What's worse, Imhotep turned the ball over five times, Bok picking off freshman quarterback Andre Dreuitt thrice and reserve QB Jamal Johnson once - all in the first half.
Wildcats safety Antoine Whitney accounted for two of those takeaways.
"To me, you've got to be at the right spot at the right time," Whitney said. "You've just got to be good at it."
On offense, Bok (3-0 overall, 2-0 league) used a methodical run game to move down the field and dominate time of possession. Senior Shaquil Sammons gained 201 yards on 30 carries (6.7 per attempt), a good chunk of which came on a 73-yard touchdown gallop that put the visitors up by 8-0 in the opening quarter.
"They just pound and pound and pound. They're able to eat up a lot of clock," Imhotep coach Marc Wilson said. " . . . The way they ground and pound, the clock becomes your enemy."
The Panthers (2-1, 1-1) scored on Eerin Young's 97-yard burst in the second quarter, but after a failed two-point conversion attempt they remained down by two. Young finished with 144 yards on seven carries, also losing a fumble.
With Bok flooding the Imhotep backfield with pressure from its front five, the Wildcats put overwhelming pressure on freshman Dreuitt, who took the bulk of the snaps, forcing the inexperienced QB into some ill-advised throws. Bok sacked Imhotep quarterbacks three times.
Dreuitt finished 3-for-9 passing for 12 yards, plus those three interceptions.
His counterpart, Marquise Brown, was 1 for 6, but that one completion was a 44-yard TD connect with Omar Bashir.
Brown also rushed for a score six seconds into the fourth quarter, to put Bok up by 24-6.
"I knew I wanted to get on [Dreuitt] and make him think a little bit," Bok coach Frank Natale said. "To me, it's hard to be a quarterback when someone's in your face all day."
Bok 8 8 0 8 – 24
Imhotep Charter 0 6 0 0 – 6
B: Sammons 73 run (Bashir run)
IC: Young 97 run (run failed)
B: Bashir 44 from Brown (Brown run)
B: Brown 5 run (Goggins run)
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