Harvey's Varsity Football Team Beats New York Military Academy, 32-6

Photo: Junior quarterback Tom Smith was 8-12 in passing for 141 yards and two TDs in Harvey’s 32-6 win over NYMA Saturday, Nov. 1. Photo credit: Gabe Palacio

The following game recap is from The Harvey School:

The Harvey Varsity football team ended the regular season Saturday, Nov. 1, on a high note with a convincing 32-6 victory at home against New York Military Academy. The Cavaliers made their last home game of the season a memorable one, racking up 427 offensive yards and thoroughly dominating the NYMA Knights on both sides of the ball.

Harvey scored first on a 15-yard pass from junior quarterback Tom Smith to Javen Stepp-Davis. Senior Jared Finkel intercepted a short NYMA pass and Harvey scored again two minutes later on a four-yard run by senior Ricky Hicks. The Knights scored their only points on the next drive after a 44-yard reverse play put the ball on the Harvey two-yard line. Stepp-Davis blocked the extra point and the first quarter ended with Harvey on top 16 - 6.

Smith, a junior captain, struck again in the second period on a bootleg pass finding junior Joe O’Connell wide open in the end-zone, hitting him with a 32-yard TD pass. Harvey’s final touchdown of the day came on a two-yard run by sophomore Teddy Little on the last play of the third quarter.

Smith completed eight of 12 passes for 141 yards and two touchdowns. Harvey’s ground attack pounded out 286 total yards and two TDs with Hicks and Little leading the way with 112 and 111 yards, respectively. Stepp-Davis, a junior captain, debuted at tight end and led the team with five catches for 69 yards and a TD. O’Connell added one catch for 32 yards and a TD.

Finkel led the defense with five tackles and an interception while Stepp-Davis made five tackles and blocked an extra point. Also coming up big on defense were freshman John Sullivan of Pound Ridge with four tackles, senior Jameson Scarsella with three tackles and a recovered fumble and Little and O’ Connell with three tackles apiece. Junior Jordan Washington had two tackles and an interception.

The Cavaliers will travel to Dwight Englewood Sunday, Nov. 9, for a Hudson Valley Football League bowl game to decide third place in the conference. It will be a rematch of the two teams that met in September in a game Harvey lost 21-20 when the Cavaliers opted to try for the win but failed to make the two-point conversion in the final seconds of the game.