By: Dan Sousa

Sterling (Oct. 1, 2006) – Park View senior Deric Dudinski rushed for
257 yards Friday against first-year varsity Briar Woods … on
touchdown scores alone and finished with six touchdowns and a
school-record 406 rushing yards on 17 carries in the non-district 48-7
win.

Dudinski’s big night came against he former coach, Charlier Pierce,
who coached Park View to a 44-12 record from 2000 to 2004 before
leaving to start the football program at Briar Woods.

The 5-foot-9, 182-pound senior is now 697 yards away from the Park
View school record for all-time rushing yards – 5,157 set by Tony
Conway, who graduated after the 1988 season. Dudinski now has 926 yards
rushing this season on 83 attempts in just four games and his current
career total rests at 4,458 yards. First, Dudinski must catch Park
View’s all-time No. 2 runner, Alan Pinkett, who finished in 1981 with
4,683 yards before going on to play with Notre Dame and in the NFL.

Dudinski’s incredible game Friday included touchdown runs of 38, 62,
10, 33, 73 and 51 yards and he had an interception return for a
touchdown called back because of a penalty. According to Virginia High
School League records, the 406 yards in one game is the 14th best
performance all-time and was just 94 yards shy of West Springfield’s
Damone Boone’s record-setting 500-yard game on Nov. 10, 1995 in a 48-6
win over Annanadale.

Briar Woods (4-1) came into the game with four straight wins to
start their first-ever varsity campaign, including three victories on
their home field in the Brambleton subdivision of Ashburn. The lone
bright spot for the Falcons Friday was a Alex Munro to Sean Leach
36-yard touchdown pass at the start of the second quarter to cut the
Patriots lead to 20-7.

Park View (4-0) now faces a strong Martinsburg WV team before
opening Group AA Dulles District play. Friday’s game with Briar Woods
was not a district contest as the Falcons and Freedom are not playing
full Dulles schedules this first varsity season.

Munro came into the game having success this season throwing to Tim
King but the stingy Patriots defense, which has allowed just three
touchdowns the past three games, held the duo to one completion for 11
yards. Munro finished 6 of 20 for 61 yards and one interception.

Defensively, junior defensive tackle Thomas Mulabah led the Patriots
with eight tackles – seven of them for losses and senior middle
linebacker Chris Davies had seven tackles.

Park View quarterback C.J. Leizear didn’t really need to throw the
ball much with Dudinski racking up the yardage on the ground but he did
complete 6 of 11 for 63 yards and a 7-yard score to Amechi Anyaugo.

The Patriots finished with 549 total yards in the game to Briar Woods’ total of 118.