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10 WEEKLYNEWS.NET - 978-532-5880 SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 Mistakes cost Tanners in football loss PHOTO | BOB CARBONE Tanner quarterback Matt Jandrisevits hands off to running back Angel Paulino during Friday night’s game. By Scot Cooper MARBLEHEAD – For the second straight week, Marblehead coach Jim Rudloff was less than pleased with how his team played. The Magicians didn’t get a first down until late in the first half, but they pounced on some Tanner mistakes to win the game 28-7 Friday night at Piper Field. “Peabody played a great game, I know they had a tough week, but we should’ve been a lot better than we were,” Rudloff said. “I honestly can’t express how disappointed I am, but I should have seen it coming, we had a terrible week of practice. We might have had a good 10 minutes here or there, but we certainly came out flat tonight.” The Magicians were fortunate that Peabody’s struggles on offense continued for the second straight game. After putting up just three points in a loss against Danvers, the Tanners finally broke through for a touchdown when Alex DeNisco hit Dylan Peluso with a 43-yard strike with 2:27 left to play. Austin Leggett’s kick made it 28-7. Denisco took over for starter Matthew Jandrisevits, who took a heavy hit on a sack by Tamelle Platt. Marblehead (3-0) opened the scoring after Peabody (1-2) lost the ball trying to punt, the ball ending up on the Tanners’ seven. Tim Cronin scored two plays later, and Mason Poisson’s first of four PAT’s made it 7-0. The Magicians tried to add to their lead, but Peabody’s Brendan Caniffe swatted away a couple of Chris Gally passes in the end zone, ending the first half with the Tanners down seven. Penalties hurt Peabody in the second half, wiping out several long gains on runs by Angel Paulino and Luis Guidrys. When the Tanners were flagged on offense, it wiped out big gains, and when they were penalized on defense, it gave Marblehead excellent field position. The Magicians took advantage of the Tanners’ largesse, with Gally rushing in from the nine with 6:57 left in the third quarter, making it a 14-0 game. Even when things went wrong for Marblehead, they were ending up going right. The Magicians got the ball on a short punt, and three snaps later Gally ran to the goal line where he fumbled the ball into the end zone and Devin Romain pounced on it, upping the score to 21-0. With 5:46 left, Cronin scored his second of the game from a yard out to seal the scoring for Marblehead. Peabody coach Mark Bettencourt said his team is a work in progress and it’ll keep working to get better. “Are we happy that we’re 1-2? No, we’re not, but Danvers and Marblehead are two of the best teams on our schedule, so we’ll keep working and it will come,” Bettencourt said. “We need to get some momentum, get some first downs, and get some confidence. It’s the big picture, it’s a big puzzle, and the things are still being put into place, now we get ready for our next four games, trying to get better on offense and defense.” Peabody hosts Revere Friday night (7). The Magicians aim to remain undefeated when they visit Beverly next Saturday (1). Fenwick boys soccer is getting into form By Mike Alongi CATERING TAKE-OUT •Dinners • Sandwiches • Salads • Daily Specials 978-532-2791 santoros.com PEABODY — The Bishop Fenwick boys soccer team is really starting to round into form, and it showed it Wednesday afternoon. The Crusaders scored early and kept the pressure on all game long, shutting out Catholic Central League foe Arlington Catholic, 4-0, at Donaldson Stadium. “We had a really good offensive day today, and that was led by our three guys up front in Sean Kern, Tarek Nabbout and Sean Walsh who did an excellent job,” said Fenwick coach Tony Enos. “We’ve been working on putting some new systems into play, and the guys did a great job with that today.” Kern scored two goals in the victory, while Brendan Crichton had one goal and one assist. Liam Crichton had one goal. “The ball movement was excellent for us today, which was great to see because we’ve been working on that lately,” Enos said. The Crusaders were aggressive right from the opening kick, sending scoring chance after scoring chance right at the Arlington Catholic net. While the first few chances were either stopped or missed the net, Fenwick cashed in less than 10 minutes into the game on a goal by Kern, giving the Crusaders a 1-0 lead. For the rest of the first half, it was actually Fenwick’s defense that stood out. Arlington Catholic began to try to push the pace on offense, but every time the Crusaders would break Thursday, Sept. 27 Golf Man-Essex at Lynnfield, 3 Fenwick at St. Mary’s, 3 Boys soccer Lynnfield at Georgetown, 3:45 Girls soccer Georgetown at Lynnfield, 3:45 Field hockey Saugus at Peabody, 4 Volleyball Peabody at Everett, 5 Austin Prep at Fenwick, 5:30 Friday, Sept. 28 Field hockey Lynnfield at Georgetown, 6:30 Peabody at Saugus, 4 Football Lynnfield at Winthrop, 7 Revere at Peabody, 7 Arlington Cath. at Fenwick, 7 Girls soccer Peabody at