By Ken Jackson
Sports Writer

The Jeff Driskel Traveling Road Show made a stop in St. Cloud on Friday, and if you like points and yardage by the chunk, then Tom Gannarelli Field was the place to be.

Driskel, the Florida Gator oral commit, put on a show with his arm and legs, throwing for 176 yards and rushing for 242 more, including back-breaking 90 and 88-yard touchdown runs in the second half as Hagerty High beat the host Bulldogs, 36-14.

Bulldogs Coach Bill Buldini compared Driskel to Tim Tebow earlier in the week, and came away impressed.

"He was the difference in the ballgame, he's a great player," he said. "We didn't tackle him and he made plays. We were even in position to make the tackle a couple of times and we didn't."

Lost in the wash of Hagerty offense were some decent Bulldog offensive stats. St. Cloud's Phillip Steinmetz would have been Driskel's equal without the long touchdown runs; the junior rushed for 107 yards and was 20-of-42 passing for another 238, but was intercepted twice.

St. Cloud (3-4) was stopped on fourth-and-1 on its first drive, and Hagerty (4-2) turned it into points when Driskel hit a sprawling Trayous Jarrells on a 39-yard touchdown pass.

The Bulldogs answered by going 80 yards in six plays and tying it on Louis Page's one-yard TD run and Allain Moise's PAT. But the Huskies took the lead back on the next drive when Driskel called his own number from the 1.

Down 21-7 late in the second quarter, the Bulldogs converted a fourth-and-6 from the Huskies 24 when Steinmetz found Brett Biller over the middle for 16 yards, and then Irving Huggins ran the final eight yards for a touchdown that made it 21-14, the score going into halftime.

It was still a seven-point lead with a minute left in the third quarter when, on third-and-7 from his own 10, Driskel got to the left corner then turned on the jets and raced past the Bulldog secondary to double the lead. St. Cloud couldn't convert two more fourth downs in the fourth quarter, and Driskel went for another long run late in the game as the Huskies were running out the clock.

Brett Biller (nine catches, 85 yards) and Cole Harvey (5-84) were busy in the receiving game. Huggins gained 103 yards on 20 carries as St. Cloud tallied 463 yards of offense. Hagerty had 465.

Huskies Coach Nate Gierke became the second family member to win at Gannarelli Field in four weeks. His father, Bill Gierke, coached Edgewater to a 20-17 win last month.

Friday was the Bulldogs' final home game, but they won't leave the county again. They jump back into 4A District 7 play on Thursday when they travel to winless Poinciana, who lost to Osceola, 49-8 on Friday.