Three plays later, Michael Green sprinted for a 42-yard touchdown to give West Scranton a two-score lead en route to a 19-6 victory over Scranton on Friday night in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division I game at Scranton Veterans Memorial Stadium.<\/a><\/p>\nIt was the first time the Invaders won the Battle for the Bell since 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t put it into words. It was a long time coming. Seven years without it,\u201d Sostre said. \u201cI know how much this means to our community, and we\u2019re just so stoked to bring it back to where it belongs. And we\u2019re going to keep it here for the next years coming. Believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both teams struggled to find the end zone for most of the game, but midway through the third quarter West Scranton (3-5 overall, 1-4 LFC Division I) capitalized on Scranton\u2019s botched exchange on a handoff, as Tyaire Lloyd dove on the fumble just inside midfield.<\/p>\n
On the ensuing possession, Green ran for 8 and 6 yards for a first down at the Scranton 34. Then, Sostre broke a tackle in the backfield and sprinted down the left sideline to the Scranton 8-yard line. The Knights (0-8, 0-5) held the Invaders out of the end zone for two plays, but quarterback Austin Sostre took the shotgun snap and bowled into the end zone on a 1-yard run to give West Scranton a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Two plays after the score, Jonyae Sostre set up the Invaders on the Scranton 48 after his interception. On third-and-4, Green, who finished with 137 yards rushing and one touchdown on 20 carries, cut to the middle and sprinted to the end zone, picking up a big block from wide receiver Kaz Colbert along the way.<\/p>\n
West Scranton forced a punt on the next drive, Quincy Mosley returned it 35 yards into Scranton territory and had 15 more yards tacked on by a facemask penalty. Once again, the Invaders turned to Jonyae Sostre, as he took the handoff to the left side, juked two defenders and dove into the end zone on a 15-yard run to give West Scranton a 19-0 advantage with 4:49 left in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Jonyae Sostre finished with 120 yards rushing and one touchdown on 15 carries and added a 9-yard reception.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing out of the half, we knew that, yeah, it was a 0-0 game. We need to come out this half and end it,\u201d Jonyae Sostre said. \u201cWe were going back and forth, we stalled out on drives, we weren\u2019t finishing drives and we were getting in the red zone and weren\u2019t finishing drives. We knew we just had to come in there and finish the drives and we could come out victorious.\u201d<\/p>\n
Angelo Matlock returned the ensuing kickoff 72 yards for a touchdown to cut the deficit to 19-6, but the onside kick went out of bounds and the Invaders ran out the clock for the victory.<\/p>\n
The Invaders defense allowed just 64 yards with six tackles for loss and four tackles for no gain.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just never folded. We were like glue the whole time,\u201d Jonyae Sostre said. \u201cWe\u2019d make a bad play, but we came back the next play and we set the tone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next week, West Scranton hosts Delaware Valley on Friday at 7 p.m., while Scranton visits Abington Heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Scranton\u2019s Jonyae Sostre jumps over Scranton defenders for a gain in yards during the Bell Game at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-308463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","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\/308463","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=308463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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