PARKER — If there were questions concerning Chaparral’s skill players, they were answered Thursday night.
For the record, they’re good.
“Real good,” a pleased coach John Vogt said.
Behind an array of talented ball-handlers, notably quarterback Max Kuhns, running back Zac Guy and tight end Mitch Parsons, the Wolverines were convincing in humbling Grandview 35-14 in a Class 5A nonleague game at Sports Authority Stadium.
Arguably, it was Chaparral’s best victory under Vogt.
“This one and ThunderRidge a couple of years ago,” he said.
Ranked No. 7 in The Denver Post 5A coaches/media poll, the Wolverines improved to 2-0. The fourth-ranked Wolves’ record dropped to 1-1.
Chaparral was thorough — it scored touchdowns on five of its first six possessions and didn’t have to punt until early in the fourth quarter. Defensively, it kept the Wolves in check.
On a night in which the school remembered former assistant principal Todd Vogel, who was killed in late August at Cherry Creek Reservoir, the Wolverines rolled to 324 yards of offense and 28 points in the first half.
All told, the Wolverines had 471 yards of offense, including 334 passing, 271 by Kuhns.
The senior was sharp, tossing for touchdowns to Brandon Malone (19 yards), Parsons (34 yards, on third-and-24) and to Drew VanMaanen (41, on a catch-and-run). Guy, Chaparral’s main ground threat, rushed for 127 yards and two TDs.
“It’s a special group,” Vogt said. “Everybody always says that, but these guys are tight.”
Parsons, headed to the University of Colorado, had six catches for 162 yards.
“We were clicking on all cylinders,” Parsons said. “It was nice. Brandon Malone’s a secret weapon, no one knows about him.”
Malone had four receptions for 73 yards and can’t hide much longer.
Grandview, which was stopped twice on downs inside the Chaparral 10-yard line when it counted, could only muster a 60-yard return of an interception for a touchdown by Aaron Watson.
The Wolves, who were coming off an out-of-state victory, had no answers on defense and sputtered on offense. Assorted penalties didn’t help and they struggled against the Chaparral fronts.
“(The Wolverines) were good and we were flat,” coach John Schultz said. “And we practiced like that all week. You just can’t show up.”
Neil H. Devlin: 303-954-1714, ndevlin@denverpost.com or
