Springfield Youth Club: 80-pound JV Gold beat Haverford

80-pound JV Gold
Springfield 19
Haverford 18
Gold had a heart pounding game at Haverford’s homecoming on Oct. 8. The Cougars got off to a slow start and gave up two TDs in the first minutes.
The hard hitting offensive line of Daniel Ryan, Connor Roche, Ethan Johnson, Nathan Fox, Nicholas Impriano, Ben Kaminski, Victor Stafford, and Ryan Convery fought back with Anthony McBride at center and Matthew Ellison at QB. Brett Gougler consistently gained good yardage for the Cougars. Matt Gagliardi continued to demonstrate his offensive speed and scored two touchdowns. Art Minchin scored an extra point. The Cougars led 13 to 12 at half time. The offensive continued to dominate with Minchin dodging through Haverford for another TD. Ellison had the longest run of the day for an 85-yard TD that, unfortunately, was called back due to a penalty.
The Cougar’s defensive line of Nico Santini, Gavin Von Berg, Nick Staud, Brandon Peters, Jerry Coia, Xavier Wendel, and Nolan Huntley hit strong and hard to hold the Cougars’ lead. Tymier Dark-Barnes and Luca Forgione both had tackles in the backfield resulting in yardage loss for Haverford. Todd Garret, Alex Klein, Stephen Graney, and John Hennessy had game saving tackles as Haverford pushed forcefully. Klein stopped Haverford in their tracks by recovering a fumble.
Haverford had one more TD, but were unable to get past the Cougars defense for the extra point. The Cougar’s victory was hard fought and well deserved!
100-Pound JV
Downingtown 7
Springfield 9
On Oct. 8, the Cougars went on the road to face the Downingtown Young Whippets.
The first half opened with DYW unable to make any gains due to intense tackling by John McCormick, Vince DiVario, Kyle Holstein and Jake Quatrani.
The Cougars’ Jimmy O’Neill and Tanner Robinson carried up field for first downs, but Springfield was unable to score.
DYW drove, but Carson Shaner stopped them on the 15, and Khalid Holman-Dark on a fourth and goal.
A Cougars’ pass was intercepted, but thanks to a TD-saving tackle by Chris Rich, DYW did not score.
The Cougars had fierce tackling by Patrick Dougherty, Joe Pontano, Ethan Scott and Matt Santarelli. Kevin Rechner quarterback sack pushed Downingtown back to the 25. Then Jake Vaughan’s interception gave the Cougars the ball ending the half at 0-0.
Robinson ran for 40-yards thanks to stiff blocking by Michael Eberhardt and Chris Brolley in the second half.
Nick Finizio, Garret Cooley and Jake Bush hard punishing tackles, but DYW scored making it 7-0.
Terrence Kelly passed to Franco Tommarelli for a first down. Robinson kept pushing up field, but was unable to score.
Paul Conlin made a game-saving tackle, and Finizio caught DYW’s punt. With 27 seconds left in the game, a crisp snap by Aiden Hoopes to Robinson allowed for a completed pass to Aidan Shandley for a touchdown. The Cougars tried for two points, but were denied. The hard-fought game ended 7-6.