The Swampscott High Big Blue football team found their offensive groove against St. Mary?s (of Lynn) on Sept. 12, scoring 39 points.
Unfortunately, they gave up 64 points to the Spartans and dropped to 0-2 on the season in the 64-39 loss.
?Hopefully it?s a learning experience for us. We?ll work hard in practice all week and get ready to go on Friday,? quarterback Brendan McDonald said.
Swampscott heads over to Winthrop Friday night, never an easy place to play. The Vikings are coming off a nice 20-6 win over Saugus, and they love to beat the Big Blue.
?We just played two very talented teams, we made improvements from Week 1 to Week 2. We need to make greater improvements heading into Week 3 in Winthrop,? Ben Faulkner said. ?I think it?s going to be a very tough game, but we?re going to be ready for it.?
Swampscott will play league games starting Saturday, Sept. 28 at home against Marblehead. Despite the 0-2 start, the Blue can rip off three or four wins over the next few weeks and, if that happens, they can be smack in the middle of the playoff race.
?Just one game at a time, that?s it. Everybody has to play their game and the wins will come,? Faulkner said.
?Winthrop wants to beat us. They always want to beat us, they?re going to come out flying against us. It?s a big rivalry. The atmosphere there (in Winthrop) is always crazy, so we have to be ready,? McDonald said. ?We have to match them, keep the foot on the gas and come out of there with a win. We can still run the table here and move forward, and surprise a lot of people.?
?It?s a great, long rivalry, we?re both Division 4 teams, and we need this game. It?s a chance for us to play a complete game. We?re not going to see the same size we saw against St. Mary?s, and hopefully the offense can build off the second half and keep moving forward,? head coach Steve Dembowski said. ?That?s the key ? keep moving forward, keep getting better and start winning some games, we control our own destiny.?
Dembowski certainly had no fear of St. Mary?s prior to Friday night.
?We knew they were an excellent team when we put them on the schedule. They?re well-coached, they have good players,? Dembowski said. ?We were going score for score with them, and we almost cut it to a two-score game. We didn?t get in and they came right back, made it a three-score game and that was it.?
There were several highlights for the Blue. Quarterback Brendan McDonald ran for 71 yards and tossed three touchdowns passes. Ben Faulkner scored twice along with TDs from Ryan Cresta, Trevor Kelly and Maleek Newsome. Cresta?s score came on a kickoff return to start the second-half that covered 85 yards.
?We played decent on defense, but we did struggle at times, too. We cut it to 10 points (24-14 on Cresta?s score) right away. It went back and forth in the third, and in the fourth, unfortunately, we didn?t convert one drive,? Dembowski said.
?That was a pretty crazy game. They just kept beating us on defense, we made adjustments and we couldn?t get it to work,? McDonald said. ?We did a lot of good things, we moved the ball, we got a special teams TD, we just didn?t make the stops on defense.?
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