djoles@startribune.com Woodbury vs. Cretin-Derham Hall Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, MN.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/CPAAWH2ZC77C6LHRFGLAP6HBDA.jpg?&w=1080)
A Woodbury team already lacking depth and with a loss on its record entered its East Metro Blue District game Friday against Cretin-Derham Hall without two of its top players, Nico Bolden and Jake West.
It took Cretin-Derham Hall junior receiver Dylan Pohl one play to take advantage of the Royals' thin secondary in the Raiders' 22-12 home victory.
With the ball on Woodbury's 20, Cretin-Derham Hall quarterback Jackson Crawford surveyed the field. He had two receivers to his right, and when he raised a leg, Pohl went in motion from the slot.
At the snap, Crawford handed Pohl the ball and the junior receiver sprinted across the formation and upfield.
Pohl, nearing the 10-yard line and running out of sideline, planted his left cleat into the turf and cut back across the field. With one final juke of a defender, he crossed the goal line for the game's first score.
The touchdown sparked 15 unanswered Raiders points and led to an eventual victory against a rival.
"We keep going back to that play because it works," Pohl said. "That play just clicks for us, so we are going to keep running it down teams' throats."
In a rematch of last season's Week 2 matchup that the Royals won 19-14, Cretin-Derham Hall held the Royals scoreless until halfway through the fourth quarter. That was when Ryan Christensen found Nathan Bursch, who is committed to the Gophers, for a 5-yard touchdown.
