-12 win over Iwakuni Samurai.
Single-season rushing leaders
Corey Dunlap-Buckmon, Simon
Sanchez, Guam, 2,088 yards, 10 games, 2001.
Darren Taylor, Yokota, Japan, 1,493
yards, seven games, 2001.
Erwin Flauta, John F. Kennedy,
Guam, 1,439 yards, nine games, 1998.
Jared Warner, Nile C. Kinnick,
Japan, 1,357 yards, nine games, 1996. |
UPPER TUMON, Guam — Corey Dunlap-Buckmon became the first running back in Far East
high school football history to cross the 2,000-yard mark Friday.
He rushed 26 times for 351 yards and five touchdowns, giving him a Far East-record
2,088 yards and 30 touchdowns for the season for the Simon Sanchez Sharks in an 84-6 rout
of the Guam High Panthers.
"I’m happy," Dunlap-Buckmon said. "I think I accomplished what I
wanted to this season."
The Sharks claimed a share of the Guam Interscholastic League title with Father Duenas
Memorial for the second straight year.
The Friars beat Simon Sanchez 18-0 on Sept. 7. The Sharks "picked it up" from
there, Dunlap-Buckmon said, rebounding to beat the Friars 36-7 on Oct. 5.
"We had to share the championship, but I’m happy with what I’ve
done," he said.
With his 351 yards, the second-best single-game total in Pacific history,
Dunlap-Buckmon turned the race to 2,000 yards with Darren Taylor of Japan’s Yokota
Panthers into a runaway.
Taylor, with two games left this season, entered the weekend with 1,493 yards, 585 shy
of Dunlap-Buckmon.
"This was my last (high school) game," Dunlap-Buckmon said. "I wanted to
do it up. It’s a nice way to go out."
Told that he needed 586 yards to pass Dunlap-Buckmon, Taylor said, "About 300 a
game? That’s cool."
Taylor and the Panthers were to host the Nile C. Kinnick Red Devils on Saturday. They
travel to Okinawa next week to face the Okinawa High School Athletic Association winner in
the Rising Sun Bowl.
In their last meeting Oct. 19 at Yokosuka Naval Base, Kinnick held Yokota scoreless and
Taylor to just 61 first-half yards before he exploded for 230 yards and four touchdowns in
the second half. Yokota won 37-0.
"I want us to win, first and foremost. But I could go out and get 400 yards
tomorrow," Taylor said. "I had 230 in the second half alone against Kinnick the
last time. If I play the first half the same way this time, I could do it."
On Friday, needing 263 yards to go over 2,000, Dunlap-Buckmon gained 251 in the first
half alone. He left the game after his only carry of the second half — a 94-yard
touchdown run early in the third quarter.
Justin Andre ran 10 times for 194 yards as the Sharks amassed 552 yards on 45 carries.
They also intercepted a season-high six passes, two of which were returned for touchdowns.
The Panthers, who finished 2-8, were held to 13 yards on 19 carries, but threw
Dunlap-Buckmon for negative yards on three carries in the second quarter.
In the third quarter, James Weller hit Steve Kurz from 6 yards out for Guam High’s
only touchdown and the team’s first points in four games.
The 78-point margin of victory is believed to be a league record and the third-highest
in Far East history. The record is 90, set by Korea’s Taegu Warriors in a 90-0 win in
1994 over the Osan Cougars.
Akash Shringi contributed to this report.
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