Beavers' experience proves too much for Minutemen.Byline: Rick Eggleston UPTON - When a game comes down to youth versus experience, the latter usually wins. Chalk one up for the wily veterans as Valley Tech used its grizzled griz·zled adj. 1. Partly gray or streaked with gray: a grizzled beard. 2. Having fur or hair streaked or tipped with gray. experience and superior strength to muscle out a 28-14 win over Bay Path Regional yesterday at Postma Field. Then again, the Minutemen minutemen, in the American Revolution, colonial militiamen or armed citizens who agreed to turn out for service at a minute's notice. The term minutemen didn't roll over and play dead. The tough-as-nails squad of mostly underclassmen gave the senior-laden Beavers all they could handle. That is, until senior running backs Bobby Pizzerelli and Dan Allard scored late second-half touchdowns on runs of 15 and 25 yards to put the game away. "We made some mistakes, and so did (Valley Tech), but that's a talented, experienced and well-coached team," Bay Path coach Al Dhembe said. "Even after they fumbled, because of their experience, they had the capability to come back and make big plays." Big plays, such as Pizzerelli's 60-yard scamper down the left sideline sideline See on the sidelines. to set up his 15-yard TD run and conversion with 5:14 left in the third quarter. The efficient, four-play, 95-yard scoring drive proved the difference as the Beavers (5-1, 3-1 Division 3 East) bounced back from last week's league loss to Assabet Regional. Yesterday's win also reassured re·as·sure tr.v. re·as·sured, re·as·sur·ing, re·as·sures 1. To restore confidence to. 2. To assure again. 3. To reinsure. Valley Tech coach Rene Hanson that an injury suffered by Allard last week was nothing serious. Allard rumbled for 118 of his game-high 186 yards in the first half, including a 59-yard TD run to open a 13-0 lead for the Beavers with 10:12 to play in the second quarter. "After the big win two weeks ago over Nipmuc, we came out flat last week against Assabet," Hanson said. "It was important for the kids to come out strong this week. They rededicated themselves in practice and worked hard." It showed early as the Beavers went straight to their vaunted vaunt v. vaunt·ed, vaunt·ing, vaunts v.tr. To speak boastfully of; brag about. v.intr. To speak boastfully; brag. See Synonyms at boast1. n. 1. running attack behind Pizzerelli and Allard (31 carries, 178 yards), who combined for 364 rushing yards. However, it was Valley Tech senior quarterback Aron Sweder who scored first, running in from 1 yard to cap a 16-play, 89-yard drive to open the game. Andre Aureliano booted boot·ed adj. Wearing boots. Adj. 1. booted - wearing boots shod, shodden, shoed - wearing footgear his first of two extra points and the Beavers led, 7-0, with 3:36 to play in the first quarter. The Minutemen (2-4, 2-2) made it a ballgame late in the second quarter when senior quarterback Nick Comeau led an 11-play drive and hit receiver Cory Jacques with a 10-yard TD pass. Comeau ran in the conversion, and the Minutemen headed into the locker Things commonly known as lockers include:
"That was a boost for us psychologically," Dhembe said. "The kids knew coming out for the second half that they were still in it." Bay Path was certainly alive, but mistakes on offense derailed hopes of a Minuteman minuteman Colonial soldier of the American Revolution. Minutemen were first organized in Massachusetts in September 1774, when revolutionary leaders sought to eliminate Tories, or British sympathizers, from the militia by replacing all officers. comeback. With Comeau driving his team to the Beavers' 33 midway Midway, island group (2 sq mi/5.2 sq km), central Pacific, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) NW of Honolulu, comprising Sand and Eastern islands with the surrounding atoll. Discovered by Americans in 1859, Midway was annexed in 1867. A cable station was opened in 1903. through the third quarter, Valley Tech's Ryan Flaherty reeled in an interception. NAME: BLACKSTONE VALLEY REGIONAL VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL; BAY PATH REGIONAL VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL |
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