Expand<\/a><\/p>\nCLARKS SUMMIT \u2013 Abington Heights\u2019 defense and special teams set up the offense with short fields and the Comets cashed in.<\/p>\n
Aided by the other side of the ball, Abington Heights\u2019 first four possessions started on the positive side of midfield, and the fourth-ranked Comets converted all four into touchdowns to roll to a 55-7 win over Scranton in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division I game on Friday at Abington Heights High School.<\/p>\n
It started with the opening kickoff as Scott Weiland returned the ball 52 yards to Scranton\u2019s 35. Two plays later, Jayden Anglin scored on a 1-yard run to give Abington Heights a 7-0 lead 51 seconds into the game. The Comets\u2019 defense then forced a punt but the snap was bad and Abington Heights took over on Scranton\u2019s 18. Anglin took a handoff on the first play of the drive and reached the end zone to push the lead to 13-0.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights (5-4 overall, 4-2 Division I) then forced another punt and Weiland returned it 17 yards to Scranton\u2019s 35. Two plays later, Anglin ran around the right end for a 22-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to be able to play complimentary football and be effective in all three phases of the game and I feel like that was something we were able to accomplish tonight,\u201d Abington Heights head coach Joe Repshis said.<\/p>\n
Scranton (0-9, 0-6) picked up two first downs on its next drive but then fumbled the ball away and Abington Heights took over at the Knights 49. Anglin had a 31-yard gain on first down and four plays later, Landin Sobolewski scored on a 1-yard run and the Comets led, 27-0, with 3:24 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Anglin, who entered the game as the conference\u2019s rushing leader, finished with 197 yards and three touchdowns on just 12 carries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew their record doesn\u2019t mean anything,\u201d Anglin said. \u201cYou have to come in 0-0, you know they\u2019re going to come to play as well and I thought we came out pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abington Heights forced another punt and took possession at midfield. Anglin had two carries for 23 yards and then, on the first play of the second quarter, Noah Kayal dropped back and hit Rodman Azar on a slant for a 27-yard touchdown pass to give Abington Heights a 34-0 lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to be able to come out and start quick and put points on the board,\u201d Repshis said. \u201cI thought our defense did a really good job playing fast and aggressive and special teams contributed a great deal as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scranton put together its best drive of the game on its next possession, going 75 yards in 15 plays. Quarterback Chris Manning converted a fourth-and-2 with a 4-yard run to keep the drive alive and then hit Alex Esposito in the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown pass to cut the deficit to 34-7 with 3:12 left in the first half.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights\u2019 ensuing drive started at its own 14 but the Comets quickly drove down the field. Anglin had five carries for 68 yards on the drive and Kayal then hit Evan Keiper for 17-yard gain down to the 1-yard-line. Kayal snuck it in on the next play and Abington Heights led 41-7.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the defense played really well and they\u2019ve been playing really well all year,\u201d Repshis said. \u201cThey play with great effort, they run to the football. We have a lot of guys out there contributing. That effort is what we\u2019re looking for. But there\u2019s always room for improvement and that\u2019s the great thing is the opportunity to come back on Monday and work to get better as a team and I know these players will come back ready to work and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abington Heights\u2019 Jayden Anglin (26) is met with Scranton\u2019s Alex Esposito at Abington Heights Football Stadium in South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-313160","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\/313160","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=313160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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