GEORGETOWN – Manchester Essex’s defense looked mighty suspect on the first play from scrimmage but was impenetrable after that.
The Hornets held Georgetown to just seven points in a 28-7 Thanksgiving Day victory.
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Football, 11/24/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
BYFIELD – Possession might be meaningful where the law is concerned, but it means nothing on a football field.
Pentucket was on the short end of almost all the offensive numbers yesterday except where it counted most. The Sachems twice rebounded from deficits of eight points or more and knocked off Triton 30-28.
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Football, 11/24/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
See Pentucket highlights against Newburyport.
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Football, 11/06/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
WEST NEWBURY — It was an unfortunate case of deja vu for Pentucket.
For the second straight season, the Sachems led Newburyport by two scores midway through the third quarter, and for the second straight season the Clippers stormed back to take the lead.
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Football, 11/05/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
GEORGETOWN — An already young Georgetown High team got even younger this week.
The youthful remaining Royals delivered a brave but fruitless error here yesterday, falling to Lynnfield, 35-7.
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GEORGETOWN — Unable to cash in on a pair of long drives, Georgetown fell to Ipswich 26-6. Junior running back Tim Dillon rushed for 54 yards, while senior quarterback Tyler Wade passed for 84 yards to lead the Royals, who dropped to 1-6.
Ipswich Junior Peter Moutevelis led all rushers with 113 yards and two touchdowns.
Ipswich forced an early fumble on a blitz and Moutevelis pounced on the loose ball and took it 47 yards to the end zone.
Wade crashed in from the 1 to tie it up late in the first quarter.
The Royals were in sight of the go-ahead score but they had a drive stall at the 11 before turning it over on downs. Ipswich then embarked on a 10-minute drive for the go-ahead score. The drive included two fake punts.
Early in the third the hosts again had a long drive stall. This time at the 4.
“Nineteen times this year we’ve had the ball in our opponents 30 yard line or less and we’ve come away with no points,” said coach Paul Sobolewski, “That’s the sign of a young team, even if we get points on half of those possessions, we probably have a couple of more wins.”
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Football, 10/29/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
SAUGUS — For Pentucket, 15 short minutes made a world of difference.
In the first half of yesterday’s game, the smart, split-second decision-making of Saugus’ option quarterback C.J. Randolph rolled up 153 rushing yards, while the defense bottled up Pentucket’s attack to just 61 yards and forced a turnover. Going into the break, Saugus held a 14-7 advantage.
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Football, 10/29/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
See video from Steve Hayden and Tom Flaherty's dedication, plus highlights from Pentucket's thriller with Winthrop.
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Football, 10/23/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
WEST NEWBURY — On a day Pentucket celebrated the only two head football coaches to walk the sidelines in 50 years, the Sachems showed the resilience the two coaches have long taught with a dramatic late drive.
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Football, 10/22/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
NORTH READING — The Hornets have attempted only 10 passes in their first six games.
But North Reading surely doesn't need to pass. Not when it has talented running backs Carl Lipani and C.J. McCarthy.
Exhibit A: Last night Lipani and McCarthy ran wild, combining for 281 yards on 18 carries.
The fearsome backfield duo helped North Reading post a 35-17 victory over a young and struggling Georgetown team.
Lipani ran for touchdowns of 1, 50 and 57 yards. McCarthy sprinted for touchdowns of 44 and 50 yards.
"I don't know how many passes we've thrown," Lipani said. "We just run the ball. It's awesome. It's smash-mouth football. We go right after the other team."
Lipani and McCarthy pounded through tacklers around the line of scrimmage and then also eluded Georgetown defenders in the open field with some quick and smart moves.
"Carl's a special athlete," North Reading coach Jeff Wall said. "(As a coach), you only get a Carl Lipani every once in a while in your career. He's a hard runner. He's a great kid. He has the best work ethic on the team. Even in practice. He runs like that in practice. So he doesn't even take a play off there.
"And C.J. is kind of like an unsung guy because he blocks for Carl all the time," Wall added. "So Carl wants the ball all the time. C.J. wants the ball all the time. So it's a great 1-2 punch for us."
Is there any competitiveness between Lipani and McCarthy?
"We're brothers," McCarthy said.
"(Lipani) is hands down the best running back in the league," McCarthy added. "With this line and this offense, he's unstoppable."
North Reading possessed the football four different times in the first half and scored a touchdown on each drive.
The Hornets also scored on their first drive of the third quarter and went the entire contest without punting.
Georgetown trailed 35-3 entering the fourth quarter but its younger players drove in for two touchdowns in the final quarter.
"We're trying to rebuild a program here," Royals coach Paul Sobolewski said. "Yeah, do we want to win football games? Of course we do. But with that being said, we're very young and we just want to see the fundamentals. You can see that our kids don't quit. They play hard. They're just physically not strong enough, big enough or fast enough to compete at the varsity level right now. It's going to take a little bit of time."
