Francisco Roman rushed for 131 yards and scored three touchdowns, and had a pair of interceptions on defense to spark Carbondale Area past Old Forge, 20-14, in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division III game Friday night in Old Forge.<\/p>\n
The Chargers (6-4 overall, 3-2 division) jumped out to a 20-0 lead in the first half, and then held off the Blue Devils (2-8, 2-3), who failed to convert on a fourth-and-3 from the Chargers 20 with 1:04 left in the game.<\/p>\n
Carbondale Area got the scoring started after Roman returned a punt to the Blue Devils 30. Four plays later, Roman scored on a 15-yard run for a 6-0 lead with 8:17 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
On the ensuing possession, Roman intercepted a pass and returned it 53 yards to the Old Forge 17. Again, four plays later, Roman cashed in with a five-yard scoring run. His successful two-point conversion run gave the Chargers a 14-0 lead with 4:45 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Then in the second quarter, the Chargers went on a 13-play, 70-yard drive, capped by Roman\u2019s third touchdown run of the first half, this time from three yards out for a 20-0 lead with 6:14 left in the first half.<\/p>\n
Old Forge started to get back into the game in the third quarter when it stopped a Carbondale Area drive at the Blue Devils 26.<\/p>\n
The Blue Devils went on a 5-play, 74-yard drive that featured three receptions by Rasmus from Robby Solfanelli, including a 35-yard scoring strike with 3:27 left in the third quarter as Old Forge trailed, 20-7.<\/p>\n
On the next possession, the Devils forced a Chargers punt, but a high snap allowed Old Forge to take over at the Carbondale Area 1.<\/p>\n
Rasmus took it in from there, and the Blue Devils trailed, 20-15, with 55 seconds left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
The Chargers then went on an 8-play drive from their 40 to the Devils 26 before losing possession on an interception at the Devils 1.<\/p>\n
Old Forge embarked on a 16-play drive, overcoming five penalties, and highlighted by a Solfanelli 21-yard run, his 37-yard reception on a throwback pass from Rasmus, and a 19-yard Rasmus run.<\/p>\n
However, the Devils turned it over on downs and the Chargers were able to kneel on it to run out the clock.<\/p>\n
Carbondale Area held Old Forge to just 15 yards of total offense in the first half and five yards rushing on 20 carries in the game.<\/p>\n
Solfanelli was 13 for 21 passing for 177 yards and Rasmus had seven receptions for 111 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Roman rushed for 131 yards and scored three touchdowns, and had a pair of interceptions on defense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-14504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-high-school-sports","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}