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North Reading Hornets Football '08

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Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Triton 6 6 8 13 33
North Reading 0 0 0 7 7
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Saturday, October, 11 By Conor Clancy
Correspondent

North Reading — After starting the year with three straight wins, North Reading dropped its second game in a row Saturday 33-6 against a strong Triton Regional squad.

 

For the second week in a row, the Hornets (3-2) were unable to stop the run as Triton

(3-2) pounded out 191 rushing yards and scored all five of their touchdowns on the ground.

 

Triton opened the game with a 76-yard drive ending with a 4-yard plunge into the end zone by Triton quarterback Sam Ferrara to jump out to a 6-0 lead.

 

North Reading looked to answer with a score of their own, driving down to Triton’s four-yard line before Hornet quarterback Dylan Desrosiers (3-7 23 yards) missed his receiver and was intercepted for a touchback.

 

Both teams traded possessions before Triton again struck with another short touchdown run, going into halftime with a 12-0 lead.

 

North Reading coach Jeff Wall looked to mix things up a bit in the second half, putting usual running back Dino Rizzo into the shotgun as a quarterback.

 

“They had our passes covered up pretty well so we wanted to spread them out a bit to get Rizzo some running room,” explain Wall. “ He is our best runner so if we could spread them out a little bit we could run him up the middle from the quarterback.”

 

The move did not pay off however as Rizzo had some trouble handling the shotgun snap, fumbling twice in the second half, the first of which set up another Triton touchdown.

 

Triton put the game away completely when the ensuing kickoff was fumbled and recovered by Triton, leading to their fifth touchdown of the day and expanding their lead to 33-0.

 

A late touchdown pass on a trick play from wide receiver Darren Hartwell to Robert Rosano got the Hornets their only points of the day.

 

“We did not have a good week of practice and the coach staff was concerned about that coming into today,” said Wall. “We only have 19 kids dressed with a few starters out with injuries so we cannot just show up and play and expect to win.”

Game Statistics:

First Quarter

T — Sam Ferrara 4 run (kick fail) 5:08

Second Quarter

T — Nick DeFrancesco 2 run (run fail) 2:38

Third Quarter

T — Brendan O’Neil 41 run (Ferrara pass to Defrancesco) 1:30

Fourth Quarter

T — Rob West 2 run (kick fail) 9:58

T — Charles Anderson 12 run (DeFrancesco kick) 7:58

NR — Robert Rosano pass from Darren Hartwell ( Gregory Bugli kick) 0:41

 

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

RUSHING: T (34-191) — Brendan O’Neil 16-105, Charles Anderson 2-29, Sam Ferrara 8-22, William Tindle 4-20, Rob West 2-9, Blaise Whitman 1-4 Nick DeFrancesco 1-2; NR — (26-124) Robert Rosano 9-58, Dino Rizzo 6-28, Dylan Desrosiers 5-28, Darren Hartwell 2-10, Matthew Barretto 4-0

PASSING: T — Ferrara 5-8-1, 113 yards; NR — Desrosiers 3-7-1, 23 yards, Rizzo 2-3-0, 13 yards, Hartwell 1-1-0, 15 yards

RECEIVING: T — DeFrancesco 3-43, Matt Brimicombe 1-40, West 1-30; NR — Richard Schaffer 4-33, Rosano 1-15, Nicholas Rosano 1-4

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