Georgetown sophomore wide receiver Colby Ingraham played a nice game, catching six balls for 40 yards.
"The future's bright," Sobolewski added. "And you never want to give our three seniors the wrong message that we're playing it for the future because we're not. We want to win every game we play. But we have realistic goals. And right now it's to teach the fundamentals of football: blocking and tackling. Right now we don't tackle very well."
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LYNNFIELD — Pentucket’s frequent inability to tackle Lynnfield quarterback Michael Karavetsos and running back Kyle McGah led to a long second half for the visiting Sachems yesterday afternoon.
Pentucket led by two touchdowns entering halftime. But both Karavetsos and McGah were almost unstoppable in the third and four quarters to help Lynnfield rally to a 21-14 home victory.
Karavetsos ran all over the place, exploding up the middle and into the flat while McGah mostly powered his way up the middle of the field.
The Lynnfield quarterback ran 23 times for 161 yards and a pair of touchdowns. McGah rushed 17 times for 88 yards
“They really didn’t do anything good,” Pentucket junior defensive back Cody Rothwell said. “We just didn’t tackle them. Just missed tackles. ... Nothing really else than that.”
Karavetsos’ touchdown runs were of 31 and 35 yards.
“We knew he (Karavetsos) was a good athlete,” Pentucket coach Steve Hayden said. “He did well and their back ran hard. The kids up front did well. Hats off to them.
“We didn’t finish our tackles on defense,” Hayden added. “We had (McGah) in the backfield a few times. He broke tackles. So hey, kudos to him.”
The biggest play of the game came in the fourth quarter with about 6 minutes remaining.
Lynnfield faked a punt on a fourth-and-6 play from its own 36-yard line.
The ball was directly snapped to Alex Roper who was standing in backfield with the punter. Roper fired a 13-yard pass to a wide-open Tyler Palumbo for a first down.
On the very next play, Karavetsos hurled a 51-yard touchdown pass to Steven Yobaccio for the go-ahead score with 5:40 left.
Pentucket got the ball back two more times with a chance to tie the game, but failed to do so, going three-and-out on one drive and being unable to convert on a fourth-and-10 play with 40 seconds remaining on its final drive.
Another crucial play came with 2:46 left in the third quarter.
Pentucket was leading 14-7 at the time and had a terrific opportunity to go ahead by two touchdowns. The Sachems had the football on Lynnfield’s 2-yard line but failed to convert a fourth-and-1 play.
Rothwell took the handoff but was stopped just short of the 1-yard line.
Lynnfield took possession and drove 98 1/2 yards on eight plays and in 2:24 to tie the game 14-14.
Pentucket quarterback Ryan Kuchar did make some nice throws to Jon Simard, including connecting with Simard for a 39-yard pass play.
“It’s pretty good,” Rothwell said about the connection between Kuchar and Simard. “We’ve been working on it (the pass game) all week. They’ve just been throwing before practice and everything.”
Pentucket senior co-captain Nolan Dragon left the game early in the second half with an arm injury and did not return.
“His arm is hurt so we’re going to have to wait and see,” Hayden said.
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Football, 10/15/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
Tyler Wade completed 6 of 10 passes for 98 yards but he also threw two interceptions as Georgetown was routed 33-6 by Amesbury last night.
Georgetown backs rushed 22 times for 91 yards. Tim Dillon ran nine times for 67 yards.
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Football, 10/14/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
See interviews and highlights from Pentucket football's win over Haverhill.
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Football, 10/09/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
HAVERHILL — Nolan Dragon did his best to downplay the moment, but the smile on his sweat-covered face said everything.
“This was a good day,” Dragon said, in the understatement of the year.
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Football, 10/08/11 » 0 Comments & 0.0 Stars
GEORGETOWN — Anthony Guthro ran for 135 yards with a touchdown to help Saugus sink Georgetown 28-6.
Saugus improved to 1-4 while the Royals dropped to 1-3.
A Georgetown turnover on the first possession of the game led to Saugus’ first score, a 2-yard quarterback sneak by C.J. Randolph.
The Royals’ second possession ended in an interception. Shortly after, Nick Benoit cashed in on a 7-yard run. The Royals drove to the Saugus 7 late in the half but the drive stalled.
Saugus put the game out of reach in the second half on a Guthro touchdown run and a 78-yard touchdown catch by Ryan Henehan.
Georgetown scored its lone points on a 10-yard Tyler Wade pass to Pat Bjork late in the third quarter.
“You can’t get into the red zone four times and only come away with six points,” Royals coach Paul Sobolewski said. “That’s what it came down to. They were a little bit hungrier than we were. Football comes down to blocking and tackling. We didn’t do a good job of either one and that’s on me, I’ve got to do a better job.
“I said before the season started that I’m not worried about wins and losses, I’m worried about restoring a program. Which is what I was asked to do ... try to bring some pride back. And right now, we’re young and you’re seeing that. You’re seeing that aspect of it.”
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