PANORA — Matt Dillon has been through just about every situation imaginable as a head high school football coach.

Dillon readily admits what happened here Friday night in the season opener for St. Edmond is one instance that leaves him stressed.

The Gaels opened the year with a 25-0 setback to Panorama, starting the second season under Dillon just like the first.

“It’s tough when you are standing on the sideline searching for answers and knowing you are not going to find them,” Dillon said. “This was a very bad offensive performance by us. I’ve got to give our defense plenty of credit because they played hard despite giving up 25 points.

“We put them in bad situations out there, and we shot ourselves in the foot anytime we looked to be getting some momentum going.”

St. Edmond finished with just 33 total yards from scrimmage after factoring in negative plays, many of which came in the first half when the contest was still close.

“Despite all our struggles, we were still just down 7-0 at halftime against a very good, very experienced, very deep team in Panorama,” Dillon said. “I thought that was a positive. Like I said, our defense did a nice job, we just gave up a few big plays that hurt us. But for the most part, they really contained an offense that has a lot of kids back.”

That included senior Luke South, who racked up 376 yards and accounted for four touchdowns last year vs. the Gaels inside Dodger Stadium. South, who missed summer camp due to military training, lined up mostly at running back with junior Dominic Walker handling the quarterback duties.

Walker was 20-for-29, completing passes to seven different receivers. He hit Lucas Leiferman for the first touchdown of the game in the second quarter and added a second with his legs in the third.

South, meanwhile, scored twice to cement the victory. He had just 23 yards rushing, with Walker leading the Panthers (1-0) with 51.

Just before halftime, St. Edmond was on the cusp of punching it in for six, marching deep inside Panorama territory. A turnover, though, cost them any points.

Kase Baker ran for 33 yards, Sean Flattery added 25 and senior Charlie Shelly had 10 in his first game since his sophomore season.

Jackson Bemrich and Ethan Lursen led the Gael defense with a sack each.

“Panorama did a nice job of taking advantage of some areas where we are young and inexperienced,” Dillon said. “We’ll have to work around those because we are who we are out there.”

St. Edmond will play its first home game of the season next Friday, hosting North Union. The Warriors downed Central Springs last night, 26-6.

SE P

First Downs 4 14

Rushes-Yards 33-30 39-114

Passing 3 160

Comp-Att-Int 4-13-2 20-30-0

Total Offense 33 274

Punts-Avg. 7-37.9 5-32.8

Fumbles-Lost 4-1 5-0

Penalties-Yards 5-25 6-60

St. Edmond 0 0 0 0– 0

Panorama 0 7 6 12–25

Scoring Summary

Panorama — Lucas Leiferman (18-yard pass from Domnic Walker), 3:06 left in second. Kyle Cogil kick.

Panorama — Walker (3-yard run), 6:54 left in third. Kick failed.

Panorama — Luke South (6-yard run), 11:29 left in fourth. Conversion failed.

Panorama — South (1-yard run), 5:55 left in fourth. Conversion failed.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Rushing — St. Edmond: Kase Baker 3-33, Sean Flattery 18-25, Charlie Shelly 5-10, Devon Wirtz 1-2, Drew Schaeffer 3-(minus-14), Team 3-(minus-26). Panorama: Dominic Walker 13-51, Luke South 6-23, Kade Kemble 12-22, Austin Block 4-19, Wyatt Clark 1-5, Zach Rizutti 1-1, Jack Weinkotz 1-(minus-2), Team 1-(minus-5).

Passing — St. Edmond: Drew Schaeffer 3-12-2-(minus-1), Devon Wirtz 1-1-0-4. Panorama: Dominic Walker 20-29-0-160, Austin Block 0-1-0-0.

Receiving — St. Edmond: Thornton Aljets 1-4, Sean Flattery 1-2, Kase Baker 2-(minus-3). Panorama: Jackson Castens 7-39, Drew Taylor 4-28, Lucas Leiferman 3-28, Zach Rizutti 1-21, Jack Weinkotz 3-20, Evan Taylor 1-14, Josh VanWinkle 1-10.