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54 | September 21, 2017 | The frankfort station sports<br />
frankfortstation.com<br />
Football<br />
All phases step up as Providence hands St. Ignatius its first loss<br />
Chris Walker<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
There’s an old sports saying,<br />
“You can throw out<br />
the records when these two<br />
teams play.”<br />
It’s usually uttered when<br />
two big rivals play, regardless<br />
if they’re having a good<br />
or bad season because bragging<br />
rights are at stake and<br />
teams have familiarity with<br />
each other.<br />
When undefeated St. Ignatius<br />
stepped onto Bishop<br />
Kaffer Stadium and Matt<br />
Senffner Field in New Lenox<br />
Friday, Sept. 15, they didn’t<br />
do so as a big rival. A case<br />
could be made for last week<br />
though when St. Rita did, but<br />
at the same time, the Wolfpack’s<br />
record and start to the<br />
season had to be duly noted.<br />
The Wolfpack were 3-0<br />
and had outscored teams<br />
132-0 while the Celtics were<br />
riding the high of last week’s<br />
win over St. Rita to lift them<br />
to 1-2, but knowing that every<br />
remaining game is pretty<br />
much a must-win right now if<br />
they hope to make the playoffs.<br />
But the Wolfpack had<br />
played nowhere near the<br />
competition as the Celtics<br />
have, and they succumbed to<br />
several big plays and struggled<br />
in moving the ball as<br />
Providence cruised to a 35-6<br />
victory.<br />
Providence (2-2) jumped<br />
ahead 7-0 on its second offensive<br />
play of the game<br />
when De’Shon Gavin outran<br />
the Wolfpack defenders for a<br />
32-yard touchdown.<br />
“The offensive line gave<br />
De’Shon a hole and he used<br />
his speed,” Providence<br />
coach Mark Coglianese said.<br />
“When he gets into the open<br />
field like that, not too many<br />
guys are going to catch him.”<br />
Gavin then put the Celtics<br />
up 14-0 right before halftime<br />
when he displayed his physical<br />
versatility, outjumping a<br />
defender and running into the<br />
end zone for a 76-yard score<br />
on a pass from quarterback<br />
Caden Kalinowski.<br />
“Kalinowski made that<br />
(play) on his own,” Coglianese<br />
said. “He bought himself<br />
some time and he made<br />
the throw, and De’Shon, being<br />
the athlete that he is, got<br />
position and made the play.”<br />
Kalinowski’s 5-yard<br />
touchdown run early in the<br />
third quarter extended Providence’s<br />
lead to 21-0 and<br />
then his 55-yard touchdown<br />
pass to Nico Planeta with<br />
3:07 left in the third quarter<br />
broke the game open at<br />
28-0.<br />
“It was where we were<br />
reading the linebacker,” Kalinowski<br />
said. “He blitzed<br />
and I dumped it off and let<br />
Nico run.”<br />
The two players read the<br />
defense well and that was the<br />
key for technically a simple<br />
play resulting in six more<br />
points.<br />
“Me and Caden have pretty<br />
good chemistry with connecting<br />
and know what a defense<br />
is going to do,” Planeta said.<br />
“We knew what was going<br />
to be open, so we got on the<br />
line and I a saw a perfect little<br />
hole and was able to book it<br />
(into the end zone).”<br />
St. Ignatius finally got<br />
on the scoreboard when the<br />
game was all but over with a<br />
little more than three minutes<br />
left to play. Providence junior<br />
Brendan Martus then joined<br />
in on the fun, scoring on a 13-<br />
yard run in the final minute.<br />
While Providence’s offense<br />
shined and seemingly stole<br />
the show on Friday, credit also<br />
should be shed in the direction<br />
of the defense, which made<br />
things difficult for a Wolfpack<br />
team that came in averaging<br />
44 points a game.<br />
“Yeah, with the newspapers,<br />
usually the defense<br />
doesn’t get as much credit,<br />
but that’s OK as long as<br />
we’re shutting teams down,”<br />
Providence defensive back<br />
Jack Halper said. “We just<br />
had to shut them down, and<br />
that all started with Dylan<br />
Davalos as nose guard and<br />
stopping their veer. Then<br />
they tried to go outside and<br />
passing, and we were awake<br />
for all that and kept shutting<br />
them down.”<br />
Now the Celtics head on<br />
the road to face a Brother<br />
Rice (1-3) team that just lost<br />
a heartbreaking 29-28 game<br />
to Montini by allowing a<br />
2-point conversion with 33.8<br />
seconds remaining.<br />
“We know what we need to<br />
keep on doing,” Halper said.<br />
“We need to keep pushing, to<br />
keep marching. It’s not going<br />
to getting any easier, so we’ll<br />
keep going the best we can.”<br />
Planeta agreed with Halper,<br />
fully realizing that every<br />
Chicago Catholic League<br />
Blue game is a battle from<br />
start to finish.<br />
“Brother Rice may be 1-3<br />
but they’ve played three really<br />
tough teams,” he said.<br />
“We’re going to be fighting<br />
for our lives just like they<br />
are. We’re motivated to go in<br />
there and hope to go in there<br />
strong.”<br />
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