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Saturday September 04, 2010

Vinny Servadio rushed 23 times for 176 yards and scored five touchdowns and New Hartford unleashed a powerful running game as the Spartans opened the football season with a 42-12 nonleague victory over Jamesville-DeWitt Friday at Don Edick Field. The Spartans rolled for 375 rushing yards behind a strong offensive line led by Jeff Cesare, Zach Shipley, Bryan Hoffman, Joe Talarico and Connor Cough. Mike Szczesniak added 99 yards on 16 carries, and Nick Levanti had 78 and a touchdown on 14 carries. Ahkeem Williams scored on a 1-yard run for J-D, and threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to Curtis Walker. Tyler Kallassy, Mike White and Jeff Cesare led a strong defense for New Hartford, which yielded 102 yards on the ground - 67 to Williams on 17 carries - and 120 in the air. The Spartans held a modest 12-0 lead at the half on a pair of 1-yard plunges by Servadio. they opened an 18-0 lead with a 66-yard drive at the start of the third quarter, capping it with yet another Servadio 1-yard run. New Hartford essentially put the game away when Servadio rumbled 35 yards to the 5, then scored two plays later from, again, from the 1. That made it 26-0 midway through the third quarter. New Hartford 42, Jamesville-DeWitt 12 Jamesville-DeWitt 0 0 6 6 - 12 New Hartford 6 6 14 16 - 42 First Quarter NH: Vinnie Servadio 1 run (pass failed). Second Quarter NH: Servadio 1 run (pass failed). Third Quarter NH: Servadio 1 run (run failed). NH: Servadio 1 run (Servadio run). J-D: Ahkeem Williams 1 run (run failed). Fourth Quarter NH: Nick Levanti 2 run (run good). Overtime J-D: Curtis Walker 70 pass from Williams (run failed). NH: Servadio 1 (John Calabrese run).  

Whitesboro 59, Oswego 0 Steve Almond ran for four touchdowns and 146 yards on 12 carries as Whitesboro High School rolled over Oswego. Sophomore Matt Felitto rushed for 83 yards and two scores.

Whitesboro’s defense dominated the game, allowing 60 total yards.

