By Bill Albright

The Tigers scored 35 points in the first half alone in the 41-0 routing.

SHARON, Pa. — If you were worried about the Sharon Tiger football suffering a letdown after last week’s hard-fought win over arch-rival Farrell, forget it because it didn’t happen.

Shaking off the effects of a lost fumble on their first possession of the game, the Tigers (2-0, 1-0) scored 35 points in the first half en route to a 41-0 blanking of the Reynolds Raiders (0-2, 0-1) Friday night at Tiger Stadium.

“We talked about [a letdown] all week, but really, we have talked it for five years because you have to be ready to play good football every week, especially in our league,” said Sharon coach Bob Fromm.

“We emphasized that we wanted to start well in our league and I thought the kids prepared themselves all week and then they came out here and played well on Friday night.”

Tigers quarterback Todd Rearick got the ball rolling for his club as he went in from 2 yards out for the game’s first score with 3:21 left in the opening period.

Following Rearick’s score, the Tigers scored two more times in the next dozen minutes for a 21-0 lead before breaking it wide open in the final minute of the first half.

Hoping to watch his club run the two-minute drill just before halftime, what Fromm saw was his club score two more times in less than a minute to go on top 35-0 at halftime.

Rearick hit Dustin Norcross with a 31-yard scoring pass on the first play of the possession with 53 seconds left before halftime, and after Justin Norcross intercepted Justin Wolfe’s pass, it only took the Tigers three more plays to score again, with Louis Brown hauling in a 16-yard TD pass from Rearick.

Rearick completed 9-of-13 attempts for 147 yards, with each touchdown toss going to a different receiver.

“We saw some things in the Farrell game that strategically were the right thing to do, but something was wrong with the execution,” said Fromm. “Maybe the quarterback was not taking the correct step or the receiver was going one extra step too long, but whatever it was, I knew we had to get back to the basics and sharpen things up a little. The extra work seemed to be successful because we came out here and did a pretty good tonight.”

Rearick tossed his third TD pass of the game, a 16-yarder to Louis Brown. Terry Flaugher added a PAT each time for the 35-0 Sharon lead at the break.

“I think he is a little bit rusty starting off this year,” Fromm said of his quarterback.

“We have been working him real hard in practice and it looks like he and Mike [Tomko] got on the same page tonight. Rearick made some good, crisp throws and he [Tomko] made some real nice catches.”

With the mercy rule — a running clock — in effect for the second half, the Tigers scored their final points of the game on Tomko’s 16-yard run.