Early Season "First Sinces" & "Most Sinces"

The first two blowout wins by the Pioneers have already earned them some notable "First Since" and "Most Since" accomplishments. I will be dipping into the 50 year history of Lynnfield Football to sprinkle in a lot more of these references in my Lynnfield Villager game stories as well as in my posts here.

To that point, let's start with some of those milestones from the first two games of the season.

First a few that you will read in my game story in this week's Villager (available on newsstands everywhere in the greater Lynnfield area on Wednesday).

• Going back to the win over North Reading on Thanksgiving Day, the Pioneers have now won three in a row, the team's longest winning streak since they posted four straight wins bridging the 1995 and 1996 seasons.

• This is the Pioneers first 2-0 start since 1996.

• The 66 points scored in the first two games is the most points in consecutive games for the Pioneers since 1985 when they beat Masco 55-0 and Pentucket 14-6 in back to back games in 1985.

• It is the first time a Pioneer team has scored 30+ points in back to back games since 1983 (32-8 over Pentucket and 31-14 over Amesbury).

Some other notable tidbits after two games.

• In their first two games, the Pioneers 66 points is more than LHS scored in four other complete seasons: 1958 (64 total), 1965 (63), 1989 (57) and 1990 (55).

• The win over Georgetwon snaps a 3 game losing streak against the Royals. The Pioneers are now 1-3 overall against them.

• Captain Eric Inglese's fumble recovery this week and Evan Panzero's TD fumble recovery last week marks the first time the Pioneers have scored defensive TD's in back to back games since 1996 when Jason Caggiano recovered a fumble for a score against H-W and then Nate Hummer picked up a safety against NR on Thankgsiving Day. However, there were two games since then in which the Pioneers posted two defensive scores in one game. In 2005 in a 23-6 win over Hull, the Pioneers posted a safety and Tino Cohee, brother of current Pioneer QB Gino, returned an interception for a score. In 2007 in a 20-15 victory over Amesbury, the Pioneers also notched a safety and Tanner Hutchinson returned a fumble for a score.

• This is the first season the Pioneers have ever opened a season with back to back 20+ point wins. The last time they had back to back victories of more than 20 points was in 2003 when the beat Ipswich 21-0 then came back and shut out NR 28-0.

Not a bad list for only two games. I imagine that the list will grow as the season goes one.

More interesting doings in the league and another benchmark coming up for the Pioneers this Friday in Wilmington. More on both in upcoming posts.

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