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David Burnworth | October 19, 2019

Last night after my plans to head to Cleveland for a day game and then to Ravenna for my night game, I opted to go to Grove City to watch Grove City Christian Christian battle Newbury. Newbury is in the midst of their last season of playing football because the school will be closing after this school year. Entering this game the Eagles limped in at 2-5, while Newbury came in standing 4-3. Me biggest reason for catching this game was to see Newbury play and to finally see a game at Grove City Christian.
Newbury would get the party started when Noah Arnold capped off a 7 play, 59 yard drive with a 18 yard touchdown run. He then used his foot to make this a 7-0 game, with 8:47 left in the opening quarter. On the drive Arnold would carry the ball seven times. For the game I unofficially had the Black Knight running a total of 56 plays, with Arnold carrying the ball 50 times. The ensuing kickoff was like a pop up to the middle of nowhere that was in a manner of speaking fielded by Jake Bapst of the Eagles. Grove City Christian would need seven plays to go 58 yards to get into the end zone to make this a 7-6 game, after Joey Gallagher made good on the PAT, we had a locked game at seven.

The Black Knight would methodically work the ball down to the 5 yard line, with Arnold carrying the ball eleven of the twelve plays. On play number thirteen everyone in the stadium, but the Eagles defense seem to know Arnold was getting the ball again and that he did, with the result being a 5 yard score. The point after was good to give the Black Knight a 14-7 game, with 10:42 left in the half. A fumble recovery by the Eagles defense would lead to a 4 play, 27 yard drive with Christian Lautenschleger going the final 17 yards. The PAT locked this one back up at fourteen, with 8:46 left in the half. The Black Knight would need just four plays to light up the scoreboard again, with Julian Cicchella going the last 48 yards, on an very Sam Bam Cunningham like run, where he easily broke a tackle or two on his way to pay dirt. The PAT would make this a 21-14 game, with 7:26 left in the half. The Newbury defense would get a sack from Alex Bijelic and then from Jibriel Allen to quickly shut down the next Grove City drive. The Eagles quarterback Jayden Hanks sort of look star gazed after after the 2nd sack. The Black Knight would shock the Eagles defense, with a 29 yard touchdown pass from Arnold to Mitch Sanders to go up 28-14, with 1:06 left in the half. Sanders was wide opened and scored as easily as Seattle Slew winning a race.

The third quarter was all but fifty seconds old when Allen sacked Hanks again to set the tone of how things would go for the Eagles, for most of the 2nd half. The Eagles lone bright spot of the quarter came on a 31 yard run by Christian Lautenschleger, at the 10:31 mark. This became a 35-14 game when Arnold hit Evan Arnold for a 80 yard touchdown. This was the last of two passes that Arnold would throw and as you have read both went for scores.

The fourth quarter would see each team score once, with the Black Knight getting their score, while facing fourth and goal from the seven and it came on a Arnold run, where he took the football and put it around his back like a point guard does. The kid looked like John Stockton on the play. For the Eagles Lautenschleger would score on a 5 yard run to make this a 42-020 game. A successful two point conversion run by Hanks made this a 42-22 game, with 2;36 left in the game. Luke Reed secured the victory by recovering the ensuing onside kick.

UNOFFICIAL STATS

Newbury
56 Plays
381 yards
Passing 2-2 2 TD’S

Grove City
46 plays 188 yards
Passing 9-14

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