Jacks romp over rival Springfield

A lot of the pre-game talk that preceded the Saturday Springfield at Windsor football game centered around the many Friday night games that resulted in high-scoring events.
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Published September 27, 2015 in the Rutland Herald Jacks romp over rival Springfield By POODY WALSH Correspondent WINDSOR - A lot of the pre-game talk that preceded the Saturday Springfield at Windsor football game centered around the many Friday night games that resulted in high-scoring events. The Yellow Jackets did nothing to change that trend as they put a big 62-0 hurt on the Cosmos at MacLeay-Royce Field. While the result of the game was never in doubt it had a strange start and even stranger finish. With 6:30 to go in the fourth quarter play was stopped but the clock continued to run while an injured Springfield player was put in an ambulance. The clock ran out before the player left the field. That ending was perhaps more bizarre that the start that saw Windsor move the opening kickoff to a third-and-goal from the 1. Twice the Jacks tried to drive it in and twice Springfield defense stiffened and took over on downs. Springfield then tried a pass on third down, but the ball was intercepted by Windsor’s D.J. Gilbert who fumbled it and turned in back over the Springfield, again at the 1-yard line. This craziness continued for one more play when the Cosmos fumbled on first down and Seth Balch recovered for Windsor in the end zone for a touchdown. Windsor ended up recovering two touchdowns for scores on the day. It turned out a game that Springfield will probably not want to review on film as the Cosmos fumbled seven times and had seven major penalties. “We didn’t get out of bed well,” said Springfield coach Rich Saypack. “We didn’t show up.” The game was particularly important for 3-1 Windsor which entered the day in fifth place in the Division III playoff race. The Jacks have the next two games on the road against two struggling teams, Mount St. Joseph’s and Spaulding (MSJ gave up 84 points and Spaulding 77 Friday night) before closing out the regular season at home with Woodstock. Despite the hammering Springfield (2-3) still has a mathematical chance to make the top four if it can recover and do something in its final three games which are against Mill River, Winooski and Oxbow. Seth Balch, the Upper Valley’s leading passer, had a nice game with a 4-for-7 passing day for 166 yards and two touchdowns. He also recovered two fumbles and kicked an extra point. Windsor’s top rusher was Todd Worrall who 75 yards on 10 carries and a touchdown. “I didn’t expect this,” said Windsor running back Hunter Patenaude, who ran for one touchdown and received a pass for another. He also said their was a lot of “stuff” going on between the two teams that led to some of the personal fouls. Windsor took a 14-0 lead after one period when Balch passed to a wide open Dakota Page from 22 yards. It was still a game at this point, but not for long as the Jacks scored 27 points in the second quarter. Nick Kapuscinski had two scores - one an 8-yard run and the other on a 69-yard rumble after picking up a fumble. Other touchdowns came on a Patenaude run from the 4 and a Balch pass of 7 yards to Jake Tucker. In the fourth quarter the Jacks completed the scoring as Balch passed to Patenaude from the 25 and Todd Worrall scored from the 5. Connor Gould, whose direct kick was tipped in during the closing seconds of Windsor’s 1-0 soccer win over Proctor on Friday, was good on five of six conversion boots.