NYSSWA blog: Tamarac's miracle rally falls short

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Leading off today: Senior David Fox threw for four touchdowns and ran for a fifth -- all in the fourth quarter -- but it wasn't enough to rally Tamarac past host Fonda-Fultonville in a battle of unbeaten Section 2 football teams yesterday.

Fonda-Fultonville, ranked 14th in Class C by the New York State Sportswriters Association, held on for a 41-39 victory after taking a 31-point lead into the final 12 minutes.

Tamarac's final score in the rally, which included two successful onside kicks, came on Fox's 3-yard run with 1:33 to go, but a two-point conversion throw to Nick Knauer failed to connect in the right corner of the end zone and the Braves ran out the clock.

Fox, picked off three times in the first half, made 10 consecutive completes in the fourth quarter and threw for 173 yards in the period. He finished the day 20-for-33 for 346 yards and also carried 15 times for 67 yards. Fonda-Fultonville QB Josh Nethaway finished 13-for-19 for 249 yards and scored on a 58-yard charge up the middle early in the fourth quarter.

Tamarac, with only three winning seasons in the last quarter century and an 18-76 mark since 1996, had allowed only six points through its first three games.

Orchard Park now 4-0: Orchard Park, ranked No. 2 in Class AA by the NYSSWA, cashed in a series of early miscues -- a fumbled punt, a fumbled kickoff and a bad snap on a punt -- by No. 19 Clarence and breezed to a 48-0 victory.

Jeff Tundo rushed 31 times for 123 yards and three TDs to bring his season totals to 589 and 12, respectively, and quarterback Kyle Hoppy threw a pair of first-quarter scoring passes for the Quakers, who have surrendered only six points this season.

Saturday's rapid recap: Dundee, ranked 10th in Class D, was dominating in a 53-14 rout of Marcus Whitman, ranked seventh in Class C. Steven Webb (nine carries, 197 yards) scored TDs on consecutive carries covering 31 and 92 yards bridging the first two quarters, and Ryan Ballard rushed nine times for 166 yards and four TDs.

"You know what I felt like today?" Marcus Whitman coach Brian Wickham asked a Daily Messenger reporter. "I felt like a broken telephone answering machine because I had no answer for anything that they did."

Also in Section 5, Marshall, No. 22 in Class AA, fought off Rochester East, 34-27, as sophomore Ashton Broyld (12-for-25, 240 yards) threw for four TDs and ran for another. Terrell Wyatt rushed for 140 yards on 25 carries for the Jurists.

Connor Eck (7-for-12) threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as Class B No. 1 Rye handled Harrison, 28-3, for its sixth straight win over the Huskies in their rivalry. Rye forced three turnovers and held Harrison without a drive longer than five plays until the outcome was already settled in the fourth quarter.

William Floyd, ranked fourth in Class AA, ran its winning streak to 36 games by beating Sachem East, 33-7 on the strength of Vaughn Magee's 10 carries for 101 yards and three touchdowns. Magee also made eight unassisted tackles at linebacker.

Glens Falls senior Dan Morrison accounted for 225 of Glens Falls' 517 yards on the ground and scored first-half TDs covering 10, 20, 49, 49 ans 23 yards to blast South Glens Falls, 56-7.

Cleveland Hill, ranked eighth in Class C, beat Akron, 53-13, as Rhakeem Wiggins went 5-for-5 for 142 yards and two TDs through the air and also rushed eight times for 140 yards and touchdowns of 40 and 60 yards.

Timon-St. Jude broke Cardinal O’Hara’s 24-game win streak against Monsignor Martin Association opponents with a 24-7 victory. Connor Kobis went 19-for-25 for 197 yards and threw three touchdowns in the second half.

Alex Neutz made four catches for 137 yards and three touchdowns in the first quarter of Grand Island's 47-0 win against Williamsville East. Eddie Weiser ran 10 times for 147 yards and two TDs to help build a 47-point halftime lead.

Miguel Maysonet of Riverhead, ranked 23rd in Class AA, scored on runs of 80, 68 and 33 yards and rushed for 286 yards on 19 carries to beat North Babylon, 20-8.

Quarterback Scott Mattera kept the ball on an option and scored from the 15 in double overtime to carry West Islip over Bellport, 13-7. Jasheem Trent's 1-yard run with 2:47 left in regulation tied the score for Bellport.

Senior running back Tim Smith ran 25 times for 185 yards and three touchdowns as Oakfield-Alabama, No. 13 in Class C, beat Batavia Notre Dame, 28-6. Smith also picked off two passes .

Death in Pa.: Philadelphia school district officials say a high school football player died on Tuesday of a drug-resistant staph infection. Tests on Friday confirmed that Saalen Jones, 17, a senior at Martin Luther King High, had the contagious germ known as MRSA.

District spokesman Fernando Gallard said two other players are being tested for the MRSA bacteria and the school is being cleaned.

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