Expand<\/a><\/p>\nDUNMORE \u2014 Noah Krzywiec provided a spark that Scranton Prep used to overcome an early deficit and the Cavaliers rolled to a 51-19 nonleague victory over Jersey Shore on Friday night at Dunmore Veterans Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n
Will McPartland ran for 119 yards and three touchdowns and passed for 172 yards and a fourth score for No. 7 Scranton Prep (5-4).<\/p>\n
However, it was three plays by Krzywiec within a six-plus minute stretch late in the first quarter and early in the second that sent the Cavaliers on their way and gave head coach Terry Gallagher his milestone 100th career win. The junior had a 50-yard reception that set up Scranton Prep\u2019s first touchdown, then had its next two scores on runs of 41 and 26 yards.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy guys up front blocked for me and made holes,\u201d said Krzywiec, who finished with 104 rushing yards and two catches for 76 yards. \u201cI just had one guy to beat, made a move, made him miss and got bunch of yards. But those guys up front played great and I can\u2019t thank them enough. They did their jobs great tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jersey Shore (6-3) took the opening kickoff and marched 76 yards in 11 plays. Bo Sechrist scored on a five-yard run and Jayden Passetti\u2019s kick gave the Bulldogs a 7-0 lead with 8:26 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep answered with a seven-play, 68-yard drive. Facing third-and-9 from its 48, Krzywiec took a screen pass 50 yards to the Jersey Shore 2. McPartland scored from there on the next play and the first of Tyler Bianchi\u2019s six extra points tied it at 7 with 4:59 to go in the first.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat got our momentum going,\u201d Krzywiec said. \u201cI got us down there and Will walked in for a nice touchdown. I think that flipped a switch. We knew we had to lock in and start playing defense. From there, I think we had a great game after that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers defense caused turnovers on the next two Jersey Shore possessions. First, Liam Haggerty had an interception. Then, Mackey Lynett forced a fumble that Jack Mendola recovered at the Bulldogs 35. A holding penalty pushed Scranton Prep back 10 yards, but two plays later Kryzwiec took an option pitch 41 yards for a touchdown that gave the Cavaliers a 14-7 lead with 23 seconds left in the first.<\/p>\n
A muffed punt snap by Jersey Shore gave the Cavaliers possession at the Bulldogs 26. On first down, Kryzwiec scored from there to extend the margin to 21-7 with 11:17 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Following a Jersey Shore punt, Scranton Prep struck again with a five-play, 56-yard drive. McPartland capped it with a 29-yard touchdown run on fourth-and-2 to make it 28-7 with 7:14 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew they always come back, so we couldn\u2019t let up,\u201d Lynett said. \u201cIt was going to be a challenge no matter what the score was. We all just came together as a family and played strong. Every single person played amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, despite the big lead, Gallagher still was wary of Jersey Shore\u2019s high-powered, hurry-up attack led by elusive sophomore quarterback Nolen Pauling. The Bulldogs did get to within 27-13 with 4:57 left in the second when Luke Ryan took a reverse 51 yards before being stripped of the ball at Scranton Prep 3. However, Carter Rhinehart recovered the fumble in the end zone for the touchdown.<\/p>\n
But Scranton Prep responded with another scoring drive. McPartland scrambled for 29 yards on third-and-13 from the Bulldogs 49, then his A.J. Croom with a 20-yard touchdown pass on the next play to make it 34-13 with 1:22 left before halftime.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get up early on those guys and they have so much firepower. If you take your foot off the pedal, they can come right back,\u201d Gallagher said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut our kids kept playing and played well. They were in their gaps. I thought the defensive line played extraordinarily well because you\u2019re terrified of him (Pauling) getting outside the pocket and he can run. I thought for the most part the kids contained him well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bulldogs coach Tom Gravish concurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were great at coming off blocks,\u201d Gravish said. \u201cWe\u2019d get some yards, have them semi-blocked, they played off blocks and hustled as a unit. I\u2019ve got to give them credit a lot of credit for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following a scoreless third quarter, Scranton Prep put the game out of reach in the fourth. Bianchi booted a 28-yard field goal with 10:03 left, McPartland had an eight-yard touchdown run with 5:15 remaining and Sean McCormack rumbled for a 32-yard touchdown reception from backup quarterback Oliver Swingle with 2:11 to play.<\/p>\n
Pauling had a 4-yard touchdown run with 7:07 left for the final Jersey Shore score.<\/p>\n
As for his 100th career win, Gallagher shared the credit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has more to with the kids in the program that have been there for all these years, the great group of assistant coaches I have, the faculty at the school, the administration, the parents, even maintenance people,\u201d Gallagher said. \u201cIt takes a village to run successful football programs. You have to have kids buy in because they\u2019re the most important part. We\u2019ve been fortunate to have some really good kids. Sometimes people aren\u2019t always going to be happy, but the goal isn\u2019t about everybody\u2019s feelings. It\u2019s about making sure the kids can become the best football players and more importantly the best student-athletes we can make them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton Prep\u2019s Liam Haggerty latches on to Jersey Shore\u2019s Carson Watkins during the football game at Dunmore High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-6732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-high-school-sports","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732","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=6732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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