Health & Fitness
OA Freshmen Football Team Stays Undefeated by Win over KP
Freshman football team goes 5-0 after beating an undefeated King Phillip squad in Wrentham on a sunny Thursday afternoon. OA is the only undefeated team remaining in the Hockomock Division.
The OA squad continued its well-balanced attack on offense and hard-hitting defense to beat an undefeated KP team 26-12 at King Philip Thursday.
Quarterback John McMillan started the scoring with a nice 35-yard TD pass to Jordan Schuster-Southern than hit him with a 2-point conversion to go up 8-0 in the first quarter.
McMillan continued to lead the offense with a 40 yard run on the next possession leading to a 3-yard TD run by fullback Joey Tepper.
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KP's explosive running game started to kick into gear until a fumble on the OA 20- yard line was recovered by Schuster-Southern. McMillan than completed three passes to a busy Schuster-Southern for a total of 60 yards including a 3-yard TD pass to make the score 20-6 at halftime.
Both defenses held the other team scoreless in the third quarter and KP got on the scoreboard with a TD to start the fourth quarter but missed on the 2-point conversion.
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The Tigers kept the clock moving by utilizing their strong running back tandem of Tepper and Mike Ferrara and ended with a three yard TD run by Tepper to make the final score 26-12.
The 5 and 0 Tigers are in Foxborough next Thursday at 3:30pm.