Danvers, 4 Boys soccer Lowell Cath. at Fenwick, 3:45 Volleyball Chelmsford at Fenwick, 5:30 Saturday, Sept. 29 Cross country Fenwick at Kelley Inv., 9 Field hockey Monomoy at Fenwick, 12 Sunday, Sept. 30 No events scheduled Monday, Oct. 1 Boys soccer Masco at Lynnfield, 3:45 St. Mary’s at Fenwick, 7 HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE Girls soccer Lynnfield at Masco, 3:45 Fenwick at St. Mary’s, 6:30 Volleyball Ham-Wen at Lynnfield, 5:30 Field hockey Peabody at Swampscott, 4 Medfield at Fenwick, 3:45 Tuesday, Oct. 2 Golf Triton at Lynnfield, 3 Fenwick at Winthrop, 3:30 Field hockey Masco at Lynnfield, 3:45 Boys soccer Peabody at Medford, 4 Volleyball Peabody at English, 5 Spellman at Fenwick, 5:30 up a pass, kill the Cougars’ momentum and take the ball back the other way. Enos credited the solid defensive play on his experienced back line. “Our back line is very strong, even though we have struggled a bit with the center-back position recently,” Enos said. “We tried something a little different today and it worked really well for us.” Despite a couple more Fenwick scoring chances, the first half ended with the Crusaders up 1-0. In the second half, Fenwick once again struck early. Just over five minutes into the half, Brendan Crichton knocked the ball off an opposing player’s foot in the offensive zone. Crichton then flipped the ball up into the air, slipped past a defender and settled the ball right back onto his left foot. After moving it over to his right foot, Crichton reared back and booted a strike into the back of the net to give Fenwick the 2-0 lead. Crichton’s goal boosted the momentum another notch for the Crusaders. About seven minutes after Crichton found the back of the net, he sent a perfect assist to his brother, Liam Crichton, for a goal to make it 3-0. Just 10 minutes later, Kern found some open space on the left side of the field and ran with the ball about 40 yards before firing a shot into the net for his second goal of the game. Now at 2-2-1, the Crusaders are starting to look like the team Enos knows they can be. But with two more tough games early next week (both road games against Austin Prep and Archbishop Williams), there is still plenty of work to be done. “We do a lot of video work here, and that’s going to be no different this coming week,” Enos said. “We’re going to prepare hard for both teams, work on some more strategy and hopefully come out with more performances like the one we had today.” The Crusaders’ next game is Friday, Sept. 28 at home against Lowell Catholic (3:45). Wednesday, Oct. 3 Golf Swampscott at Peabody, 3:45 Fenwick at Matignon, 2:30 Cross country N’port at Lynnfield, 3:30 Beverly at Peabody, 4 Boys soccer Amesbury at Lynnfield, 3:45 Fenwick at Spellman, 3:30 Girls soccer Lynnfield at Amesbury, 3:45 Spellman at Fenwick, 4 Field hockey Everett at Peabody, 4 Volleyball Ipswich at Lynnfield, 5:30
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 WEEKLYNEWS.NET - 978-532-5880 11 Girls soccer earns an important point By Anne Marie Tobin PEABODY — It may have been only a tie, but considering all the challenges the Peabody girls soccer has faced of late, Saturday’s 2-2 tie with visiting North Andover definitely felt more like a win. Twice the Tanners (4-2-1) battled back from one-goal deficits to level the match against the undefeated Scarlet Knights (5- 0-2), then survived a big North Andover offensive push in the last five minutes of regulation to preserve the tie. Peabody freshmen Meghan Billingsley and Emily McDonough scored one goal each. But in the end, it was a couple of freshmen whose names might not normally appear in the stat column, along with goalkeeper Shelby Doucette, who ultimately made the difference at crunch time. With the game tied at 1-1 and six minutes left in the first half, two-year starting sweeper Colleen Crotty went down hard in a collision and left the game, never to return. Her loss , and the absence of senior defender Catherine Manning (out with a stress fracture) left Peabody coach Dennis Desroches with a serious defensive dilemma after the Scarlets Knights added the go-ahead goal less than two minutes after Crotty’s exit. “They scored that goal right after Colleen had to leave the game, and you could see we were definitely in need of an adjustment, so we had to move some kids around,” Desroches said. “Aja Alimonte normally plays center mid, but when Colleen went out, we dropped her PHOTO | ANNE MARIE TOBIN Meghan Billingsley celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal in Peabody’s 2-2 tie with North Andover. back to sweeper, and she anchored the D beautifully in that second half. That left the two little freshmen, Samantha Simmons and McKayla Fisher, at center mid. Sam played fantastic and she was tremendous as was McKayla. They have the ability and talent to be excellent so between them and McDonough and Billingsley, the freshman connection was there for us against a very good Merrimack Valley team. We knew it had to be our best effort of the season and it was.” Doucette finished with 11 saves, some of them coming late in the