Senior Seamus Mahoney caught two touchdowns, and junior Will O’Loughlin and sophomore Parker Swain every caught one. Sophomore Jake Tompkins ran an interception again for a landing. Sophomore Jack Peno opened the scoring with a punt return TD and capped the day with a dashing landing. O’Loughlin additionally earned Defensive Participant of the Recreation honors after Nauset held Dennis-Yarmouth scoreless within the second half.
The morning truly started inauspiciously for the Warriors, who after kicking off to the Dolphins appeared to give up an almost 70-yard landing cross on the primary play of the sport. The rating was known as off for offensive cross interference, and Nauset proceeded to drive a three-and-out as a substitute. Jack Peno took the following punt again 60 yards to the home. He reduce as soon as, turned the nook and was gone. Brendan Peno ran within the two-point conversion.
After a pair drives sputtered out for all sides, Dennis-Yarmouth capitalized on a Nauset turnover, with senior Oliver Doto working in a rating and two-point conversion to tie the sport 8-8 within the second quarter. Not even two minutes later, Peno scrambled from strain at midfield and dropped it within the bucket for Swain to leap again forward. Peno credited the offensive line for holding off Dennis-Yarmouth’s three-man rush.
“These guys give me the time to throw,” he mentioned. “It meant every thing and it confirmed.”
On Dennis-Yarmouth’s first play following the following kickoff, freshman Darrius Mendes ran for a 55-yard landing, and the Dolphins took the lead. Nauset virtually gave the ball away once more however recovered their very own fumble, then Peno hit Mahoney for a 37-yard landing. A rivalry matchup that has steadily became a high-powered barnburner in current conferences appeared to be creating that method once more. The Warriors and Dolphins mixed for 28 factors in a lower than three-minute span.
The groups went on so as to add to what ended as a 42-point second quarter. With about 4 minutes left, Peno scrambled on the 44-yard line and located Mahoney huge open for an additional rating. Doto ran in one other landing to carry the Dolphins again inside two, the primary half ending 26-24. These had been the final factors allowed by Nauset for the remainder of the day.
On the primary drive of the second half, Peno threw a strike to O’Loughlin on a slant for an additional landing, and Mahoney took a jet sweep in for 2. With the third quarter winding down and the Dolphins going for it on fourth-and-7, Tompkins juggled and bobbled the Dennis-Yarmouth cross try, corralling it and working again the pick-6. Peno linked along with his youthful brother Jack for the two-point conversion.
“To exit and have mainly each aspect of the ball contribute — a particular crew rating, a defensive rating, some offensive scores — it feels nice,” Nauset head coach Jesse Peno mentioned. “All the pieces got here collectively. It is complimentary soccer. It’s superior.”
A Jack Peno dashing landing (two-point conversion by O’Loughlin) and an interception by junior Fin Parker put the ending touches on the dominant win to maintain the Chowder Cup trophy in Eastham for the primary time shortly.
“We simply needed to come out and show it within the second half,” Peno mentioned. “I felt like we did, and it is one of the best feeling on this planet.”
O’Loughlin was named Defensive Participant of the Recreation for Nauset. For Dennis-Yarmouth, Doto acquired Offensive Participant of the Recreation honors whereas junior Ledor Auguste was named Defensive Participant of the Recreation.
“The D-line stepped up,” O’Loughlin mentioned. “We made a bunch of performs, crammed our gaps, hit them laborious. That is all we acquired to do — gritty soccer.”
“Performed by way of adversity right this moment and simply performed their butts off,” he mentioned. “Simply so pleased with them, so it actually, it makes the season.”
