Burgettstown Snaps 9-Game Losing Streak
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Brett Gombita | August 30, 2025
Colton County’s strip sack with 20 seconds to go forced a Bentworth turnover and secured Burgettstown their first win in virtually one year. The last Burgettstown win was an 11-6 win over Bentworth – this one a 23-20 win over Bentworth.
It didn’t start out pretty for Burgettstown. On the first drive of the game, a screen pass was dropped, ruled as a backwards pass and a fumble, recovered by Bentworth. On Bentworth’s first offensive play, senior running back Ben Hays ran for a 50-yard touchdown to put the Bearcats up, 7-0.
Less than two minutes later, County answered with a 60-yard touchdown run of his own to tie the game. About a minute later, Hays scored again, this time on a 68-yard run to put Bentworth back ahead, 14-7. Bentworth had scored two touchdowns in three plays of offense.
Ben Hays 68-yard rushing touchdown. He’s already over 100 yards rushing with 2 TDs.
— Brett Gombita (@Brett_Gombita) August 29, 2025
Bentworth 14, Burgettstown 7
7:19 left in the 1st quarter
(The final between these teams last year was 11-6)@PaFootballNews @PFNBackyard
Burgettstown then put together another scoring drive, ending with junior Blake Neal’s 18-yard touchdown pass to junior Bryce Speer, which tied the game again.
The 28 combined first quarter points was not a pattern that would carry into the rest of the game, as the next three quarters saw a total of 15 combined points.
Sophomore running back Brady Rightweiser gave Burgettstown their first lead of the game, but Burgettstown was unsuccessful on a 2-point conversion prompted by a Bentworth offside call on the extra point attempt. Burgettstown would ultimately take that 20-14 lead into the locker room.
County nailed a 40-yard field goal to make it 23-14 in what was the only score in the third quarter.
With just under seven minutes left in the game, junior quarterback Ty Watson scored on a 2-yard keeper for the first Bentworth score since the 7:19 mark in the first quarter. Bentworth however missed the extra point, so it stayed 23-20 after the miss.
Burgettstown, looking to put the game away, had a 4th-and-1 in their own territory with about five minutes left. They elected to go for it and were stuffed by Bentworth, who got the ball back in plus territory. The Burgettstown defense ended up causing a turnover on downs of their own to get the ball back with two and a half minutes left.
Bentworth, with one timeout remaining, forced a Burgettstown punt with a minute to play and their final drive began at their own 37-yard line.
After two Bentworth incompletions and a rushing attempt out of bounds, County got to the quarterback on fourth down and jarred the ball loose. The fumble was recovered by lineman Adam Baloga and one Burgettstown kneeldown put an end to things.
FINAL SCORE:
— Brett Gombita (@Brett_Gombita) August 30, 2025
Burgettstown 23, Bentworth 20
A strip sack by Colton County recovered by Adam Baloga seals the deal!!
This is Burgettstown’s first win since 2024 week 1 (also against Bentworth)@PaFootballNews @PFNBackyard @WPIAL_Insider
Burgettstown starts the season 1-0 as they did not participate in week 0. The Blue Devils host Jefferson-Morgan next Friday.
Bentworth falls to 1-1 and will host 0-2 Charleroi next week.
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