Ayden Aversa made an impact in all three facets of the game, scoring in three different ways as Old Forge beat Holy Cross for the 21st straight time, 37-6, in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division III game on a chilly night at Old Forge Veterans Memorial Stadium in Old Forge.<\/p>\n
Aversa returned the opening kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown, and Cris Nino\u2019s kick gave the Blue Devils a 7-0 lead just 21 seconds into the game.<\/p>\n
A bad pitch in the endzone by Holy Cross led to a safety on the next series to put the Crusaders in a 9-0 hole. But one series later, Luca Berardi stepped in front of a Parker Harte pass and returned the interception 65 yards for a touchdown. The two-point play failed, but Holy Cross was within 9-6 at the 8:01 mark of the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Harte scored from one yard out later in the quarter to give Old Forge a 15-6 lead, and two minutes later Aversa returned an interception 55 yards for a touchdown to give Old Forge a 21-6 lead just before halftime.<\/p>\n
Old Forge increased its lead in the second half when Harte found Bobby Pezzuti for a 10-yard touchdown to give the Blue Devils a 27-6 lead with 6:17 left in the third quarter. Elio Castaldi blocked a punt for a safety late in the third, and Aversa found paydirt from 5 yards out with 5:02 left in the game for the final touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayden Aversa made an impact in all three facets of the game, scoring in three different ways as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-313326","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\/313326","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=313326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}