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Central Catholic Raiders Football '11

Fri, Oct 07, 2011 07:00 PM @ B.C. High
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Central Catholic 0 0 7 0 7
B.C. High 14 7 20 0 41

Central no match for BC high

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Friday, October, 07 By Hector Longo

 

BOSTON — Central Catholic's football transition on the fly continues, with similarly painful results.

The question is will all these freshmen and sophomores seeing significant time on both sides of the ball mature quickly enough for the heart of the Merrimack Valley Conference Division 1 race.

Last night, the youthful Raiders absorbed a 41-7 shellacking on the road at the hands of No. 3 BC High.

"Right now, that's what we are. I mean we have great kids in our senior class, but there's only 12 of them," said Central coach Chuck Adamopoulos. "We're working the younger guys in, and they're doing some good things, but it's still a process."

Down 21-0 at the break, the Raiders never seriously threatened, falling victim to the speed of Preston Cooper (12 carries, 89 yards, 2 catches, 90 yards, 3 TDs), some shoddy tackling and simple growing pains.

"That's a very good football team," said Adamopoulos. "I can say the only thing I was really disappointed in was our tackling at times."

With leading rusher Santino Brancato sidelined by injury, the Raiders were left to the air attack. And senior Matt McDermott performed admirably, hitting 12 of 24 for 130 yards, but there was just too much BC High on this evening.

McDermott threw for a Central's lone TD, a 23-yard hookup to senior classmate Brandon Lamphier. But it hardly mattered as the starters on both sides were pretty much gone by the start of the fourth quarter with the final score already set on the board.


Lamphier paced the Raiders with four grabs for 50 yards, while John Bilsky Henry Rodriguez split six catches evenly, good for 67 yards.

Freshmen Michael Balsamo and Markus Edmunds both started last night, the former at halfback and the latter at linebacker, while sophomores D'Andre Drummond-Mayrie, Brad Marggraff, Mike Bernabei all logged serious snaps and had their moments.

Ready or not, Central (2-3) opens the MVC Division 1 portion of its season Friday night at Cawley Stadium in Lowell, which is 5-1 and currently stands as one of the hottest teams in Eastern Mass. 

 

 

 

Game Statistics:

First Quarter

BC — Preston Cooper 57 run (Jackson Bockhurst kick) 10:44

BC — Gordon McLeod 60 pass from Bartley Regan (Bockhurst kick) :18 

Second Quarter

BC — Cooper 80 pass from Regan (Bockhurst kick) 10:21

Third Quarter

BC — Cooper 33 run (Bockhurst kick) 9:57

BC — John Snee 16 fumble return (Bockhurst kick) 10:20

CC — Brandon Lamphier 23 pass from Matt McDermott (John Bilsky kick) 5:06

BC — Deontae Ramey-Doe 8 run (kick wide) 1:06

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

RUSHING:  CC (28-98) — Michael Balsamo 9-25, D'Andre Drummond-Mayrie 4-21, Matt McDermott 5-4, Devon Lattrell 4-28, Jeremy Mora 1-2, Jordan Anderson 5-18; BC (33-144) — Preston Cooper 12-89, Deontae Ramey-Doe 10-36

PASSING: CC — McDermott 12-24-0, 130, Milano 3-6-0, 29; BC — Regan 7-9-0, 195

RECEIVING: CC — John Bilsky 3-37, Brandon Lamphier 4-50, Balsamo 2-3, Alex Estrella 2-18, Henry Rodriguez 3-36, Mike Barry 1-15

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