Newtown High School’s football team, on the strength of a 29-point third quarter, rolled past the visiting Bethel Wildcats 42-0, at Blue & Gold Stadium, on October 2. The game was played in chilly and wet conditions, as rain fell, hard at times, throughout the evening in which temperatures were in the 40s.

After a sloppy first half in which only one touchdown was scored – a Hunter Cobb TD run for a 6-0 lead (the extra point was no good) – the Nighthawks put together a wild, four-score third quarter.

Quarterback Justin Dunn connected with Ben Mason on a 29-yard screen pass to the left side for a touchdown, and Cobb ran the ball into the end zone for the two-point conversion and a14-0 lead just 2:34 into the half. After Sam Czel recovered Ryan Kost’s onside kick at the Wildcat 27 yard line, Newtown struck again. One play after the recovery, Dunn again hooked up with Mason for another short pass which Mason turned into a 27-yard score – this time up the right side. Kost’s extra point extended the lead to 21-0 with 9:11 to play in the third.

Cobb added a 34-yard touchdown run, and Jared Pearson had a 78-yard interception return for a score later in the third. In the fourth, Pearson’s 49 yard punt return set up Cobb’s 12-yard TD scamper to cap the scoring.