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Peabody Tanners Football '07

Fri, Oct 12, 2007 07:00 PM @ Peabody
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Gloucester 7 13 13 6 39
Peabody 0 0 0 0 0
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Gloucester football rolls past Peabody, wins NEC Large opener

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Friday, October, 12 By Matt Langone
Sports editor

PEABODY | In one sense, the Gloucester High School football team was playing its season opener last night at Peabody High School's Lee Field.

For the first time this fall, the Fishermen and the Tanners got to see what they were made of against a fellow Northeastern Conference Large opponent, and unbeaten Gloucester used that as motivation en route to a dominant 39-0 victory. With the win Gloucester improved to 6-0, while Peabody dropped to 1-5.

"The kids really came to play and that was good to see," said Gloucester head coach Paul Ingram. "Sometimes you wonder about games like this because their (Peabody) record isn't that good. This was really our first league game, so what we did prior to this doesn't mean all that much."

The Fishermen actually came out flat to start the contest. After stopping the Tanners on the game's first drive, Gloucester's Taylor Burbine fumbled a punt return and it was recovered by Peabody. Then on its next possession, Gloucester was held to a three-and-out.

It wasn't until there was a 1:39 left on the clock in the first quarter, when bruising 255-pound Anthony Enderle broke open a 70-yard touchdown run for Gloucester. That run woke up the rest of the Fishermen, as senior Andrew Fulford (11 rushes, 124 yards) added the first of his three touchdowns from one yard out with 7:36 left in the first half. He added his second score six minutes later to put the Fishermen on top 20-0 at the half.

"We moved the ball very effectively and got some key defensive stops when we needed to," said Ingram, whose team out-gained Peabody 419-101 and killed the clock with 35 rushes in the game.

The Peabody offense tried to establish the pass early on, but junior quarterback Tommy Ciulla was only able to connect on 2 of 9 for -2 yards. The lone bright spot for the Tanners was junior running back Nick Hiou, who ran for 73 yards on 10 carries.

"Gloucester is a good football team, and we're not there yet," said Peabody head coach Dick Woodbury. "It's going to take us a while to get to that point."

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