Scituate gridders clobber Central Falls

By PETER CONNELL

Sports Writer

Scituate High Head Coach Mark Reed and his stalwart stable of football players are getting offensive. Very offensive, as far as other Division IV defensive coaches view it.

Last Friday night at Perez Field in Central Falls, the hometown Warriors scored the first touchdown of the game, then were absolutely powerless to stop the Spartans' offensive assault and ended up on the very short end of a 38-22 score.

The point total was the highest of the season for the blues, topping the 35 they piled on PCD/Wheeler and it moved them into a second-place tie with Hope in the division; both are 3-1 and a game behind undefeated Middletown. Hope visits Caito Field Saturday morning.

Jared Hanson, Jeff Winchell, Joe Notorantonio and Justin Staniorski came up large on both sides of the ball for the Spartans. All four scored touchdowns and each picked off a CF pass. Scituate's balanced offense amassed 416 total yards, 211 on the ground and 205 through the air.

The Warriors got on the board in the first quarter on a 50-yard burst by fullback Emmanuel Versaille. The PAT failed and the Spartans came back with 19 unanswered points. Senior quarterback Jared Hanson drew the blues even on a three-yard run and Mike Sherman's PAT kick put them up.

Mike Boucher bulled in from the CF one in the second quarter and Notorantonio rushed for the two-point conversion, then scored a touchdown himself later in the period from the five.

The hosts were moving in the third quarter when Winchell picked off a pass and ran it 39 yards to the end zone. In the final quarter Hanson connected twice with senior running back Justin Staniorski on 22 and 37-yard scoring passes that put the game out of reach.

"Ski" also had a big interception that stopped a CF drive. It was 32-14, SHS, at the end of the third quarter and Reed substituted freely over the final 12 minutes. The Spartans' effort and intensity were helped by the return of senior two-way lineman/linebacker Jacob Awwad who missed two games with injury.

Smithfield could do little against Tiverton in a D-III game moved to Sunday night and were outplayed for much of the contest by the Tigers, a reversal of the efforts of the previous week when the Sentinels stuffed East Greenwich, 27-8. Tiverton won, 39-13.

Coach Chris Branch saw the contest as one "in which we didn't execute defensively. We knew some of their big plays were coming but couldn't make a big play ourselves to stop them."

Senior signal-caller Tim Jamieson threw touchdown passes of 68 yards to Mike Colucci in the second quarter and nine yards to Aaron Brown in the fourth and Chris Tacelli kicked the point after Brown's TD. Tiverton put points on the board in every quarter and improved to 3-2 in D-III. The Sentinels stood 1-4 and host Moses Brown Friday at 7 p.m.

Ponaganset (5-0) drew a bye last weekend and faces Johnston (4-1) in a showdown at JHS Friday.