Well the season is underway and the first slate of games went pretty much according to plan. First, let's take a look at the standings which for the first time includes league games.
Of the three league games on opening night, only the Pioneers-Tigers contest had any suspense.
As expected, Hamilton Wenham ran over Manchester Essex 35-6 and it wasn't even that close. The Generals' stellar quarterback Trevor Lyons scored on the third play of the game and would score another touchdown early in the second quarter and rush for nearly 150 yards as the Generals rolled for almost 350 yards of offense in the rout.
H-W built a 21-0 halftime lead and would extend it to 35-0 in the third quarter. The hometown Hornets managed their only score early in the fourth period.
M-E faces another dominating ground game when it travels to North Reading this Friday night.
The Generals are hitting on all cylinders as they head for Lynnfield this Saturday in the biggest game for the Pioneers since.....last year's H-W game.
And speaking of teams on a roll, the North Reading Hornets continue to get comfortable with their "ground and pound" wing T offense. Friday night they crushed Georgetown 35-17 as outstanding running back Carl Lipani scored three more touchdowns.
Lipani is starting to pull away in the Division 3A scoring race as he now has 15 touchdowns and 92 points, a 12 point lead over Joe Epps of Bourne,.
The Hornets scored twice in the first period and two more times in the second to go up 28-0. Tyler Wade nailed a 33 yard field goal with no time remaining in the half to get something on the board for the Royals.
But North Reading iced it on C. J. McCarthy's second score of the night to make it 35-3 after three. Tyler Wade and Jackson Fritz scored two touchdowns for Georgetown in the final three minutes to account for the 35-17 final.
The Royals will host Ipswich in a battle of one win teams. One of them will pick up win number two and their first league win on Saturday afternoon.
That's it for now. Check back Wednesday night for my next installment of the 1986 Super Pioneer series.
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