Northport Youth Football Report

5/6 Black Tigers 7 vs. East Islip 21

Saturday morning on a wet field and a steady rainfall the Tigers faced a bigger team from East Islip. While it was a daunting task the Tigers came out with their "A" game. Tim McLam started the game off with a 25 yard scamper. Quinn Reynolds took the ensuing snap, dropped back and hit Luka Elmaleh for a 20 yard touchdown strike. The defense took the field and allowed a lone score to even things up heading in to the half. 3rd quarter highlights on offense included a 20 yard reception by Quinn Reynolds and a 10 yard run by Quinn Napolitano. Tough running by Danny DeMarco and Julien Bush was also featured. Great work on the line by the Valenti brothers and Connor Hennigman. The 4th quarter was upon the Tigers and a score would seal the deal for East Islip. On the first play from scrimmage they cashed in for a touchdown and immediately for another one on the next play. The Tigers still had some fight left in them. James O'Malley busted through the line on 2 separate plays for 2 solo tackles, and the Tigers gang tackled their way to prevent any further damage. That was Tiger pride at its best *******************************************************************

5/6 Red Tigers 63 vs. East Islip 21

On a soggy Saturday morning Northport fielded the ball first and set the tone with a quick touchdown. The Tigers went on to dominate the game on both sides of the ball. In this fiery offensive effort, Michael Evans and Preston Carey led the team with 2 touchdowns each and Thomas O'Brien, Lee Faber, William Meyer, Jace DiPalo, and Anthony Lang also scored touchdowns. Defensively, Ryan McCloskey, and Thomas O'Brien showed their authority with 3 tackles each. William Meyer came up big with 3 tackles and 1 assist, and Preston Carey led with 4 tackles and 1 assist. The young Tigers executed very nicely as a team, with contributions from everyone. It was a nice showing dedicated to the Tiger cheerleaders who made their debut for the first time in the 5/6 division. Thanks to Theresa Catrone and the cheerleading program for supporting the 5/6 division home games. *******************************************************************

7/8 yr old Red Tigers 19 vs. Deer Park Falcons 0 On Sunday afternoon on home turf the Tigers got off to a fast start and never looked back. On the second play from scrimmage Michael Meyer made one move on a defender and out ran the rest of the Falcon defenders for a 65 yard touchdown run. Jack Sandrib followed by running in the extra point. After turning the Falcons over on a 4th and 1 the Tigers regained possession. Jacob Buell took the first snap 40 yards for what appeared to be a touchdown. A clipping penalty on the Tigers nullified the run and set the stage for Jacob Lubeck who took a handoff 45 yards for a score. On defense Jason Mohlmann recovered a fumble and the Tigers took over again. Michael Petrucelly took a handoff from Brandon Meiner and raced 45 yards for a touchdown, giving the Tigers a big lead at half. The coaching staff saw an opportunity to get everyone involved. Luke Lamendola lumbered up the middle for a big gain. Aidan Murdock had a few touches as well. Jack Tamborski took some snaps as quarterback. Great blocking up front by the trio of Mason Miller, Peter Ferrara, and Christopher Payne. Aidan Campbell had a bid for a second interception barely slip out of his hands on a great effort.                          Record 4-0 Next week vs. Smithtown *******************************************************************

9 yr old Black

Northport 6 vs. Patchogue-Medford 0

After a defense stalemate in the first half, hi-lighted by a spectacular interception by cornerback Emerson Payne, the Tigers broke ahead on a 45 yard sweep for a touchdown by halfback Rafe Carner in the 3rd quarter, to take a 6-0 lead that would end up to be the final score. In the second half, the Tigers took over the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. Anchoring the defense was a good line push by the entire line as well as blitzes up the middle by Vinny Bruno, disciplined contain by End Tristan Triolo and excellent open-field tackling by defensive backs Carner and Robbie Kennedy, who each made touchdown-saving tackles. Controlling the line of scrimmage offensively and defensively were Gavin O'Malley, Justin Baskam, Andrew Blom, and Joey Gonzalez. Also making contributions to an excellent team win were, Andrew Argyris, Ethan Koenig, Ryan Wagner, Isiah Headley and Mikey Catrone. Center Vincent Gaddis and Quarterback Tommy Fitzgerald had their typical mistake-free performances stabilizing the offense. Gavin O'Malley had two fumble recoveries in the 4TH quarter to seal the win. The Tigers evened their record at 2-2 and look to improve on that against Amytiville next week. ******************************************************************

