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Carter Smith rushes for six touchdowns; Bishop Verot (Florida) romps

Three-Star junior quarterback also throws for a TD as the Vikings snap Dunbar's 18-game winning streak against Lee County opponents

Gary Adornato

Carter Smith rushes for six touchdowns; Bishop Verot (Florida) romps
Carter Smith rushes for six touchdowns; Bishop Verot (Florida) romps /

FORT MYERS, FLORIDA – In one of the most anticipated match-ups of the football season in Southwest Florida, Bishop Verot quarterback Carter Smith turned his team’s showdown with rival Dunbar into a 49-14 romp, Friday night.

The victory snapped Dunbar’s 18 game winning streak against Lee County opponents.

Smith did most of the romping, rushing for six touchdowns and, just for good measure, adding a touchdown pass in a dominant individual performance.

Smith sandwiched touchdown runs of 4- and 2-yards around a 7-yard touchdown run by Dunbar’s TJ Abrams to give a Bishop Verot a 14-7 lead after the opening quarter. In the second quarter, Smith again wrapped a pair of scoring runs around a Dunbar TD, to grow the lead to 28-14 at the half. The final TD of the second quarter was an electrifying 50-yard scamper by Smith.

Dunbar did not score in the second half, while Smith led the Vikings to end zone three more times. In the third quarter, he tossed a 28-yard touchdown pass to Matthew Turner and ran in a TD from seven yards. He then capped his big night with a 10-yard TD run in the fourth quarter to start a running clock.

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Gary Adornato
GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

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