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Londonderry Lancers Football '10

Fri, Oct 15, 2010 07:00 PM @ Londonderry
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT SD Final
Nashua South 6 7 14 14 7 0 48
Londonderry 20 21 0 0 7 6 54

Londonderry prevails in 2 OT, 54-48

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Saturday, October, 16 By Dave Dyer
Staff writer

LONDONDERRY — By all rights, Sean O’Gorman and the rest of the Londonderry football team should have been exhausted late last night.

Instead, after O’Gorman scored his sixth touchdown of the game, which gave him 42 points (includes six extra-point kicks), to pace a stunning and rainy 54-48 double-overtime victory over Nashua South, he felt rejuvenated.

“I could have kept going and going,” said O’Gorman. “I feel great.”

The Lancers (2-5, 2-4) pretty much all felt great after winning their second Division 1 game of the fall and putting a hurdle in the playoff road for the Panthers (4-3, 3-2).

The victory celebration was part jubilation and part a sigh of relief because Londonderry had rolled to a shocking 41-13 halftime lead and then had to hang on for dear life.

“We were talking at halftime about how we were leading Souhegan 34-8 at halftime, and not to let the same thing happen, and it almost did,” said junior back Vincent Parilla, who had a huge game of his own. “But we pulled it together when we had to.”

Parilla had his second big game in a row as he rushed for 181 yards on 24 carries and scored two touchdowns. Joining him as a third 100-yard rusher was Troy Ward, who gained 109 yards and scored a TD in just six carries. Overall, the Lancers rushed for 458 yards.

Much of the Londonderry attack was generated in the first half as Parilla (155), O’Gorman (110) and Ward (98) almost all were in triple digits by intermission.

O’Gorman set the tone by returning the opening kickoff 83 yards and scoring two plays later. He would score three more TDs by early in the second quarter as Londonderry scored on all six of its first-half possessions.

Parilla, who also had over 100 yards in the first half last week against Manchester Central, was just as impressive and capped the half with an 18-yard TD run with 15 seconds left on the clock.

Explaining his rise, as well as the Lancers’ first-half explosion, Parilla said: “The coach (Jon Rich) said that if all the right things happened, we could still make the playoffs. And to do that, I knew I had to step up. You can’t win with just one guy (O’Gorman).”

But good as the Londonderry offense was in the first half, South was just as effective in the second half. Led by quarterback Keith Farkas (123 yards rushing, two TD passes), the Panthers scored the first four times they had the ball to tie the score, 41-41, with 4:02 left to play.

The situation looked gloomy when South recovered a fumble on the Londonderry 32 with 3:52 remaining, but the Londonderry defense — spurred by the likes of Joey Hamilton, Troy Mansfield and Daniel Kinnon — rose up twice in the final minutes of regulation to stop the Panthers on downs, and then once again in the second overtime.

That set the stage for O’Gorman’s game-winning heroics.

Game Statistics:

First Quarter

L — Sean O'Gorman 4 run (O'Gorman kick), 10:57

L — O'Gorman 10 run (O'Gorman kick), 8:31

NS — Derek Paradis 8 run (kick blocked, 5:40

L — O'Gorman 20 run (kick failed), 1:21

Second Quarter

L — O'Gorman 2 run (O'Gorman kick), 6:58

L — Troy Ward 38 run (O'Gorman kick), 6:25

NS — Armond McRae 38 run (Chris Dennis kick), 4:56

L — Vincent Parilla 18 run (O'Gorman kick), 0:15

Third Quarter

NS — Keith Farkas 5 run (Farkas run), 9:45

NS — McRae 18 run (run failed), 8:19

Fourth Quarter

NS — Paradis 5 pass from Farkas (Dennis kick), 11:14

NS — McRae 22 run (Dennis kick), 4:02

Overtime

L — O'Gorman 1 run (O'Gorman kick)

NS — Paradis 8 pass from Farkas (Dennis kick)

L — O'Gorman 6 run


 

 


INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

RUSHING: L (59-458) — Sean O'Gorman 28-168, Vincent Parilla 24-181, Troy Ward 6-109, Michael Wiedenfeld 1-0; NS (38- 295)— Derek Paradis 14-141, Brandon Gauthier 1-4, Armond McRae 6-27, Keith Farkas 17-123

PASSING: L — Vincent Parilla 2-3-0, 7 yards; NS — Keith Farkas 7-14-1, 84 yards

RECEIVING: L — Nick Martinez 2-7; NS — Paradis 3-43, McRae 2-5, Ray Ramos 1-2 Nilsson Basora 1-34

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