9 yr old Blue

Tigers 32 vs. Connetquot 13

Under the lights and in front of a packed crowd at VETS Field, the Tigers pushed their record to 4-0 with a 32-13 win over the Connetquot T-Birds. The T-Birds started the game strong - scoring on long TD runs on their first drives but the Tigers matched both scores and took control of the game in the second half. Ryan Hutton and Luke Rizzo combined for all five Tiger TDs behind great blocking from Bettano, Fiorino, Felice, Fernandez, Jolly and Tittmann. Hutton’s TDs (from 1 and 60 yards) sandwiched three TD runs by Rizzo from 25, 60 and 70 yards. These long runs ignited the crowd and pumped life into the Tiger defense. The defense was led by solid efforts from Centamore, Chapman, DeMarco, Dowd, McElroy, Tiener, Tyska and especially Jude Anton and Devin Locker. Anton (at DE) and Locker (at NG) made numerous important tackles to keep the T-Birds off the scoreboard after the first quarter. Record 4-0 Next week vs. Smithtown *******************************************************************

10 yr old Black

Tigers 14 vs. Hauppauge 0

The tigers won their 3rd game in a week with another great display of team football. The offense dominated the line of scrimmage right from the start. The Tigers held the ball for most of first half. With blocking made by Nick Huxtable, Giuseppe DeMarco and Aiden Amarante, George Rosenberg and Sean Walsh were able to move the ball with little resistant’s. There wasn’t much on defense, but the biggest play came on a hurried pass by Hauppauge that was intercepted by D lineman Jackson Armstrong. Season Record 3-0 Next Week @ North Shore *******************************************************************

10 yr old Red

Tigers 16 vs. Commack 6

The Tigers beat Commack Sunday with a great team effort. Northport’s defense led by Middle Linebacker Shane Finkelstein, Outside Linebacker’s Larry Citrola, Max Romano and Joseph Sierra anchored the defense all game long. Northport put up the first score of the day in the second quarter when Tailback Ryan Parker found the end zone after being set up with tough inside running from Fullbacks Shane Finkelstein and Max Romano. The Northport defensive with great individual efforts from Nose Guard’s John McMorrow and Ted Kavanagh interior defensive lineman Francis Braun, William Hummel, William Cuttita, Anthony Canales, Nicholas Serra, Paul Peragallo, Dillon Brown, Cornerback Michael Bokina and Safety Sean D'Amaro helped to keep Commack from ever really threatening the Tigers. After halftime the Tigers took control of the game and drove deep in Commack territory. On 4th and goal from the eight yard line Quarterback Anthony Vozza rolled out to his right and hit Tight End Tommy Sandrib for the second touchdown of the game. The offensive line of Tackles Michael Morreale and Quinlan Finnegan, Center Ted Kavanagh and Guards Francis Braun and James Alden pushed the Commack defense off the line of scrimmage all day long. Downfield blocking of Wide Receivers Stephen Wyhowanec, Paul Peragallo and Dillon Brown helped set up Northport on their last scoring drive of the game when Quarterback Anthony Vozza ran the ball in from the Commack 5 yard line. After the touchdown Ryan Parker passed to Wingback Larry Citrola in the corner of the end zone to convert on the extra point and give Citrola his first score of the year. For the fourth week in a row the Tigers have demonstrated how their hard work and great effort is proving success on the football field. The coaches would like to thank the players for the commitment to hard work and dedication they are showing each week. Once again, this week was a successful overall TEAM performance with significant contributions from every member of the TEAM. We look forward to continue to build on our success and are excited to meet the upcoming challenge next week. Season Record: 4-0 Next Week: vs. Smithtown *******************************************************************

