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Coyle-Cassidy still searching for first win By Peter Badavas, Enterprise correspondentTAUNTON — After the first 22 minutes of football were evenly played, Old Rochester coach Henry Quinlan unleashed his two secret weapons in the second half, and the Bulldogs registered a 21-7 victory over Coyle-Cassidy on Saturday. Nick Martin and Elso Correia provided the spark for the Bulldogs as the two running backs combined for 137 yards on just eight carries. After quarterback Reed Bacchiochi (9-for-25 for 95 yards, one touchdown) got things going in the second half with a 30-yard completion to Jeff Rousseau, Martin ran the ball into a swarm of C-C defenders before making a quick cut to his left to go 50 yards for the touchdown that made the score 14-7. After the Bulldogs' defense stopped C-C on fourth-and-four after a 60-yard drive, Correia, on his first carry of the day, bounced off multiple defenders for a 25-yard gain. After a facemask penalty added 10 yards to the carry, Correia ran again for 9 yards following a 5-yard Bacchiochi rush. That put the ball on the 2-yard line where junior Frank Tebou pounded the ball into the end zone to put Old Rochester (1-2) ahead, 20-7. Jake Serrousi added the extra point. Correia, a sophomore transfer from New Bedford, made his first varsity game a memorable one, finishing with 80 yards on five carries, including a spectacular 34-yard run to end the game. “He's quick as a hiccup,” said Quinlan. “I've never seen a kid run so fast. “Here's a kid who showed up the first day at camp and said 'I want to play football.' I had him playing with the JVs, but he lit them up, and then nobody could touch him in practice so we turned him loose. Along with his “secret weapons,” Quinlan credits his offensive coordinator for the turnaround in the second half. “Mike Mullin made some real good adjustments at the half,” said Quinlan. “In the first half, we called plays that were going right into the teeth of the defense, but Mike made the right adjustments.” Coyle-Cassidy coach Tom Pileski agrees the game was won in the second half for ORR. “What happened was we played very well in the first half with very few breakdowns,” he said. “In the second half, we started to unravel and not play our defense. We started chasing people instead of staying home on defense.” Pileski also said the game was lost on the offensive side of the ball. “We moved the ball well offensively between the 30s, but we shot ourselves in the foot when we started doing our own thing as individuals instead of as a team,” he said. The game got off to an ugly start for the Warriors (0-3) as quarterback Conor Henry (85 yards passing, 61 yards rushing) was intercepted by Graham O'Dowd on the second play of the game. With the ball on the C-C 18-yard line, it took ORR two plays to put it into the end zone. Following a 4-yard gain on first-down by Tebou, Bacchiochi found Zach Goodman for a 14-yard touchdown just a 1-1/2 minutes into the game. After the teams exchanged a set of downs, C-C embarked on its only scoring drive of the day. The drive was highlighted by a pair of Justin Pohl (15 carries for 100 yards) 20-yard runs. Pohl would add carries of eight and five yards to the drive before Henry scored on a 4-yard run. The rest of the first half featured both teams marching the ball downfield on numerous possessions before being stopped by the opposing defenses. “It wasn't pretty.” said Quinlan. “Our players may have taken Coyle too lightly in the first half because we didn't look ready to play. Coyle is a good team and they're going to be alright.” Pileski credits the Bulldogs' defense for taking away his team's big plays. “Give credit to Old Rochester for taking away the big play,” he said. “Rather than taking the 7- and 8-yard plays the defense was giving us, we became too anxious for the big play. “Our players are trying so hard to win the game, they're doing more than their asked. They'll learn as the season goes to trust each other, and we're going to be OK because the effort is definitely there.” |
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