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Summit took on Morris Hills in the first round of the Sectional Tournament and had to dig deep for the victory. Morris Hills gave notice that they were going to be tough on to opening drive. They took the opening kickoff and moved quickly to a first down at the Summit 20 yard line. Summit didn’t seem to have an answer to Morris Hills’ Isaiah Turner. However, for some reason they turned to the pass and on 4th down Andrew Helmer intercepted and returned the ball to the Summit 33. Summit moved to score in 8 plays helped by the running of Chris Zanelli and Peter McKinlay passes to Helmer (12 yards), Sean Andrews (16 yards) and a 30 yd TD pass to Drew Mulholland. Zanelli scored the 2-point PAT.
The Summit fans were beginning to feel pretty good at this point. However, Morris Hills dominated play over the remaing 18 minutes of the half. A Morris Hills drive stalled on the Summit 6 and Knights settled for a field goal, Then two possessions later they took advantage of a short Summit punt and scored and Summit went to the lockers down 11-8. To add to misery, Peter McKinlay was injured and out of the game. That meant that all three quarterbacks (Richson, Froschauer and McKinlay) were now out of action.
Well, Chris Zanelli really stepped forward to shoulder the burden. He ran the 2nd half kickoff to 45 yards to the Morris Hills 45 and then carried the ball 5 straight times, ending in the end zone. In fact of the 25 Summit plays in the half, all but 6 were carries by Zanelli.
Morris Hills didn’t go quietly as they scored again to retake the lead at 17 -15. On the next possession the running of Zanelli ( with help from Spencer Sink) put Summit on the MH 29 yardline. Summit caught Morris Hills flat footed on 3rd and long. Zanelli pitched out to Helmer but instead of running Helmer threw to a wide open Vincent Bonomo in the endzone with no defenders within 20 yards. Zanelli put the game away on the next Summit possession carrying most of the load in 67 yard drive.
Summit will take on Parsippany Hills next Saturday at home in a Sectional semifinal .
| Scoring Sequence 1st Quarter S - Mulholland 30 yd pass from McKinlay, Zanelli run MH 22 yd field Goal 2nd Quarter MH - 1 yd run, run by Turner 3rd Quarter S - Zanelli 3 yd run, Umana kick MH - 4 yd run, kick failed S - Bonomo 29 yd pass from Helmer, Umana kick 4th Quarter S - Zanelli 1 yd run, Umana kick |
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Individual Statistics RUSHING Chris Zanelli 28-173, Spencer Sink 3-16, Peter McKinlay 4-14, Andrew Helmer 1-1, PASSING Peter McKinlay 8-5-1-73 1 TDs, Andrew Helmer 1-1-0-29 1 TDs, RECEIVING Drew Mulholland 1-30, Vincent Bonomo 1-29, Sean Andrews 2-29, Andrew Helmer 1-12, Chris Zanelli 1-2, RETURNS Andrew Helmer 2-59, Chris Zanelli 2-43, PUNTING Anthony Campanelli 1-21, Paulo Umana 1-11, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Defensive Statistics TOTAL TACKLES Sean Andrews 11, Stevie Rainero 11, Spencer Sink 9, Liam Dougherty 8, Andrew Helmer 7, Michael Maldonado 6, Peter McKinlay 5, Vincent Bonomo 4, Teddy Cranley 3, Patrick Maloney 2, Robbie Faris 2, Colin Andrews 2, Danny Petrela 1, TACKLES FOR LOSS Sean Andrews 1, Stevie Rainero 2, Michael Maldonado 1, Patrick Maloney 1, PASSES BROKEN UP Sean Andrews 1, Andrew Helmer 1, INTERCEPTIONS Andrew Helmer 1, SACKS Michael Maldonado 2, Vincent Bonomo 2, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||