Bellows Falls Wins/Springfield & Fall Mountain Lose

No one outside their football programs expected Springfield or Fall Mountain to win last week and they didn't. They both had their moments early, before their hopes were put to rest.
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Bellows Falls Wins/Springfield & Fall Mountain Lose Submitted by VT Journal on Tue, 10/22/2013 - 3:49pm By BILL MURPHY The Vermont Journal/The Shopper REGION -No one outside their football programs expected Springfield or Fall Mountain to win last week and they didn't. They both had their moments early, before their hopes were put to rest. Springfield fell to Bellows Falls 77-8 and Fall Mountain was beaten soundly by undefeated Pelham 35-6. There is often a wave of feeling for the underdog in sports and that feeling was present at Brown Field in Springfield Friday night, when Kevin Tallman's Cosmos made somewhat of a stand in the first half, before Bob Lockerby's Terriers literally ran away with things. In the believe it or not category, the Purple and White did not score an offensive touchdown for basically one and two-thirds quarters and that score came in all reality by the defense. The first time BF touched the ball, return specialist extraordinaire, Carson Fullam, fielded a punt at his own 35 and raced to paydirt with 8:35 left in the first for a 6-0 advantage. Special teams again came up big, a little less than seven minutes later, when the Falls offense was stopped for a second time, only to have punter David Dunbar take off on a fake punt for a 45 yard score upping the count to 12-0. Two more defensive stands by Springfield kept the score at the same numbers until 5:09 remained in the half. The Cosmos had the ball near midfield, when Austin Stack stole the ball from the ball carrier and was off to the races, when the whistle blew. Stack was inside the Springfield 20 with three Cosmos in pursuit with no chance to catch him, when all of a sudden a whistle blew. The officials ruled it an inadvertent whistle to protect an injured player and spotted the ball at the Cosmos 20, where they believed the ball carrier was when the shrill hit the air. The Terriers were not pleased with the call, but channeled all their energies in the right direction and it only took them and Stack in particular, one play, to score their first offensive touchdown from 20 yards out on a sweep to the right. Dunbar added the conversion kick for a 19-0 lead. Lockerby's team would display their superiority with three more scores in the last 2:34 of the half, adding 20 points for an amazingly quick 39-0 lead to take away any thoughts of either a close game or an upset. Kyle O'Rourke went 18 and 30 yards for scores and Ethan Illingworth ran in a keeper from 15 and two Dunbar kicks completed the first half scoring. The one sidedness continued in the second half with Jakob Mead, Kendrick Mills and Stack reaching the end zone for BF with Brendan Kelley and Dunbar kicking extra points. Mitch Greenwood had both the touchdown and the conversion for Springfield. Lockerby credited the Cosmos with their strong start saying, "They did a very admirable job of not letting us get loose for most of the first half." The BF coach was pleased that "We could build experience without someone getting hurt. This team keeps getting better," he added about his own team while pointing out "It was great that we could reward kids with playing time, who have worked hard all year." BF hosts first place Lyndon Saturday at 1 p.m. in what should be a gem of a football game. Springfield will be in action Friday night at 7 p.m. at Brown Field against Winooski in a wild card game. Neither team won in their regularly scheduled games and now get to meet in this wild card match-up. Tallman mentioned in relation to the strong early start of his team, "The kids really worked this week to get ready for this one, but in the end, it all comes down to execution and BF certainly executed much better than we did. On a positive note, the kids grew up a lot this week." Like Springfield, Fall Mountain came out strong, but their initial charge did not last as long. The Cats marched the pigskin down the field to the Pelham 21 on their first possession before stalling. The home team then jumped on the scoreboard immediately in their first possession with a 79 yard run on their first play from the line of scrimmage to lead 7-0. They built the advantage to 28-0 by halftime. Frank Brown felt, "we did a pretty good job considering how physical they were, but we are so undermanned because of injury and lack of depth, that we can't do much about it." Matt Wood had the lone touchdown for FM on a 17 yard scramble. Brown said, "Clay Gendron played very well both ways and Eli McGuire plays well every week." The Cats are idle this week and then hit the road one more time a week from Saturday at Somersworth for a 5 p.m. game. - See more at: http://www.vermontjournal.com/content/bellows-falls-winsspringfield-fall-mountain-lose#sthash.sI3XJqQ5.dpuf