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Amesbury Indians Football '07

Fri, Sep 14, 2007 07:00 PM @ Lawrence
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Amesbury 7 0 0 0 7
Lawrence 0 0 8 8 16
Amesbury quarterback David Smith gets wrapped up in the first quarter of Friday night's game in Lawrence. The final score was Lawrence 16, Amesbury 7. » Roger Darrigrand, Staff PhotographerMore photos

Lawrence deals Amesbury opening-night loss

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Friday, September, 14 By Hector Longo
Staff writer

LAWRENCE | Six Lawrence High penalties, a pair of turnovers and one badly missed pass coverage, and all Amesbury High had to show for it was a 7-0 halftime lead.

The improving Lancers cleaned up their act in the second half, and made Amesbury pay, souring the Indians' season opener by a 16-7 tally.

"To be quite honest, they beat us in every facet of the game," said a disappointed Indians coach, Thom Connors. "They came out to play. We just weren't ready. We made some mistakes and they out-toughed us on both sides of the ball."

The Amesbury plan to attack the edge on the run, simply never materialized.

Amesbury was held to just 91 yards on the ground on 27 carries. And 21 of those yards came against a Lawrence prevent defense in the final seconds.

Scoring first, the Indians did make the lead hold up through halftime. Amesbury marched 71 yards on its second possession of the night, aided by three Lawrence offsides penalties along the way.

The lone Amesbury score came on a 32-yard pass connection from David Smith to Steve Sirwon. Jamieson Wheeler had the PAT kick.

Lawrence rallied after the break, with QB Ramon Heredia sneaking in for one TD and hitting Devin Montanez on an 11-yard TD pass for the insurance score with 7:39 left in the game.

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