Eighth Grade Football: Wilton Blue 34 - Weston 12

The Wilton Blue offense piled up five touchdowns on Saturday afternoon while the defense laid siege to the Weston Trojans resulting in a dominant 34-12 victory for the Warriors in the bright sunshine at Weston Trojan stadium.

The Warriors took the opening possession and employed a ground and pound attack to march 70 yards for a touchdown on 15 consecutive running plays. Maden Herve, Jack Savarese, Dominick Polito, Jack Lenz, Steven Tuin, Jimmy O’Brien and Hunter Parks manhandled Weston’s huge defensive line, paving the way for Austin Andersen, Kyle Hyzy, Andrew Smith and Reilly Sullivan to churn out the yards. The drive was punctuated by Hyzy’s one yard off-tackle TD run. Herve drilled the PAT for a 7-0 lead.

Efficiently mixing runs and passes, the Trojans put together a long drive of their own, eventually scoring on a 15 yard pass. While Kyle Hyzy clearly intercepted the pass in the end zone the referee inexplicably ruled a touchdown for Weston. Their extra point attempt failed leaving the Warriors with a 7-6 lead.

A fired up Warrior offense answered right back as Hyzy’s pass hit O’Brien in stride on a beautiful down, out and up route for a 57 yard score. The extra point by Herve was good for a 14-6 lead.

A swarming Warrior defense, anchored by freshly bar mitzvahed Noah Levi, shut the Trojans down on their next possession, forcing a punt, which resulted in great field position for Wilton at the 50.

Following the lead blocks of Andersen, Sullivan and Hyzy slashed through the Trojan defense finally hitting pay dirt on a 10 yard run by Hyzy. Again the extra point was good leaving the score 21-6 at the half.

The Warrior defense came back onto the field after halftime and resumed the siege of Troy. Wilton’s Trojan horse came in the form of Andersen, O’Brien and Lenz, who infiltrated the backfield and together buried the ball carrier for a big loss. Down two scores, the Trojans attempted to convert on fourth down, but Hyzy and O’Brien sniffed out the screen pass and dumped the receiver for a loss, handing the Warriors the ball at their opponents’ 30.

On the ensuing drive, Hyzy’s perfect spiral was hauled in by Polito at the one. The Warriors were pushed back by penalty to the 16 where a pass attempt was intercepted by the Trojan safety, ending the drive.

The defense held firm forcing Weston to punt. Polito, who was stopped a yard shy on the previous possession, would not be denied this time, scoring on a 10 yard run with the help of blocks by Ryan Healy and Sullivan for a 28-6 lead.

On Weston’s next possession the defense came up big again as Healy picked off a pass at the goal line and returned the ball to the 14. Eight plays later, Mathew Antonios ripped off a nifty 53 yard touchdown scamper to balloon the score to 34-6.

Weston added a touchdown on the game’s last play to narrow the final score to 34-12.

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