Wellsville ? The good news for Eudora was that running back Andrew Pyle watched the Cardinals 32-0 victory against Wellsville on Friday from the sideline.

Of course, the bad news was that one of the state’s premier players was injured.

“I thought I heard something pop,” said a crutch-wielding Pyle, who had rushed for 870 yards in his first four games this season heading into Friday. “I thought I strained my tendon.”

But after Eudora’s trainers examined his left ankle at halftime, the diagnosis was an ankle sprain.

First-year coach Gregg Webb said he had no clue about his senior’s status.

“He could have sat down and watched the game from the sideline with a broken neck,” Webb joked. “I don’t know. We’ll just have to wait and see.”

Pyle looked quite healthy on the game’s first play when he took a pitch to the left side for 22 yards. The all-stater had ten more carries in the first quarter for a total of 61 yards.

With a 6-0 lead and Eudora driving, Pyle took the ball up the middle to the five-yard line. After being hit by a gang of tacklers, Pyle tried to free himself from a defender wrapped around his left leg. He tried to play, but eventually limped to the sideline and did not return.

But as potentially serious as Pyle’s injury may be for the Cardinals’ postseason chances, it was just one of several worries Friday.

Wide receiver and defensive back Joey Donahue caught a 25-yard touchdown pass, had an interception and fumble recovery, yet it was his scene on the sideline that scared Cardinals’ fans.

After leaving the game because of leg cramps, Donahue returned and later was forced to the sideline when the cramps spread to his back and caused a shortage of breath.

An EMS crew administered oxygen while several trainers worked on his extremities. Donahue would not go to the hospital.

Senior quarterback Tyler Cleveland was forced out of action because of cramps midway through the fourth quarter.

Several other Cardinals experienced leg cramps.

“I don’t know what that was,” Webb said. “We had kids running out there for two and three plays and cramping up. That was a little weird.”

Eudora’s offense, which has been dominating this season, also looked strange without its stars.

The stats were not flashy but the final outcome was, thanks in part to a running back-by-committee output of 331 yards.

“We knew we couldn’t worry about (the injuries) right away,” running back Tyler Jackson said. “We had to do something.”

Jackson did, running for 105 yards on 10 carries and scoring three touchdowns.

Junior Mark Lister also took more of the leg load, running 15 times for 58 yards. Cleveland scurried out of the pocket nine times and piled up 71 yards.

Eudora’s first score came when Cleveland scored on a one-yard lunge after Pyle did most of the work on a seven-play, 71-yard drive.

Jackson would score from four yards out and again on a 33-yard jaunt up the middle to give the Cardinals a commanding 18-0 lead.

He and Donahue added a pair of touchdowns in the second before the cramps came.

But with the way things went Friday, Webb decided he wasn’t going to stick around Wellsville and find out what went wrong.

“I met get hit by a lightning bolt or something,” he said.

Eudora 32, Wellsville 0

Eudora 12 6 14 0 Â 32

Wellsville 0 0 0 0 Â 0

First Quarter

E Â Tyler Cleveland 1 run (kick failed)

E Â Tyler Jackson 4 run (run failed)

Second Quarter

E Â Jackson 33 run (run failed)

Third Quarter

E Â Joey Donahue 25 pass from Cleveland (Jackson run)

E Â Jackson 4 run (run failed)