89ERS

 

NEWTOWN 18, BETHEL 6: All 33 players got into the act, contributing big plays that led to another win for the 89ers.

Brian Reszoly scored a pair of touchdowns, the first on a reverse to get Newtown going. Jake DeVellis completed some fine passes, the longest of which was 25 yards to sure-handed Kyle McNamara. DeVellis, Jaime Vavrek, AJ Ritchie and David Hutchison all had impressive runs, as well. Charlie Lobosco scored on an end around for the 89ers third touchdown.

Stephen Oberstadt had a solid game on defense with a fumble recovery. Chris Matthei, Chris Dennis, Rob Norliss all helped keep the Bethel offense at bay.

The 89ers will host Pomperaug at 2 pm on Saturday at Taylor Field.

JUNIOR PEE WEES

 

NEWTOWN 21, BETHEL 6: Tyler Tarantino, Justin McGrath and Mark Scheunemann all scored touchdowns to lead the Junior Pee Wees to their third win of the season.

The Newtown offense got on the board quickly. After Jared Modzelewski took the opening kick, the offense took the field and Tarantino followed the blocking of Zach Conger to help Newtown picked up three first downs enroute to its first TD. Tarantino scored the TD and Kris Kling added the extra point.

Ryan Manning, Matt Mascolo and Dan DeLaVega all teamed up on defense to stop Bethel on downs. Later, Tarantino recovered a fumble to stop another Bethel drive.

On offense, the blocking of Conger, Josh Friedman and Chris Cardelle opened holes for Tarantino and Scheunemann as Newtown moved down the field. McGrath scored the TD and Tarantino added the extra point for a 14-0 Newtown lead.

The Nighthawks did an onside kick and Brett Mauro recovered it, but a Newtown fumble gave the ball to Bethel. Dan Curtis, DeLaVega, Manning and Lucas Vendel all made great plays on defense to stop Bethel.

At the start of the second half, Jeff Davis intercepted a Bethel pass and four plays later Scheunemann was in the end zone with Newtown’s third touchdown of the game. Davis ran the ball in for the extra point and the Nighthawks held a 21-0 lead.

Tarantino made a touchdown-saving tackle on the kick and good defensive plays by Cody Kellogg, McGrath, and Conger halted Bethel. An interception by Chuck Brooks was the real killer, though. Derek Calderara, Vendel and Mascolo made some terrific tackles on Bethel’s next offensive series but the Wildcats eventually scored.

Sean Ryan stopped the extra-point attempt.

Cody Marus had a nice carry as time ran out.

Newtown will host Pomperaug on Saturday at Taylor Field.

 

PEE WEES

 

NEWTOWN 28, BETHEL 6: It was a day of firsts in a day when the Pee Wees won their fifth game of the 2000 season.

Drew Adamek, Tucker Kass and Mike Shannon recovered their first fumbles of the year; Ryan McGrath kicked the first-ever extra point for the Nighthawks; and Joe Bowen scored his first points of the year on an extra-point attempt as Newtown blasted Bethel, 28-6.

The defense got started right away as Joey DeVellis, Thomas Hutchison, McGrath, and Joe Collins (quarterback sack) denied the Bethel offense a first down. Newtown took over on its 34 and Kass, Hutchison, and Grant Speer confidently moved the ball downfield behind the line of Cody Shpunt, Mario Roehrs, Bowen, Steve Orrico, Ryan Martin, Collins and McGrath.

Kass would ultimately blast through the line for the first score of the day. DeVellis added the extra point.

Erik Dreher and Brian Poeltl had nice tackles on Newtown’s next defensive series while Hutchison jarred a ball loose from a Bethel running back that Adamek fell on for a fumble recovery. Hutchison, DeVellis, Tommy Gaboriault and Kass moved the ball downfield again and it was Kass bolting in from three yards out to score Newtown’s second TD of the game.

The momentum belonged to Newtown and the forbidding defense dug in and once again turned Bethel away. Adamek and Travis Speer broke through the line for a backfield tackle and eight-yard loss while Shpunt, Collins, Mike Shannon and Tom Selleck (played in his first game this season, back from a leg injury) held Bethel off.

Even though Scott Suhoza, Grant Speer and DeVellis carried the ball well, Gaboriault picked up 15 yards on one carry, and DeVellis hit Shpunt and McGrath for 10-yard pass completions, Newtown could not score before time ran out.

At the start of the second half, DeVellis hit Hutchison with a pass just over the line and Hutchison rambled 54 yards for a Newtown touchdown and a 20-0 lead.

Grant Speer, Brian Stickles and Martin once again held the Bethel offense down and DeVellis picked off a pass, but Newtown was unable to move the ball and had to punt away. Kass then made a touchdown-saving tackle and a quarterback sack. Despite the defense of Scott Perry, Ken Cardelle and Matt Kuruc, the Wildcats managed to find the end zone and trim the Newtown lead to 20-6.

DeVellis took the kick and gathered up 25 yards of the field before being brought down. Soon after, he took the ball and raced 40 yards into the end zone for the fourth Newtown TD of the game. McGrath followed with the first extra-point kick of the season (worth two points) and gave Newtown its 28-6 margin of victory.

Safety Skyler Gajdosik and Shannon made defensive stops as time ran out on Bethel.

Newtown will square off against Pomperaug on Saturday at 10 am at Taylor Field.

JUNIOR MIDGETS

 

NEWTOWN 21, BETHEL 14: Jeff LeVasseur dove into the end zone with three seconds left in the fourth quarter to lift the Nighthawks to their fourth consecutive victory.

Newtown took the first lead in the game, 7-0, on a touchdown pass from Kevin Wasicki to Mark Ingerman. The TD pass was preceded by a nice 40-yard run by RJ Marus. Levasseur added the extra point, following the blocks of Brian Hunt and Joe Bruer.

But Bethel answered back with a touchdown (and two-point kick) of their own to take an 8-7 lead into the third quarter. A few drives later Bethel scored again, despite some fine defensive plays from Max Reed, Dylan Borst and Ingerman.

Heading into the fourth, Bethel held a 14-7 lead.

But Max Rojo closed the gap to just one, 14-13, when he scored a touchdown. Then Levasseur scored the game-winner and Ingerman added the two-point kick and the Nighthawks had captured the 21-14 win.

MIDGETS

 

BETHEL 22, NEWTOWN 21: A two-point extra-point kick sailed just left of the goal post with 33 seconds left and Newtown fell to defeat.

Derek Pattison had scored on a 56-yard pass play from John Collins to bring the Nighthawks back from a 22-15 deficit. After the kick attempt failed, the Nighthawks recovered an onside kick and completed two passes, moving to the 30, before time expired.

Pattison had three touchdowns on the day – one on a 52-yard screen pass and another on a 28-yard sweep. Collins threw for one extra point and Stephen Kean kicked another.

Matt Selezan ran for some tough yardage from his fullback position while Bobby Harrison and Bobby Pattison threw some crushing blocks to spring Derek loose for his touchdowns.

On defense, Sean Reilly knocked down three passes and had numerous tackles at cornerback. Selezan, TJ Sequenzia, Scott Regnery and Keith Gotthardt all had outstanding games at their linebacker positions.