The Cavaliers junior completed 16 of 20 passes for 161 yards and two touchdowns, and added 59 yards rushing and three touchdowns on nine carries to lead Scranton Prep to a 37-36, triple-overtime victory over North Pocono, its first regular season loss in 16 games.<\/p>\n
Family: Jamie, mom; Eugene, dad; Nora, sister.<\/p>\n
Coach: Terry Gallagher<\/p>\n
What did you think of your performance, putting up big numbers in such a big game: I thought I played well, but it\u2019s our team. We worked hard all week, practiced hard. We trust our guys, we trust our coaches, trust our game plan. It\u2019s not just me. We trust our guys in a big game.<\/p>\n
What was the atmosphere like in that game: It was a huge game. The atmosphere was great. It was packed, loud, especially down there toward the end zone in overtime. The band was playing, students from both sides, it was loud, but it feels great to get a win in an atmosphere like that.<\/p>\n
How proud of you of this team for getting that win: I\u2019m so proud of our team. It\u2019s a huge win, huge momentum booster, had a lot of outside noise during the week, a few things happened. But, we rallied together and it\u2019s a huge win to keep us rolling.<\/p>\n
What has it been like for you settling into that quarterback position, especially following up a guy like Will McPartland: The past few years, Louis (Paris), Will are big shoes to fill. Early this year, we rotated at quarterback and I just knew when I got my opportunity I had to play my best this week. I thought I played well. I\u2019ve just got to fill big shoes.<\/p>\n
Braedon McPartland converts the game-winning two-point conversion on a bruising run. What\u2019s it like having a guy like that on your team: It\u2019s huge. He\u2019s one of the best football players I\u2019ve ever seen. He\u2019s just so physical and willing to do anything to help the team win. It\u2019s hard to stop him.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep always has a tough nonconference schedule to start the season. How has this team developed since the beginning of the season: We\u2019re getting better every week. The start of the season, we gave up a lot of points down in Maryland. We played a really good football team (Loyola Blakefield). We have a lot of young guys starting up front, a lot of new guys getting new roles, but we\u2019re learning, we\u2019re coming together. Even around here, we\u2019re playing good football teams, but I think our best football is yet to come.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s it like being a leader of this team: You can\u2019t let emotions get out of control in a game like that. We play big rivals, big games on big stages. We can\u2019t let our emotions get the best of us. You have to calm everybody down and play controlled, play our game of football.<\/p>\n
Any thoughts about what you\u2019ll do after high school yet: I\u2019m not sure. Obviously, I\u2019d like to play sports in college if I can, but we\u2019ll just see where the future takes me.<\/p>\n
Other sport you play: Baseball<\/p>\n
Three people you\u2019d like to have dinner with: Ian Book, Tim Tebow and Ben Roethlisberger<\/p>\n
Athlete you admire: Tim Tebow. He\u2019s a winner, and that\u2019s what it takes to be a good football player. You\u2019ve got to be a winner first.<\/p>\n
Superstitions or rituals before a game: Listen to \u201cSeek & Destroy\u201d by Metallica<\/p>\n
Favorite food: Steak<\/p>\n
Favorite sports teams: Notre Dame, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Yankees<\/p>\n
Favorite movie: \u201cSeven\u201d<\/p>\n
Favorite TV show: \u201cSons of Anarchy\u201d<\/p>\n
Favorite musical artist: Green Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cavaliers junior completed 16 of 20 passes for 161 yards and two touchdowns, and added 59 yards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[7804,305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-305568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-athlete-of-the-week","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305568","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=305568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}