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Pomfret School
Football
Pomfret 60 Kent 26
Oct. 30: The Pomfret Griffins, from the opening kickoff,played very good football and came away with a 60-26 win. Conor Quinn amazed everyone with an outstanding day running the ball, with 363 yards on the ground and 3 touchdowns and an interception on defense as well. Danny Metzgar added one throwing touchdown to Ryan Lawler and ran two more in for a very good day at quarterback.He was 5-7 with 110 yards threw the air.Ben Sukonik played his best game on defense with a 3 interception day and some very good hits and tackles. Ben also kicked 6 xtra points on the day.Touchdowns were also added by Brian Hickey.Alex Harris and Kevin Hutchinson.
Varsity Soccer
Pomfret 0 Wilbraham 2
Oct. 30: We could not finish. The boys traveled to Wilbraham to take on a struggling Titians team and out shot them 24-8, yet lost 2-0. It means the end of a possible play-off run as Pomfret will drop in the rankings and does not have the quality games to play to recover. The game started quickly as Pomfret was ready and right away we had good movement down the side with wings Tim Haggerty and Dave St. Lawrence. Feeding them in the quick transition game was Chris Alves and Diego Briones who made some nice overlapping runs as well. Dave had a monster game as he registered six shots but just could not find the netting but also created many nice through balls—especially the second half. Wilbraham packed it in and left two up top. That meant that the whole middle field was wide open, and it was a huge field. The long ball and balls up the middle did not work because of the defensive strategy. Coach Cook has a very hard working and disciplined team. Thus we had to run the ball and draw a defender to take create space. Matt Bourdeau did this time and again and then so did Charlie Gruner. They would then look to distribute to the wings or wing halves. We moved Dave into the middle—almost a third striker spot and Chris, Diego, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Kozlowski wasted no time in getting him the ball. Dave would then run a line to the outside back to the opposite wing half or to the strikers.
There were great opportunities early as Tim and then Chris Grandi and Brian Lawler all had good opportunities. Then Brian Lawler was hauled down in the box as he made a run. It was in the box but an indirect—a rare call. We misread the play and “scored” off the shot but since no one touched it, the goal was disallowed.
This gave the Titians life, and they started to bang balls to the forward players. We had started with Max King in the middle for the backs with Kyle Lasewicz playing all the way back but then moved Max up front—where he had some great chances—and put Matt Bourdeau there—once again all over the place today and registering a number of quality shots from that spot. This gave us a little more experience at that spot and it worked. The middle was the tiring spot as we rotated Charlie, Chris Alves, Jack and Matt through. It was a great deal of vertical transition running. On plays where Matt was tired, Kyle would make runs up through himself and then distribute or get a shot off of his own. On the outside wings were the old reliable in Ray Zeek and Evan Hoffman. Both got to demonstrate their dribbling skills as they too pushed it up the sidelines and made the defense commit when they distributed. Remy Hatfield was back for the first game after a month off for his appendectomy and had some good minutes and gave both Evan and Ray a blow.
Wilbraham then scored on a mix up off a corner in the box that AJ seemed to have but the ruling was that it had crossed the line. These disheartened the boys, but it also seemed to energize them as they redoubled their efforts and created more chances. Pomfret had 17 chances in the second half alone. But a few minutes later, with Pomfret pushing forward, Wilbraham created a long ball two on two in the back, which left Pomfret vulnerable, and the speed of Wilbraham’s top striker Gottschall created a break away where AJ had no chance. AJ was solid all day in a tough waiting game style of play.
That made the score 2-0 and the boys pushed forward again creating chance after chance in the final minutes and were just unable to push it home. The team is 5-5-1.