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St. John's Eagles Football '14

Sat, Sep 20, 2014 01:30 PM @ St. John's
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Central Catholic 0 6 6 0 12
St. John's 0 7 6 14 27

Andover's Eberth, Prep crunch Central

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Saturday, September, 20 By Hector Longo

DANVERS — Turnovers, stupid penalties and multiple drops … Not the way you knock off one of the state’s premier football powers.

“It was probably the most frustrating game I ever coached,” said Central coach Chuck Adamopoulos, minutes after watching his team turn the ball over on five straight second-half possessions to hand St. John’s Prep a 27-12 win before about 2,000 fans here yesterday.

 “The kids played hard. We just turned the ball over and we had a few mental breakdowns on defense, too. You can’t turn the ball over five times against a football team like that. We made bad decisions in some spots. We didn’t deserve to win the game.”

Now to possibly get another shot at St. John’s, the Raiders, who had an 11-game win streak snapped, have to take care of business in the Merrimack Valley large division, starting Friday night against Andover.

The Prep, rated eighth in the state, galvanized its top-five ranking in the state and asserted itself as a team to beat in Division 1 North with an efficient offense — spearheaded by Andover’s Ollie Eberth — and a defense that pounced on every opportunity presented to them.

The second-half collapse had Raider coaches shaking their heads.

Things looked so promising.

After a quiet start, the Prep grabbed a 7-0 lead on an 84-yard Cody Harwood TD gallop late in the second quarter.

The Raiders answered like the defending Division 1 North champion would or should.

Central went 63 yards on 10 plays to close the half with a Mike Milano to Steven Jackson TD connection. And the Raiders opened the third with a 70-yard scoring drive, with Milano finishing things in style with a 32-yard read-option dash up the gut.

At 12-7 Central, things looked just peachy.

But the hosts wouldn’t cooperate and the wave of turnovers began.

Andover’s Eberth — a combined 14 of 36 for 92 yards with three intercepts in two losses to Central as an Andover Golden Warrior last year — slung a pair of second-half TD passes, one for 11 yards to Jake Burt and the other for 57 to Owen Rockett to put this one away.

The junior finished 9 of 16 for 123 yards and those two scores.

 

Game Statistics:

Second Quarter

SJP — Cody Harwood 84 run (kick) 1:46

CC — Steven Jackson 6 pass from Mike Milano (kick failed) :13.1 

Third Quarter

CC — Milano 32 run (rush failed) 7:50

SJP — Jake Burt 11 pass from Oliver Eberth (rush failed) 3:25

Fourth Quarter

SJP — Owen Rockett 57 pass from Eberth (kick) 10:47

SJP — Harwood 22 run (kick) 3:10  

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

RUSHING: CC (28-151) — Markus Edmunds 11-54, Milano 13-78, Mike Balsamo 2-3, Omar Deschamps 2-16; SJP (27-170) — Harwood 16-167, Eberth 7-(-4), Jack Lambert 1-1

PASSING: CC — Milano 16-31-3, 183; SJP — Eberth 9-16-0, 123

RECEIVING: CC — Jackson 5-36, Balsamo 4-32, Mike Mercuri 3-55, Edmunds 2-28, David Onyamum 2-32

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