Staff photo / Brian Yauger Garfield’s Brandyn Bogucki, back, and Logan Sell celebrate after Bogucki’s first quarter touchdown during the G-Men’s win over Warren JFK on Thursday.

GARRETTSVILLE — Garfield’s high-powered offense wore down the opposition, as the G-Men took care of business in a 36-14 win over Kennedy on Thursday.

“It’s a good Kennedy team,” Garfield coach Mike Moser said. “I think it just got away from them a little bit tonight. We broke off some runs and things like that, but I thought they were physical, and they got some real grown men up front on that team. I was proud of our effort.”

After stalling Kennedy’s opening drive, the G-Men got to work on offense. Eating up a majority of time off the clock in the first quarter, Garfield worked its way down the field, culminating in a 13-yard rush by senior Brandyn Bogucki.

The Eagles responded with more pace.

Kennedy senior Lamarcus Provitt found paydirt from 7 yards out, helping tie the game back up.

But Garfield had an answer, and it came through the passing game. William Simon ran 42 yards into the endzone after a quick pass from Jack Neikirk.

That lead almost disappeared as soon as it was established, though. Less than a minute later, Logan Misocky connected with Lucas Mealy on a 61-yard bomb, but the play was called back for an Eagles false start.

Later on that drive, Kennedy went for it on 4th-and-8, and a 50-50 ball wound up in the hands of Nathan Baczkowski, giving the G-Men time to extend their lead going into the half. The Eagles stifled those attempts and went into the locker room trailing by a touchdown.

Still, that sequence gave the G-Men all the momentum.

“In high school football, momentum, you can feel it,” Moser said. “I think you have a different game if that doesn’t called back. They had a couple of looks at some touchdowns, they didn’t quite come down with. Ultimately, we had the chance to make the plays and we made them, and they came up short on a couple.”

Garfield started taking control in the third quarter, however. Two minutes into the third frame, Ryder Cain broke through the line. Once he got through the trenches, Cain raced 69 yards, almost entirely untouched, to score. Bogucki ran in for the two-point conversion.

Cain found the endzone once again in the fourth quarter, this time from just 4 yards out. He finished the game with 244 yards.

“He was awesome tonight,” Moser said of his tailback. “He was awesome last week, he was awesome again tonight. We were down a couple of guys, and missing one of our backs and Ryder really picked up an extra gear.”

Garfield (1-1) picks up its first win of the season and has an extra day to prepare for New Middletown Springfield in its Week 3 matchup.

Kennedy looks to get into the win column against Liberty and former Eagles coach Dom Prologo.

“It’s tough being 0-2,” Kennedy coach Damon Buente said. “We’re playing a very hard schedule, but we are who we are and we schedule who we schedule. We deserved to lose tonight. We did not make the plays.

“A touchdown called back, two dropped touchdowns in the end zone, very, very uncharacteristic, missed tackles there in the second half. We deserved to lose. Both Week One and Week Two. We don’t have any excuses, so we’ll just try to coach them up and get better next week.”