Bethel Park Defeats Baldwin in Dominant Homecoming Game
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Joey Chirillo | September 23, 2023
Friday evening the Bethel Park Blackhawks hosted the Baldwin Fighting Highlanders and won with a final score of 50-13.
Both teams were looking for their first win since Week Zero. This was also the first conference game for the Blackhawks this season.
Bethel would start with the ball, however after some consecutive penalties the drive stalled out sending the ball to Baldwin.
Baldwin opened the scoring with a rushing touchdown from senior Andrew Sharp.
TOUCHDOWN @bw_highlander
PAT IS GOOD@bw_highlander 7@BethelParkHS 0@PaFootballNews @PFNBackyard pic.twitter.com/10ffIZEkCM— Joey Chirillo (@joey14chirillo) September 22, 2023
Slow beginning to the game as the first quarter ended with Baldwin up 7-0.
Bethel Park, starting in the second quarter, had some dominating defense and capitalizing offense getting two touchdowns within 4 minutes of each other. Javaughn Moore and Jack Buckner brought the offense alive, getting the Blackhawks scoring 16 unanswered points
TOCUHDOWN BY #6 JAVAUGHN MOORE 2-PT CONVERSION MADE BY HIM ASWELL@BethelParkHS 16@bw_highlander 7@PaFootballNews @PFNBackyard pic.twitter.com/Ffqb1FauSv
— Joey Chirillo (@joey14chirillo) September 22, 2023
Just before halftime, Javian Smith scores a touchdown for Bethel, ending the second half 22-7.
Bethel Park would get an early touchdown from Mitchell Paschl, elevating Bethel’s score to 28-7.
Baldwin, would fumble a kickoff from Bethel Park. And on the first play, QB Tanner Pfeuffer hands off the ball to Moore for a 64-yard touchdown run adding salt to the wound, advancing the score to 36-7.
After a Baldwin fumble, recovered by Bethel, first play, TOUCHDOWN by #6 Javaughn Moore with 2-pt conversion also good by him @BethelParkHS 36@bw_highlander 7@PaFootballNews @PFNBackyard pic.twitter.com/vSZybnxJv8
— Joey Chirillo (@joey14chirillo) September 23, 2023
On the following Bethel offensive drive, Moore would score his third touchdown of the game. David Dennison, Bethel Park went up 50-7 in the game.
Baldwin would get another touchdown from Andrew Sharp in the final minutes of the game, bringing the final score to 50-13.
FINAL
HOMECOMING WIN HERE FOR @BethelParkHS @BethelParkHS 50@bw_highlander 13@PaFootballNews @PFNBackyard pic.twitter.com/kfFlHWfvy2— Joey Chirillo (@joey14chirillo) September 23, 2023
Bethel Park gets their first win since Week Zero, improving to 2-3. The Blackhawks will travel to Penn Hills next week. Baldwin FIghting Highlanders fall to 1-4. Next week they host Peters Township in their third division game in four weeks. Both games are set to start at 7.
Check out an interview by Ethan Spozarski with Javaughn Moore of the Bethel Park Blackhawks below!
POSTGAME INTERVIEW: @BPHawksfootball RB Javaughn Moore after his 3 TD Performance‼️@PaFootballNews pic.twitter.com/OykYXcKAy6
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