Floyd 43, Longwood 14: Jordan Clinton caught four passes for 47 yards and two touchdowns and also had an 80-yard touchdown run to lead Floyd. Clinton’s run gave Floyd a 21-14 lead with 4:20 remaining in the third quarter. Mack Driver completed 5 of 7 passes for 58 yards and two touchdowns, Nick Silva rushed nine times for 83 yards and two touchdowns and Tyshawn Lopez had a 60-yard touchdown run. Keith Winfrey and PK Kite had five tackles and three sacks each for Floyd. Sept. 9
Longwood 33, Central Islip 6: Elrich Bowlay-Williams had 136 yards on 19 carries and two touchdowns to lead Longwood (1-1). Noah Rattmer completed 11 of 15 passes for 172 yards, including two touchdowns to Zach Soriano for 24 and 66 yards. Soriano finished the game with four catches for 111 yards. Matt McCabe had two sacks, and Vishnu Wilson blocked a punt in the third quarter. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 16 Sep 2018:
Longwood 14, Sachem East 0: Noah Rattmer completed 4 of 7 passes for 101 yards and a touchdown to lead Longwood (2-1). Kyle Rausch had a 6-yard touchdown run in the first quarter to give the Lions a 6-0 lead. He also caught a 66-yard TD pass to put the Lions ahead 14-0. Elijah Stokley and Daniel Orr each had 10 tackles and Anele Nwanyanwu each had a sack. – Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 23 Sep 2018
Longwood 47, Brentwood 7:Longwood scored 47 unanswered points after Brentwood scored the game’s first touchdown. Elrich Bowlay-Williams rushed for four touchdown in the win. Noah Rattmer went 8-for-15 for 116 passing yards and two scores for Longwood (3-1). Danny Orr and Elijah Stokley each had 10 tackles. Anele Nwanyanwu added two sacks and a fumble recovery, and Rausch also recovered a fumble. Bryan Rodriguez picked off a pass. –Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 30 Sep 2018:
Ward Melville bounces back with win over Longwood in Suffolk I
By Roger Rubin, October 20, 2018
Ward Melville got its groove back on Saturday. And then some.
The Patriots might have been flat a week earlier in their matchup of unbeatens with Floyd, but they rebounded with a big character victory on the road at Longwood. Ward Melville got its first sampling of a high-pressure close game in the late going and made the critical plays when it was on the line for a 30-20 Suffolk I victory.
“We handled that loss the right way and came back from it hungry to win,” Ward Melville quarterback Trey Berry said. “Winning a game like this one — a dogfight fought in the trenches — is going to be good for us later on. We saw that we can persevere when we lose a lead and I think that will serve us in the playoffs.”
The Patriots (6-1) found the Lions (4-3) to be every bit their physical match through most of the first three quarters. With the score tied at 20 late in that quarter, Nick Troy took the ball on every play of a six-snap, 65-yard drive and hit paydirt on a one-yard run to put Ward Melville up 27-20.
It was a phenomenal day for the slippery and elusive senior running back. He rushed 32 times for 206 yards and three touchdowns and also returned a punt 68 yards for a TD.
Longwood was anything but beaten and had plenty of fight left down seven. Quarterback Noah Rattmer, who’d already run for a pair of touchdowns, moved the Lions down the field methodically and into the red zone. That’s when JJ Laap stepped in and made a big interception with 6:13 left in the game.
“Laap is just a killer athlete with next level speed and incredible instincts,” Troy said.
From there, Troy helped the Patriots wring almost all the time off the clock, running the ball on 11 of the next 12 snaps and setting up Tommy Dellaporta’s game-sealing 30-yard field goal with 1:24 to play and all of Longwood’s timeouts used up.
“At the end of a game like that, there’s nothing I like more than having the ball in my hands,” Troy said. “I like it when we’re keeping the tempo right where we want it and need to to be and I like to wear the other team down late.”
“Nick is shifty and can lower his shoulder,” Patriots coach Chris Boltrek said. “It’s good to have someone like him on your team. It’s high school football and sometimes you need to lean on a workhorse. We always get his all.”
Berry completed 12 of 16 passes for 154 yards. Laap had five catches for 67 yards and his interception was the seventh of his season to go with his seven touchdown receptions.
“We have a running back and we feed it to him all game,” Boltrek said. “JJ is the most underrated player on Long Island. No one makes more of the touches he gets.”
Rattmer rushed 17 times for 87 yards and the two scores and also was 11-for-19 passing for 117 yards for Longwood. Kyle Rausch had 80 yards rushing and scored on a 55-yard run and Elijah Stokley had five tackles for either no gain or a loss of yardage for the Lions.
“This was a good bounce back win for us,” Laap said. “I think we learned some things about ourselves this week. We learned that we keep rolling even when we hit adversity and we learned that we have a lot of heart.”
TROY (235 YARDS, 3 TDs) RUNS WILD FOR PATRIOTS
Lauterbach, Jordan. Newsday, Combined editions; Long Island, N.Y. [Long Island, N.Y]. 10 Nov 2018:
Rain relentlessly pounded the field throughout most of the second half of Friday night’s Suffolk I football semifinal at Stony Brook University’s LaValle Stadium, but the Ward Melville football team didn’t seem to mind. Already comfortably ahead, the Patriots had no problem pounding the ground with their feet and punching their ticket to next week’s final.
Second-seeded Ward Melville took care of No. 3 Longwood in efficient fashion, 28-7. The Patriots (8-1) will face the winner of Saturday’s Floyd-Sachem East game for the Suffolk I title and a berth in the Long Island Championships.
Ward Melville’s Nick Troy rushed for 235 yards and three touchdowns on 24 carries and refused to let the soaking-wet turf end his season.
“Running in these kind of conditions, it’s a different kind of game,” Troy said. “You can’t look to break everything. You have to be patient, take good care of the ball and follow your blocks … Our offensive line had a heck of a game. They were opening holes so wide. They just played outstanding.”
Ward Melville took a 14-0 first-quarter lead.
After punting on their first drive, the Patriots recovered a fumble on Longwood‘s fourth offensive play of the game. Ward Melville then reeled off eight plays that set the tone. Troy’s 33-yard run on second-and-14 set up a 29-yard touchdown strike from Trey Berry to JJ Laap that gave the Patriots a 6-0 lead with 6:05 left in the quarter.
After Ward Melville forced the Lions to punt, the Patriots put together a five-play drive capped by Troy’s 21-yard touchdown run with 1:53 left.
Kyle Rausch’s 5-yard touchdown run and the extra point moved Longwood (6-4) within 14-7 with 9:25 left before halftime.
The Lions drove deep into the red zone late in the first half, but the Patriots’ Dan Cassera intercepted a pass in the end zone with 2:50 remaining in the half.
Troy’s 52-yard run with 2:10 left in the half gave Ward Melville a 20-7 lead. His third touchdown, a 5-yard run with 11:05 left in the fourth quarter, put the icing on an already wet cake.
“I saw a big hole between our left guard and left tackle,” he said. “They drove their men back, pancaked them and sealed their fate.”