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David Burnworth | November 1, 2019

This was a game played between two very solid teams, that really never got to showcase what they really were because of the weather. The wind was blowing 24 MPH and gusting up to over 40 MPH all game long. Couple that with the refs having a very, very off game neither team was able to show anything but a ground chuck offense. For DeSales according to stats from the TV announcers the wind cost DeSales 40% of their offense and both teams had to overcome some blown calls. Watching the replay after I got home from the game made it easy to justify most of that paragraph.
George Dunor would stop DeSales Owen Faulkner after a short gain forcing a punt with 10:25 left in the game. That play seemed to set up the defensive battle we would be treated to most of this game. The snap by Matthew Stewart would sail way over the head of Randy Tawiah resulting in a safety giving Hartley a 2-0 lead, with 9:55 left in the opening quarter. Jalan January would pick up 17 yards just nineteen seconds later giving us a glimpse of what was to come from him. With 8:56 left in the quarter January would break a weak arm tackle and then go 32 yards for a touchdown. Ryan Hawk made this a 9-0 game with his PAT. January had been warmed up and would not stop running until he had picked up over 250 yards. DeSales looked to be ready to strike after Quintell Quinn tight roped the sideline to pick up 27 yards, but on the next play Quinn would cough up the ball and the Hawks Angelo Evans came up with it. On the ensuing drive January would be stopped by Joshua Martin-Hayden to bring up a fourth down that the Hawks converted on a January run. The quarter would end with the wind still blowing hard and a wet mist coming down.

The Hawks found themselves facing a fourth and five on their own 26 yard line and they elected to go for it and that decision turned out to be wrong because Miles Fleming was stopped by Owen Faulkner. On the play #59 Thomas DeFoor of the Hawks jumped early by a second and the refs did not call it. DeSales would taste the refs bad night when Dante Fuller was interfered with by Sumo Kesselly. Fuller would make a nice catch but be held short of the first down when Mason Sawyer laid a nice hit on him, with 9:08 left in the half. After the DeSales defense got the ball back to their offense just 26 yards from pay dirt, the offense would respond with a a drive that took five plays to light up the scoreboard, with the touchdown coming from a Quinn 4 yard run, after Tawiah hit the PAT, we had a 9-7 game with 5:06 left in the half.

The Hawks used 9 play 65 yard drive to take 12-7 lead on a 25 yard field goal off of the foot of Hawk, with 4:51 left in the third quarter. Before the quarter closed the Stallions would get a 27 yard catch and run from Fuller and a 12 yard run by Quinn, only to see the drive come to a dead stop when quarterback Reno Godfrey fumble the ball and the Hawks Kiron Anderson recovered it.

The fourth got off to a nice start for the Stallions thanks to two 16 yard runs from Quinn, but a pick by Sawyer on a play that would see Owen Faulkner of DeSales jump off sides by a full second but again go uncalled by the refs. The Hawks would turn the ball right back over to the Stallions when Fleming mishandled the snap from center. With 5:51 left in the game what might have been the biggest blunder of the night by the officials would see Cole Potts of DeSales and Sumo Kesselly throw punches, with the result being only a flag be thrown on Kesselly. The Stallions took a 13-12 lead after Quinn broke to his left and found the end zone from 4 yards out. A direct snap to Quinn, who handed the ball to handed the ball to Faulkner, who threw an incomplete pass on the two point conversion try left this a one point game.
January would run for a 49 yard gain, the play of the game in my opinion with 4:57 left in the contest. He would carry the ball seven straight times, with the result being a touchdown from five yards out. A two point conversion try was successful, when Fleming dashed to his right, cut up field finding the end zone to make this a 20-13 game. The Stallions would see any chance of a comeback end after Faulkner picked up 25 yards on another catch and run, but a block in the back on Cole Potts negated the long gain. From there the Hawks defense stuffed the Stallions to get the ball back to its offense, who picked up one first down and then took two knees to end this cold windy game.

UNOFFICIAL STATS
DeSales
50 Plays
193 yards
Passing, 4-7

Hartley
61 Plays
218 yards
Passing, 0-4

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