Tewksbury Pride D-1 Varsity Stays Perfect; D2 JV Clips Merrimack

(Editor's note: The following inforamtion was submitted by the coaches and administration of Tewksbury Youth Football.)

Tewksbury Jr High Div 1 Varsity
Pride 44  Derry 14
Tewksbury improved to 4-0 on the season led by their offensive line consisting of Broc Dokos,T.J. Contalonis,Billy Bennett,Jon Grundhoff,Alex Regan and Chris Cabral.QB Brett Morris led the attack along with Troy Carey,Adam Gajjaoui,Steve Hamel,Nate Tenaglia,Stephan Bonugli.Tewksbury was led on defence by lineman Bennet,Grundhoff, Contalonis and linebackers Dokos and Gajjaoui.

Tewksbury Jr High Div 1 JV
Derry 20 Pride 12   
 Tewksbury led by QB Chad Oliveira played well against Derry,the offensive line led by center Dom DeSisto played well,Tyler Harrington played well on both sides of the ball as well as Nick Zullo who blocked a punt as well,Dylan McAteer had a good game at conerback.

Tewksbury Youth Football – Ending 10.9.2011

Division:  Northeast Junior High Football

Team:  Division 2 Varsity

Score:  Merrimack, NH 30 Tewksbury 0  

Division:  Northeast Junior High Football

Team:  Division 2 Junior Varsity

Score:  Tewksbury 8   Merrimack, NH 6

Tewksbury Division 2 JV played a strong game against Merrimac NH on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.  Mohammed Yatim scored all the points in the second quarter on a 3 yard TD and the extra point to make the score 8-6.  Nick Georgopoulos, Matt McLaughlin, and QB Mike Teague ran hard to keep the ball away from Merrimack. 

On defense, Nick Georgopoulos, Rafael Perez and Rory Foley applied a tone of pressure on the offense.  Tewksbury held on to win 8-6 for a 2 game winning streak.   The Division 2 Varsity lost 30-0.

The Division 2 would like to thank the Cheerleaders for a great job cheering in both games.

Division:  Seacoast                 

Team:  Tewksbury Red Pride A

Score:  Exeter East 24 Tewksbury Red Pride A 12

Seacoast Red Pride A team drops a tough one and the B team captures a last minute victory over the visiting Exeter East squads.

The day began with an A team clash which saw the Seacoast Red Pride coming up short 24-12 verse the visitors.  Battling numerous injuries, several players such as Jonny Spinelli, Trace Trant and Steven Wilson all answered the challenge to support their ailing teammates in new roles.

The Offense saw standout efforts by Giovanni Ciampa who gathered chucks of hard earned yards on the ground and scored the first touchdown of the day from 15yds out.  Also running back Kyle Zervas saw action in the game and made the most of his opportunity which was highlighted by a spectacular 60yd run around the edge to paydirt.   Other supporters were offensive lineman Nick Heinze and Jackson Deroche.

The Defense had extraordinary efforts by Mason Brown who had two pass deflections and a pair of solo tackles,  Zach Frontain capturing two tackles for a loss of yards and Jared Mason who supported the team with a fumble recovery.  Ciampa had a great day on defense as well tallying two sacks, a tackle for a loss and was involved in numerous tackles