Read the complete story in Saturday’s Observer-Dispatch. Herkimer 24, Frankfort-Schuyler 16 Sean Crandall ran for 115 yards and two touchdowns and threw for 92 yards and a score to lead the Magicians. Herkimer had seven takeaways for the game, and Wesley Bunce accounted for three of them. Bunce recovered a fumble and intercepted two passes, the last of which came with 54 seconds to play at midfield to seal the win. Terry Oldfield led the Herkimer defense with eight tackles and an interception. Mike Tomaino led Frankfort-Schuyler with 83 yards and a touchdown on nine carries, and Pat Fracolla ran for 76 yards. Joe Cooper threw for 111 yards, and Gerald Post caught two passes for 85 yards and had a touchdown run. Herkimer 14 7 3 0 - 24 Frankfort-Schuyler 0 0 16 0 - 16 First Quarter H - Sean Crandall 37 run (Teddy Borek kick). H - Adrian Viscome 12 pass from Crandall (Borek kick). Second Quarter H - Crandall 1 run (Borek kick). Third Quarter F-S - Gerald Post 8 run (Mike Tomaino run). F-S - Tomaino 20 run (Vinny Fumarola pass from Joe Cooper). H - Borek 33 FG. Proctor 54, Auburn 26 Sophomore quarterback Jordan Treen completed 11 of 12 passes for 348 yards, threw for three touchdowns and ran for two as Thomas R. Proctor High School ripped Auburn in the team's Class AA-2 season opener. Running back Richard Pete scored three touchdowns, caught four passes for 172 yards and carried six times for 67. On defense, linebacker Nick Wilsey made 10 tackles. Proctor 12 14 21 7 - 54 Auburn 6 6 0 14 - 26 First Quarter a - Humphrey 10 run (pass failed) P - Treen to Pete, 72 pass (kick blocked) P - Treen 1 run (kick failed) Second Quarter P - Elliot 57 pass from Tree (pass failed) a - McGriff 1 run (run failed) P - Pete 35 run (Heinrich run) Third Quarter P - Pete 80 pass from Treen (Perotta kick) P - Treen 3 run (Perotta kick) P - Elliott 19 run (Perotta kick) Fourth Quarter a - McGriff 25 run (Granato run) a - McGriff 2 run (pass failed) P - Peece 50 run (Perotta kick) RFA 26, Liverpool 9 Jordan Henry's eight-yard touchdown run in the second quarter gave RFA the lead, and Kyle Hash threw two second-half touchdown passes in the Black Knights' Class AA-1 win over Liverpool. Henry ran for 53 yards on nine carries and a touchdown. Hash ran for 43 yards and was 4-for-11 for 98 yards with a pair of 30-yard touchdown passes to Zach Barrigar and Josh Royce. Dominique Griggs led RFA (1-0, 1-0) with 73 yards rushing on 11 carries. The Black Knights play at Thomas R. Proctor (1-0, 1-0) next Friday. Proctor defeated Auburn 54-26 in its opener on Friday night. Charlie Zonnevylle had nine tackles and forced a fumble for RFA. Dan Secor added eight tackles and cornerback Aaron Tennant had an interception and forced a fumble. Liverpool 3 6 0 0 - 9 RFA 0 14 6 6 - 26 First Quarter L - Conner Rogers 30 FG Second Quarter L - Raymar Temple 1 run (kick failed). RFA - Rich Stapleton 2 run (Dylan Thomas kick). RFA - Jordan Henry 8 run (Thomas kick). Third Quarter RFA - Zach Barrigar 30 pass from Kyle Hash (kick failed). Fourth Quarter RFA - Josh Royce 30 pass from Hash (kick blocked). Westhill 38, VVS 28 Mark McAnaney threw for 217 yards, 183 yards to Nathan Nigolian and Nigolian caught all three of McAnaney's touchdown passes in Westhill's nonleague win over VVS. Westhill (1-0) broke a tie game with 17 points in the fourth quarter. Matt Trendowski scored on a 76-yard run, R.J. Chester kicked a 35-yard field goal and Nigolian returned one of his two interceptions 36 yards for another touchdown to seal the Warriors' victory. Trendowski ran for 93 yards, added 13 tackles and recovered a fumble. Collin Way scored on a pair of touchdown runs for VVS (0-1).   VVS 6 8 7 7 - 28 Westhill 7 7 7 17 - 38 First Quarter VVS - Collin Way 14 run (kick failed). W - Joe Snyder 20 pass from Mark McAnaney (R.J. Chester kick). Second Quarter W - Nathan Nigolian 30 pass from McAnaney (Chester kick). VVS - Eli Cleveland 24 pass from Tyler Mautner (Cleveland pass from Mautner). Third Quarter VVS - Matt Sliker 74 punt return (Cole Barbano kick). W - Nigolian 66 pass from McAnaney (Chester kick). Fourth Quarter VVS - Way 7 run (Barbano kick). W - Matt Trendowski 76 run (Chester kick). W - Chester 35 FG W - Nigolian 36 interception return (Chester kick). East Syracuse-Minoa 33, Camden 28 Joe O'Rourke completed 14 of 18 passes for 152 yards and a touchdown, and Camden recovered an onside kick with about a minute and a half to go, but the Blue Devils' last effort came up short Friday at the Carrier Dome. Jake Clark ran for 59 yards and a touchdown and caught four passes for 42 yards. ES-M 6 0 20 7 - 33 Camden 14 0 7 7 - 28 First Quarter C - Jake Clark 13 run (David Zeiders kick) ES-M - Bobby Campese 28 pass from Tyler Johnson (kick failed) C - Joe O'Rourke 7 run (Zeiders kick). Third Quarter ES-M - Jeff McDuffie 8 run (McDuffie pass from Johnson). C - Jack Keil 18 pass from O'Rourke (Zeiders kick). ES-M - Johnson 23 run (pass failed). ES-M - Jordan Barton 3 run (pass failed) Fourth Quarter ES-M - Johnson 3 run (D.J. Squires kick). C - Keil 3 pass from O'Rourke (Zeiders kick). Mount Markham 14, Clinton 8 Cody Evans ran for 137 yards and a touchdown, and John LaPerla rushed for 66 yards and a score to lead Mount Markham. Josh Holtham (five solo) and Josh Diehl (four solo) each finished with 10 tackles, and Lance Treen and Colton Evans each had an interception for the Mustangs. Clinton 0 0 0 8 - 8 Mt. Markham 0 12 2 0 - 14 Second Quarter MM - Cody Evans 57 run (pass failed). MM - John LaPerla 1 run (pass failed). Third Quarter MM - Zach Aney tackle in end zone safety. Fourth Quarter C - scoring unavailable. Canastota 34, Sherburne-Earlville 15 Canastota rolled up 249 yards rushing and capitalized on Sherburne turnovers in the Raiders' Class C South victory. Jamie Meade led Canastota's ground game with 63 yards and a touchdown. Zack Zupan added 54 yards on 11 carries and made nine tackles. Jeff Merrell ran for 41 yards and a touchdown and had eight tackles for Canastota (1-0, 1-0), which intercepted Sherburne twice and recovered two Marauders' fumbles. Sherburne-Earlville 0 0 7 8 - 15 Canastota 6 8 14 6 - 34 First Quarter C - Kyle Sanford 24 run (kick failed). Second Quarter C - Jeff Merrell 25 run (Merrell run). Third Quarter C - Richard Mitchell 29 pass from Merrell (kick failed). S-E - Chris Santiago 35 run (Justin Coye kick). C - Jamie Meade 4 run (Meade run). Fourth Quarter C - Alex Foster 17 run (kick failed). S-E - Manuel Moreno 65 kickoff return (Cole Hodge pass from Ethan Johnson). Cooperstown 33, Mohawk 8 Alec Silvera ran for three touchdowns and kicked three extra points as Cooperstown spoiled Mohawk's first night home game. Coley Graham also ran for two touchdowns for the winners and Carson Murphy scored Mohawk's only TD. Cooperstown 6 6 14 7 - 33 Mohawk 0 0 0 8 - 8 First Quarter C-Alec Silvera 15 run (kick failed) Second Quarter C-Coley Graham 30 run (kick failed) Third Quarter C-Graham 13 run (Silvera Kick) C-Silvera 74 run (Silvera kick) Fourth Quarter M-Carson Murphy 5 run (Murphy run) C-Silvera 25 run (Silvera kick) Contributing: John Pitarresi, Ron Moshier, Anne Delaney, Fran Perritano