11 yr old Black

Tigers 14 vs. Commack 7

After a tough loss last week, Northport’s 11 year old BLACK team was home to face the undefeated and high scoring Commack Warriors. The game would test the Tigers HEART. After 5 plays the Warriors forced the Tigers to punt taking over at the Northport’s 32. The Warriors capitalized and scored to go up 7-0. On the Tigers second possession the Warriors would again force a punt and then proceed to drive deep into Northport territory. If the Tigers wanted to stay in the game they would need to find some HEART and dig in! It started with a QB sack by DE Justin Schmeiser, another huge tackle for a loss by OLB Jake Bonomi, and then other big hits by FS Chris Gessner, ILB Josh Taylor, ILB Justin Gerdvil and SS Sal Miccio and DT Tyler Pederson to force a turn over on downs at the Northport 6 yard line. Northport’s offense would need to respond and reward the defenses efforts. The Tigers QB Ben Sandt dropped back into his end zone, and threw a 20 yard frozen rope just over the hands of the Warriors DB and to RB Jake Bonomi who then broke a tackle and ran 74 yards to the HOUSE. The Extra Point Kick by K Ben Sand was wide left to keep the score Commack 7 Northport 6 at the end of the 1st half. The second half Northport’s D would have to set the tone if they wanted to upset. Commack offense would go on a 10 play drive to open the second half but Northport’s D bent but did not break. Big plays were made by DE Jeremy Gerdvil, NG Nick Tabert, OLB Ryan Smith, SS Sal Miccio, ILB Josh Taylor, DT Ethan Bluver and DE Nick Ford to stop the Warriors and force a turn over on downs at the Northport 36. The Tigers offense now had the chance they waited for all day and they would not disappoint the HOME crowd. Northport would go on an 11 play drive which saw tough runs by RB, Justin Gerdvil, RB Josh Taylor, and RB Sal Miccio. An illegal blocking penalty would take push them back and set up a 4th and goal at the Commack 20 yard line. Northport QB Ben Sandt dropped back again and would throw a pass to the right side of the field. As the ball was in the air Commack’s LB looking to make the big play stepped up to intercept the pass but the ball sailed just over his hands, which was caught by RB Jake Bonomi who would break 2 tackles to get in to the end zone. K Ben Sandt would drive the extra point kick thru the uprights to increase the lead to Northport 14 Commack 7. Commack would get the ball back but Northport’s D which was tested all day would answer again forcing a turnover on downs and the upset was complete giving Commack their first defeat on the year! Season Record: 3-1 Next Week @ Amityville *******************************************************************

12 yr old Black

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Tigers 20 vs. Commack 0

Northport finally gets its first win of the season over a strong Commack team 20 - 0. The game started with the defense pinning Cmk. deep in their own territory on the 3 yard line. The chaos caused by the big dogs up front, the D line Bobby Labatto, Billy Shaw, Luke Fortuna, Sean Martinov, Bobby Cogliati caused the center to snap the ball over the QB head into the end zone allowing the great DE play of Jack Atkinson to dive on the ball for a TD, extra point up the gut with Bobby Bruno. Npt 7 Cmk 0 1st qt. The linebacker of Jacob Cole, Sean Kenny, and Bobby Bruno tackled everything in there path, blitzing all morning long, The secondary of JT Starcke, James Schopp, Liam Parker, Alec D'Amaro, and Jake Cody never let anything get behind them. Now it was the offenses turn. The O line of Elias Anastasopoulos, Jack Boyle, Jacob Cole, Luke Fortuna, Bobby Cogliati, Liam Parker, Sean Martinov, Billy Shaw, and Jake Cody took control of the line scrimmage and created holes for the backs to run thru and protection for the QB Jack Atkinson to throw a perfect 30 yard completion to James Schopp, to set up Npts 2nd TD. With a joint venture run of Atkinson and Bruno up the gut and the extra point pounded in by Kenny. Npt 14 Cmk 0. Northport's third and final TD that put the icing on the cake, was set up again by the big dogs up front, the O line that allowed Alec D'Amaro to have the longest run of the day of 50 yards that put Npt deep in Cmk territory to set up a Bobby Bruno TD, no conversion. Npt 20 Cmk 0 . Another big D shut down, and Npt just ran the ball down Cmks throat with the hard pounding of David Weber, Sean Kenny, Bobby Labatto, and James Schopp to end the game deep in Cmks territory. Great game by all, solid team effort, with more wins to come. Season Record:1-3 *******************************************************************