Roe compiled seven catches for 220 yards and two touchdowns and added a rushing touchdown, and Dempsey completed 11 of 13 passes for 269 yards and three touchdowns with and interception, as No. 6 Valley View defeated No. 3 Honesdale, 42-21, on Friday night in the District 2 Class 4A football quarterfinals at Honesdale High School.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Cougars will visit No. 2 North Pocono, a 42-7 winner of Carbondale Area, in the semifinals next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we played great,\u201d Roe said. \u201cIt was big all week, especially for a good team like Honesdale. They have a great coach in George Howanitz and we just had a good game plan and we just came out and executed. We all played great.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Valley View forced a three-and-out on the first possession and stymied a fake punt, Roe scored his first touchdown on a 5-yard run to give the Cougars a 7-0 lead with 8:48 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Then, Honesdale (8-3) drove into the Valley View red zone, but the Cougars forced a fumble and Mason Mitchell jumped on the loose ball.<\/p>\n
Facing third-and-19, Dempsey hit Roe for 25 yards to extend the drive. Six plays later, Dempsey hit Brady Backman in the middle of the field for a 37-yard touchdown with 5:45 left in the second quarter. Bobby MacDowell blocked the extra point to keep the score at 13-0.<\/p>\n
The teams traded three-and-outs before MacDowell got his hands on another kick, this time a punt, to set up the Hornets on the Valley View 22.<\/p>\n
Gabe Duda capped the drive with a 3-yard touchdown run to cut the deficit to 13-7 with 36 seconds left in the half.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Anuszewski ran for 15 yards, before Dempsey threw a back-shoulder pass to Roe, who leaped and came down with the reception for a 33-yard gain to put Valley View at the Honesdale 26. However, two plays later, Duda intercepted Dempsey\u2019s pass to keep the score at 13-7 at the half.<\/p>\n
The Cougars (6-5) faced a fourth-and-4 after the third-quarter kickoff, and Dempsey once again turned to Roe, as he hit the receiver on a quick slant and Roe sprinted for a 42-yard touchdown to give Valley View a 21-7 lead with 8:39 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been working all summer, and that\u2019s just the connection we have,\u201d Roe said. \u201cGrowing up, he\u2019s always been my quarterback, and I always know we\u2019re always on the same page and we\u2019re always going to get that.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Jeffrey Wasilchak stopped Dontae Joseph for no gain on third-and-2 to force a punt, Dempsey hit Roe down the left sideline, and Roe bowled over a Honesdale defender before he was tackled at the Hornets 5 for a 79-yard gain.<\/p>\n
Dempsey capped the drive with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Ben Evans for a 28-7 lead with 3:50 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Honesdale answered when Joseph ran for a 26-yard touchdown with 11:10 left in the fourth.<\/p>\n
However, Dempsey once again hit a diving Roe in the corner of the end zone for a 7-yard TD, as Valley View pushed the lead to 35-14 with 6:30 left in the fourth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s big on the team,\u201d Roe said. \u201cIn practice, we always rely on each other and I know they\u2019ve got my back, so the least I can do is make plays for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thirteen seconds later, Abe Bryant hit Jake Ramos, who finished with five catches for 137 yards, down the left sideline for an 80-yard score.<\/p>\n
Patrisso recovered the ensuing onside kick, but Witkowski put the game away with his interception.<\/p>\n
Tristan Smith added a 33-yard touchdown run, and Nico Castellani tacked on an interception for the Cougars.<\/p>\n
Duda tried to play through an injury to his right arm that he suffered in the third quarter, but ultimately left the game just before the start of the fourth. The star senior running back finished with 81 yards rushing and a touchdown on 19 carries, an interception and a sack. He ends his season with 1,750 yards rushing and 30 touchdowns on 182 carries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valley View\u2019s Brady Bachman runs toward the end zone after catching a pass in the second quarter during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-323247","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\/323247","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=323247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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