Week 1 Results; Vikings go 8 for 9

Wow, what a great opening week for the Vikings program for 2008! Out of the 9 football teams, 8 came away with wins, while the one team that didn't played a very close and tough battle.

The season started off at 10:30 am on Saturday morning with the E blue team taking care of a scrappy Sandwich E team. With the final score of 24-0, this one was highlighted by Jacob Burkhead scoring 3 rushing TDs and Shane Gibbons hauling in a long bomb from Zachary Eaton off of a great pitch from Kyle Caraher. The defense didn't let up a first down the entire games as the Vikings got off to a great start. Cammie Caraher closed out the contest by intercepting a Sandwich pass and returning it about 25 yards on the final play of the game. Jack Daly had a great day at center to help run a very smooth offense, playing their first game together.

Next up on Saturday at noon, was the E White team. They started off their season on a winning note 7-0 in a tough defensive contest. The Vikings set the tone early with a Nolan Perry touchdown run behind strong blocking from Brendan Morey and Julian Cenac. Defensively the Vikings were led by Perry, Will Barrett, Aidan Crosby, Kyle Watkins, and Will Furtado. With only 5 returning players and injuries leaving the Vikings shorthanded, it was a strong effort by everybody!

The E Silver team was next to take out Sandwich with a 26-0 effort. We will add more details soon.

The B team came down to Sandwich to start off their season under the lights and ended up coming away on the short end of a 6-0 score in a very tough battle. We will add more details soon.

The A team helped finish the first day of the season by taking out their Sandwich rival by a score of 12-0. We will add more details soon.

Sunday morning started off with the C team, once again down in Sandwich with a 10:30 am start. Cody Parks, Brandon Green and Ed Ramos scored rushing touchdowns behind the monster line and effort of Andrew Parker, Nick Fratus, Cory Caraher, Gavin Johnson, Nick Macfarland, Jack Gallagher, and Bobby Dee. Nick Macfarland also booted through a nice extra point to close of the scoring at 20-0. The Vikings hard hitting defense forced three fumbles on the day, which set the tone of thie season opening win.

The D Blue team kept the winning ways going with a close and tough fought 20-18 victory. Touchdowns were scored by Joe Walsh, Cullin Cosgrove and Nick Gill. The difference in the game were the extra points scored by Joe Walsh and Ryan Morrissey. The offensive line lead by Austin Ward, Nick Ariagno, Connor Dow, Spenser Potter, Casey Lynch and many others were big parts to all three scores.

The D White team was the next team to roll to victory by the score of 19-0. Their first play from scrimmage ran for a 35 yd td by Colby Randall who scored twice in this contest. Ben Waithe also scored on a QB keeper. The QBs Cooper Gavin and Ben Waithe did a fantastic job controlling the ball ,they took their games to the next level with some great timing on handoffs and scrambling in the pocket. It was a great game back and forth but D-whites defense was impenetrable, only giving up 1 first down all game. The defense led by Colby Randall, George Thurston and Cullen Johnson had a couple of sacks and 2 fumble recoveries, one by 1st year player Jake Yorks. Other noteables on defense were Ty Santos, Andrew Shortall, Jake Tamulionis, Pat Markey, Collin Moriarty, Sam Wallace and Matt Cushing. The offensive line was led by 2nd yr player Pat Travers with some great help from Austin Hanlon, Kyle Mann, Cody Gosselin, Kevin Concannon, Tom Belcher, James Ward, Miles Crothers, Pat Webb and Mike Crosby. Special wishes to the Sandwich player who had to be taken off the field by ambulance. Hope all is well and a speedy recovery.

Not to be outdone, the D Silver team closed out the winning weekend with a close one, by the score of 13-12. They scored first on their second drive with an awesome pass from QB Brandon Nasiatka to Devante Ramos who scampered 10 yards and put it in the endzone. Tim Jennings got the extra point off a sweep. Sandwich scored in the second quarter with a solid drive down the field, but couldn't convert the PAT. The third quarter had them again driving down the field when a long run of 50+ yards put them with 1st and goal at the 1. The D held them out 3 times before they finally put it in on a broken play on 4th down. Once again, the defense stuffed the PAT attempt, which ended up being huge. With 6 minutes left in the game they got the ball back and ran wide with Tim Jennings and Anthony Roberio all the way down the field before Jennings put in the go ahead touchdown off an off-tackle run. Matt Costello led the defense all day at linebacker making hard tackles and key stops every time we needed them.

Congrats to all the teams for a great showing this weekend. If anyone has any pictures they would like posted, please send an email to the contact info on the site here and we will get them posted. Thanks to the coaches for sending in their game summaries.