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Alvirne can’t stop Pinkerton’s running game

By Staff | Sep 11, 2014

DERRY – The new era for the Alvirne High School football team commenced on Friday, but Pinkerton Academy showed the Broncos they had some wrinkles to iron out.

Alvirne went down against the highly-regarded Astros, 63-20, in Division I action.

Special teams were troublesome for Alvirne to start. Pinkerton’s Nick Coombs returned the opening kickoff 93 yards for the game’s first points. After the Broncos went three-and-out on their initial possession, Coombs returned the punt to the Alvirne 27-yard line, where TJ Urbanik scampered to paydirt on the ensuing snap.

Pinkerton controlled the line of scrimmage and time of possession, orchestrating three scoring drives from no worse than its own 43-yard line. The Astros were successful on their first five possessions and shot out to a 35-0 lead in a little more than a quarter. Pinkerton didn’t threw the ball once.

The Broncos’ offense had some moments of brilliance, but struggled to find a groove, as running back Jack Mahoney ran for 32 yards on 10 carries and Ethan Rainville compiled 46 yards on seven carries.

Danny Brown (6 of 21, 72 yards, TD, interception) worked hard to establish a passing attack, but the Pinkerton defense was all over his receivers for the majority of his attempts.

Brown finally found success when he connected to Brycen Yarmo to move the chains on fourth-and-3 just inside the red zone on a possession that ended in a 12-yard scramble by Brown for the Broncos’ first points.

The second half saw more production out of the Broncos offense, but the Alvirne defense could not keep the Pinkerton running game at bay, as the Astros put three more scores on the board from the ground and another on an interception.

A little more than three minutes into the second half, Alvirne cranked out a 68-yard drive that ended when Brown threw a 24-yard pass to George Notini in the end zone.

The Broncos also produced a 65-yard drive late in the fourth quarter that was capped off by a 3-yard run by Ryan Godschall.

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