Carson's speed too much for Douglas
Carson's speed too much for DouglasBy Joey Crandall Nevada Appeal News Service For all the balanced between the two schools on paper, there was one striking difference between the Carson and Douglas football teams on the field Thursday.Carson was mostly speed and finesse and Douglas was mostly grit and grind.In the end, speed won out."Team speed worried me and it just ate us alive," Douglas coach Mike Rippee said after Thursday night's 34-6 loss in Carson City. "They had great team speed. It was a big concern for us and it was a key factor tonight."Nowhere on the field was it more apparent than wherever Carson standout sophomore Dylan Sawyers happened to be at any given moment. Sawyers, who finished with 14 carries for 117 yards and 3 touchdowns on the ground, was most effective when he was working on sweeps to the outside."We were concerned about their perimeter game because that's an area where we are weak," Rippee said. "We just lack that team speed to a certain extent. We have tough kids, but the