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Strath Haven offense comes alive in 4th quarter, downs Upper Merion 21-6 @Havenfootball @UMVikingsFB

Tagged under: District 1, Gameday Hub, News

| November 2, 2019

It was a beautiful football night to watch the Strath Haven Marching Panthers

For three quarters the Panthers and Vikings battled, punted, fumbled and turned the ball over on downs. Neither offense was able to finish a drive with points. Eight drives in those first three quarters came up empty.  “That’s a nice team over there. We had a kid on the line out for the several weeks, we didn’t use him in the first half, that’s senior captain Sam Burk. He came back in the second half and just did a great job for us” said Panther head coach Kevin Clancy. Starting at their 27, the home team went on a 14 play drive that ended when quarterback Jack Ryder crossed the goal line from 1 yard out.

 

Upper Merion’s offense found their footing on offense on the ensuing drive. Taiyan Lobban returned the ensuing kick 43 yards to the Panther 39, and the Vikings were able to tack on 15 more from a face mask penalty putting the ball at the Strath Haven 24. On the first play Anthony Swenda went right up the middle and into the endzone. The Vikings head coach, Victor Brown, made a decision to go for two. Linebacker John Prochniak held his position and took down Swenda just short of the goal line preserving a 7-6 lead with 9:22 left to play. “We weren’t ready to go home. I knew they wanted to get the ball in their best players had, we knew we had to make the stop. I’m just happy we made it.” said Prochniak.

 

Strath Haven iced the game on their next drive. Facing fourth down at the Viking 20, Ryder found Jaris Adams in the endzone, Emmet Young made his second of three extra points to make it 14-6 with 7:30 to play. Prochniak, who ran for 158 yards on the night, put the Panthers in position for another score with this 56 yard run. Ryder closed out the scoring on anther 1 yard run.

This 56 yard run by prochniak led to a 1 yard td by Ryder. 21-6 @Havenfootball 3:56 to play pic.twitter.com/ynCZVrAbAA

— Pa Football News (@PaFootballNews) November 2, 2019

“I thought we had a chance to gain some more momentum by going for two. It didn’t work for us” said Viking head coach Victor Brown. “But I’m proud of these kids. They battled through a lot this year.”

Upper Merion finishes with a record of 5-6.  The 9-2 Panthers move on to play Kennett next week.

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