DORCHESTER — Gillette Stadium-bound Catholic Memorial took down BC Excessive, 48-27. in its annual Thanksgiving conflict behind a stellar efficiency from senior quarterback Kise Flannery.
The struggling Eagles (4-6) had every part to play for of their 63rd Thanksgiving Day sport in opposition to Tremendous Bowl-bound Catholic Memorial (9-2) at James Cotter Area.
Second-year coach Paul Zukauskas’ squad got here out robust in opposition to the Knights; after a 3 and out, they bought a fast dashing landing by sophomore tailback Isaiah Christian. The Knights have been then pressured to punt from their very own 1 and Jordan Devine blocked it and scored to make it 14-0 Eagles.
The tide turned for the remainder of the sport as on the primary play of the subsequent drive, as Harvard-bound Flannery, who can be a former BC Excessive quarterback, burst by means of the Eagles D-Line for a 70-yard dashing landing.
The Eagles’ offense had one final punch earlier than it was all CM. BC Excessive drove down the sector and capitalized with Noah Federico taking the pitch from Francesco Fautz and tossing it over the CM line to Matt Halloran to make it 20-7 Eagles.
After that, it was all Catholic Memorial.
As soon as once more, Flannery scrambled his manner by means of the Eagles protection for a 26-yard dashing landing because the Knights clawed their manner in direction of reducing the lead. The CM protection was everywhere in the Eagles as they couldn’t transfer the ball behind the stress from Boston School-bound defensive lineman Mac Fitzgerald and the shutdown secondary in Jaiden Johnson and Jackson Tucker.
The Knights took the ball and didn’t look again with a dashing landing from Christian Simmons. Eagles bought the ball again, however not for lengthy with a pressured fumble by one other former Eagle in David Ramsdell. Flannery ran his manner all the way down to the 1 and Simmons punched it in to make it a 28-20 lead on the half.
Dibiaso’s squad acquired the ball to start out the second half and saved on rolling. Flannery dumped a display screen go to backup QB and BC commit Ramar Thomas who took it 64 yards to the home to increase the CM lead.
The Eagles struggled to maneuver the ball in opposition to the persevering with stress from Fitzgerald and strongholds Liam Conlon and Orion Fernandez.
The pounding ensued much more with a landing from senior halfback Ibrahim Kaba and a bomb caught by Ramar Thomas to shut out the sport.
“Once we have been down a number of scores to start out it didn’t matter, we took it one play at a time and didn’t look again,” Flannery stated. “I didn’t let the feelings of enjoying in opposition to a few of my greatest pals from center faculty get in the way in which, I belief our guys. Now onto the large stage in opposition to Feehan.”
The Knights will end their season in opposition to the No. 2 seed Bishop Feehan at Gillette Stadium for the Div. 2 title at 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 6.