second half when the game was on the line. “She played a great game and really cannot be faulted on either of their goals,” said Desroches. “Their first was an unmarked player on a corner, and their second was because we threw a leg at that player, who made a great move, but any time you reach like that it’s not going to turn out well. “Shelby was right there the whole game and to have her leading the defense is huge. The last five to six minutes they were coming at us, but she was up to it.” North Andover wasted no time getting on the board in the second minute of the game on a goal by Emma Liporto off a corner kick taken by Peyton Sportelli. The Tanners amped up the offensive pressure midway through the half. In the 23rd minute, Billingsley was robbed by North Andover keeper Jordyn Apperti on a free kick from the 30-yard line, who made a leaping save just under the crossbar. A minute later, Alimonte sent a corner kick through the box, but it was cleared by a North Andover defender. Apperti came up big on a Tanner free kick from just outside the box, then another Peabody free kick from the 15 was cleared by a defender. With 10:58 to go in the half, Peabody finally broke through on its next free kick after Bridget O’Connell was decked. From 35 yards out, McDonough’s shot sailed into the net just under the crossbar on the far post to make it a 1-1 game. Olivia Gotobed got that goal back about five minutes later after splitting a couple of Tanner defenders. With 25 minutes to go in the game, Peabody came up empty on another free kick, but some nice hustle on the part of Amber Kiricoples kept the ball alive. She got off a soft left-footed shot from the right side into the box, where McDonough was able to redirect it past a diving Apperti. The last five minutes belonged to North Andover, but thanks to Doucette, who made three saves off dangerous balls, the Tanners walked away with a tie and an important point. “We are still trying to fix some issues we have, the mistakes, and we had a nice practice yesterday, but I am so proud of these girls as North Andover destroyed Beverly, 4-0, and was undefeated,” Desroches said. “In our 1-0 win against Acton-Boxborough, we got ahead and just held on for dear life. But this one, we played a complete game. This is a huge point for us. Just huge.” Boys cruise to shutout win over Danvers By Daniel Kane PEABODY — The Peabody boys soccer team cruised to a 3-0 win over Danvers Monday night at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School. The Tanners combined great defensive play with two goals from Noah Surman and one goal from Johnny Alves to improve to 3-0-1 on the season. “It’s a good win,” Peabody coach Stan McKeen said. “(Danvers) is our nemesis. Last year they beat us handily twice. We have a little different team this year, a little younger and a little more skill this year so it was nice to get a win. “The defense played well and they have been playing well all year long,” McKeen added. “Michael Tansey in the back and Noah (Surman) have been outstanding. We basically rotate six guys on defense and they all work really well together. We kept the ball away from them. The two shots they had, other than the direct kicks, were wide and over the net. Michael and Noah work so well together back in the middle.” After a bit of a slow start to the game, McKeen was glad to see his team bounce back and earn another win. “We were able to wake up,” PHOTO | ANNE MARIE TOBIN Johnny Alves, right, tangles with Danvers Matt Brennan. McKeen said. “It was a good effort after probably the first 15 minutes. I thought we did a much better job of controlling the game. We didn’t take any stupid penalties or fouls. I thought the difference was that we were able to control the game. No one has an answer yet for Johnny Alves when he gets the ball.” The Falcons found the game’s first scoring opportunity just five minutes into the tilt. Danvers was awarded a free kick from just outside the box but Tanners goaltender Will Machado made a diving onehanded stop to keep the game tied. Around 10 minutes later, Alves won a race to a loose ball with the Danvers goaltender and slipped a shot past him to put the Tanners ahead 1-0. Later in the first half, Peabody’s Josh Atemkeng placed a corner kick right in front of the Danvers goal. After the initial jump for the ball, Surman found himself with a wide open shot and finished the play to extend Peabody’s lead to 2-0, a lead that McKeen wasn’t ready to settle for. “We scored two first half goals but that to me is the worst lead in the world,” McKeen said. “In Revere we were up 2-0 at the half and they came back and scored two goals to tie the game, ended up in a 2-2 tie. I gave the same speech today, so getting that third goal was big, huge goal.” The Tanners’ third goal came with 24:56 remaining in the game. Kyle Morfis found Surman wide open in the box to put Peabody ahead 3-0. The deficit was a bit too much for AUTO | HOME | BUSINESS | LIFE • We make shopping for insurance EASY. • Ask for a quote! DISCOUNTS available. 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